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• s  (of crops) planted to improve the quality of the soil

• Major changes are two: 1) benefit payments to be lumped, instead of coming in two categories for "soil-building practices'' and diverting soil-depleting crops; 2) reduction in .
• As a reward for diverting their acres from "soil-depleting" crops (cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco) to "soil-building" crops (alfalfa, soybeans, grasses), farmers will receive .
• His plan would keep flexible price supports but would go beyond them by paying farmers to switch from surplus-making crops to soil-building grass and trees.

News & Articles

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• Predation on invertebrates by woodland salamanders increases carbon capture
  Woodland salamanders perform a vital ecological service in American forests by helping to mitigate the impacts of global warming. Woodland salamander predation on invertebrates indirectly affects the amount of leaf litter retained for soil-building where nutrients and carbon are captured at the litter-soil interface.
  March 11, 2014 - Science Daily