If the soil is healthy then the sheer amount of minerals lost is mined from the underlying soil horizons via the release of organic acids (mostly from soil fungi). Only dead or dying soils (caused by mostly conventional agriculture) lose minerals permanently. Unless biology is brought back in.
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The farmer said it was poor land no crops could grow except grass.
45" of rain and a 30-degree slope.
What crop would you grow there, and how would you cultivate it?