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Organic Carbon Declines In Fertilized Soils

Adding nitrogen fertilizer is believed to benefit the soil by building organic carbon, but University of Illinois soil scientists have overturned this central tenet of the agricultural revolution. Their findings, published in theJournal of Environmental Quality, are based on analyses of soil samples from the Morrow Plots – America’s oldest experimental field – that date […]

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