Addressing Your Agricultural Needs
How does Catawater® fit in today’s regenerative agricultural goals and objectives? Let’s look at the differences between Sustainability and Regenerative agriculture.
Sustainable practices seek to maintain the same. Regenerative practices recognize the natural systems that are currently impacted and applies management techniques to restore the system and improve productivity.
Sustainability in Agriculture and the Environment
About 20 years ago, many companies – especially publicly-traded companies – were asked by shareholders and many of their key customers to create a sustainability program. However, there were a couple of challenges with the term “sustainability.” Depending on what type of agriculture you practiced, it had many different meanings. Also, impact it had on your company varied.
Often, sustainability became a box to check off to appease customers and shareholders. Activities were managed to avoid impacting shareholder value, corporate profitability, and bonuses. Many sustainability metrics and value statements were massaged to fit the primary interest of the individual companies.
Regenerative Agriculture
Over the past several years, “regenerative agriculture” has become the new buzzword. Regenerative, by definition, narrows the guard rails of farming practices, activities and products used in agriculture.
Regenerative and sustainable actions may use essentially the same practices. However, the difference is the application and the management of those tools.
What does regenerative mean?
The term regenerative describes processes that restore, renew, or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials. Regenerative design uses whole systems methodology to create resilient and equitable systems to integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature.
What does regeneration mean in science?
Regeneration – (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs
Is Regenerative Agriculture a better way to farm?
A new way of farming called regenerative agriculture is touted to be better for the soil, better for climate change, and more profitable for farmers. It is starting to get some serious attention from major players.
Catawater® AG meets many of the requirements and expectations of regenerative agriculture. It is a soil conditioner that stimulates quorum sensing to mitigate harmful bacteria and improves beneficial bacteria. It’s also a catalyst that promotes and speeds up the biological activity in the soil.
What it is not is a bug in a jug! Many products (biological or not) do not address root causes of imbalanced soils. Catawater® AG, through its quorum sensing activities, improves soil deficiencies by bringing soils back into balance. Ultimately, this addresses/mitigates many of the root causes that have been created by petroleum and chemical based soil and crop amendments.
Stay tuned for more articles on Catawater®’s uses, expectations, predictability, reliability, affordability, and its impact on a more profitable and truly sustainable regenerative agricultural system.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Growing up working on a vegetable and sod farm, Curt Petrich has been involved with agriculture for nearly 50 years. Graduating from the University of Minnesota Crookston with a degree in soil science and agronomy, Curt has joined and co-led two dairy partnerships while farming both conventional and organic crop production. Curt has held leadership positions with an international natural and organic foods company as VP of Operations for their Raw Material Processing Facilities and VP of International Food Grade Soybean Sales and Genetics. Currently, he is owner/partner of HC International, specializing in Domestic and International Sales and Marketing of IP Soybeans, Whole Grains and Ingredients.
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