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ecmn | Everything I mention is basic agronomy.
Again what component is a belief?
Data not platitudes.
Illinois FBFM, Fin Bin and Fin Pak all have farm financial records showing how regen/ low input systems can be more profitable.
If maximizing yields was so good why has generations had to leave the farm? Why has farm debt over the last 70 years gone up not down? Why does a large majority of farms need off farm income?
Yield isn't profitablity. Dollars in vs out is.
Measurement of nutrients, good question. Can you show the replicated science behind crop removal rate theory itself.
Not deficiency response, actual replicated research validating removal rate fertilization as a predictive agronomic model.
If you have that link, post it. I’ve looked for years and i can't find it.
Can you show the geographic pool of fertilizer and the depletion rate.
I can show in a cover crop NPK values. I can show on soil tests with little to no applied P that a living soil can maintain p levels,
I can show on a soil test with cattle grazing that K levels increase. Plenty of science behind other plants cycling nutrients
I will try to explain my system, but I am not worried about convincing anyone. It's been proven for thousands of years on every acre ever farmed in one form or another.
Scaleable, in the industrial sense, no, if ethanol mandates, crop insurance subsidizing ended tomorrow what would happen? That's a system of dependency not scale.
For all of human existence we farmed with regen systems , diversity, cattle integration, rotation, biology..in just over 100 years we are seeing the cracks in the industrial system, degraded soils, loss of family farms, dependancy on inputs, pest, disease and weed pressure getting tougher not easier.
Edited by easymoney 3/15/2026 18:31
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Andrew McGuire Washington State