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I saw this on Netflix Kiss the Ground. Feel like I'm missing something. State universities all over the nation have agricultural programs. Are they teaching st

by AlanSE 5y ago

I saw this on Netflix Kiss the Ground. Feel like I'm missing something. State universities all over the nation have agricultural programs. Are they teaching stuff like cover crops? In other words, does this guy align with the conventional experts, or is he fringe, or does the industry have a schism?

tastyfreeze 5y ago
He started as fringe out of necessity. He and a few others are now the leaders of a paradigm shift. Gabe Brown has shown that it is immensely profitable to ditch costly chemical inputs and manage a farm as an ecosystem. He wasn't the first to return to farming this way. But, he has done a lot to spread it around. Ag extensions mostly recommend the high input farming methods. What Gabe Brown practices is more than just cover crops.