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Very nice article. The approach is very interesting, the question is how market can provide incentives for farmer who implement regenerative agriculture practices?
Hey Sarah. I feel you may be partially informed on some of your points. There are valid points, but an equal amount of half baked assumptions that take away from the article. There is a reason the suicide rate of farmers surpassed servicemen and women. It is not because they are struggling with how to spend all of there government subsidy. Edgy ideas like taking land from farm owners based on another's idea of best practices is not helpful for any forward motion in the desired transition we likely agree is needed. I'm happy to share ideas and recieve them. I would not have shared my thoughts here if I did not appreciate the article. Good luck
I've recently heard differently re: soil carbon from cover crops from AEA, if I understood it correctly. The ultimate goal with the cover crop (tilled in) is humification, which locks up carbon in a form that is not easily soluble or digestable by any soil biology after it has been digested muiltiple times by fungi. In this case it's only a portion of the total carbon, but we add that to the benefit of reduced oxidation and dehydration which also leads to release of carbon and lower irrigation requirements and the 'green carbon' that is locked up in the annual cycle rather than floating in the air, and over time it's an undeniable net benefit. It also depends on a number of factors like the depth and type of tilling that is done, the timing, and overall management of crops and crop residues.
I appreciated the point about possibly creating incentive to cultivate land that otherwise would not, I would hope there would be guardrails to prevent that, but with this administration I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't, or it was a paper guardrail.
I also appreciate you pointing out just how Biden is currupt in this particular case. I'd heard he was targeting ag for climate change, but I knew it would be more pork in the end, now I have a better idea bout this.
GND will be full of mal-incentives... outlawing actual good practices, and subsidizing more greenwashing...
<a href="http://bit.ly/1GnbtAA">"Annual agriculture is all about living through our concepts... our idea we've imposed on reality & when reality doesn't behave according to our idea, what do we do? We input... we can never input enough to make our false concept correct."</a>
Very nice article. The approach is very interesting, the question is how market can provide incentives for farmer who implement regenerative agriculture practices?
Hey Sarah. I feel you may be partially informed on some of your points. There are valid points, but an equal amount of half baked assumptions that take away from the article. There is a reason the suicide rate of farmers surpassed servicemen and women. It is not because they are struggling with how to spend all of there government subsidy. Edgy ideas like taking land from farm owners based on another's idea of best practices is not helpful for any forward motion in the desired transition we likely agree is needed. I'm happy to share ideas and recieve them. I would not have shared my thoughts here if I did not appreciate the article. Good luck
Great article, I think I learned something new.
I've recently heard differently re: soil carbon from cover crops from AEA, if I understood it correctly. The ultimate goal with the cover crop (tilled in) is humification, which locks up carbon in a form that is not easily soluble or digestable by any soil biology after it has been digested muiltiple times by fungi. In this case it's only a portion of the total carbon, but we add that to the benefit of reduced oxidation and dehydration which also leads to release of carbon and lower irrigation requirements and the 'green carbon' that is locked up in the annual cycle rather than floating in the air, and over time it's an undeniable net benefit. It also depends on a number of factors like the depth and type of tilling that is done, the timing, and overall management of crops and crop residues.
I appreciated the point about possibly creating incentive to cultivate land that otherwise would not, I would hope there would be guardrails to prevent that, but with this administration I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't, or it was a paper guardrail.
I also appreciate you pointing out just how Biden is currupt in this particular case. I'd heard he was targeting ag for climate change, but I knew it would be more pork in the end, now I have a better idea bout this.
Thought provoking article. But, where are US farmers converting forests and wetlands to commodity grain production?
GND will be full of mal-incentives... outlawing actual good practices, and subsidizing more greenwashing...
<a href="http://bit.ly/1GnbtAA">"Annual agriculture is all about living through our concepts... our idea we've imposed on reality & when reality doesn't behave according to our idea, what do we do? We input... we can never input enough to make our false concept correct."</a>