by Lillian Luu
Below are some highlights from the recent webinar on Regenerative Farming Practices on Corporate Farms.
Danielle Kruse | Farm Manager, Lake Trout Farm
- The success of farming comes from healthy soils
- Important practices in maintaining soil health: cover cropping and crop rotation. Cover cropping protects the soil over winter and converts nitrogen into a usable form that is usable by the plants in the spring, resulting in less input of fertilizer in the spring.
Jacopo Gabriele Orlando | Impact and Sustainability Manager, ABOCA
- Resilient farming comes from the biodiversity of soils
- Surface tillage to minimize disturbance of weed seeds in the lower part of the soil
- Surface tillage maintains the natural profile of soils to allow water to infiltrate
- Vertical integration creates value. The corporation is accountable for the quality of the herbs, the products, and how sustainable the practices are.
Christine Mason | Farm Manager, Standard Process
- Sustainability: make the land better than when people got there
- Food sources come from the soil; the quality of the soils determine the quality of the food.
- Technology helps farming efficiency
- Standard Process only harvests what they can process in one day
- Protect bees to maintain pollinator health
- Vertical integration allows corporations to guarantee quality of products because they are involved in the entire process from seed to finished product.