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Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by brohee on Sunday July 14, 2019 @02:48PM (#20435110)
Obviously there was no soil at first since it's dead organic matter.
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Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by olliej on Sunday July 14, 2019 @02:52PM (#20435144)
Yes, but that’s not “reversing” so much as completely rebuilding soil, which takes decades of no farming and no tillage.

A lot of loss can also be trivially reduces by planting rows of trees between fields, which I saw all over the place in NZ, but haven’t seen elsewhere.

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Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by brohee on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:03AM (#20439149)
Pretty standard in Europe : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocage
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