‘It isn’t the cow. It’s the how.'

February 27, 2026

The MSU Center for Regenerative Agriculture brings together interdisciplinary expertise to quantify the real-world outcomes of regenerative farming, with Dr. Bruno Basso serving as the row crop and modeling advisor. Basso’s role is central to developing data-driven tools and metrics that help farmers evaluate how management decisions affect soil health, greenhouse gas emissions, productivity, and profitability. By integrating advanced modeling with on-farm measurements, his work supports the center’s outcome-based approach and contributes to national efforts—such as the 3M project—to provide credible, scalable evidence that regenerative agriculture can enhance resilience while creating new economic opportunities for producers.

Read more at MSU AGBioResearch about how Dr. Basso and several other MSU experts are assisting Dr. Jason Rowntree and with his research on regenerative grazing systems.