“While this dries the field tempo-rarily, the drastic change in the size of the macropores creates a layer of soil with a different density,” Ferrie says. “That interferes with the movement ...

Micro and macro nutrients, carbon storage, and soil grain size distribution at six commercial ... production of various plants, shown in the chart below. The analysis found that the ‘meaningful ...

The term basically describes ways to grow crops each year without disturbing the soil through tillage or plowing ... an interest in the concept (see chart). A recent report (pdf) from the ...

This would mean a one metre-depth loss of soil from an area corresponding to the size of the city of Berlin, or a one centimetre loss from an area twice the size of Belgium. The fact that it takes ...