Midwestern US has lost 57.6T tons of soil due to agricultural practices

“Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” — Paul Harvey

Is it lost if it is "flattening higher points in a field and filling in the hollows"?

Something I've noticed where I am - we have a perpetual harvest of stones. My working theory is that smaller particles sink filling in small voids around buried rocks and with rain & frost this causes the stones to eventual rise to the surface. This has the appearance of losing soil but it's really just sunk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Resources_Conservation...

The "No-Till planting" campaigns of the 80's were about more than just selling Roundup(tm). Though they did a lot of that too.

There is a "Save Soil" awareness campaign currently that seems appropriate to mention.