Ed Bourgeois

Regenerative Agriculture in it's truest application isn't industrial extractive, controllable by scale, patentable, input products driven. Thus doesn't fit into the present investment economic system. Why the present agriculture system fights so hard against it. #RegenerativeAg

@parisofprairie AI default is volume and noise of the status quo. Paradigm shifts of science and knowledge become surpressed. AI does have the ability with individual human partnership to explore with first principles and socratic method. But has insignificant change to default foundation.

@agronomistag Seems landgrants have been the primary source promoting biochar over the years. Ours did for some time. Even though I and others challenged its merit.

Even enthusiastic bio-product salesmen are coming around to this view on biochar.

@bmreadel New in-field plant nutrition tech.! Calibrations soon to increase crops coverage. x.com/i/status/20314…

@JonEntine Agroecology advances the understandings of how nature functions. Advances science and improves practices. advancingecoag.com/article/biophy…

“Nature knows best” is the foundation of organic farming and an underlying assumption in much of agroecology. Pop ecology misleads crop production in three key ways: first, it trades scientific nuance for oversimplified certainty. Second, it treats unmanaged nature as the ideal standard and human intervention as suspect by default. Finally, it elevates the discredited concept of “balance of nature.” geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/03/11/vie… via @GeneticLiteracy

@camjenglish The world record non-irrigated corn yield is by a regenerative farmer, the future advancing science.

Anti-chemical activists keep saying the same thing: 'Big Ag' pushes 'GMOs' purely to hook farmers on pesticides and boost profits. It’s a popular narrative. But it’s completely nonsensical.🧵

@DiligentDenizen All grafted on the same roots.

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More breakthrough technology in Regenerative Agriculture. In-field🌱 nutrient analysis for maximizing crop health. More crops will continue to be added as calibration work is accomplished. A great benefit for timely action from the past dependence on sending samples to labs.

How to integrate animals? Greg Pennyroyal of @Wilson_Creek Winery found the improvements on this vineyard block were slowing down after a few years of regeneration and thought sheep would take it to the next level. ✅ The post-sheep soil and sap tests have proven him right. But it wasn't easy! ➡️ The vineyard didn't have the capability to manage sheep themselves ➡️ After a few too many chaotic escapes, they found a local shepherd to partner with. ➡️ The shepherd was so impressed with the forage quality that he only charges the winery transport costs. 💪That's what regenerative agriculture is all about: win-win relationships. (BTW the formula for high quality forage at Wilson Creek = @GreenCoverSeed cover crops + AEA inoculants + soil that's been regeneratively managed for many years) More about regenerative relationships: loom.ly/uTJHRDA

@KitChri75116757 @JonEntine Because trad. org. or syn. only focused on chem. and physics. Regen. added a strong focus on the microbiology that now for the first time in history can be deeply studied. While also adding new understandings of soil biological chem and physics. Different principles and practices

@EBourgeois @JonEntine Norman recognized the threat of the organic industry. Once organic took control of regenerative and imposed their nonsensical restrictions on them, regenerative lost its greatest benefits. Now it is just greenwashing.

Though widely maligned today, pesticides played a pivotal role in the Green Revolution that transformed agriculture and food, contributing to yield surges of up to 44% from 1965 to 2010. The benefits were staggering in economic terms. A 2021 study in the Journal of Political Economy quantified that it boosted incomes and curbed population growth via reduced fertility. Cumulatively, the Green Revolution saved the world trillions of dollars over 45 years—equivalent to one year of global GDP. @camjenglish @drlizaMD geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/03/03/glp… via @GeneticLiteracy

@JonEntine Norman would have been excited with the recent world record for dryland corn by a regenerative farmer Shattering the old record that was 20 years old. He also would have understand the big differences between regenerative and traditional organic that so many still fail to realize

He did talk more explicitly in his later decades about environmental and resource limits—including topsoil/erosion and water—but the record reads less like a “recantation” and more like a broadening: keep high yields, but pair them with better soil- and water-conserving agronomy. he did discuss zero-tillage as a way to “cut down erosion,” linking it to practical weed control and reduced land clearing. He continued defending yield gains and modern inputs as necessary—while simultaneously emphasizing that the next phase needed better management (tillage, water use, nutrient efficiency, etc.) to avoid environmental harm

@JonEntine Norman Borlaug said of Dave Brandt "Farmers like Dave Brandt in Ohio—they're showing us how to keep the soil alive while we grow food. That's the future." Ag science and practices evolve. Borlaug appreciated that fact. While some still try to capitalize on the past, resist change

Not really .. not to the extent you’re implying.

We’re hosting an X Space to unpack the launch, share what we’re learning, and answer questions live. 🗓️Wednesday, March 4 ⏰1 PM EST 🔗x.com/i/spaces/1dxYl… Make sure you set a reminder and join!

Signs of Spring🌷 Annual bulb show starts this weekend at Smith College.

@dissidntdad @sovernTranch @beadlizard7 Saw Columbia's mentioned above. They are more of a dryland range breed pink hoofs, more closed nostril for dry dusty range. Also a big open range attitute. Corriedale black hoof, open nostril, better for more wetter/humid areas. Romney's good toobut less meat, courser wool.

@dissidntdad @sovernTranch @beadlizard7 New England appropriate sheep for nice sweater wool while also producing great lamb, preferred Corriedales. Considered a dual-purpose breed.

know your Romney sheep breed. -700+yr English marsh origins, footrot-proof black hooves, parasite-resistant. -rams to 300lbs, lean meat & 10-12lb lustrous longwool fleeces. -twins routine, great milkers, calm & hardy. -thrive in PNW, east coast & NE. -lambs love to cuddle.

No Dirt-No Soil Stop Erosion Regenerative Agriculture