Regenerative Agriculture

Missouri farmers embrace cover crops with federal and state assistance

Cover cropping is known to prevent soil erosion and create efficient water cycles, and Missouri farmers are seeing the benefits. The 2017 Census of Agriculture highlighted cover crops as the third most planted crop in the state. Cover crop acreage has doubled in five years, to 850,000 acres. Corn and soybean farmer John Hemme cites […]

Compeer joins Land Core initiative to decrease financial risk of adopting soil health practices

Compeer Financial, Farm Credit cooperative based in the Upper Midwest, and non-profit organization, Land Core, establish partnership to pilot Land Core’s predictive model of risk mitigating benefits of soil health practices. Compeer Financial and Land Core have announced a new partnership in which the member-owned Farm Credit cooperative will support the soil health non-profit’s cross-sector […]

Study: Intercropping produces higher yields than monocropping

by Peter Rüegg, ETH Zurich Monocultures dominate arable land today, with vast areas given over to single elite varieties that promise a high yield. But planting arable land with just one type of crop has its disadvantages: these areas are easy game for fungal and insect pests, posing a threat to crops. To keep pests […]

After 75 years, Noble Research Institute changes focuses to regenerative agriculture

For 75 years, the Oklahoma-based Noble Research Institute, which was started in 1945 by Lloyd Noble as a way to revitalize the agriculture industry following the Dust Bowl, has focused its research on plant science. But the Noble Institute recently announced that it will focus all of its operations on regenerative agriculture and set its […]

Patagonia, Gucci, and Timberland embrace the “farm-to-closet” movement using regenerative agriculture

Conscientious consumer choices—it’s happening in the food realm as demand soars for sustainably produced items. Can it work in the $1.3 trillion fashion industry? The list of fashion brands eager to source even a small portion of their raw materials from regenerative farming operations is growing—including Patagonia, Allbirds, Timberland, Mara Hoffman, Christy Dawn, and luxury […]