Agriculture experts have a message for farmers worldwide: Take care of your soil, and your soil will take care of you. By using the techniques of “conservation agriculture”, they say farmers can save their land and save money, at the same time. This is becoming more important as the world’s population grows. More people means more food needs to be grown to feed them. Most modern agriculture looks like long rows of green crops covering large areas of land. They have neat rows of single kinds of plants with uncovered soil in between. Trey Hill’s farm in the U.S. state of Maryland does not look anything like that. Instead, there are green plants mixed in with what is left from other plants. Together they cover the soil. If you don't like your fields to look like a mess -- it has to kind-of grow on you. Yet, I have a lot of other owners and peers that are, like, 'Wow, what you're doing is really exciting.' So, what is farmer Hill doing that is different? He is going against farming practices that are thousands of years old.
Title: Conservation Farming Means Healthy Soil and Profits
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1995/conservation_farming.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Conservation Farming Means Healthy Soil and Profits' data-article-id='2513'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='5896'>Agriculture experts have a message for farmers worldwide:</span> <span data-start-time='5896' data-end-time='12271'>Take care of your soil, and your soil will take care of you.</span> <span data-start-time='12271' data-end-time='25208'>By using the techniques of “conservation agriculture”, they say farmers can save their land and save money, at the same time.</span> <span data-start-time='25208' data-end-time='31271'>This is becoming more important as the world’s population grows.</span> <span data-start-time='31271' data-end-time='37354'>More people means more food needs to be grown to feed them.</span> <span data-start-time='37354' data-end-time='47604'>Most modern agriculture looks like long rows of green crops covering large areas of land.</span> <span data-start-time='47604' data-end-time='56583'>They have neat rows of single kinds of plants with uncovered soil in between.</span> <span data-start-time='56583' data-end-time='63896'>Trey Hill’s farm in the U.S. state of Maryland does not look anything like that.</span> <span data-start-time='63896' data-end-time='71625'>Instead, there are green plants mixed in with what is left from other plants.</span> <span data-start-time='71625' data-end-time='75021'>Together they cover the soil.</span> <span data-start-time='75021' data-end-time='79563'>If you don't like your fields to look like a mess -- it has to kind-of grow on you. </span> <span data-start-time='79563' data-end-time='84729'>Yet, I have a lot of other owners and peers that are, like, 'Wow, what you're doing is really exciting.'</span> <span data-start-time='84729' data-end-time='88958'>So, what is farmer Hill doing that is different?</span> <span data-start-time='88958' data-end-time='95583'>He is going against farming practices that are thousands of years old.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div 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