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Meet the Poultry Farmer Teaching Others How to Make Regenerative Farming Add Up

Modern Farmer

It made me feel so good that someone believed in me and what I was doing on my farm.” (Photos courtesy of Jeff Siewicki) He positioned himself as a pasture poultry farmer to set himself apart from industrial poultry farmers and pivoted to selling to restaurants and wholesale. “I couldn’t believe it when he bought some birds.

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When Not Farming is the Best Use of Land

Modern Farmer

“Our biggest criticism of CRP,” says Anne Schechinger, mid-west director for EWG, “is that, as it is currently set up, it is not doing enough to store carbon in soil or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” Agriculture is responsible for 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the US. In the long run, though, costs are reduced.

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