“What’s amazing to me is how fast we can improve soil health. Over the last three or four years, using cover crops, we’ve tripled our biological activity, nearly tripled our water-soluble organic carbon, decreased synthetic fertilizer by 45%, pesticides by 75%, and improved our organic matter by 1.4%.”
Mitchell Hora
Founder of Continuum Ag and Seventh-Generation Farmer
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