Can you imagine a single raindrop moving a lot of soil? The common idea is that it takes a lot of water to move a lot to earth, but a recent study shows that ...

The Vanishing Foundation of American Agriculture 6 billion tons of topsoil since farming began roughly a century and a half ago. Let's be real, that number is almost incomprehensible until you realize ...

When he saw a roiling thunder bank of black clouds blowing into Salem, South Dakota, last month, farmer Kurt Stiefvater thought it would take 20 minutes to reach his property. It took five. “I ...

At current use rates, conventional tilling would result in the loss of nearly 10 billion tons (nearly 9 billion metric tons) of topsoil in the next century If the U.S. Midwest sees 100% adoption of ...

After a derecho slammed through Iowa two years ago, flattening nearly 4 million acres of corn and soybeans, Jack Boyer discovered something surprising. His neighbor's 160-acre corn crop was mostly ...