Response to “Legacy Knowledge on Landscape Soil Carbon—Concentrated Organic Input to Selected Sites Comes With the Expense of Soil Health of Larger Areas”

Take‐home message Our study (Xu et al. 2025) evaluated the field‐scale soil health effects of incorporating bagasse—an industrial byproduct—into sugarcane soils and did not involve or imply redistribution of organic matter across the landscape. The Comment's landscape‐scale concerns do not apply to this closed‐loop system. Bagasse incorporation remains a practical field‐level soil improvement strategy, while broader sustainability questions require additional, multi‐scale research.