Organic Versus Regenerative Agriculture: A Complicated Relationship
Organic and regenerative agriculture aren’t the same, but advances in organic may pave the way for broader adoption of regenerative practices.
Organic agriculture is both a complement and a complication to the push for regenerative agriculture. Its success demonstrates that financial rewards can encourage more sustainable practices on the farm, but the organic approach also stops short of the philosophy behind regenerative agriculture.
Clear Frontier, for example, is a startup funded by wealthy investors that has begun buying up Midwestern farmland to convert it to organic agriculture and has acquired about 8,500 acres so far. The Omaha…
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