Assessing soil quality impacts after conversion of marginal cropland to productive conservation
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2009-01-01
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Sauer, Thomas
James, David
Cambardella, Cynthia
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Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The Leopold Center is a research and education center on the campus of Iowa State University created to identify and reduce negative environmental and social impacts of farming and develop new ways to farm profitably while conserving natural resources.
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Planting trees on poor quality cropland may yield some benefits for increasing soil organic carbon. Test plots in four parts of Iowa were examined to determine the level of benefits possible to achieve.