From Don McDonald, Onanole, Manitoba, Canada
Why do you leap from Prince Charles's support of grass-fed beef to say that means we can “eat as much as we want” (7 October, p 7)? How about: “we can improve current production greatly”? As an ecologist, I view agriculture as one of the worst human impacts to the planet. And within the agricultural spectrum, annual tillage is the worst of all.
In regenerative agriculture, a wide variety of domestic and native pasture species are planted, grazed intensely for a short period and then an annual crop is grown. The land is never broken, the dramatic loss of soil carbon and microorganisms caused by chemical-based monoculture is reversed, and the water retention of soil improves, with a major reduction in run-off and flooding.
