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Regenerative Food Certification: Gold Standard or Greenwashing?

Modern Farmer

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. Kerston, however, insists that bad practices such as using synthetic fertilizer consistently show up in the data. “If

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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Daily Yonder

Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested.

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