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Worm Power Gets Its Power from USDA

October 07, 2010 Roger Beachy, Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Earthworms can generate tons of nutrient rich droppings, or “casts,” per acre each year on agricultural lands and gardens. And they’re such industrious little diggers that they can literally turn over the entire top six inches of a field in as few as 10 years.

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