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    Soil is a valuable natural resource that all land-based life depends on for survival. The document discusses how soil can be damaged by loss of fertility or topsoil, providing examples of the Dust Bowl and exhausted cotton fields in the 1800s South. It then explains that since these events, farmers have adopted soil conservation methods like contour plowing, conservation tillage, crop rotation, and terracing to protect and replenish the soil. These techniques prevent erosion, maintain nutrients, and maximize usable land.

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    Soil is a valuable natural resource that all land-based life depends on for survival. The document discusses how soil can be damaged by loss of fertility or topsoil, providing examples of the Dust Bowl and exhausted cotton fields in the 1800s South. It then explains that since these events, farmers have adopted soil conservation methods like contour plowing, conservation tillage, crop rotation, and terracing to protect and replenish the soil. These techniques prevent erosion, maintain nutrients, and maximize usable land.

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    Soil is a valuable natural resource that all land-based life depends on for survival. The document discusses how soil can be damaged by loss of fertility or topsoil, providing examples of the Dust Bowl and exhausted cotton fields in the 1800s South. It then explains that since these events, farmers have adopted soil conservation methods like contour plowing, conservation tillage, crop rotation, and terracing to protect and replenish the soil. These techniques prevent erosion, maintain nutrients, and maximize usable land.

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    Soil Conservation2012

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    Soil is a valuable natural resource that all land-based life depends on for survival. The document discusses how soil can be damaged by loss of fertility or topsoil, providing examples of the Dust Bowl and exhausted cotton fields in the 1800s South. It then explains that since these events, farmers have adopted soil conservation methods like contour plowing, conservation tillage, crop rotation, and terracing to protect and replenish the soil. These techniques prevent erosion, maintain nutrients, and maximize usable land.

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    SOIL

    Soil is a valuable natural


    resource.

    Why?
    Because everything that lives on
    land depends on soil.
    People & animals eat food that
    grows in soil.
    Plants need fertile soil to grow well
    to make good food.

    Soil can be damaged


    by loss of fertility:

    LOSS of FERTILITY
    In the South in the 1800s
    where cotton had been grown
    for years, the soil was
    exhausted, not fertile enough to
    grow healthy crops. Farmers left
    their farms.

    George
    Washington
    Carver came up
    with a new way of
    farming with
    peanuts to bring
    nutrients back to
    the soil.

    Soil can be damaged


    by loss of topsoil:

    LOSS of TOPSOIL
    The grasses of the
    Plains had been plowed
    for crops (when soil is
    uncovered, wind and
    water can erode the
    topsoil), then drought
    caused the crops to die
    and dirt to blow away,
    resulting in The Dust
    Bowl in TX, OK, KS

    Since the Dust Bowl, farmers


    have found ways to take care of
    the soil and prevent its
    destruction called soil
    conservation.

    SOIL CONSERVATION:
    (4 methods)

    1. Contour Plowing farmers


    plow along the curves of the land to
    prevent water from washing away
    soil; rows of garden look curvy
    instead of straight

    2. Conservation Plowing (NoTill Plowing) farmers


    leave the dead plants to
    keep the soil covered and in
    place; dont cut down or
    plow old crops

    3. Crop Rotation
    farmers plant different crops
    each year that use different
    nutrients from the soil
    (corn/cotton oats/barley/ryebeans/alfalfa)

    4. Terracing farmers plant


    crop on different levels on a
    hillside to maximize the area
    of usable land and keep
    healthy soil in place; looks
    like steps on the hill

    FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

    WHY is it important to take care of our


    soil?
    HOW can we take care of our soil around
    our houses and school?
    A farmer growing corn wants to maintain
    soil fertility & reduce erosion. What
    conservation methods could he try?
    Explain.

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