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Christopher Vondracek

Study: Midwest topsoil 'being eroded 100 times faster than it's forming'

Farmers might not know it — but something is stealing the land from under their feet.

It's erosion.

"I don't even think they know how much they're losing," Jodi DeJong-Hughes, a soils and water quality educator at University of Minnesota Extension. "We have this deep, rich, black soil. And it gets a little less each year."

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