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An excellent segment from NPRs Science Friday: Kristin Ohlson interviews farmers, soil scientists, and agronomists and concludes that the low-cost, low-tech solution to climate change may be directly underfoot—in healthy soil. Crops have an enormous capability to sequester carbon, she writes, but only if the soil is made to thrive with a mix of no-till farming, cover crops, and livestock grazing. Gabe Brown, a farmer and rancher in North Dakota, has been practicing this sort of agriculture for decades—and says it can be successful just about anywhere. Click the link to listen to the full interview here: scpr.org/programs/science-friday/2014/08/14/5320/
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:30:00 +0000

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