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- A research team led by ecologist Steve Apfelbaum explores 4 regenerative grazing ranches in Alberta, Canada. The ranchers were some of the very first to adopt organic farming and AMP grazing in Canada - making their ranches profitable, and a haven for wildlife.
Filmed in Alberta, Canada
Who would have thought that mother nature took better care of the earth than Monsanto?????
This is the perfect video for highschool and college ag classes.
Thank you, Kevin!
Absolutely!!
My thoughts exactly.
You’re so right!!!
As a former FFA member and someone who lettered in both Ag/Hort classes, I wholeheartedly agree.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed in this information. I will be watching this video over and over again! I am happy to not mow my paddocks after my goats and sheep leave their daily paddock. We have a 21 paddock rotation.
New Zealand farmer has set a Guinness World Record for wheat yield -
Finishing up at 258.8 bushels per acre,
the wheat paddock produced 17.398 tonnes per hectare
www.realagriculture.com/2020/07/new-zealand-farmer-sets-new-wheat-world-record-at-258-8-bu-ac/
I just love watching all these testimonials of the success of these transformed farms/ranches. I'm past the point of taking on something like this but, I'm doing my best to replicate it with my garden. So far, so good :)
I've been sharing this with my farming neighbours, friends & family.
Watching these scientist show how much they love the earth makes me wish i had gone into the field.
Incredible stuff
Fantastic work Peter Byck. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
The whole climate change/ carbon discussion can be heavily fixed with better land management practices. Farming, ranching, forestry, hydrology, etc.
why does this make me wanna buy a farm and start doing this
I’m right there with you! I actually have 70 acres with 10 acres mowed like a beautiful park. The remaining 60 acres is mountainous woods. I have a nice garden but am getting ready to retire. I may just get some cattle 🐄!
While this is pro-grazing, it would be nice to see the additional cropping or gardening benefit from incorporating grazing.
Fascinating!
It's like indigenous people were ahead of the science.
Not really though.
They cant even figure out clean drinking water in modern day, with all the tech, mech and science at their finger tips..
There’s life in the land … says it all
Kinda thought the whole pay to reduce your carbon footprint was some bs, nice to see these people are actually being able to make a measurable improvement. That soil sample gator was pretty cool also.
Where can I view the entire film? This was lovely to watch, been practicing the similar concept without the grazers here in my suburban yard full of natives and perennials, haven't mowed or watered for 5 years, seeing far less insects than I used to, last summer was amongst the top 10 driest here in Minnesota but the flowers persisted and the butterflies were occasional but not as plentiful as you would think such as in years past
You need to get more neighbors doing similar. Plant more plants that specific insects like and need. For example milkweed is a necessity for the life cycle of monarch butterflies.
@@renaissancestatesman
My neighbors are suburban grass mow twice a week fertilize heavily and obsess over their lawns folks who have spotlights on all night, don't think they're receptive...
A cattle rancher is a grass grower while an orchardist is a worm farmer!
Regenerative AG is the way to farm and ranch, but we can not allow a few politicians take control of this by pushing the whole system on to a carbon credit system. The best way to improve and get more ranchers and farmers on Regenerative AG is through the free enterprise system, or stop buy the garbage food that's in the grocery store today, especially corn and soy based foods.
People don't realize the food industry produces food for one thing and that is profit in making a person crave the food and buy more. This is a cycle that big AG and big pharma love, food makes one eat to much of the wrong foods and causes chronic illnesses and big pharma patches the person so they can continue eating the crap food. Americans are sugar addicts and don't even know it!
Agreed. Need to get farmers off of subsidies, not replace it with a different one. Get the government out.
I wonder if a person applies ivermec in the winter, does that cause any harm to the dung beetles in the pastures?
I love this
Soil regeneration is 1st Principle
i want to buy meat in Napa California from ranches growing their soil in this manner.
Next thing you are told the government needs to come and do soil tests every 6 months, that the 2% of the Canadian landscape covered by freeholds and leasehold tenures needs to be regulated even further and carbon taxed. These farmers should be careful as well as embracing "change".
We've also seent hat "Plant Trees" in the west has resulted in overcrowding the forest, which is dry in any case never mind a drought year, and they start competing for limited moisture. Then they're more vulnerable to beetle infestation and mortality. Then they're standing dead....and then fire gets loose when you don't want it.
Western forests were never thick. Only when they started being managed for board feet did they crowd up. That's where the problem started. Then when thinning projects were put on the table, well meaning but ignorant environmentalists file suit and the whole thing gets delayed forever. Then up she goes.
Thin, prescribed fire, and grazing for soil health.
Veganism could never.
How is the mountain pine beetle being facilitated by climate change?
If these cows are benefitting the soil, why would so many people want to hurt and kill them?
Because at a certain point they the land cannot support more, also if you want to make sure something will stay around allow people to make a living off it by selling the males off for meat and breeding
They taste good. Do you think there would be more or less apple trees if people stopped eating apples?
Would you consider eating tasty apples instead of hurting cows? @@renaissancestatesman
check on the number of dairy cows and chickens that have been killed in fires just in texas ----you'd amazed----accidents or evil?
Yikes. Involving an oil company in good honest and responsible land management so the oil company can tell the public they are doing good seems backwards or just yucky.
Why?
I'm pro oil and gas and pro regenerative agriculture. Don't let your brain explode.
Ha. Climate change warning on the video. Low CO2 is the biggest danger to life. I'm all for this but don't wish to see the CO2 ppm go down. A steady trek to 1000ppm should be the goal.
Dear Farmers.
Apply the 5 basics [no tillage, leave armour, always a living root (covers), biodiversity and animal impact (to eat the covers)] and you won't need confirmation from agronomists, etc. It works anywhere on the planet, for any style of farm, even orchards. BTW with CO₂ at 442ppm Earth is in a carbon drought. Levels of 8,000ppm (proxy data) are recoded and Earth did not burn, it flourished. Additional airborne carbon is needed to regreen the many expanding deserts. Sequestering it is not a future-proofing goal.