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| IMO, building healthy soils requires you to work with nature not against it. When you have a disease, pest or weed problem figure out why it's there and how you may be able to correct it using crop rotation, cover crop, or natural fertilizers and not just have your co-op come out and spray for it. Yes, you can grow high producing crops in "un healthy" soil but what kind of input costs did it take and what kind of resiliency does your soil have in adverse growing conditions? I really don't have a hard answer, i think it comes down to each farmer doing what he sees is best for the longevity of the land, but the increase in disease, insect, and weed resistance to conventional farming practices is alarming.
There is the cookie cutter way that you could farm, but what would the joy in that be? | |
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regenerative ag vs sustainable ag Need your opinion...
