The Drought Fighter Topics: Climate Change, Drought, Farming, Fertility, Food, Organic Agriculture, Science, Soil Health, Urban Farming Locations: California, Sebastopol Materials: Bugs, Carbon, Compost, Plants, Soil Masters: Paul Kaiser: Drought Fighter Could a controversial farmer in California have found the most effective way to grow food in a warming world?

In the closing presentation at last year’s World Congress on Conservation Agriculture, Dwayne Beck, a professor of agriculture at South Dakota State University, pointed out that 80 percent of the cost of what farmers put into their fields (water, sprays, and fertilizers, the works) involves fossil energy.

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