Also: soil health farming
Farming that aims to build soil health and biodiversity.
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LaCanne and Lundgren compared regenerative and conventional corn farms, finding regenerative fields had 29% lower grain production but 78% higher profits.
As reported in: LaCanne, Lundgren (2018). Regenerative agriculture: merging farming and natural resource conservation profitably. PeerJ. doi:10.7717/peerj.4428
A meta-analysis of 40 studies by McClelland and colleagues found cover crops raised temperate soil carbon stocks by 12% on average (1.11 Mg C/ha).
As reported in: McClelland, Paustian, Schipanski (2021). Management of cover crops in temperate climates influences soil organic carbon stocks: a meta‐analysis. Ecological Applications. doi:10.1002/eap.2278
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