Cropped fields aren’t degraded nature—they’re designed to feed us, which requires trade-offs. Using natural ecosystems as a benchmark for soil health or regenerative ag is misleading. My latest shows why:

@TerryDaynard Even the first paragraph is useful in its mention of "crypto."

RT @Agronomy_Guy: You ever notice that some sales guys only post the same exact pic of corn….over and over like they only took one pic all…

@AlanLevinovitz Wish we could drop the anecdotes out of news stories completely, but then they might not have enough material to fill all the news space/time.

@TuomasJMattila Bushcraft with bricks! When our kids were young, I would always bring a tall narrow box with us camping. Then when the fire was burning good, I stuck a stick in it and the box on the stick. The burning chimney effect always impressed them.

@TerryDaynard You may be right. For some reason, I can't get my head around what Fig. 2 is showing.

@AlanLevinovitz No shorts at funerals?

@TerryDaynard That, and the soil may still be losing C at deeper levels unless perennials are being grown.

@PetkerFarm @AlanLevinovitz Which community on reddit?

@PetkerFarm Are you going to a different platform or just getting off? Nothing beats X for ag discussions. Bluesky isn't even close.

@MartinOesterhel Esto es inevitable debido a la exportación de alimentos, por eso nos dedicamos a la agricultura.

@SoilStudent Important isn't the right word..."useful for practical management decisions" is really what I mean.

@SoilStudent Hmmm...but all our new understanding hasn't changed the practices we used to manage the soil, so is it that important?

@SampoJrnefelt @AgTechieTom @AgTechLogic Back in the 90s it was called integrated farming systems...still nothing new.

@AgTechieTom @SampoJrnefelt @AgTechLogic The differences will be good for the bottom line, but I doubt whether it makes any measureable difference in soil health, much less any practical differences in soil health, at least with herbicides.

@SampoJrnefelt @AgTechieTom @AgTechLogic If it can mean anything, does it mean anything?

@SoilStudent You say that as if nobody in the 90s wanted to improve their soils, which is false. It was called soil quality back then and I worked with many farmers wanting to improve it and not just limit damage.

@SampoJrnefelt @PaulAnd52959567 @pete_90210 Have you accounted for the land that produced the soil amendments, as it is often larger than the land receiving them?

@AgTechieTom @SampoJrnefelt @AgTechLogic That's cool, but I've never seen precision agriculture listed under regenerative.