Regenerative farming potatoes?

[delilah]

For many years there was a roadside sign locally advertizing 'real potatoes' , as opposed to unreal ones I guess.

 

[tractorsandcows]

Best thing in that McCain ad is the New Holland It would be profitable if you could regenerate those

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Leave spuds in the ground and they regenerate.


Dig them out and it's extraction, same as oil and coal and other things we dig for.

Regenerative Agriculture is the buzziest oxymoron in town, a perfumed prostitution service

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Was reading the packet of my Walkers crips at lunch time, they weren’t quite so BOLD in the claim as above, but it claims they only source “sustainably grown potatoes”. Oh yes, how’s that done then?!!!

Easily.
You plant them around the back of your house, and you go get potatoes when you need them.
If your digging fork breaks, you can fix it or even use your hands if you have to.

Sounds pretty sustainable until you cook up your last seed spuds, and then it doesn't

 

[B'o'B]

Easily.
You plant them around the back of your house, and you go get potatoes when you need them.
If your digging fork breaks, you can fix it or even use your hands if you have to.

Sounds pretty sustainable until you cook up your last seed spuds, and then it doesn't

Thanks for enlightening me, I never knew that's how Walkers crisps did it! I'm amazed the can still compete on price with the other crisp manufacturers!

 

[som farmer]

the best bit about regen farming, is there is no rule book, so anyone could claim they are following it.

that said, there are some excellent theories/ideas to follow, certainly saved us a lot of money.

At the moment, you can choose how deep you go, along the route. As soon as that fecking rule book arrives, it will take choices out of the equation, and that will be a disaster.

 

[DaveGrohl]

the best bit about regen farming, is there is no rule book, so anyone could claim they are following it.

that said, there are some excellent theories/ideas to follow, certainly saved us a lot of money.

At the moment, you can choose how deep you go, along the route. As soon as that fecking rule book arrives, it will take choices out of the equation, and that will be a disaster.

Rulebooks = monetisation though.

Monetisation = bandwagon.

Bandwagon gets loaded with too much bullsh1t axle breaks and wheels come off bandwagon.

Bullsh1t gets loaded onto next bandwagon and off we go again.

 

[Treg]

To be truly regenerative the prices paid need to better to encourage the next generation into farming and to support the wider farming community.
So Mc Cains are you paying extra for these potatoes or forcing more rules onto your suppliers for the same money?

 

[BrianV]

Course it is where would Dyson be without a generous government handout.

How a large-scale regen system is working at Dyson Farming - Farmers Weekly

Implementing regenerative agriculture principles across 14,000ha is a central component of Dyson Farming’s long-term circular farming model, as it

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[Treg]

Rulebooks = monetisation though.

Monetisation = bandwagon.

Bandwagon gets loaded with too much bullsh1t axle breaks and wheels come off bandwagon.

Bullsh1t gets loaded onto next bandwagon and off we go again.

Or rule book = consumer confidence

No rule book = no rules = consumer confusion and apathy for the product.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Or rule book = consumer confidence

No rule book = no rules = consumer confusion and apathy for the product.

Would be nice if the public actually knew there was a rule book. Most of them don’t.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Course it is where would Dyson be without a generous government handout.

How a large-scale regen system is working at Dyson Farming - Farmers Weekly

Implementing regenerative agriculture principles across 14,000ha is a central component of Dyson Farming’s long-term circular farming model, as it

www.fwi.co.uk

Circular farming
Has the next bandwagon arrived already?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Rulebooks = monetisation though.

Monetisation = bandwagon.

Bandwagon gets loaded with too much bullsh1t axle breaks and wheels come off bandwagon.

Bullsh1t gets loaded onto next bandwagon and off we go again.

Regeneration can be transformation, but you need to close the book on the past or it's just a changed way of doing

I don't feel agriculture has the drive or ability to do that, without some force being used.

It's similar to making movies about developing "new sustainable transport technology" and then showing it to an audience who biked or walked to the theatre to watch it, they'll see it as a comedy show?

Therefore if it can't move on from what it was that worked, then it's just different industrial or pastoral agriculture. Nothing will transform

 

[puppet]

McCain tv advert says their farmers are growing potatoes using regenerative farming methods. Is that possible?

In the 70s local merchant rented a field each year on us. Usually around 15 acres. Part of a rotation of spring barley, barley, spuds, barley, grass -usually undersown. Out-wintered some cattle on the stubble. Straw baled and muck spread in Spring with some fertiliser.
Was that regenerative?

Picked by hand with a squad arriving each day. If someone with a tie appeared at the gate half of them were off over the dyke as claiming benefits.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Regeneration can be transformation, but you need to close the book on the past or it's just a changed way of doing

I don't feel agriculture has the drive or ability to do that, without some force being used.

It's similar to making movies about developing "new sustainable transport technology" and then showing it to an audience who biked or walked to the theatre to watch it, they'll see it as a comedy show?

Therefore if it can't move on from what it was that worked, then it's just different industrial or pastoral agriculture. Nothing will transform

Don‘t think I didn’t see what you did there

 

[ollie989898]

Seriously now can someone explain to me what the fudge regenerative spuds are and how it is done in practice or it genuinely as pants and make-believe as it sounds?

I suppose Dyson is a regen acolyte what with all that methane he is burning to feed to his crops as CO2.

 

[Jungle Bill]

If the growers can show and measure what they are regenerating I might start to believe.

 

[betweenthelines]

Regenerative

Environmentally friendly

Organic

Natural

Free range

Pasture based

Low impact


etc. etc. etc.


all mean different things to different people and generally have little or no legal status.


Basically you can call the food you produce whatever you want.

 

[Sid]

Regenerative

Environmentally friendly

Organic

Natural

Free range

Pasture based

Low impact


etc. etc. etc.


all mean different things to different people and generally have little or no legal status.


Basically you can call the food you produce whatever you want.

Your factually incorrect as ever

Legislation

The European Commission has adopted several regulations on the production, distribution and marketing of organic goods.

agriculture.ec.europa.eu

 

[Lowland1]

Course it is where would Dyson be without a generous government handout.

How a large-scale regen system is working at Dyson Farming - Farmers Weekly

Implementing regenerative agriculture principles across 14,000ha is a central component of Dyson Farming’s long-term circular farming model, as it

www.fwi.co.uk

He farms the fen across from us his farming system is more degenerative than regenerative in my opinion.