Apart from wind howelse do farmers lose their soil?
Erosion by water is the main way, and in the UK accounts for an estimated loss of 2.3mt soil annually. Whilst some is lost very visually leaving big gullies on steeper sandier or silty soils, most is lost on gentler slopes from sheet erosion which is barely perceptable but leaves watercourses clogged with silt, fans of coarser material at bottom of tramlines or the edge of the field.
