Solving the root problem of topsoil loss

Berns: Soil loss solution is BioGrace

  • Keith Berns, co-owner of GreenCover Seed, gives the keynote address at the Grain Place Foods annual Field Day July 15. He discussed how to rebuild soil health through six forms of what he calls BioGrace.
    Keith Berns, co-owner of GreenCover Seed, gives the keynote address at the Grain Place Foods annual Field Day July 15. He discussed how to rebuild soil health through six forms of what he calls BioGrace.
    Anyone who has traveled across Iowa on I-80 has perhaps noticed an interesting display at a rest area west of Des Moines. Five outdoor pillars at the site represent in a visual way the loss of topsoil in the state in the more than 170 years since large-scale farming began there. The display shows that in 1850 Iowa had between 14 and 16 inches of topsoil but by the year 2000 it had eroded and bl...

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