Comments on: Op-ed: Why Most No-Till Agriculture Is Not Actually Regenerative

By: Michele

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:25:57 +0000

If what you do to the soil harms its microscopic life, doesn’t matter what you call it, it is wrong.

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By: CATRYNA WHITE

Sat, 17 May 2025 16:21:32 +0000

As long as monoculture is used there never will be any progress. The European way of farming is moronic, the same mentality that existed when they first came to this country and poo poo’d the native’s way of growing food. That was no till combined with companion planting. The native grew together plants that not only supported each other, but also nourished the soil the plants were grown in. By combining plants like corn for a support system things like beans, cucumbers, etc used the corn to grow up onto and were nitrogen fixing. Melons and squash kept the ground covered so less watering had to be done and also the entangling vines kept deer from the corn. Also, those natives who also grew potatoes and sweet potatoes also added to the companion planting or idea of permaculture .

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By: Emily

Wed, 14 May 2025 16:57:30 +0000

By: David Paul Howle II

Sat, 10 May 2025 04:43:24 +0000

I’m confused by what you are refering to as organic.

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By: sam lucy

Fri, 09 May 2025 13:35:04 +0000

Spot On Nate!

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By: Eileen Miller

Fri, 09 May 2025 12:56:34 +0000

Great article. No till can also be combined with cover cropping and use of use of the roller crimper to terminate crops. This acts as weed control, organic matter addition, increases soil water holding capacity and much more.

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By: Michael Slack

Fri, 09 May 2025 11:47:24 +0000

We have farmed for 45 year’s. Leased 160 acres when we eere seniors in highschool. Slowly built our acerage up crop shareing mostly. We grow 5 crops in rotation and we h. If we had planted every acre to wheat all these years and that wheat was made to bread, and the loaves stacked end to end. That line of bread would go around the world 9.5 times. Hard to fathom. Mass starvation will occur if what you propose became a reality. Grow how you want to. Power to you. But your proposal that all ag should follow your lead is a danger to all humanity.
Calculate by calories what it takes to feed the entire planetModern ag is barely keeping up now. Dont muzzle the Ox.

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By: Fritz Groszkruger

Fri, 09 May 2025 11:47:19 +0000

Destroy soil life through tillage or chemicals. That is the choice. Since you mention your 2 decades, I’ll mention my 4 and say in that time tillage has produced shabby, hard and dead soil. No till and judicial use of chemicals has improved the permeability and tilth immensely.
I agree that there can’t be definitive answers to long term effects of chemicals but tillage destroys their home and also stimulates weed germination and spread. It’s great that you can make “organic farming” work but either the weeds or tillage would soon make our farm unproductive.

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By: JOHN WAUCH

Fri, 09 May 2025 10:16:39 +0000

Good evening. Basically all our production comes from beneath the soil. We have turned our soils into concrete and destroyed its natural fertility. If all primary producers could cover crop twice a year for two years the trend would be irreversible. We have been conned by the public servants to destroy our soils in a quick fix. Since nineteen seventy our soils in Australia have been bankrupted. Basically our politicians have destroyed our land. It’s up to our next generation. Thankyou.

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By: Bruce Maynard

Fri, 09 May 2025 06:09:44 +0000

The alternative is to progress to No Kill Cropping which is distinctly different from every other cropping system and does not have the simplifying techniques of tillage or chemical killing of plants as part of it’s system.

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