Key ideas from Cynthia Daley

• California's fallowing program destroys soil structure in one season through excessive tillage - six times yearly - turning healthy soil into compacted dust
• Regenerative agriculture can double or triple biological life in soil within the first year and achieve significant carbon drawdown within three years
• For every 1% increase in soil organic matter, farms gain 21,000-27,000 gallons per acre of additional water holding capacity
• California has 2-3 million acres of farmland without reliable surface water access, forcing groundwater pumping that causes infrastructure-damaging subsidence
• CARI (California Agricultural Resiliency Index) maps all California farmland at 10-acre resolution, providing resiliency scores based on eight metrics including soil health and water access
• Farmers face soul-crushing bureaucracy from multiple agencies while competing against unregulated imports, creating a national security threat to food supply
• Roundup is being sprayed in California forests as cheap fire management, contaminating watersheds while livestock could naturally manage understory growth