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Our regenerative journey
Ján Hegyi
Agricultural cooperative Krakovany - Stráže
Regenerative agriculture for soil health | Bratislava, Slovakia | 29th of November 2023
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General info about us
The regenerative agricultural co-op farm owned by:
54 shareholders manages
640 ha of land.
This season we had more than 10 different species of crops – durum
wheat, corn, winter peas, barley, soybeans, poppies, buckwheat, vetch,
sorghum, lupine, phacelia.
Since 2011 we started with minimalization practices.
Since 2013 included cover crops.
Between 2016 and 2018 we gradually switched completely to no till.
We have had over 2000 people on our farm since September 2020
(farmers, students, scientists, researchers, policymakers etc.).
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Regenerative agriculture - according to us
"It is a way of farming, on the land, on soil, in which people, farmers,
gardeners, strive to harmonize relations with nature. They do not "fight"
with the soil and do not take more than she, our good Mother EARTH,
provides us without damaging her."
Robert Dohál
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Regenerative agriculture - Respects
Cycles and contexts into which nature itself and its natural laws
introduce us.
Human activity, that thanks to wisdom and education, co-creates the
world in order to pass it on to future generations in a better and more
beautiful way.
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Our principles (based on American Soil Health
Academy
1. No till – direct sowing into the remains of the pre-crop or cover crop
2. Permanent plant cover throughout the year. The soil must be covered
with plants all year round (crop, plant residues, cover crop)
3. Does not use fungicides, insecticides, artificial fertilizers
4. a, Application of organic fertilizers, composts only on the surface of
the soil without incorporation.
b, Holistic-regenerative grazing of animals. - (We have only plant
production)
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Our experience and achievements
Our last erosions
were in 2011
We increased C-org
from 1.7% to 2,6 %
(by 50%)
From November
2021 to November
2022 we
sequestered
15286 t of CO2
Yields remained
comparable with
local average
fungicides
insecticides
artificial fertilizers
We do not use ANY
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Our experience and achievements
Material costs (diesel, electricity,
gas, spare parts, seeds, fertilizers
and pesticides)
year 2013 ~ 680 000€
year 2021 ~ 215 000€
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Regenerative vs conventional
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170 mm of rain in a week
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23.11.2021 – cover crops
Peas, mustard, phacelia, daikon radish
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Structure of soil on our farm
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Soil needs to be covered
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Can you hear the difference?
Our farm - rapeseed
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Can you hear the difference?
Our neighbour – rapeseed (same day, video taken few
minutes apart)
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Students from high school
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Living soil day (3rd annual meeting, more than 130 people)
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Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture visiting our farm
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Anyone is welcome on every Wednesday 13:00
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Some food for thought
If you want to change small things in life, change the way you do them.
But if you want to change big things in life, change the way you look at
them!
If you want to be a realist in regenerative agriculture, you have to believe
in miracles. And we do, because nature is full of miracles.
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Questions
& Answers
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Thank you!
