[HN Gopher] In the US, regenerative farming practices require un...
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       In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past
       advice
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2024-10-25 20:03 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | debacle wrote:
       | The farmers already know regenerative ag and are executing
       | certain aspects of it, but for most of the US the financial
       | incentives aren't aligned and the mineral losses in heavily
       | farmed soils will take generations to recover.
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       | This is an economics problem not a knowledge problem.
        
         | tastyfreeze wrote:
         | From many examples I have seen of farms that have switched to
         | regenerative practices it takes about 3 years to bring the soil
         | back to life. Some of those had been corn for generations.
         | Living soil consumes rock minerals making them available to
         | plants. It doesn't matter if all the previously released
         | minerals all washed away. As long as there is sand, silt, clay
         | and living soil the minerals are available for plants.
        
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