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Subject: Re: Re: Dr. Spock the diplomat - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 23:22:52 EST
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uicsl!keller    Mar 25 15:13:00 1984

While I don't know to what jj's was replying I have read something
interesting about soil depletion. It seems that Federal water subsidies in
the western US have led to farming of marginal land with the result that
what little top soil there was to begin with has disappeared. It is easy to
understand that with government incentives such as cheap irrigation water
and price supports any available land will be used even if it is only good
for a few seasons.

Would like to know why farmers plant every available inch of ground then
complain when the rain washes away the top soil. Seems like they could leave
some wildlife between the fields.

Smack dab in the middle of the corn fields of Illinois...

-Shaun
at Univ. of Illinois