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The data is not all in yet, but producers say cover crop usage will conserve soil and nutrients.  Mark Mueller tells Brownfield he joined the Soil Health Partnership to preserve his top soil.

“It takes 500 years to make an inch of topsoil, and we can lose that in one or two generations,” said Mueller, who farms in Northeast Iowa.  “I’m trying to preserve my topsoil and I figured the Soil Health Partnership would help me learn to do that.”  Mueller concedes that his production is a bit less with conservation farming than it would be with conventional tillage, but he maintains that he still comes out ahead because costs are less.

Continue reading Cover crops slow topsoil loss at Brownfield Ag News.