Regenerative Ag Event

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Gene Schriefer

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Aug 24, 2021, 12:07:25 PM8/24/21

to GrassWorks: Ask-a-Grazier

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http://www.freelandfilmfest.org/3d-flip-book/2021-freeland-program-guide/

In person or facebook live.

Saturday panel - titled Regenerative Agriculture – Feeding People and Mitigating Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Depleted Soils. Our panelists include Dr. Roger R.B. Leakey, Mr. Marc Eberle, Mr. Mat Boerson, and Dr. Ken Bates.

The key takeaways are:

1. Regenerative agriculture can ensure better returns from all five forms of capital (human, social, natural, physical and financial) and not just from financial.

2. Regenerative agriculture diversifies farm land in ways appropriate to the locale and to the rural economy.

3. Regenerative agriculture permits agroecosystem functions both above and below ground by creating niches for colonizing organisms.

4. Regenerative agriculture reduces environmental impacts on local to global scales by working with Nature.

5. Regenerative agriculture improves profitability by lowering costs and raising productivity and market quality.

6. Regenerative agriculture establishes climate- and wildlife-friendly production systems that reduce the ecological and carbon footprints.

7. And regenerative agriculture reduces the risks of future new zoonotic diseases.