Agriculture This Week: Soil conservation efforts must work

Grain and oilseed producers had to have shuddered just a bit following a recent report by David Lobb, speaking to the senate committee on agriculture and forestry’s soil study.

Lobb said not much has changed since the Senate’s Soil at Risk report in 1984.

If that is true it is suggestive that efforts to better conserve our topsoil the past four decades have little impact toward improving things.

My writing career doesn’t reach back quite four decades, but it is close, and certainly through that time I have written a lot of articles on soil conservation.