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December 13th, 2016
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Stephen Anderson
Stephen Anderson, the William A. Albrecht Distinguished Professor of Soil Science at Mizzou, found that switchgrass improves soil quality and can be grown on farms that have lost fertile topsoil.
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Switchgrass
The MU researchers studied plots with varying amounts of topsoil. Each plot included corn, soybeans and switchgrass. They found that switchgrass grew well in areas without topsoil and actually improved the soil in those areas. Photo:
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Switchgrass
The MU researchers studied plots with varying amounts of topsoil. Each plot included corn, soybeans and switchgrass. They found that switchgrass grew well in areas without topsoil and actually improved the soil in those areas. Photo:
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