Corn is being planted into a field that has a mixture of hairy vetch, cereal rye and tillage radishes at the Goodwater Farm. Photo credit: Edwin Remsberg and USDA-SARE.
“Cover crops are sort of the gateway drug to get people in to regenerative agriculture,” says Jonathan Lundgren, Director/CEO of Blue Dasher Farm in South Dakota.
Lundgren’s research found that conventional farms spent 32 percent of their gross income to grow the crop. Regenerative farms in the study spent only 12 percent. The biggest savings were from reduced fertilizer and buying seeds not treated with insecticide.
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