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Covers and Co offers the best solution for Regenerative Agriculture Manitoba. Regenerative agriculture describes farming and grazing practices that focus on regenerating topsoil, allowing farmers to maintain crop yields, improve water retention and plant uptake and increase farm profitability among other benefits.

Regenerative Agriculture focuses on strengthening the health and vitality of farm soil. The key is that Regenerative Agriculture Manitoba “does no harm” to the land, and in fact improves it, using technologies to build soil health like compost, recycling waste, limited-to-no-tillage, among other practices.

Look at some of the Key Principles of Regenerative Agriculture :

• Reduce soil disturbance

While we think of farmers plowing their fields and turning over fresh soil, it turns out that tillage – breaking it up or turning it over like with a plow — disrupts soil structure and destroys the colonies of beneficial bacteria, fungus and other organisms that are important to healthy soil function. No-till or minimum tillage farming allows the soil structure to rebuild.

• Capitalize on crop variety

Planting the same crop in a field year after year – or even rotating two different crops like corn and soybeans, which is the predominant practice in the US — exhausts nutrients in the soil and gives pests a chance to establish a strong foothold. A wide variety of crops instead replenishes nutrients and disrupts lifecycles of pests and disease.

• Maintain the soil covered

Soil left uncovered after harvest – a common practice on US farms – is prone to blow or wash away, taking microbes and minerals important to plant development with it. Cover crops (like rye or vetch, usually grown not for sale but for their huge benefits to the soil), planted after the main crop is harvested, shield soil from the elements, return nutrients lost in the previous crop, and aerate packed down areas.

Mycorrhizal Fungi Western Canada

A mycorrhiza is a mutual symbiotic involvement between a fungus and a plant. This plays important roles in plant nutrition, soil biology and soil chemistry. A balanced C: N Ratio is a great method to handle Mycorrhizal Fungi Western Canada. Vegetative legumes with high carbon cereals provide a balanced diet for microbial populations. This balanced diet promotes an environment in which soil micro-organisms (specifically Mycorrhizal Fungi) can thrive and build soil aggregates. These soil aggregates allow the soil to infiltrate and hold water.