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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?
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.
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.
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.
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