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1 3 American fanners have cut soil 'erosion by nearly one-third in the 10 ■years between 1982 and 1992, According to the 1992 National Re1 sources Inventory released July 13 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. f
“The voluntary soil conservation .efforts of America’s farmers are paying big dividends,” said Jim Porterfield, American Farm Bureau Federation technical specialist for land and water resources.
“The latest inventory shows that ^voluntary efforts such as conservation tillage, participation in the con.servation reserve program and .,other conservation efforts are reducing erosion to rates unheard of in the "-early 1980’s.”
The inventory report found that
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