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Steve Groff and his family, farm 200 acres of vegetables and crops on hilly land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He has pioneered the Permanent Cover Cropping System, which includes notillage, cover crops, and effective crop rotations as a way to ...
http://www.cedarmeadowfarm.com/
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- Water Conservation Group
The Land Degradation and Development Group deals with land and water management interventions in farming systems at both field and watershed scale with the aim of preventing, reducing or recovering losses of soil, water and plant nutrients. Theses lo ...
http://www.esw.wur.nl/UK/
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- The Ground Cover Plants
When people take up gardening, whatever methods they use, their usual aim is to grow a range of plants very few of which would usually be found wild on their land. It is, of course, wise to try and use those species that are best adapted to the condi ...
http://www.pfaf.org/leaflets/grdcover.php
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- Best Management Practices
Best management practices & structural techniques to control soil erosion. Depicts the severity of erosion worldwide, in the U.S. and in the Midwest in particular. An downloadable program provided by Purdue University with introductory information on ...
http://www.epa.gov/seahome/erosion.html
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- Redwood Rivers Control Area
RCRCA, in cooperation with partner groups and landowners, works to improve water quality, reduce erosion, and enhance recreational opportunities by providing education, outreach, monitoring and technical assistance within the watershed boundaries. ...
http://www.rcrca.com/
| | - Sedimentation Laboratory
he National Sedimentation Laboratory is comprised of the Watershed Physical Processes Research Unit and the Water Quality and Ecology Research. The National Sedimentation Laboratory NSL is one of over one hundred locations of the USDAAgricultural Re ...
http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=64-08-05-00
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- The Soil Resource
References about the fertility, compaction, testing and conservation of soil. Published by the University of Nebraska. University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension publications offer researchbased, peerreviewed objective information in a wide range of to ...
http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/pages/index.jsp
| | - Economic Costs of Soil Erosion
Soil erosion is a major environmental threat to the sustainability and productive capacity of agriculture. During the last 40 years, nearly onethird of the worlds arable land has been lost by erosion and continues to be lost at a rate of more than 10 ...
http://www.pmac.net/science2.htm
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- The Soil Erosion Net
The Soil Erosion Site brings together reliable information on soil erosion from a wide range of disciplines and sources. It aims to be the definitive internet source for those wishing to find out more about soil loss and soil conservation. ...
http://soilerosion.net/
| | - The Soil Erosion on Farmland
Control of Soil Erosion on Farmland summarises the wealth of information that has been gathered over the years on managing soil erosion. It provides indicative valuations of the benefits and good practices that minimise the detrimental effects of lan ...
http://www.maf.govt.nz/mafnet/rural-nz/sustainable-resource-use/land-manage...
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Soils Erosion Control
