Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms
by learnfromstory on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:08PM
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Isn't there something extremely wrong about the math in this blerg? Surely 12 million hectares produces a lot more than 20 tonnes of grain annually. Did they mean 20 tonnes per hectare? Otherwise it's low by a factor of ten million. Either way doesn't make sense.
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Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms
by lsb on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:14PM
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https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/16/nrcs143_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushel#Weight
A hectare is ~2 ac.
Wheat looks like 2-5 tonnes/hectare
Looks like 20 tons per hectare is pretty high, but
Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms
by hjalle on Monday July 15, 2019 @06:31AM
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It's 20 million tonnes per year according to the source
https://www.unccd.int/actions/united-nations-decade-deserts-...