Which of the following statements about soil erosion is not true?
A) Soil erosion losses per hectare of cropped land are higher in Asia and Africa than the United States.
B) The rate of soil erosion loss in the United States declined from 1980 to 1995.
C) Downstream off-site costs of erosion are often higher than those in upstream fields from which the soil came.
D) Soil erosion losses of potassium exceed those of nitrogen and phosphorus.
E) Less than 20 percent of the total soil erosion in the United States comes from croplands.
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