Question: What are Prime Farmland soils and why should we care about them?
Answer: Easter Island, the Anasazi, the Mayans. These ancient societies prospered for a time and then disappeared. In his book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," (Penguin Books) geographer Jared Diamond points to a squandering of environmental resources and an inability to adapt to changing conditions as the primary reasons for their downfall.
The book isn't uplifting bedtime reading, but it is a clarion call to safeguard the resources we depend upon for survival. One such resource is dirt - ...