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- Over his decades of farming and ranching, Gabe Brown has noticed a troubling trend: the conventional farming techniques he used were degrading the soil and ruining crops. He shares how his family farm turned things around by adopting regenerative agricultural practices - and shows how the wider food system can use these same methods to improve food quality and revitalize the land. (Recorded at TED Countdown Dilemma Series: Food on June 6, 2024)
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We love you Gabe. Your legacy reaches far beyond your land. I continue to share your videos with whom ever will listen. Thank you
Thank you Gabe Brown! Truly hope your experience, shared so sincerely will help convert more minds towards regenerative farming.
If you are new to regenerative agriculture, here is your list of videos to watch:
1. the legendary TED-talk of Allen Savory (kinda inventor of all this)
2. several TEDx-talks of Gabe Brown and Joel Salatin
3. check out the YT-channels of Gabe, Joel and Greg Judy (the third Guru of reg ag). They have tons of howTo-videos showing how it is done in much detail. Especially if you are a (wannabe) homesteader.
Also Dr. Allen Williams
Amazing talk! Fantastic job leading the way on this! We strongly believe in the power of regenerative farming at scale!
Great talk about diverse farming, well spoken from real experience.
Thank you. We need more people joining the movement to save our soils.
Bless you, Gabe Brown. I show Kiss the Ground education video and your testimony in that movie has reached so many students from a rural background that regenerative agriculture is THE answer for modern society to draw down carbon from the atmosphere. You are a bold and brave soul, sir.
I'm doing this in my garden and seeing a big difference in less than 2 years. Adding compost and using compost extra and worm castings. Looks like I may be using less water to grow a crop. The plants look a lot better and have no bugs or fungus.
I'm so sorry to hear about your diagnosis, Gabe. Thank you for all you do for spreading the word.
This was an amazing lecture and watch. Thank you for featuring this!
This guy is very informative and has a great sense of humour.
🎯💎🏆 Great insightful & fruitful video 🏆💎🎯
लोकः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु
( May all beings lead prosperous life across Globe 🌍 )
Gabe is my superhero!!! 😍😍😍
It took him 30 years to find out. Thank you for sharing this good thing to communities.
Natives allways knew.
Brilliant, and vitally important points made. One day all farms will be like this.
One day . . .
Well spoken and good arguments. We can’t take risk with our soil. The risk is just too big for our health.
Gabe Brown shares his journey from conventional to regenerative agriculture, highlighting how it revitalizes soil, increases biodiversity, and improves food quality. He outlines six ecological principles and four ecosystem processes that guide regenerative farming practices.
I hope Americans pay attention more to this!
We won't. Too many are fully attached to "conventional ag" as part who they are.
@@TheHonestPeanutonly certain people
Great. The content is useful and intriguing ❤
Impressive performance on this so very important topic of regenerative farming!!🙏🇩🇪
This needs to be everywhere n fast
The government would have to intervene to break up these massive mono-crops. I'll take a plot if they start handing out grants and eminent domain that land near military bases that china owns. 🤚Two birds, one stone.
Mindset play a big role in this topic
The Natives always knew. Yall just had to Manifest your Mechanical technological desntiny and destory the future for all organic life.
A fascinating and informative presentation. I’m not a farmer but have long believed in the need to return to a form of agriculture that takes care of the soil and biodiversity. Yet whenever I have discussed with others the response is always that it would not be possible to feed the world if everyone farmed in this way. Personally, I am sure this is a ‘lie’ promulgated by Big Ag but know of no study or research that proves it to be misleading. Does anything exist that busts this position?
Sure...catch the regenerative wave beginning with Gabe and quite a few more teachers. Dennis
Many studies and proof in action. This speaker being one of them.
He has cracked the code and has the experience to communicate- listen up farmers ( and vegans!)
Just like this guy, no one changes until they have no choice.
That is such a wrong statement lmao
That isn't accurate
@@sparkysmalarkey that's a lot of negative approach and attitude.Dennis
@@denniskemnitz1381 It comes from a place of frustration because it's been known for a very long time. No one cared because the kill everything way was still working.
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Always have to think about family..
I have been on a few farms...
The speaker doesn't talk about his yields. I bet these are substantially lower than the conventional system. And so, there is no economical business model in it other than the consumers spending more. But when food prices will increase, the people will get angry. So only the rich can eat this.
Also, if everything was farmed this way, I doubt the production would be high enough to sustain the current worlds population. How are we going to fix that?
I’d look deeper. He spends less per acre so a little lower yield is still a profit
You are correct. His yields/acre for crop fields is lower. But because of much reduced input costs (fertilizer, herbicide, pesticide and fungicide) his profit per acre is higher. Without government subsidies or crop insurance payouts. And often can support multiple products on the same land. So a single yield is lower, but total yield might be higher.
Also, regenerative ranchers have higher cattle stocking rates, so they can raise more cows on the same amount of pasture. And they tend to stay on the pasture longer, and need much less feed. Sure, grass-fed beef currently commands a higher premium, but if everyone did it, and there was a robust system of processing plants (which doesn't care what kind of ranch it comes from) it wouldn't need to be more expensive. Plus more of the money would go towards the farmer, and less towards the chemical companies (because much less chemical inputs would be needed) and CAFOs (since cows could be sent directly from a ranch to the meat packing plant instead of being sent to a feed lot)
The reason this type of agriculture would be able to feed the world is because it not only doesn't degrade the land (like current systems do) it rehabilitates previously degraded land. So there is more land available for food.
He wrote a book that discusses this. It isn’t the “top” but it’s by no means below the average for the county
We waste a lot of food we produce, at least in the western world. Yield is important but food waste is oftentimes left out of the conversation.
How much of the yield is tossed into the trash farther down the supply chain? How much do farmers throw away because they can’t sell it?
Actually, if you are only comparing apples to apples, his yields for say corn and soy are about average, the main difference is those same acres produce cover crop seeds which are for sale and they use those cover crops or cover crop seeds to feed the chickens, pigs and graze the cattle on the covers, and they also have beehives on the farm producing honey in cooperation with local bee keepers..... they don't JUST produce A crop of corn on the field once a year. How many corn-soy rotation folks ALSO produce beef, pork, chicken, eggs, honey, cover crop seed, and more PER YEAR?
Most importany things inscects
Very important indeed. Insects are animals
Every American should know this information.
The prediction is uncontrolled migration is going to cause an incredible amount of urban sprawl in the most harming ways possible. Consider the need for new schools buildings, public safety buildings, prisons, hospitals, waste water treatment facilities, many more cars on the road, more fossil fuel use, more landfills etc...Millions and millions of acres and animal habitats are going to be destroyed. I am a former democrat and environmental minded person. People need to wake up before millions and millions of acres will be destroyed. And once those acres are destroyed they are gone forever.
Chemicles are nothing to play with
This is an ideal solution but difficult to implement, especially for struggling 3rd world countries that heavily rely on agriculture and cannot afford the unoptimized usage of their very limited land
You're wrong.
The Rodale Institute is performing trials between conventional ag and regenerative techniques since the early eighties. Regenerative performed as well as the conventional in regular years, outperformed conventional during dry or very wet years, as far as 20% more product for less inputs. Data are out there, check them.
The answer to struggling 3rd world problems agriculturally is not chemical based industrialized agriculture. There is a wonderful woman named Vandana Shiva who has documented how the “agricultural revolution” has decimated Indian’s farmers. Watch the documentary “The Seeds of Vandana Shiva” if you want to see how modern industrial agriculture gets farmers in perpetual cycles of debt while simultaneously destroying top soil, which then leads to an over-reliance on the same chemical inputs that degraded the soil in the first place leading to more debt. That is the degenerative cycle in a nut shell. It is one of the reasons why farmers have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession. The answer for third world countries, and any country for that matter is to return to the land, run small family owned farms at a human scale - meaning all of the work can be done by hand and not huge million dollar tractors - and implement soil fertility plans through the use of compost, cover crops, animal rotations, etc. Finally, to refute your last point about the unoptimized usage of land - modern agriculture is the definition of unoptimized usage of land. To feed the average American it takes roughly three acres of conventionally managed farmland to grow that amount of food - and that’s if they’re not eating meat. To grow that same amount of food in an intensively managed human-scale backyard garden would take 1,200 square feet. There is an entire book definition to this subject titled Just Grow it Yourself by Dr David Fisher. I studied regenerative agriculture in college. I graduate in December. I would be happy to answer any questions you have.
This solution is not difficult to implement. We simply need to return to living in harmony with the land. Whats difficult is mining elements from the earth, create chemical fertilizers in a factory, ship those across the world, spray them on fields which will kill all forms of life in the soil, take out a loan to buy those chemicals and the GMO seeds which can survive the chemical assault, and attempt to feed a population that way. It is much easier to implement regenerative solutions and allow the earth to heal herself and then share the abundance that comes from clean water, healthy soils, healthy native pollinator populations. The path of industrial agriculture only leads to death. The path of regeneration, the path of life, only leads to life. The answer is regeneration. Any other view point is either mis-informed or uninformed or being intentionally deceptive for the purpose of making money and increased power and control. I studied regenerative agriculture in college. I would be happy to provide resources for anyone who is interested in this topic.
Its not difficult to implement. There are many examples of 3rd world countries being able to use regenerative practices to combine livestock and crops to regenerate desert land and give the locals the ability to once again to feed themselves.
The one more yellow are not good for a few reasons...
Such as what?
As long as animal agriculture exists we may as well cover our eyes and pretend were human
There are billions of humans
Need to invite Joel Salatin.
He's given TEDx talks before.
So my second comment for this.
1. If this was a farmer making non-animal produce for direct human consumption all the fawning folk in the comments section would be frothing in the mouth shouting vegan and 'how will you feed the world'
2. There will be a limit when you have the leave the land alone for a very long time, like a looooong time given the amount of animal waste that would have collected on a parcel of land. There is no way land can sustain that much waste to sustain the profits of farmers and to pay for their loads (even though they get subsidies because it is such a wasteful approach to feeding the world). So what this means is that animal agriculture through regenerative farming would need to double it's land footprint.
3. Of course biodiversity would increase, because you have left nature do it's thing. You cannot be so big headed that you think you need a human with all their animals to do this. Nature will rewild itself.
4. Animals are needed, however, to keep farmer families profitable and to pay for all the inputs they will keep increasing their herds, they would never keep their herds down, as that is not profitable.
5. The animal agro industry is on the decline (thank god) and they will keep coming up with new tricks and gimmicks
6. The good man who is so entrenched in animal agro (and for those who say he grows grains and cereals, he grows them to feed to animals) is never going to look for the real solutions that will work as he needs his animals, as he knows nothing else, so don't judge him.
7. Everyone cheering him obvs love their bacon and eggs too much and will never just ask, hold on the animals are the real issue here...
There is not enough land on the Earth to grow all your beef, chicken, pigs, sheep and all their excretions that you consume in a regenerative fashion unfortunately. All it means is that more land is going to be locked in the animal agriculture hamster wheel of destruction.
The old English system used to be 1 year fallow, 1 year animal and 2 years crop as far as I remember.
However attempts are still being made to turn petroleum into human food.
@@myparceltape1169 1 year animal with a load of inputs my friend. Farmers everywhere forget to mention the additional cereal inputs, antibiotics, B12, Omega3 inputs they feed their animals to preserve their precious I am off the land BS image.
Nature doesn't exist without animals.
@@AngelPrissy and by animals you mean those profitable to farmers for their exploitation. So just cattle, sheep, dairy cows, pigs, farmed fish, dogs, cats etc. We have a such a biodiversity crisis as all our systems care about are the animals we consume or wear or entertain ourselves with.
@@spinachtriangle animals include worms, bees, insects, reptiles, birds, pets, wildlife, pastured animals, and there are some even undiscovered. All sorts of living things can grow in, on, off of our souls that we don't even realize the value. Fungus are integral. Most living animals and organisms are invisible to the naked eye.
Stop beating around the bush and saying “conventional farming”. Its using Industrial Machines: call it for what it is. Its a Machine.
Think he’s referring to the chemicals that are sprayed on the crops/food/soil
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"Regenerative" livestock farming is not a climate solution. The presence of ruminants on the land does not cause the soil to sequester enough carbon to make up for the emissions from the animals themselves. We should transition to plant-based food systems, freeing up 75% of farmland (Poore and Nemecek, 2018), and return as much land as possible to nature to be rewilded. Natural ecosystems always sequester more carbon than the best managed grazing systems.
I think the idea is to stop growing all that corn and beans to feed cows in barns and feed lots. The vast percentage of the methane released by ruminates is caused by feeding them this feed vs grasses that they are naturally meant to eat. If we simply put the animals back on that land and manage their grazing we get back the largest percentage of land for food production and at the same time reacquire the bio diversity we are looking for. This with well managed forests and simply rotating in vegetable and grain production eliminates the greater amount of inputs. Almost removing inputs, increasing bio diversity and production of all food types. The key sentence to his idea was; if you don’t want to eat the animals you don’t have to but by using them we create the system that allows the other foods to be grown while sequestering carbon. Something we can’t really do on mass without inputs and mass transportation from different areas of the continents.
Nah, cultivation and the moron approach is the most destructive activity. It's as destructive as de-forestation as it continues to denude the soil carbon.
@@gernf.2019 I agree that growing the corn and soy to feed animals is a big part of the problem. The issue that still remains is that regeneratively managed grazing systems use much more land, so meat consumption per capita would have to go down a lot if we want to avoid chopping down all of our remaining forests to make room for grazing. Also, when animals are taken off the land to be used for meat, it disrupts the natural nutrient cycling process which holistic management says it's trying to mimic. To your other point- transportation accounts for only a small percentage of a food's ghg footprint; it matters much more the kind of food you're eating rather than where it's coming from. So even if a plant based food system did require a global shipping system (which already exists) it would still be better for the environment.
Let me guess. The large chap is an animal farmer. Dont listen to their anecdotal nonsense. Read the Grazed & Confused report.
Actually he’s an amazing farmer and teacher
The large chap is a grain farmer and a rancher, as well as a farm consultant whose company Understanding Ag have worked with many farms.
But you are right. We shouldn't just listen to the anecdotal evidence, no matter how large. Nor should we only need to read the Grazed & Confused report. We need peer reviewed, published and replicated research. Problem is, there has been so little support and money to study alternatives to industrial agriculture, its been slow going. But that's changing.
Go read his book. He’s very experienced and knowledgeable
No one is going to stop eating meat because vegans on the internet are whining about it.
@@spinachtriangle did you read the whole publication? Alan Savory has some impressive research into this matter.
The Ag sector is fucked, the food system is fucked. The human cosumer attitude is fucked up. This is a turning point. This will take a 100 years to undo
Forests have by far the most diverse, carbon-rich and water absorbant soil, NOT animal-grazed fields. Your land may be healthier than mono-crops, but it takes way more land to produce animal products this way, making it the least scalable food production system. If we all went vegan, we could re-forest enough land to cancel out all CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial revolution
if we all go vegan and have to grow more crops to feed everyone, since everyone is consuming more soy and plants, where are we going to plant them? We run into the exact same problem of over farming land, veganism unfortunately does not solve this problem
I doubt the extra forests would offset the increase in carbon based emmissions from the massive increase in cropping output.
Going vegan across the globe is not possible without huge input on transport and processing. If you live in high latitudes like Gabe then you know the vegetation period. In northern Europe you can grow plant from May to September. You need to rely on animals which is what People always did the harsher the climate.
Read his book, then come back and reassess the comment.
Facts are facts and opinions are opinions...your opinion is wrong and that's a fact.
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