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Regenerative Food Certification: Gold Standard or Greenwashing?

Modern Farmer

Doing no-till while using [glyphosate] is not going to regenerate the planet,” says Whitlow, who points to the spectrum of regenerative farmers, some who prefer not to plough but still spray herbicides. For livestock farmer and Land to Market certified producer Reuben Hendricks of Cabriejo Ranch , good ecology is good for business.

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More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate

Sustainable Food Trust

But will the current trend away from ploughing towards direct drilling and the accompanying use of glyphosate bring the benefits advocates claim, or could this make matters even worse? Richard Young follows on from his article, Speed the plough or the direct drill and sprayer?

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Measuring and valuing: Soil

Sustainable Food Trust

The disaster , which left over 500,000 Americans homeless, intensified the Great Depression and devastated the region’s ecology. Instead, deep ploughing to create intensive cropland tore up the native grass cover, leaving soils exposed and friable.

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Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

RR2CS

Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. When they discovered that the farm is set on a prehistoric lake bed, a natural water reservoir for the community, they felt an additional responsibility to plant native trees and shrubs to steward the water resource.

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Why we’re in a critical period in the development of regenerative agriculture

Agritecture Blog

If all the money put into food technology right now were instead ploughed into regenerative agriculture, investors would be “heroes for the planet,” adds Terry at GoodSam. There are “strong indications” that regenerative agriculture soils and crops are much more resilient vis-à-vis extreme weather events, he explains.