Dead soils, caused by practices like excessive fertilizer use, pesticides, herbicides, tilling, and lack of cover crops, rotations, or integrated animal use, lead to increased flooding.

“Now the reason we had so much of these floods and these flooded farm fields in the Midwest was because these soils are just dead and the if there was be more and more fertilizer so we're killing the soil by using fertilizer by pesticides herbicides tilling not using cover crops not using crop rotations not using animals in an integrated way to actually create more soil and everything we're doing is just destroying the soil”