Soil is at the foundation of our food system and is vital for our future.
健康的, living soil promotes healthy crops, 成立, 防止污染, 商店碳, and helps ensure that farmers and their communities can thrive.
Yet decades of short-sighted farm policies have incentivized practices—such as growing just one or two crops instead of more diverse rotations, and leaving soil bare after harvests—that have depleted and damaged this foundation. 结果是, estimates have suggested that US farms lose more than 3 trillion pounds of soil to erosion each year.
To rebuild this critical life-support system, we need science-based public policies that invest in farmers and soil.
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The public pays twice for US farm policy: once to subsidize outdated industrial farming practices, then again to fix the resulting problems. 我们可以做得更好.
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