The Self-Regulating Farm: An Accessible Primer on Biophysical Principles, Energy Loops, and Agro-Industrial Integration
Why must modern farms fundamentally rethink their relationship with energy and data? For over half a century, industrial agriculture has operated as an extractive, open-loop system. Synthetic inputs—such as fossil-fuel-derived energy, organophosphate pesticides, and synthetic Haber-Bosch nitrogen fertilizers—are injected uniformly across broad field expanses. Because these inputs are applied without real-time, biophysically synchronized feedback, substantial…
