"This soil type often washes away more easily than others from rain and water, so it's best to plant ground covering perennials in spots where the soil is exposed to avoid erosion." Identifying ...

This is nearly double the rate of erosion that the USDA ... has lost approximately 57.6 trillion metric tons of topsoil since farmers began tilling the soil, 160 years ago. And this is despite ...

This shift over the last 160 years has resulted in staggering — and unsustainable — soil ... s erosion estimates. Then, the USDA numbers might better align with the whopping 57.6 billion ...