Regenerative 21st Century Farming: A Solution to Global Warming & The Organic Green Revolution By Timothy J. LaSalle, PhD CEO, Rodale Institute

1. Regenerative 21st Century Farming: A Solution to Global Warming & The Organic Green Revolution By Timothy J. LaSalle, PhD CEO, Rodale Institute

2. The Farming System Trial ®

3. Energy Used in Different Corn Production Systems 231.7 77.5 121.6 199.2 Conventional Organic

4. CO 2 Over Past 420,000 Years CO 2 Concentration (ppm) Years before 2005 from the Vostok Ice Core Data

5. Global Effect 3.5 billion tillable acres 40% Mitigation Agriculture

6. No-Till Roller Crimper No-Till using Biology not Chemistry

7. Natural N Production Hairy Vetch Biomass Measurement 150 - 200 pounds per acre

8. Carbon Impact by Field Treatment Carbon Sequestration ( kg C / ha /year)

9. Soil Organic Matters 1% 5% 5 % 1%

10. Rodale Institute Soil Depth (cm) Soil Carbon (%)

11. 2025: 2 Billion People Without Water Austin Brown II, 65, on his ranch in Beeville, TX. Much of the state has not had a significant rainfall since August. The worst drought in nearly 100 years is racking three-quarters of Texas Photo byMichael Stravato for The New York Times

12. C - N cycle C - H2O Soil Carbon Matter Matters Soil Carbon Matter(s)

13. Rodale Institute

14. Organic Corn - 1995 Drought Organic Conventional Better infiltration, retention, and delivery to plants helps avoid drought damage

16. Proven, Affordable, Immediate Mob Grazing Keyline Plow

17. These basic processes determine whether landscapes end up like this: … or like this. (Two rivers in the same area, with the same soils and rainfall, on the same day.) © ManagingWholes.com Restoring Water

19. Organic Matter Increases Infiltration Conventional Organic Using Compost

20. Buildings floated in the cedar river in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, following a devastating flood last year. Flooding in Agricultural Zones

21. Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

22. 40% Mitigation Cuba – Two rice plants the same age and same variety Systems Rice Intensification By: Dr. Norman Uphoff, Cornell University

23. Systems Rice Intensification 40% Mitigation After typhoon, FFS farmer in Dông Trù village, Hanoi Province, Viet Nam By: Dr. Norman Uphoff, Cornell University

25. Soil Aggregation: A Biological Process

26. a relic of sampling methodology? Depth (feet) Corn plant root system Sampling depths of 140 studies comparing tillage impacts on soil carbon (shaded area denotes sampling depth) (Figure from Baker et al. 2007) Soil Carbon Sequestration in Conventional No-till Agriculture

27. Global Effect 3.5 billion tillable acres 40% Mitigation Agriculture

28. Single biggest solution 11 billion acres 100+ % Mitigation

29. A sizable % of human population now depends on [artificial] N fertilizer. T.E. Crews & M.B. Peoples 2002 Agricultural Calamity

30. Frogs Not Ready for Roundup Roundup still killed up to 71 percent of tadpoles in outdoor tanks. Rick Relyea, University of Pittsburgh

31. Human Sperm Count Decline

32. Representative drawings of a person by 4 & 5 year-old Yaqui children from the FOOTHILLS of Sonora, Mexico Representative drawings of a person by 4 & 5-year-old Yaqui children from the VALLEY of Sonora, Mexico. An Anthropological Approach to the Evaluation of Preschool Children Exposed to Pesticides in Mexico © Elizabeth A. Guillette, María Mercedes Meza, Maria Guadalupe Aquilar, Alma Delia Soto and Idalia Enedina Garcia 4 Years Old 5 Years Old Female Female Male Female Male Female Male Male 4 Years Old 5 Years Old

33. In spite of current realities of soil loss, global water shortages, high cost of fossil fuels ecologically and financially, increased aquatic dead zones, and soil fertility depletion there exists an agriculture that is restorative, regenerative and profitable. Agricultural Hope

35. Biological farming and ranching works to build the biology. “ Bio-logical” Chemical conventional agriculture degrades the biology. “ Bio-logical”

36. New Markets

37. Rodale Institute Reaches for Consumers

38. Rodale Institute Paradise Lost 1970

39. Organic Farm Conservancy Rodale Institute