Sentences with phrase «losing topsoil»

By Burke Teichert of Beef Magazine In spite of much research and knowledge about good grazing practices, we're still losing topsoil at an alarming rate.

Perhaps a third or more of all cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, thereby reducing the land's inherent productivity.

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vast amounts of topsoil are being swept down into the ocean and lost for the future.

Cropland is being lost to expanding deserts, and diminished topsoil in many areas threatens future production.

It is losing some 5 billion tons of topsoil each year (Brown 1988).

For every hectare of land used for cropping, between 50 and 300 tons of topsoil is lost each year.

One parcel lost a foot of topsoil since the late 1800s (and has aobut a third of an inch left, said the hydrologist 30 years ago).

On the American Great Plains, half the topsoil has been lost in the last hundred years.

Coast Range site that — per the Forest Service hydrologist — lost a foot of topsoil in the past century and how has about 2/3 of an inch remaining.

Okay, it's GMO free, but does that matter more than the fact that the workers who made it were exploited, or that the farm is losing tons of topsoil a year?

We lost foot after foot of topsoil in the dustbowl and barely made a dent.

A 1984 NBC News report, for instance, described the amount of topsoil lost to erosion as enough to fill the Houston Astrodome 34,000 times over.

In the U.S., we lose nearly 2 billion metric tons of topsoil every year due to erosion and this is not sustainable for growing food or for providing clean air or clean water!

A recent study in the German Alps shows that organic forest topsoils have lost 14 percent of their carbon since the 1980s, but in nearby grazed pastures, the level has stayed about the same.

By the early 1980s, the United States was losing over 3 billion tons of topsoil a year, an amount equal to the topsoil on 1.2 million hectares (3 million acres).

Ethiopia, a mountainous country with highly erodible soils, is losing close to 2 billion tons of topsoil a year, washed away by rain.

Since then, its population has doubled and it has lost nearly all its forests and much of its topsoil, forcing it to import over half of its grain.

(Watch out for logging, then planting and leaving a tree farm to grow old, even - aged, and claiming carbon credit — a bogus tactic; you don't get back what was lost, neither in carbon capture as plants nor in topsoil.)