Don’t kid yourself, there is still an assload of convention tillage and monocropping going on, at least in my neck of the woods.
I’ve surveyed large swaths of agricultural land; hundreds of inspection points, and the B horizon has been completely lost due to annual tillage. In one case I had two pits 200 m away from each other. One was in the field and one was in a stand of trees they didn’t clear. The field profile had maybe 15 cm of A horizon with no structure over a calcareous C. The bush profile had 50 cm of well structured A horizon, and another 20 cm of B overtop of the same calcareous C. It was beautiful.
In another field, a guy was moldboarding… This is just one of the surveys I’ve been on.
There’s a lot of guys out there who know what they are doing, and they do it well, but at least in my opinion, regenerative Ag needs to catch on more. From my perspective, there seems to be resistance, though, and I’m not sure if it’s from economics, generational practices, or a combination of factors.
Don’t kid yourself, there is still an assload of convention tillage and monocropping going on, at least in my neck of the woods.
I’ve surveyed large swaths of agricultural land; hundreds of inspection points, and the B horizon has been completely lost due to annual tillage. In one case I had two pits 200 m away from each other. One was in the field and one was in a stand of trees they didn’t clear. The field profile had maybe 15 cm of A horizon with no structure over a calcareous C. The bush profile had 50 cm of well structured A horizon, and another 20 cm of B overtop of the same calcareous C. It was beautiful.
In another field, a guy was moldboarding… This is just one of the surveys I’ve been on.
There’s a lot of guys out there who know what they are doing, and they do it well, but at least in my opinion, regenerative Ag needs to catch on more. From my perspective, there seems to be resistance, though, and I’m not sure if it’s from economics, generational practices, or a combination of factors.