Regenerative agriculture: merging farming and natural resource conservation profitably
Most cropland in the United States is characterized by large monocultures, whose productivity is maintained through a strong reliance on costly tillage, external fertilizers, and pesticides (Schipanski et al., 2016). Despite this, farmers have developed a regenerative model of farm production that p...
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-02-01
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