Mar 6, 2019 9:00 AM ETTweet This: General Mills has a plan to regenerate 1 million acres of farmland http://bit.ly/2UngWl7 ArticleOriginally published by Fast Company By Eillie Anzilotti In 2014, the United Nations issued a warning to farmers: If they don’t change their agricultural practices, most of the soil they rely on to sustain their livelihoods will disappear within 60 years. Industrial-scale agricultural practices lean on polluting machinery and chemicals, which contaminate farmland. Insistence on monoculture–growing a single crop on the same patch of land–saps the soil of nutrients that more diverse crops deliver.