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The products mentioned herein are not endorsed by the Soil and Water Conservation Society unless so stated.* ------------------------------ TOP NEWS ------------------------------ Regenerating degraded dirt <http://strongmail1.multiview.com/track?type=click&eas=1&mailingid=2165310&messageid=2165310&databaseid=Mailing.DS165310.2165310.148487&serial=17536534&[log in to unmask]&userid=76865145&targetid=&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2019&&&http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=56e073a164a2c> [image: Share on Facebook] <http://strongmail1.multiview.com/track?type=click&eas=1&mailingid=2165310&messageid=2165310&databaseid=Mailing.DS165310.2165310.148487&serial=17536534&[log in to unmask]&userid=76865145&targetid=&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2020&&&http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=56e073a164a2c>[image: Twitter] <http://strongmail1.multiview.com/track?type=click&eas=1&mailingid=2165310&messageid=2165310&databaseid=Mailing.DS165310.2165310.148487&serial=17536534&[log in to unmask]&userid=76865145&targetid=&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2021&&&http://twitter.com/?status=http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=56e073a164a2c>[image: Share on Linkedin] <http://strongmail1.multiview.com/track?type=click&eas=1&mailingid=2165310&messageid=2165310&databaseid=Mailing.DS165310.2165310.148487&serial=17536534&[log in to unmask]&userid=76865145&targetid=&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2022&&&http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=56e073a164a2c>[image: E-mail article] <http://strongmail1.multiview.com/track?type=click&eas=1&mailingid=2165310&messageid=2165310&databaseid=Mailing.DS165310.2165310.148487&serial=17536534&[log in to unmask]&userid=76865145&targetid=&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2023&&&http://multibriefs.com/ShareArticle.php?56e073a164a2c> Chemical and Engineering News It’s hard to find a bare spot on the more than 800 acres farmed by Cory Atkins of Seaford, Del. Even in the dead of winter, a carpet of ankle-high ryegrass blankets the soil where he plans to grow soybeans in the spring. In other fields, wheat and barley sown last fall poke through the dirt next to remnants of sunflowers, clover, and radishes. 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In spite of that, in the last 50 to 60 years, human activities have degraded ecosystems more rapidly than in any comparable time in human history. This is happening at a time when the global population is rapidly increasing to reach nine billion and other drivers, like climate change, overexploitation and pollution of natural resources, and economic growth, are also increasing. 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Previous years with strong El Niños had been unusually wet, with the warm patch sending one wet system after another rolling into the region. California had essentially missed two years’ worth of precipitation. Surveying the wet season to come last fall, meteorologists said that El Niño was how it might restore the balance. 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The research showed winter cereal rye that grew an extra three weeks prior to soybeans produced about 300-400 percent more biomass with a 100 percent increase in nitrogen retention, when compared with early terminated cover crops. 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Addressing the health of cropping soil and changing a few land management practices can often have a substantial impact. Iowa farmers are being asked to significantly reduce the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus runoff from their fields, and some experts say the solution isn’t really all that complicated. 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