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Because organic matter is lost from the soil through decay, washing and leaching, and because large amounts are required every year for crop production, the necessity of maintaining the active organic-matter content of the soil, to say nothing of the desirability of increasing it on many depleted soils, is a difficult problem. —A.F. Gustafson, 1941 […]https://www.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/round_bales_chptr_9-bsbc4.jpeg