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No. It goes into the people/animals eating those plants, and from there to a million different places that aren’t farm fields.
That’s the problem: that potassium doesn’t cycle back to the soil it came from. Farmers have to rely on adding mined potash to the soils to compensate for that loss. The entire point of the article is potassium is being removed from the soil faster than it’s being added back in.
… Did you miss where I wrote
Maybe read the actual article.