My partner got a grant to find this out.[1] It turns out that by building networks of producers who share their experiments as they try to find best practices

My partner got a grant to find this out.[1] It turns out that by building networks of producers who share their experiments as they try to find best practices for their specific place, time, and crops for regenrative ag actually helps them improve it for their context and make a little money. The problem with ag scientists is that they stay in universities, grow a few test crops in their own fields, then try to replicate that at scale a hundred miles away. Then they throw their hands up when the producers tell them they're full of it. On the other hand when you build real social networks of producers they can find more common ground and share stories about practices that work. It helps too because it's actually _their_ next door neighbors who don't use sustainable or regenerative practices who are coming over and telling them they're doing it wrong. IOW the isolation that comes with the decentralized ag that you're talking about is also a social isolation that makes it really hard to even experiment. [1] https://www.farmsproject.org https://www.farmsproject.org