Drought Management
"drought is not a weather issue, it's a management issue.
Dr. Elaine Ingham
Widely recognized as the world's foremost soil biologist.
With drought conditions spreading at an unprecedented rate the implications of what we're doing to our soil microbiome extend so much further than just the farmyard.
It is a keystone ecosystem and as such effects, every ecosystem built upon it.
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) tracks U.S. weather and climate events that have great economic and societal impacts (www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions).
Since 1980, the U.S. has sustained 258 weather and climate disasters where the overall damage costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index, as of January 2020). Among these, 26 droughts cost the nation at least $249 billion, with an average cost of more than $9.6 billion incurred during each event. Only hurricanes were more costly. The cumulative cost for all 258 events exceeds $1.75 trillion.
Considering how detrimental it is, we should probably change the way we manage the soil.
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