Study: Midwest topsoil 'being eroded 100 times faster than it's forming'
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December 29, 2022
Christopher Vondracek, Star Tribune
An irrigation unit parked on a tilled field in Dakota County in May 2022.
Farmers might not know it - but something is stealing the land from under their feet.
It's erosion.
"I don't even think they know how much they're losing," Jodi DeJong-Hughes, a soils and water quality educator at University of Minnesota Extension. "We have this deep, rich, black soil. And it gets a little less each year."
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