Estimating the long-term impact of agriculture on land is tricky when you don’t have much information about what a field was like before it was farmed. Some fields in Missouri started producing crops more than a century ago — long before anyone kept detailed records about the physical and chemical properties of the soil in a field…
Read more...Grad Student Simulates 100 Years of Farming to Measure Agriculture’s Impact on Land and Water Quality
Outlet: Science Daily
November 5, 2010