Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

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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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

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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Farming Farming Food Ecology 52

Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Using data from Canadian arable farms, Bain’s consultants showed yield loss was typical in the first two seasons of transforming to regenerative agriculture. 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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Acre 52