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A boon for soil, and for the environment
When
Gabe Brown and his wife bought their farm near Bismarck, North Dakota, from her
parents in 1991, testing found the soil badly depleted, its carbon down to just
a quarter of levels once considered natural in the area. Today, the Brown farm
and ranch is home to a diverse and thriving mix of plants and animals. And
carbon, the building block of the rich humus that gives soil its density and
nutrients, has more than tripled. That is a boon not just for the farm’s productivity
and its bottom line, but also for the global climate. Agriculture is often cast
as an environmental villain, its pesticides tainting water, its hunger for land
driving deforestation. Worldwide, it is responsible for nearly a quarter of all
greenhouse gas emissions. Read More at : http://www.deccanherald.com/content/549553/a-boon-soil-environment.html
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