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ecmn | Very typical university land grant extension person.
He's regenerative friendly. He's a manager of inputs, input x outcome Y linear agronomy
But he's not a systems builder/ thinker. Doesn't really give biology or the natural function much credit. His regen friendly is kind of fake.
Every article is the same design. Either a straw man argument or a very narrow specific point, even outdated regenerative idea.
He then frames every article in a manner that his conclusion is inevitable.
I was excited to read his articles and then after about a half a dozen of them I was kind of bummed.
It would only take a couple questions in every article to expose the gaps and have him stop replying and not answering questions.
For example
One of the articles was we shouldn't mimic nature we should improve on it.
The entire piece was built on a straw man version of what people like Ray archuleta talk about when he says mimic nature.
He critiques an outdated, out of context system that nobody in regenerative agriculture today is using or talking about.
His conclusion is technically correct inside his framework. But it has nothing to do with what regenerative people are doing or talking about today.
I would have no questions for him on that article because well he just spoke a lot without saying anything. That would be nothing contextual to ask
He then had a very typical article about we have to rely on fertilizer nature can't do it biology can't do it. That one would be very easy to ask questions, and within several follow up questions he would be done answering. You can see in the article where he said buckwheat is supposedly makes phosphorus available He's out of his depth.
The other articles were the same thing.
I honestly would enjoy it very much if he started posting here!
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Andrew McGuire Washington State