Dude excitedly posted a piece dissing organic agriculture thinking he got us
A few definitions first, there are three types of agriculture:
1. Conventional agriculture - uses chemical fertilizers, biocides, has high yields, monocultures, scores low on nutritional and taste scores, the soil is basically dead.
2. Organic agriculture - doesn't use fertilizers, some biocide use allowed, monocultures, soils not greatly improved from conventional ag, same nutritional and taste profile but importantly it has lower yields than conventional ag but its soils are dead but no chemicals are allowed. Not workable.
3. Regenerative ag - now this is the next level organic, the goal here is soil health before anything, because with healthy soils plants don't need nutrients to be brought in from outside they get it from the ground via their roots with the air of mycorrhizal fungi. Plants growing on healthy soils are don't get sick. Healthy soils can only come about with flourishing life underneath, therefore fertilizers and pesticide that will kill those microorganisms in the soil are forbidden. Monocultures are a sin, diversity of plants is key, soils must always be covered, tillage is discouraged. The end goal is prodigious yields without any fertilizers even organic compost is not needed, after soil reaches its peak it usually takes 7 years - it is basically self sustaining. This is not theory it has been demonstrated by guys laws Masanobu Fukuoka, Bill Mollison, and Allan Savory.