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Mid Michigan | We've had this conversation before about how long farmland will continue to produce crops in it's current usage and rotation. I've been shocked before cleaning up a small part of a fence row that has been virgin soil and never farmed. The difference between that soil and the soil in the soybean field right next to it was stunning. The fencerow was black mellow topsoil mixed with the sod and had earthworms and life and no standing water. The soil in the field looks much more beat down and dead. I figure in less than a few hundred years mankind might have a problem if we keep beating it, mining it, and letting it blow and wash away. | |
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Soil Health and Civilization.
