International Business News - Soil http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Jim Lankford's corn crops used to stretch to the White River. Now the river has stretched itself through his crops. The river eroded a new route for itself during June's flooding, a channel with steep 12-foot banks at the edge of some of Lankford's corn fields about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis. The flood spread rocks in other spots, making it look as if Lankford planted soybeans in a gravel road. Elsewhere, silt is piled up like sand dunes and uprooted trees still litter cornfields more than a month after the floods. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/98863-flooding-soil-erosion.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/floods-strip-midwest-of-tons-of-valuable-topsoil.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/floods-strip-midwest-of-tons-of-valuable-topsoil.htm Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:27:55 EDT Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they're planted in. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44817-food-crisis-soil.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/overlooked-in-the-global-food-crisis-a-problem-with-dirt.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/overlooked-in-the-global-food-crisis-a-problem-with-dirt.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 13:09:01 EDT