What is regenerative farming?

[Pilatus]

I have just put the 4 worded question,above,into the search TFF search box facility ( search titles only) and after browsing quickly through the 7 pages that the search facility comes up with, I can’t see one that directly answers my question.
So I ask “What is regenerative farming” and how does it differ from a traditional grass ,( combinable crop) , rotation including catch crops, where by the grass is utilised by cattle/sheep, and the cattle over wintered fattened in straw yards producing manure. So I would have thought that is as regenerative as one can get.Please explain what I am missing

 

[spin cycle]

a Bellend term for old fashioned mixed farming that...having destroyed/persecuted they now want back

however they don't want to admit what they've done so they use the term 'regenerative' to cover it up

chuck in a few 'open toed sandal ideas' and launch as a 'cure all' for something they broke in the first place

 

[topground]

It’s a marketing term to convince the gullible that this form of agriculture is more valuable than the competitors.

 

[Yale]

Regenerative is like sustainable.

Certain definitions of sustainable can mean it is unsustainable.

 

[Yale]

https://www.mccain.com/media/4036/mccain-foods-regenag-framework.pdf

 

[Bury the Trash]

bull site term used to imply im better than you at farming usual shite which has been round in different forms for as loing as i can remmber.

no farming is sustainable in the true sense of the meaning unless peoples shi.t that eat the food and all outputs are returned to the soil that they came from. and that isnt going to happen any day soon



and as far as saying catlle can be out wintered sensibly without soil damage in out part of the world well dream on .

and driving around in a fancy audi car skiiing flying etc etc whilst coming out with that sort of crap simply smacks of the biggest type of prat possible.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

The part I understand is the use a lot of herbal leys , Legumes and Herbs , clearly to reduce chemical inputs reducing bought in feeds
I wouod assume they are anti ploughs as well
All good stuff realy

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Here's a double whiskey to calm your nerves

 

[goodevans]

I think Charles Townshend tried it in Norfolk a few years ago

 

[Top Tip.]

We have a lassie up here that is right into promoting this regenerative agriculture and I asked her on twitter to define it . I got about two pages of a reply all of which was basically gobbledygook. I have yet to see a definitive explanation. The Scottish government have been trying to put in place a written definition for the last 8 years without success so it’s not an easy one to put in black and white.

 

[Wesley]

Its a bit like reinventing the wheel, giving it a fancy new name & telling everyone its a new thing.

 

[ajcc]

“God speed the plough”
“We plough the fields and scatter.”
“Dig for victory.”
Forget all the teachings of our forbears, “Natural England knows better.”

 

[wanton dwarf]

a Bellend term for old fashioned mixed farming that...having destroyed/persecuted they now want back

however they don't want to admit what they've done so they use the term 'regenerative' to cover it up

chuck in a few 'open toed sandal ideas' and launch as a 'cure all' for something they broke in the first place

Tight as a knats chuff is what I got from it

No evidence Regenerative Farming is a lubricant though

 

[upnortheast]

It’s a marketing term to convince the gullible that this form of agriculture is more valuable than the competitors.

First Milk have all their suppliers ticking boxes & claiming they are all regenerative. I`m guessing that say the range was 1 -100. They will have some farms scoring 8 & some 98.
i did suggest to a FM bod one day that a decent barrister could knock a hole in their claim.
He didn`t see it

 

[Derrick Hughes]

It's time we had a good plough bust up

 

[Bury the Trash]

yea reminds me we have got a few fields of PP to plough out this year got a bit bored with it all green and grassy tbh cant wait to see that brown dust flyin behind the power harrow.

Happy Days.

hang on a minute just noticed ... this is one of them threads with the 0's by the side whats that all about then ?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

a Bellend term for old fashioned mixed farming that...having destroyed/persecuted they now want back

however they don't want to admit what they've done so they use the term 'regenerative' to cover it up

chuck in a few 'open toed sandal ideas' and launch as a 'cure all' for something they broke in the first place

Traditional mixed farming is generally sustainable (in that it sustains the soil etc), however traditional farming has turned the fertile crescent where pretty much civilisation started into desert, so especially since the metal mouldboard plough was invented we have been slowly removing carbon from soil and soil itself.

Regenerative farming is tweaking ideas to actually build soil, and sequester carbon in the soil.

Superficially sounds like "traditional" mixed farming but actually quite different.

Five key "rules" for want of a better word

* Livestock integration -high impact mob grazing
-long recovery periods
-mimic nature
* Minimise soil disturbance-no till agriculture
-maintain soil integrity
-improve water infiltration
* Maintain living roots - carbon capture
* Protect soil surface -maintain soil mycorrhiza
-over winter cover crops
* Diversity -companion cropping
-broad rotation
-rotational leys

 

[BuskhillFarm]

Just another meaningless buzz word for some bored “farmer” to call their system. Hiding the pesticide/artificial fert usage behind terms like dd (not the booby kind) and cover crops.

But in reality, mixed farming / some digestate, compost a big bugger of a plough and a bit of organic (if your actually as good a manager as you think) would actually be regenerative.

Best get back to looking at my next ev/vegan dinner/religious god before I get bored again!

 

[Pilatus]

yea reminds me we have got a few fields of PP to plough out this year got a bit bored with it all green and grassy tbh cant wait to see that brown dust flyin behind the power harrow.

Happy Days.

hang on a minute just noticed ... this is one of them threads with the 0's by the side whats that all about then ?

What’s this sort by date /sort by vote thing sprung from????
I started this thread and certainly never asked for that , whatever it is

 

[Bury the Trash]

What’s this sort by date /sort by vote thing sprung from????
I started this thread and certainly never asked for that , whatever it is

no idea but we can ask @Baldrick .

anyway who cares i seem to get all noughts

mind you i could do with afew more general points tho been at 204 for a bit too long now but the rickster and chris F seem to have got that all stitched up between them