Study: Regenerative farming strengthens drought resilience for cereal crops

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Soil Capital study on working farms reveals how regenerative practices have helped reduce cereal yield losses during periods of drought by 10 per cent

Regenerative farming practices can help protect European crop production from worsening droughts that represent the bloc's most economically damaging agricultural climate risk, a new analysis has claimed....

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