HOW Much More Topsoil Can Farmers Lose?“blared the six-column headline in the
November 12, 1978, Des Moines Sunday Register. The emphatic answer was “none,” as …

THE concept of tolerable soil loss, as now applied in soil conservation programs, does not
serve the long-term interest of mankind in assuring the indefinite productive capability of …

To evaluate soil erosion's seriousness requires knowledge about how much soil loss is
occurring, given specific site conditions, and how much soil loss can be tolerated without …

IN a statement before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on
October 28, 1981, and in a related document released to the public the next day, Secretary …

Current criteria for determining soil loss tolerance (T value) are imperfect. Much is still
unknown about the rates at which a favorable root zone forms and about the effects of …

These questions have interested conservationists and agricultural policymakers since the
start of the soil conservation movement, and they have been the subject of a substantial …

IN the spring of 1982, the American Farmland Trust (AFT) embarked on a comprehensive
analysis of the nation's soil conservation programs, in part because of congressional …

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE CLIFFORD R. HOPE, Kansas, Chairman AUGUST H.
ANDRESEN, Minnesota ANTON J. JOHNSON, Illinois REID F. MURRAY, Wisconsin …

AN old fable portrays an emperor wearing little or no clothes, yet loyal subjects complement
his beautiful garments. This sham ends when a child publicly exclaims,“The emperor is …

The pattern of concern or lack of concern, action or lack of action, on soil and water
conservation problems has been repeated time and time again down through the ages and …