Source:  Barry Teater, WRAL TECHWIRE, 8/25/22

By 2050, the world’s agricultural systems will need to provide food, fiber and fuel for another 2 billion people, or about 9.8 billion total. If that’s not daunting enough, consider that, in the last century, soils have lost 40 to 60% of the basic building block that makes them productive, organic carbon. The societal and environmental costs of soil loss and degradation in the United States alone are estimated to be as high as $85 billion every year.

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