Soil erosion hits farmers in the midwest, costs billions annually

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[srf]

As a child growing up we learned about that. It was called the Dust Bowl and it was a man-made catastrophe. It was in all the papers.

[everstuck]

Dust bowl calling. I wonder where we seen this before

[SGspecial]

Tilling is Killing. We don't need to farm this way. Use cover crops.

[jesusromo]

Save soil, quality over quantity is the future

[janosik]

How about some trees to break the wind...in Iowa, , there are maybe 10 trees if you drive through it.. it is ridiculous.. money money money

[PaulAnderson]

Averaging a century of soil loss is meaningless. Farming methods have changed drastically over that time, and erosion rates along with them.

[thesilentone]

Then stop telling add some compost stop putting chemicals on it and tilling all the time expecting it to never go bad.

[dagsterblaster]

Lemme guess Shepdragster, there must be a tax that can be implemented to stop this? Maybe a new czar? More proof no doubt that global warming/cooling/change needs to be dealt with seriously, regardless of costs or any common sense. Go Brandon!

[TooAjitQuit]

Save soil. Sadhguru has been telling about this for a while now

[johntrent]

We need more inflation, vaccine firings, lockdowns, stimulus checks, CRT, illegals, canceled pipelines, higher gas prices and less baby formula. Let’s go Brandon!

[azdarts]

too bad this story wasnt taken a bit further and addressed how topsoil erosion affects climate change. why don't the government agencies do anything about this?

[hangender]

Good. Hopefully this will stop them from farming in desert.

[Julia-lkjn]

Oh come on, you can't even add the source of the research in writing? That's a vital information, and it allows viewers to find the background information on how the study was conducted and what the researchers have to say .
Wouldn't even have cost you extra times and risk the viewers to zap to something with more explosions.

[koalatea]

Try promoting regenerative agriculture, feeding the ground, no dig farming. This isn't even complicated. Monsanto sold the world gmo products. You reap what you sow.

[holdtightappatton]

Y’all these people have to maintain their investments just like any other American.

[evanrutherfordlazyahole]

You guys know what you are doing ill leave.

[michaellarson]

Soil washes off the high ground and stops in the low ground. It's not lost. No-till farming just doesn't work on very good farm ground. Works best on the poorest and steepest ground that is prone to errosion which maybe shouldn't be farmed to start with. Errosion happens on untilled grasslands also, you just don't notice it

[oldhomeguy]

It doesn’t disappear into thin air. It goes somewhere else. Fake topic