Research reveals more than a third of U.S. Corn Belt farmland has lost a carbon-rich topsoil

Research conducted by UMass Amherst Geosciences graduate student Evan Thaler, along with professors Isaac Larsen and Qian Yu, developed a method using satellite imagery to map areas in agricultural fields in the Corn Belt of the Midwestern U.S. that have no remaining A-horizon soil. Read the UMass news release and see the journal article for more information.

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