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Regenerative farmers adopt a range of practices, such as cover cropping, croprotation, reduced tillage, and diverse planting, to regenerate the soil and promote natural systems within their farms. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides. What’s in It for Farmers?
Approximately 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from nitrogen fertilizers , according to a study in Nature. The prominent chemical ingredient in synthetic nitrogen fertilizers is ammonia, which comes from combining hydrogen and nitrogen gases through burning fossil fuels , including coal, oil, and natural gas.
In our farming systems, they play a key role in regenerative croprotations: breaking pest and weed cycles, fixing nitrogen in the soil and creating fertile ground for the crops that follow them. So perhaps it’s time to do yourself and the planet a ‘fava’ and eat more beans.
Including noncrop vegetation alongside crops may further increase genetic diversity in a geographic area, as with prairie strips or field borders and other conservation buffers within or adjacent to crop fields. And diversity may also include the temporal diversity of croprotations.
Located in Rogersville, New Brunswick, her farm Ferme Terre Partagee currently operates as a coop based on common values and objectives including peasant agroecology and food sovereignty. Fifth generation farmer, Rébeka Frazer-Chiasson believes strongly in the practices of regenerative agriculture.
Importantly, many farmers also argue that profitability can be significantly increased due to lowered reliance on expensive chemical inputs, thanks to techniques such as croprotation, holistic grazing, and cover cropping that can add nutrients back to the soil.
” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse croprotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. You should back away from this definition and call it agroecological or holistic.
As always, there was much to explore at the Conference with an array of workshops and deep dive sessions arguably dominating the more academic talks on topics like Trauma and the Land and The Interbeing of Agroecology not to dismiss those deeper discussions which are important to have, but perhaps practice is having a moment?
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