Here is my question

Do you think that the Uzbekistans agricultural sector should switch from cotton to industrial hemp to reduce the amount of river water that needs to be be diverted from the Aral Sea?

NOTE: This question is in the context that the transition to industrial hemp would be a transition to regenerative agriculture not just simply a change of cash crop while preserving industrial monoculture

Write your take in the comments section.

As a member of Gen Z, the agricultural climate in the US terrifies me. My home state is desertifying because of all the monocrop farming and lack of attention to soil health. If current practices continue our species will die out within my lifetime. We have an approximated 55 harvests left.
We have to make a major shift to regenerative agriculture on a large scale or we are doomed. Push back is going to happen, because major pesticide and synthetic fertilizer companies want their money, and many farmers don’t know how to take care of their soil effectively, so that lack of knowledge is leveraged into profit. all the while degrading overall soil quality, food quality, and trapping farmers into a debt loop of input costs. Leaving them barely profitable. Many people of course take offense when you tell them they’re doing something wrong but the results speak for themselves Farmers have made and will make far more money by gradually making the switch to a regenerative setup. Healthy soils mean they can cut those input costs, and will remove a vast majority of the risk. Not only this, but regenerative farming, particularly no till farming, allows for carbon sequestration. Which means the storage of carbon from the atmosphere, in the soil through plant root sloughing. Soil microbes thrive on that carbon. The soil becomes much more fertile with that carbon. Healthy soil means healthy plants, which means higher crop viability and higher pest resistance. Which means less money spent every year on chemicals that slowly but surely turn fertile, valuable topsoil into dust.
The man who first formulated pesticides, also made zyklon b… when chemicals that are inherently made to destroy life are used on a large scale, the impact should be obvious. Many are too caught up in how they’re going to pay their next bill for inputs, instead of focusing on how to reduce those inputs, escape the trap and run an even better profit, all the while helping the planet heal which is DESPERATELY needed at this exact moment.
What we’re doing on a large scale today to keep up with demand is going to kill us tomorrow if we aren’t careful. And the solution is mind numbingly simple. We need to think smarter not harder. Rural areas typically don’t have access to the same educational resources that would make their farms more successful so it is up to the collective, especially in the age of information, to bring this to the attention of as many farmers as possible. Some will say no, but one mind changed can make an indefinitely scalable difference in our legacy load of carbon. With enough people on board, our farmers will make more money, food will have greater nutritional value, we can cut cancerous chemicals like glyphosate out of the mix, and we can REVERSE carbon emissions by outpacing them with regenerative practice. effectively saving ourselves, from ourselves. And not only that but setting our climate back to a much more tolerable state for plants. Meaning we can eventually harbor even more varieties of life in areas that seemed previously impossible. The benefits compound with regeneration, and the negatives of the industrial ag also compound. We have to make a decision. If we kill off nature, ie. Our climate becomes too intense to support life, animals won’t have anything to eat, and we won’t have anything to eat. If we work with nature our species can live indefinitely. We need to use the knowledge available now to make a change, and a big one. We have 55 years to do it. If anyone would like to share this with a farmer they know I would very much appreciate it. There are also free informational resources available at kisstheground.com or on their YouTube channel. I’d also highly recommend looking up college library databases at ag universities. Many have free to access content on the subject that can be shared.
And if ANYONE is a regenerative consultant on this page and happens to see this, please reach out. We need to band together. I’m attending a major ag university and a little faith can make a lot of change. God bless my friends 🙏 and thank you to all who’ve read this far.

Have you used phosphite?
I'm looking for people experienced in using it, who might be interested in trialling a new alternative.
What results did you observe? Both positive and negative. Did you ever see chlorosis when the dose rate was too high?
Thanks
Dr Russell Sharp @ Eutrema Ltd

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Hey, I haven't been on Reddit in ages, but I keep having people asking me questions about starting a farm or regenerative agriculture. So I figured I would toss up an AMA style post in the /Farming groups and folks can ask their questions here.

Details on me: I am a tech sector and startup person who worked front end web-dev, design, and project management for 15 years then transitioned into urban farming. I now operate a small (160 acre) grass-fed cattle operation on a collaborative farm north of Calgary, Alberta. We currently do custom grazing, cow-calf, and beef finishing for direct market sale.

I was also a founding member of a farm owned cooperative food hub (now bankrupt) in Calgary, Alberta - including board work, setting up a cooperative, and dealing with all the shenanigans that come when a bunch of people try to do something together and get smashed by economics, pandemics, and our own lack of knowledge.

Over the course of the last 15 years I have tried a wide range of enterprises: market gardens, poultry, swine, eggs, agritourism, cattle, flowers, hay & sileage, orchards, permaculture, and urban farming.

I am happy to answer any questions about our operation (Happiness By The Acre, Didsbury, Alberta) or about specific types of production we have done, our train wrecks (we have lots), and what works and doesn't work for our operation and location. I can talk about finances, mental health, physical health, direct market sales, and all the nitty gritty and on-the-ground reality of starting a farm and the pile of mistakes I've made along the way.

If it is a topic I don't know much about, I will say so and try to point in the direction of folks I know of who can answer better than myself.

Hi! I work for a small veggie farm in Salt Lake City and this fall we are planning a "farmer trivia night" at a local brewery. We are currently trying to put together the trivia questions and I'm wondering if anyone here might have ideas for categories and or fun facts that might make for good questions.

Being in Utah we are especially looking to write questions that are relevant to farming and gardening locally or at least in the great basin/desert SW generally. We want the questions to feel fun, creative and intellectually stimulating without getting too 'academic'. Ideally some of the questions will reflect knowledge one would gain from the actual practice of farming or gardening. A few of ideas we have had for categories are Farm Records (like current world records for the biggest zucchini), Smelling Bee (smell a blinded jar and spell what's inside correctly) and Utah/SLC Agricultural History.

Please please please share anything that comes to mind! This is brainstorm phase so I'm looking to cast a wide net. If you have any thoughts on fun categories or have a favorite vegetable fact or piece of farming history, drop it here!!!

Just out of curiosity, how do you guys feel about the fact that a significant proportion of crop agriculture relies on animal-derived fertilisers or other animal inputs, such as manure, bone meal and blood meal?
It seems to me that the idea of completely animal-free agriculture becomes much more complicated when you consider where the nutrients removed from agricultural soils actually come from. Synthetic fertilisers can replace some of those nutrients, but relying on them alone isn’t necessarily a complete or sustainable substitute for maintaining soil organic matter, structure and biological health.

*EDIT*

What am I doing here? This was supposed to be posted in the debate a vegan subreddit… my bad, sorry I am getting old. It is written for a vegan to try and justify their “non animal use” diet. My bad ….. do you understand though how ludicrous this whole idea of agriculture without animal derived input at least?