New Ag Links

Can Dirt Save the Earth? Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil � but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land. (NYTs)
Vanishing Rio Grande puts pressure on San Luis Valley farmers during extreme drought. Widening water woes reveal the precariousness of life in the southwestern United States (Denver Post)
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