This video describes how 50 years of synthetic nitrogen fertilization has decreased soil organic matter in the Morrow Plots, the oldest experiment field in the U.S. Shown speaking is Richard Mulvaney, Professor of Soil Fertility at the University of Illinois. For more information about the study, go to http://jeq.scijournals.org/cgi/reprin… and http://www.nitrogennews.com.
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MORE ON THE DECLINE:
https://tobefree.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/study-iq-scores-are-falling-rapidly-seven-points-per-generation/
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Kiss the Ground has a documentary coming out about the hands on farming pushing back against chemical agriculture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_DBVN2DUM
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that’s good newsfeeriequeen , thank you for the link 🙂
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