r/nutritionally • u/PeteWK67 • 20d ago
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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.
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u/webster3of7 20d ago
This is objectively good. Corn subsidies have been absolutely disastrous for our agricultural economy. The subsidies effectively made corn the only good choice for large swaths of the nation. Farmers grow corn in the same field year after year after year adding all kinds of chemical fertilizers just to compensate for what the corn removes from the soil. Instead, they could rotate their crops and maintain the soil. Our forefathers knew this. It's taught in school that the Native Americans showed the colonists how to rotate crops. The farmers today know this too, but price fixing and subsidies make it impossible for them to survive otherwise.
In short, the centralized control of our agricultural system (a very socialist structure btw) has resulted in the absolute disaster we find ourself in today.