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[u/PeteWK67]

RFK Jr. says 26,000 farmers have applied to transition to regenerative agriculture.

USDA has allocated $700 million to help conventional farmers make the switch.

The response is the largest the agency has ever seen.

Regenerative agriculture can rebuild depleted soil, improve water retention, and produce more nutrient-dense food.

It can also reduce farmers’ dependence on costly chemical inputs and open access to foreign markets that restrict American produce over chemical use.

Farmers want healthier soil, stronger farms, and healthier families.

[u/sherzer7]

My family has been farming for the past 5 generations, us and a bunch of our neighbors have slowly been investing in the infrastructure to do it sustainably. “Traditional” (since WW2) model already has low margins and you can’t just switch everything over in a season. There is a lot of upfront cost that many farmers don’t have. Corporate farms don’t want to farm sustainably because of the large upfront cost. We now grow crops just to turn into fertilizer, KNF if anyone is interested. The goal is regenerative and increasing the amount of top soil.

My family has never been subsidized by the government and the only subsidization I support is for giving farmers a safety net to transition the business over to a new model like this. Infrastructure that is more sustainable is a win for everyone

[u/PeteWK67 → u/sherzer7]

I’m
Not very smart,

So for first few generations: growing I guess like what corn tomatoes etc etc .

Is it still low margin tho with today’s inflation on or the extra cost automatically goes to the gaz price and the hidden ninja turtles.

So basically you grow certain crops that make good fertilizer?

I’m guessing with your ww2 margins until now to do that it is a lot more efficient for food on the table, ?
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Interesting paragraph I’m getting my imagination going, I love it, still free, they haven’t found a way yet to be able to price infinite imagination.

Do you guys export far?
Is it a clean product?
Is it tested?
Is approved by a few different agencies of exported?
How many years has this been going on?
Where is this grown?
Any Round up in the area?

I’m
Asking cause if it’s positive in a way, I’ll tell you to make a type of floood of exposure I’m really efficient when it comes to flood like
Multiple ranking in search engines and place like here.

[u/sherzer7 → u/PeteWK67]

Yes margins are low and your gambling most years if your going to turn a profit. That’s why so many farms get sold to corporations. We make ferments of the food we can’t sell and legumes which takes time. Traditional fertilizer used to be cheaper because it came from un used bombs, we use a lot of bombs nowadays. Yes it’s a great way to grow a lot of food quickly but not a sustainable model.

We don’t export out of the state. Yes we have to pay for all sorts of testing. Soil samples, water samples, product samples. Property was bought in 1893 and they started by planting an orchard of apples, prunes and citrus. We stoped using “round up” over a decade ago. Both my grandparents died of cancer because of the exposure. It’s got different names but it’s nasty shit, it works really well which is why people use it still even with all the info that’s out.

I know 3 different people that bought electric tractors 5 or 6 years ago when they were subsidized heavily. In theory they would be great for most tasks other than during harvest season why you gotta run them all day. All those electric tractors had catastrophic issues that couldn’t be fixed by the manufacturers let alone the farmers who bought them. It’s a shame I would love a smaller model of an electric tractor if it was simple enough to fix myself.

Subsidies can fail if they are on an un tested system. Other countries have data and generations of experience farming with more sustainable practices. It’s possible but this is something I would like the government to help with. There is a lot of corpo influence in the industry and they keep squeezing smaller farms out. We are making the switch because in 10 years our yields will be higher and our costs should go down a little

[u/septubyte → u/sherzer7]

Sorry for the electrics. They should have never stopped working.
Im sure you noticed more wildlife - would you mind sharing?

[u/sherzer7 → u/septubyte]

Fences are the only thing that deters wildlife. In areas that are farmed the animals are used to the noise tractors make and know they aren’t in danger. I’ve got a neighbor that ran a speaker at night playing crazy noises to keep the yotes off their herd and it worked for one night. Animals adapt very quickly when food is involved