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Reconstructing historical soil fertility management in the Corn Belt

Nathan Sayre - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Synthetic fertilizer use is one of the most environmentally damaging features of modern agriculture. In the Iowa Corn Belt, there is evidence that farmers managed to sustain soil fertility for nearly a century without commercial fertilizers, relying instead on integrated crop and livestock production. Very little is known about how...

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