Team studies perennial fix to perennial problem

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 13:28 in Earth & Climate

(AP) -- The solution to a perennial problem of farming could be, well, perennials. Researchers at Iowa State University are experimenting with the placement of perennial prairie strips in corn and soybean fields as a way of lessening runoff and soil erosion - problems nearly as old as farming itself.

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