Can farmers grow money? | DW Documentary
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- What kind of agriculture do we really want? How sustainable, regional, animal-friendly and expensive can it be? These and other pressing issues are part of a debate about radical agricultural reform of policy currently going on in Brussels.
When negotiations on the common agricultural policy from 2020 are held in Brussels, one of the more contentious issues will be how to redistribute 60 billion Euros in EU agricultural subsidies. How will MEPs prioritize their options? Will they reach independent decisions or cave in to the big agricultural conglomerates and special interest groups? Our exclusive report uncovers their close ties with politicians in both Brussels and Berlin and shows how efforts to make farming more environmentally sustainable are being stymied.
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A great job done by DW Employee. I salute all of you for this in depth information on agriculture business 👍
Great reporting and very polished documentary film style and audio effects.
In my country, many people disbelieve that the parliamentary system is fair
Sounds like America
DW so much integrity and impartiality its overwhelming ,the quality of documentaries is astonishing
How does DW pump out doc after doc on daily basis? Now, I am concerned for the well being of the editors, audio & video engineers.
German efficiency ☺️
I am concerned with their safety.
Some powerful people may dislike what they're doing and decide to act against them.
I'm starting to wonder that too...puts Gary Vee to shame XD
They dont film most of their content, they buy it and use it. If you want some video footage and have a agenda like DW then you pay for that. If you want animal abuse videos then you buy that. They dont research actually what is happening, they take video and can put their twist on where the video was taken and what is said in the video. It is 100% fake news. They dont leave their offices....
@@jbird4478 I am not the one making the documentaries claiming things am i. Nope, I am just telling the truth about the fake news. You can decide for yourself with your uneducated, fake tv news mind of yours.
Europe's farmers is definitely a remarkable documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!
If only my country had a dedicated news channel like DW!
It wouldn't make any difference. Dogs bark thieves head their way.
Another high quality Documentary under the DW name
I'm no professional, but come onnnnn, are these people for real?? I'd feel insulted if I were a German voter and seeing these guys so BLATANTLY rigging the system to benefit themselves and their rich friends. What they're doing is criminal and the fact that they are not being held accountable is atrocious!
I live in Michigan, surrounded by the largest system of freshwater in the world...where we can't eat the fish & need filters to drink the water due to manufacturing and agricultural pollution. We take our most precious resources for granted.
Hello Dawn.
That's nice of you
How are you doing over there?
The fact that Dess doesn't think it's a problem says it's a problem!
There's one word that sums it all up: greed. It's become a powerful engine of the world.
Capitalism has created this greed
@@MrDutchmarshal most probably. And I fear to think it might be unstoppable
An entirely true and Completely unhelpful comment. Waste of time to type it really.
@@MrDutchmarshal greed has created capitalism
I love your interpreter with the peter graves voice. Use him as often as he stays with your company.
How is it in 2019/20 where still surprise that politicians are corrupt, are we stupid or are still asleep.
Still asleep while disaster approaching our back door.
lobyists are in charge almost everywhere (and linked with national and international interests) hence we find ourselves stuck in this nightmare - where the planetary ecosystems are colapsing and rich are getting richer while the poorest die from starvation and droughts.
Im confussed. We produce way too much fertilizer yet there is places around the world unable to grow stuff because they need it. Fix it.
Other countries not being able to grow food has more to do with drought and climate change.
Thank you so much DW for such quality works
Please make video on Indian farmers protest. We are protesting for our right from last 10 months. Please, we need it
I have a small pig farm I'm starting, just for a side gig, and after we did the math we think we will profit 20-40 per head. Unless we sell it at a way higher price, cannot compete with big ag and big corporate (Like most supermarkets selling eggs and milk at a LOSS, just to get people in their stores to buy other items)
Brand value raises price considerably. Some study claims that the EU produces more chili pepper than the US. Tiny Tabasco sauce costs like 3.8 € in Finland. I'm tempted to do my own Sriracha sauce.
This is a quality documentary. Congratulations n thank you. Indian farmers are also up against new farm bills. Farmers dont get enough to live life while multinationals n private players make it big just by controling market n policy makers.
Yeah now farmers are selling tomatoes for 3 rupess.
You know you live in rich, privileged nation when your main concern is how to grow food in environmentally friendly way. Not simply how to grow food
What if we end up destroying what we need to growfood live healthy and survive ?
True.. first world problems, can't relate lol
Because if you don't grow food in an environmentally friendly way, you won't be growing food for long !
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It's literally important to grow food sustainably. All those pesticides and intense fertilizers can destroy the land and water around it. So all farmers will have left will basically be a desert.
Thank you for this research and report.
I would ask if you might feel inclined to a follow up and clarification of changes
So, is the limit for usage of pig manure removed now?
Lovely sound track from the Contagion used, and used well
33:50 that beautiful girl was flirting ,looked away wen the boy gave the look classical flirt in the EU parliament. And 34:05 they both disappeared ❤️❤️❤️.
According to my math 150 kg per hectare of nitrogen would be 150,000 kg of liquid manure . The mind boggles.
Googled that so say your putting out 125,000 liters per hectare so if a hectare is 10,ooo square meter you are putting 12.5 liters on each square meter thus 3 gallons OK guess that's beleavable
Figuring 1.3 gal per pig pur day. Thus 100 square meters can be fertilized per pig per year or the farmer interviewed would need 8.5 to 10 hectare to absorb the manure for the 850 hogs he said he has or the 1000 produced per year. Wonder what his field area is?
It still does not work out one hectare feeds about 2.5 pigs yet can accept manure from 10 pigs thus you have to have 4 times the crop land to feed the pigs to produce the manure needed to fertilise one forth of that land to the recommended limit of 150 kilos of nitrogen per hectare. Let alone 200 kg. What have I got wrong?
" You can't serve two master, either love one and hate the other ".
" The love 💰 money, is the root of all evil ".
What is the root cause of money then?
@@lalithlalith5238 Stupidity
If a group of small farmers join together and decide to create an organization representing the interests of small farmers that would make a difference. If the small farmers pick or select a young educated and decent honest young farmer that is a small farmer as their representative or leader that would be absolutely great and hopefully that will make a big difference for small farmers in Germany.
WUR has more then enough solutions for small farmers.
"has to be transparent or if it comes out suddenly it damages public trust" hopefully it will result in that anyways bigtime. They are crooks
Thank you DW for another awesome doc. This is such praise worthy top notch stuff in all departments...be it the focus on the subject, the clarity of the proceedings & events around it, presentation of the relevant facts & the responses or the immersive narration this is right up there....this needs to be seen by more people (its a shame the view count is so low & why i didn't get this recommended despite being from 2019). Coming to the subject, i find it appalling that in such developed countries things so basic like this (conflict of interest) are still not addressed & properly protected for in the system. Its so simple, i mean if you join any company today (including the ones with these 'advisory' positions for politicians) one of the first things they would have u undergo training on & certify would be precisely these kinds of conflict of interest policies. Either politicians like them need to be paid well so they don't need a second job & forbidden from doing so or put rules & regulations in place to prevent relevant ones from exercising their vote when the policy in question conflicts with their personal situation. These are too important to rely on just good faith & conscience of a small group of humans, that's a clear single point of failure right there..Its things like this that make me think we truly haven't understood ourselves as a species.
The title should be 'how politicians destroy farmers'
farmers can't grow money because they are not part of the criminal ponzi scheme. they are live stock as many others. farming will be in the hands of few corporations in a near future.
Superb work
.Please make similar documentary for every country and India also..Thanks
Thank you for watching! Be sure to check out our channel for more content. :-)
Since leaving the EU, the UK has since introduced rules which reward farmers for sustainable land management.
Bengoliversonthisvideo;from India}madhu
Like they use to get from the EU.
why is no one talking about GMO? many GMO crops are very good and does not require nearly as much pesticides or have higher yields
GMOs would kill off every small farmer in Europe and you'll be left with a nice corporation farm be careful what you wish for
imagine free markets with no subsidy
Why does it always have to be battle? Organic farmers v. large corporations. However you want to slice it, every company provides a service for the public. If with inovations it can be better for the land and better for the consumer it should be a no brainer.
Like watching up the critics, based on the views of "no interests but to grounding the majority-interest first". To see this video on the very deepest value, got the points that the DW's teams are not supporting the richests to likely always take the odds on highest level (executive)'s decisions on ruling the said country (german)'s farming matter.. ?
Must be a limit to misplaced trust in untested promises?
big business big money big greed..........until everything is ruined. 40 years of environmental talk and we are in worst situation than 40 years ago. that is all we do.......talk. Please wake up everyone
Politicians + lobbyists = more money for the rich. Not government for the people!
I ate some German "field maize" once. Big mistake it. I felt ill for a couple days. It's ridiculous that the fields are used to grow a food grain, but since they will use it for ethanol they can drench it in herbicides and pesticides. All of which is actually subsidized! This has huge consequences on the natural world. Fields should be used for food, not fuel and they should be held to high environmental standards we are all affected by how our land is used.
That is a special Kind of maize for pigs and other animals. It is just not there to be eaten by humans
You shall not eat everything on the farm!
So does this mean you should be forced to have no hot water as it is enviromentally harm full?
You ate what was a field corn/maize not a sweet corn/maize humans nomaly eat. Which is high in starch so i bet if you ate the same amout of plain old corn starch you would feel the same.
Ironically that field was likly "drench" it in fewer pesticides and herbicides as it does not have to look perfect. Just needs starch content basically.
I suggest you try to talk to a farmer
great work 😍
Of course ground water in time will start carrying excess chemicals
I hope that you can make a video about fertilizer industry
Fewer pigs will equal higher prices for farmers. Farmers have always been controlled by government.
Quota system and the likes guarantee two things. Higher prices for consumers and lower prices for farmers.
Always has been that way, and always will be that way....For all farmers in ALL countries.
Perhaps biogas and electricity can be made from the farm manure waste.
DW you should go deeper on that glyphosate and it's effects on the living things...
Why this EU still exists? It’s an old school vehicle that just doesnt work anymore.
no , big industry will take everything
everything under control of few.
DW thanks
Brexit is starting to make sense now.
If you think this does not happen in the British Parliament, you'd probably be wrong.
As a citizen of Romania I was outraged by the same kind of problems as reported here. I said to myself that no way Germany could practice the same kind of mafia type activitie. Then I saw this, and thought that we are fu...ed.
Subdidies benefit large corporates and not farmers. Remove all Subdidies
This issue not only germane, all in all contry word specially south Asia,...
I like how he scratches the pig 🐁 it shows that he loves them! 🐁 God bless him and may he switches to vegan products only in the future! 🐿 10:32
"I ask you all to vote for the future.......my financial future that is"
People need to stop "being concerned" and start acting responsibly. Stop eating animal corpses, it's not good for anyone or anything.
I agree with "what are you growing?"
Organic farming is the only solution
yup it would starve billions
@ 10:00 it is hellishly hard for me to understand why someone would slave away to raise a pig just to get it slaughtered and make a 6-20euro profit on it. That's just lame as hell. Why don't you rather grow some organic vegetables or mushrooms instead is beyond me!?! The price of a smart creatures life - 6 EUR ... OMG!
The love of money is the root of all evil, that's the reason why the government and the stakeholders are so blinded to see the reality on the ground. The small farmers are meant to benefit from their hardwork and the environment is to be protected from harmful chemicals.
If this type of farming would produce as much food there would not be any questions, but it does not
Albert dess shouldnt even be alloewed to be in public service when he was or still is a CEO of a major agricultural company. I mean there is too much conflict of intrest here.
i am happy to see my ARD monthly fee spent well on this channel
20 Euros for a Pig? That is so cheap, compared to the fact that the slaughtered animal can sell for more than 500 Euros, assuming 5 Euros per kilo for a 100 kilo animal
He doesn't sell them for 20 Euros each; that's his profit after all costs of raising them are taken into account.
@@TheSpoovy OK, that makes a bit more sense now. But 20 Euros for several moths of work on a single animal is still not high
20, 000 euros
Do a Documentary of indian farmers
Its high time.
We need a wonderful unifier like Xиtлep!
True journalism! Hope to see more of real news in TH-cam
Feed yourself, not the world! That just says you're greedy!
How about people living in big cities with no land for cultivation?
farmers get 65 billion euro a year? holy shit, is there any other thing that gets that or more then that?
Let's stop all subsidies and sell certain food tax free
Developing countries can learn from these major countries. As the issues are major. Having carcinogens in the drinking water is worst we can get. Country like should learn form these countries.
Does anyone know where I can find the original in german?
I like the way you researched this. I am not sure that In India people even have an understanding of how nitrates can affect people?
People in kerala has a Greater understanding and reduced use of pesticides extensively. but North People don't have basic knowledge and no voice for Farmers under Land owners which i have seen extensively.
@@jikkuabraham6243 we keralites mostly depends on north indians for all the grains and many vegetables.they themeselves could do without pesticides and chemicals to feed them but since we southies depend on them for most food they are forced to use these kinds of chemicals for more production(they may be illiterate but lobby group isn't, they create and control the market).we here have very high literacy rate but look how we treat those lands of cash crops for example the aaela thottams in idukki?
@@sunnystephen5764 I travelled across india and worked in Shipping Industry, Kindly check the data from where Kerala gets it's food items. Only wheat is mostly coming from north dude. Kerala is far ahead now in Organic farming .economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/how-kerala-is-making-the-most-of-organic-farming-revolution/articleshow/48127649.cms
This one looks boring so I will comment and go elsewhere. Farming involves very basic economics. If “sustainable” agricultural could compete on cost it would take over but it can’t. It is not just about subsidies. It is about yield, cost of inputs, losses due to using or not using pesticides, etc.
Superlative documentary making .......5 stars
the voting on allocation of subsidy should be changed to a way that all the subsidized money should be divided in equal parts which are all the members of this council and then those who vote for the corporations their collective share should be given to the corporations and those who vote for small farmers, their collective share should be given to small farmers in this way these bad and dishonest parliamentarians will be less able to deceive the public.
Meanwhile hundreds of thousands Indian farmers are protesting near capital since last 9 months under open sky in make shift tents against anti farmers and pro corporate Agri bills. About 600 died due to harsh weather. Modi regime is ignoring them and they need our support
Organic yes 👍
Organicfarmeingi
half the world would starve
Hemp is solution
Well may be you need to cut down on pork , to save the ground water , or the opposite ?
Lobbying = Legal bribing !
Breton farmers are great farmers.
I have to share
this with my English
mates! Brexit!
Do u really think, that in UK its different?
UK got reamed by Brexit and its supporters
The EU subsidies are in place so the large retailers can up there profit.
Who knew ? Now we know how corruption works in Germany.Thanks DW for bringing up.
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They know it but choosing ignorance
Paying corporations to poison you.
Tie regulation to political reimbursement.
All subsidies should be banned. Let market forces, that is, consumption pattern decide what to be favoured. Governments should ensure legal and ethical practices
6:15 That framing is a clear sign, that the maker of the documentary is biased by or part of one lobby group.
That's rich coming from a fake account used to lobby the public.
@@Jimmy4video How do you determine, if an account is fake? Do you just throw that accusation randomly against people with a different opinion?
@@yetanotheridiot6143 nope, recent account, no youtube engagement, consistent style of comments, you are most likely someone running a number of accounts which generate some income for you and once in a while TH-cam shuts them down.
the content of this whole documentary is just plain depressing to someone who is a Vegan/Vegetarian, like myself. It's really well revealing how deeply rotten and ill structured the status quo that our civilisation has worked itself into really is. It trully shows a dead end corner. DW has really great documentaries.
Justin Thyme Do you eat Palm oil or is it in any way?? I bet you do. Vegans have just as much invested in hurting the environment as the big factories do. You know why?? Because the whorls can’t feed humans on just vegetables it is impossible without fertilizers. Big AG is just as bad. Go look where and what they do for palm oil. The kill people run people out of their homes and burn down the rain forest for it. You make up?? What do you think is in that lip stick you or whoever your family wears. Vegans like you not only attack big farms like this but big farming makes you guys think small organic farmers like me are just the same. My soil nutrition comes from multiple types of bugs that break down waste and I make my own fertile dirt to supplement the ground. I rotate crops and my animals. My animals get baths massages they get better food then I do. And vegans like yourself and the PEDA compare is to these big AG companies who are doing the most damage. Look at how many people there are and then look at how much land is needed to feed them on a vegetable diet. You won’t be a vegan after you find out where your vegetable really come from. Some of them are just label organic to sell more.vegans and everyone else in this arguement never looks at all the facts
Answer is simple. A little accident to them needs to happen.
Lol sad but true
7:55 what is that girl doing lol
We need more marxist professors on journalism schools to make DW Documentary great again.
How about you start being the change you want to see in the world? Just don't eat dairy/meat and eat foods that have less impact on the environment. That's how you solve this.
Plowing is not sustainable, permanent pasture is. Bare soil loses organic matter rapidly, compost/animal manure application alone won't fix that. So annuals like grains are at best problematic. Apply manure via grazing animals and compost to permanent grasland and the percentage of organic matter will go up binding things like co2 into the soil.
No organic matter in the soil = desert, something that is happening to fields all over the world. The old biblical ideal of the land of milk and honey even teaches that.
SUPPORT the local farmers their lives mat, it's a livelihood for their families. The large corporations want to bring the farmers to their knees and buy their farms then they will control your lives.
Can we EAT MONEY?
Nothing to say
Albert Deb. Psychopaths and Narcissists smile a little when they lie. They like the fact they are good at deceiving.
In psychology this is called Leakage.
Darkhorseman82 what’s it called when a psychology student thing they know it all when it comes to a human?? If there’s a word for it look in the mirror. You psychiatrist just do your job for that 100 or 200 dollar an hour paycheck
this documenairy is to shallow and draw all farmers over one line. here in sweden nearly all farming is enviromentaly friendly among the most enviromentaly friendliest farming methods here is dairy farming. in sweden we have to few cows and still people call them enviromental killers.
If the world went organic the world would starve.