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GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts) Tue Jul 7, 2015, 03:14 PM Jul 2015

Regenerative Agriculture -- How Key Changes can Start to Solve Multiple Problems

40% of the land mass of earth is used for farming. Certain farming practices are producing a variety of major problems so key changes can reverse that trend and perhaps global warming as well.

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Regenerative Agriculture -- How Key Changes can Start to Solve Multiple Problems (Original Post) GreatGazoo Jul 2015 OP

Yeah, but a lot of farmers don't want anyone, aside from Fox News, to tell them what to do. Dark n Stormy Knight Jul 2015 #1

In my experience, if it verifiably works and costs less money farmers will do it. GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #2

Dark n Stormy Knight

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1. Yeah, but a lot of farmers don't want anyone, aside from Fox News, to tell them what to do.

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Tue Jul 7, 2015, 03:44 PM

Jul 2015

They really resented the government coming in and saving them from the Dust Bowl devastation for that same reason. I hope I'm wrong and most will be reasonable and learn from this.

GreatGazoo

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2. In my experience, if it verifiably works and costs less money farmers will do it.

Reply to Dark n Stormy Knight (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 8, 2015, 09:49 AM

Jul 2015

With a combination of skepticism and pragmatism they question and test and verify. All the farmers I know understand biology very well.

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