Excellent! This needed to be explained. As a wildlife biologist, the correlation of his data with the loss of soil, pollution, species diversity, etc is strong as iron!
So guess what? If taxpayers are funding payments that Farmers, get, text Paris get a say in Howell, farmers farm, and the operations that farmers do affect the public waters and the public air and the public soil and the farm program which affects all of us and so we get to say how we want the farmers of the station to operate. If farmers want to be independent, they need to run profitable operations that don’t require subsidization by the rest of us.
I'm a farmer, and I've raised corn/soybeans both orgaincally and with chemicals. Corn is an excellent food. It's used in corn chips, corn meal, etc. If you want a cheap human ration, make it like hog feed. Corn, soybean meal, and a human tailored vitamin/mineral premix, make it by the ton like I do for the hogs. You also don't take into account the labor hours/bushel of corn/soybeans. I raised it organically like they did in the 1950's, it takes ALOT more man hours to make a bushel of corn organically vs. with chemicals. 3 to 4 preplant tillage passes to somewhat deplete the soil seed bank, then rotary hoe once before and once after crop emergence, then 3 to 7 row cultivations, where 1/10th of a mph makes a difference in throwing soil around the plant to suppress weeds. Have you ever farmed organically? Have you ever burned the tops off of weeds in soybean fields manually by using a weed burner operated by hand doing 2 rows at a time in a loader while someone drives the tractor? I have. If S ever HTF, I will raise corn with hand tools. Why? It is a highly efficient use of man hours to raise a crop, and you only lose 30% or so of yield by selecting the seed of hybrids to use in your next crop. Easy to weed, easy to store. Grind it by hand, hand thresh and roast soybeans for protein, you have it made. Don't even get me started on weeding soybeans in my 20's for so many hours I used a cane while weeding organic soybeans because my back ached.
Hi Sherman, thanks for the comment. My father raised organic soybeans when I was growing up paid my sister and I to chop weeds with a machete each July in the sun and bugs. Definately not fun! Yes, corn used to be an excellent source of nutrition but growing it year after year in a 1 or 2 crop rotation has destroyed our soils. Now the protein content and nutrition from corn has been completely depleted. Empty calories and corn laden with chemicals are the leading factor in our chronic disease epidemics. Let alone the havoc neonicotinoids on treated corn seed are having on our bees and other insects. In many ways, commodity corn is one, if not the, top contributor to the collapse of our ecosystems. When it comes to feeding the world, nothing packs more nutrition per pound than meat. Let's bring the animals back to the farms and put them out on the land again. Graze the fields and grow diverse cereals that can be used for feed. Then we don't need the tillage or chemicals.
This is far more than just organic versus chemicals. This is about how improving our soil biology and health will pay dividends over time. Mechanical tillage and chemical applications both damage and destroy soil biology and structure. Reduced tillage and synthetic inputs along with increasing cover crops and grazing ruminants all contribute to increasing soil health, and water infiltration. Gabe Brown, Ray Archuleta (NRCS),Jay Fuhrer(NRCS), Jimmy Emmons, Russell Hedrick, Dr Jon Lundgren, Dr Dwayne Beck are just a few names to learn from. Regarding the statement about corn being a healthy food, that is very questionable. Doctors who are making a difference in people's health include Jack Wolfson, Peter Ovadia, Gary Fettke, Paul Mason, Robert Cywes, Anthony Chaffee, Robert Lustig, Chris Knobbe Lisa Weideman, Ken Berry, Shawn Baker, David Diamond, David Unwin, Daphne Miller, Tim Noakes, and others. Researchers, dietitians, nutritionists Nina Teicholz, Michelle Hurn, Judy Cho, and others. We have a lot more disease now than 70 years ago. Soil health and human health are connected. We are what our food eats.
I’m fully on board with regen ag but you said these farmers make excuses on why not to. Then you said you don’t even want to do the work, you want to lease it out.
The slide of the pyramids got me wondering where in Egypt they actually are. I found them on Google Earth. They're right on the edge of Cairo, atop a bluff that defines that part of the Nile delta valley. It kind of wrecks the mysticism of the photo, but there's a Marriott golf course (>_
Hello! Liked your presentation 😊 I'm not a farmer, but a non-energy appreciator of the LAND... Questions in my head while watching, imaging myself on the farmer's place are: -where do I get seeds? do you have resources or mentoring to provide? are you vouching for the resources you offer? - are there specific techniques to improve a deserted land? what's the timeline to try those on a small scale (how soon the results are seen)? - Are you interested in mentoring in different us states? have you already tried? if so, how big is your network of supporting like-minded people? I'm curious, for non-experienced person how doable it is, how much energy needs to be involved for such a project like rejuvenating the land and reversing deserted land to a life? Just wanted to share my questions and see if you have an interest in sharing your thoughts? Thank you!😊
You happen to be coming to the Moultrie/Douglas County Illinois area any time? Seems one good thing about our current farm situation is that so few people do it that it also doesn’t take a lot of people changing their ways to make a difference.
There is a time investment involved in going to regenarative that the large farmers are shying from the had rather pick up more acres with that extra time . Also you gave away your end game in years 4,5,6 and beyond increase rent .I both own and rent and only do regenarative on the acres I own at this time but that could change over time .
I would love to talk to you more about regenerative farming and meeting Gabe Brown I also have his book I’m just unable to try or do anything like this right now unfortunately but I definitely want to
Hello Jason, I really like the straight talk you employ in your discussion of this complex topic. I have recently moved onto a small parcel of about 45 acres in south central Ontario and have devoted myself to providing as much food as I can for my family of five. I am not a farmer but my family has farming roots as far back as you care to look. Health issues with my grandfather, whom I never met, redirected my grandmother into town and effectively off the land. I have been amazed just how much food can be produced with thoughtful gardening practices. I made an observation recently that I can drive for hours and not really see 'food' at least not any I would like to eat. We have local family farm stands nearby but the reality is that they are not really growing food either, a quick morning run to the food depot is more than enough to trick 'locals' into thinking they produce it themselves lol. All the info you mention about the importance of limiting soil loss is great and I commend you for swimming against the current. I have a degree in mathematics and can honestly say that growing in the natural world has provided me with me most elaborate forum for problem solving to date. My father claims I should have been born in the 60's as he thinks I am living in the past but what I find most interesting, however, is that this concept of growing food sustainably is not a thing of the past but a new problem for the future. A rototiller was the first implement I acquired when we began gardening and I have had my eyes, nose and ears opened with the concepts of cover crops and related no-till practices for gardening. I am excited (and a little concerned) to learn that growing food isn't something that our species has figured out perfectly yet, as it makes my interest in this relevant and not just a hippie(ish) lark. I realize that the scale I am talking about is small in comparison to your discussion, but that the overall ideas appear to remain the same. Sorry for the novel, but in short I would just like to again say Thank You for the thoughtful video and for the detailed graphs you use to inform your discussion and conclusions.
Thank you. Yes, it is concerning that we haven't figured this out at mass. I'm sure there are groups that have known for millennia but it has never gained popularity because there's no money to be made. Growing food is like breathing air. Free and available to everyone!
@@jwsoil my 65 year old Dad is in control of everything and says he doesn’t want to farm like that probably scared of the unknown or being wrong to me so
@@jwsoil I only hope that it won’t be too late when I do get to try what guys like you and Gabe are doing I will give you my phone number so then I can talk to you more about it
@@joegonnet712 this is a very common issue. Is there any amount of land he's willing to try something new on? Keep working on him! Maybe get a subscription to No-till Magazine for him.
Good video. Over the last few days, I've seen articles about growing small grains as maslins (a historic practice that reduces crop failure) and growing wheat between rows of Walnut trees (recent study where yield for both increased; my concern here differs from shade and water criticisms, I don't think that qualifies as true polyculture farming; instead, it comes off as two monocultures in my opinion).
I need to add, I've wondered about the question you were addressing when the camera died. I think the biggest factor isn't fear, it's laziness. A lot of people don't want to learn new techniques. They also don't want to do the increased work that comes with some of the practices. With managed mob grazing, some farmers want to let the cows out and forget about them for a week or two. With managed grazing (even with automatic latches), you still have to set them up and make sure the livestock have moved to the new paddocks. With other practices, you have to learn which cover crops you can sow and when you can plant them. It takes effort that many farmers just aren't willing to do.
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Excellent! This needed to be explained. As a wildlife biologist, the correlation of his data with the loss of soil, pollution, species diversity, etc is strong as iron!
Brave talk especially if you we’re giving it to conventional farmers
So guess what? If taxpayers are funding payments that Farmers, get, text Paris get a say in Howell, farmers farm, and the operations that farmers do affect the public waters and the public air and the public soil and the farm program which affects all of us and so we get to say how we want the farmers of the station to operate. If farmers want to be independent, they need to run profitable operations that don’t require subsidization by the rest of us.
I'm a farmer, and I've raised corn/soybeans both orgaincally and with chemicals. Corn is an excellent food. It's used in corn chips, corn meal, etc. If you want a cheap human ration, make it like hog feed. Corn, soybean meal, and a human tailored vitamin/mineral premix, make it by the ton like I do for the hogs. You also don't take into account the labor hours/bushel of corn/soybeans. I raised it organically like they did in the 1950's, it takes ALOT more man hours to make a bushel of corn organically vs. with chemicals. 3 to 4 preplant tillage passes to somewhat deplete the soil seed bank, then rotary hoe once before and once after crop emergence, then 3 to 7 row cultivations, where 1/10th of a mph makes a difference in throwing soil around the plant to suppress weeds. Have you ever farmed organically? Have you ever burned the tops off of weeds in soybean fields manually by using a weed burner operated by hand doing 2 rows at a time in a loader while someone drives the tractor? I have. If S ever HTF, I will raise corn with hand tools. Why? It is a highly efficient use of man hours to raise a crop, and you only lose 30% or so of yield by selecting the seed of hybrids to use in your next crop. Easy to weed, easy to store. Grind it by hand, hand thresh and roast soybeans for protein, you have it made. Don't even get me started on weeding soybeans in my 20's for so many hours I used a cane while weeding organic soybeans because my back ached.
Hi Sherman, thanks for the comment. My father raised organic soybeans when I was growing up paid my sister and I to chop weeds with a machete each July in the sun and bugs. Definately not fun! Yes, corn used to be an excellent source of nutrition but growing it year after year in a 1 or 2 crop rotation has destroyed our soils. Now the protein content and nutrition from corn has been completely depleted. Empty calories and corn laden with chemicals are the leading factor in our chronic disease epidemics. Let alone the havoc neonicotinoids on treated corn seed are having on our bees and other insects. In many ways, commodity corn is one, if not the, top contributor to the collapse of our ecosystems.
When it comes to feeding the world, nothing packs more nutrition per pound than meat. Let's bring the animals back to the farms and put them out on the land again. Graze the fields and grow diverse cereals that can be used for feed. Then we don't need the tillage or chemicals.
This is far more than just organic versus chemicals. This is about how improving our soil biology and health will pay dividends over time. Mechanical tillage and chemical applications both damage and destroy soil biology and structure. Reduced tillage and synthetic inputs along with increasing cover crops and grazing ruminants all contribute to increasing soil health, and water infiltration. Gabe Brown, Ray Archuleta (NRCS),Jay Fuhrer(NRCS), Jimmy Emmons, Russell Hedrick, Dr Jon Lundgren, Dr Dwayne Beck are just a few names to learn from.
Regarding the statement about corn being a healthy food, that is very questionable. Doctors who are making a difference in people's health include Jack Wolfson, Peter Ovadia, Gary Fettke, Paul Mason, Robert Cywes, Anthony Chaffee, Robert Lustig, Chris Knobbe Lisa Weideman, Ken Berry, Shawn Baker, David Diamond, David Unwin, Daphne Miller, Tim Noakes, and others. Researchers, dietitians, nutritionists Nina Teicholz, Michelle Hurn, Judy Cho, and others. We have a lot more disease now than 70 years ago. Soil health and human health are connected. We are what our food eats.
I’m fully on board with regen ag but you said these farmers make excuses on why not to. Then you said you don’t even want to do the work, you want to lease it out.
Great presentation! #savesoil
Thank you!
Very much enjoyed your presentation and appreciate you sharing these facts and so much information. Spot on.
thank you!
Definitely think this is the way to keep ourselves and family's healthy by growing our own vegetables in truly nutrious not these low quality foods
The slide of the pyramids got me wondering where in Egypt they actually are. I found them on Google Earth. They're right on the edge of Cairo, atop a bluff that defines that part of the Nile delta valley. It kind of wrecks the mysticism of the photo, but there's a Marriott golf course (>_
Hello! Liked your presentation 😊 I'm not a farmer, but a non-energy appreciator of the LAND... Questions in my head while watching, imaging myself on the farmer's place are: -where do I get seeds? do you have resources or mentoring to provide? are you vouching for the resources you offer? - are there specific techniques to improve a deserted land? what's the timeline to try those on a small scale (how soon the results are seen)? - Are you interested in mentoring in different us states? have you already tried? if so, how big is your network of supporting like-minded people?
I'm curious, for non-experienced person how doable it is, how much energy needs to be involved for such a project like rejuvenating the land and reversing deserted land to a life? Just wanted to share my questions and see if you have an interest in sharing your thoughts?
Thank you!😊
Superb! All in such a short video.
Thanks @raj!
You happen to be coming to the Moultrie/Douglas County Illinois area any time? Seems one good thing about our current farm situation is that so few people do it that it also doesn’t take a lot of people changing their ways to make a difference.
There is a time investment involved in going to regenarative that the large farmers are shying from the had rather pick up more acres with that extra time . Also you gave away your end game in years 4,5,6 and beyond increase rent .I both own and rent and only do regenarative on the acres I own at this time but that could change over time .
I would love to talk to you more about regenerative farming and meeting Gabe Brown I also have his book I’m just unable to try or do anything like this right now unfortunately but I definitely want to
Joe, check out Jay Young at TH-cam; I think his channel is Young Red Angus
Hello Jason, I really like the straight talk you employ in your discussion of this complex topic. I have recently moved onto a small parcel of about 45 acres in south central Ontario and have devoted myself to providing as much food as I can for my family of five. I am not a farmer but my family has farming roots as far back as you care to look. Health issues with my grandfather, whom I never met, redirected my grandmother into town and effectively off the land. I have been amazed just how much food can be produced with thoughtful gardening practices. I made an observation recently that I can drive for hours and not really see 'food' at least not any I would like to eat. We have local family farm stands nearby but the reality is that they are not really growing food either, a quick morning run to the food depot is more than enough to trick 'locals' into thinking they produce it themselves lol.
All the info you mention about the importance of limiting soil loss is great and I commend you for swimming against the current. I have a degree in mathematics and can honestly say that growing in the natural world has provided me with me most elaborate forum for problem solving to date. My father claims I should have been born in the 60's as he thinks I am living in the past but what I find most interesting, however, is that this concept of growing food sustainably is not a thing of the past but a new problem for the future.
A rototiller was the first implement I acquired when we began gardening and I have had my eyes, nose and ears opened with the concepts of cover crops and related no-till practices for gardening.
I am excited (and a little concerned) to learn that growing food isn't something that our species has figured out perfectly yet, as it makes my interest in this relevant and not just a hippie(ish) lark.
I realize that the scale I am talking about is small in comparison to your discussion, but that the overall ideas appear to remain the same.
Sorry for the novel, but in short I would just like to again say Thank You for the thoughtful video and for the detailed graphs you use to inform your discussion and conclusions.
Thank you. Yes, it is concerning that we haven't figured this out at mass. I'm sure there are groups that have known for millennia but it has never gained popularity because there's no money to be made. Growing food is like breathing air. Free and available to everyone!
Hi bud great video I agree with you and want to do what you are doing I’m a farmer from Alberta Canada
Thanks. What's stopping you from trying new things?
@@jwsoil my 65 year old Dad is in control of everything and says he doesn’t want to farm like that probably scared of the unknown or being wrong to me so
@@jwsoil I only hope that it won’t be too late when I do get to try what guys like you and Gabe are doing I will give you my phone number so then I can talk to you more about it
@@joegonnet712 this is a very common issue. Is there any amount of land he's willing to try something new on? Keep working on him! Maybe get a subscription to No-till Magazine for him.
@@jwsoil what’s the best no till magazine to get
he asked where is it going ....it is evaporating as co2
And shit like mcchunda and choke e cola isn't food
Fantastic video!
@hereticsaint thank you!
Good video. Over the last few days, I've seen articles about growing small grains as maslins (a historic practice that reduces crop failure) and growing wheat between rows of Walnut trees (recent study where yield for both increased; my concern here differs from shade and water criticisms, I don't think that qualifies as true polyculture farming; instead, it comes off as two monocultures in my opinion).
I need to add, I've wondered about the question you were addressing when the camera died. I think the biggest factor isn't fear, it's laziness. A lot of people don't want to learn new techniques. They also don't want to do the increased work that comes with some of the practices. With managed mob grazing, some farmers want to let the cows out and forget about them for a week or two. With managed grazing (even with automatic latches), you still have to set them up and make sure the livestock have moved to the new paddocks. With other practices, you have to learn which cover crops you can sow and when you can plant them. It takes effort that many farmers just aren't willing to do.
@@karlrovey yes, laziness. I think many of our farmers today would be better suited to a job on an assembly line somewhere.