Talk Description:
Let’s face it, commodity agriculture isn’t exactly a darling when it comes to impact. But here’s the radical truth: the very system we vilify holds the key to unlocking a transformed and sustainable food system.
This talk challenges the narrative that celebrates consumer premiums and supply chain initiatives as the path to regenerative agriculture adoption at scale. While crucial, (I myself am a small scale organic farmer) these approaches can’t reach the scale needed. Instead of focusing on end use price premiums, that will only ever apply to a minority of acres – we believe that the key is embedding the incentives in the financing of a farm business.
Financing is a challenge that is common to all row crop farmers, regardless of their end use markets. It also brings into alignment the source of capital for financing, regenerative agriculture benefits show up over the long term rather than in the short term.
