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Southern Illinois | I have a friend who has bought hook, line and sinker into the whole regenerative ag thing. I’m not saying it’s good, bad or indifferent. I’m just looking for opinions as I don’t have a firm one either way. His practices include: no till, no dry fertilizer or anhydrous (all manure and some liquid with planter), cover crops, very little pesticides/herbicides, lots of non GMO seed, etc. His yields have seemed to have tapered off since he started doing all this but he’s also been unfortunate to have some dry summers. Should I recommend he go back to using P, K, NH3, less cover crops, more herbicides, etc. or am I wrong on this? With less yields and lower prices, it doesn’t seem like it’s working well for him so I’m truly trying to do the right thing. Again, I don’t have a strong opinion on this. My gut tells me it’s definitely the right thing to do for the environment and animal/human health but ultimately I feel it’s costing him. He probably won’t be talked out of it which is fine but as a friend, I feel obligated to say something when he says his crops were off for the third or fourth year in a row. | |
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Regenerative Ag
