Regenerative systems promote diversity utilising a wide variety of species in pasture systems.

Leading regenerative practitioners have also incorporated pasture, trees and grazing into cropping systems in contrast to monoculture cropping practices which generally include high synthetic chemical inputs as fertilizer and for weed and pest control.

Appropriate selection of pasture species that offset crop growing periods can result in crop yields close to conventional practice but with far lower inputs and further revenue from grazing livestock.

Pivotal related benefits include building healthier and more productive soils with greater water holding capacity. The creation of continual actively growing ground cover is central to these processes and valuable in combating soil and water erosion risk together with increased drought resilience due to the greater stored water and increasing soil organic carbon to reduce emissions.

Integration of farm forestry or Silvopasture is a further example of improving landscape function through complementary biodiversity with associated increases in insect and bird species. Mixed species livestock are also utilised in some situations together with native wildlife.