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To: Grainne who wrote (97624)3/10/2005 10:43:50 PM
From: Oral Roberts  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
If pesticides were responsible for the loss of topsoil
there would have been no dust bowl in the 30's.



To: Grainne who wrote (97624)3/11/2005 8:03:01 AM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
<<If fall plowing were responsible for blowing away our topsoil, it wouldn't still be happening at an alarming rate.>>

It's not still happening at an alarming rate. Modern minimum tillage practices leave the soil 60 to 80 percent covered with crop residue.

Back when they plowed in the fall and turned all the crop residue under, the blowing dirt would actually eat the lower 6' of power and phone poles. That's not happening now.


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