@@pmurt_kcufvets, oil industry, and farmers i think. Crazy enough the rich get a bunch of handouts. How is it that the richest man the US is paying a less percentage of tax than i am?
@@m87orion my family started farming with horses in the early 1900s, got through the burn in the 80s and fnally sold in the 90s after watching it become a welfare game for the rich to play at the expense of family farms. Just wait till it all crashes, going to be fun
Most of that is only done on poor or wet ground thats not farmable… Really not a good deal… Corn is way better for the environment than grass an not many farmers like living off the government… Them saying 10% of a field should be grass would be absolutely devastating and food would triple in cost at the grocery store until Brazil cuts down more of the rain forest to take advantage an steal away that business that was lost… Please don’t let the people on the TV tell you what you should think… Talk to actual farmers.. Not just a couple but many from all over in different industries… Organic and non organic…
Well yes, but the whole world has a beef obsession. And meat obsession in general. It was sustainable at one point when the population was lower and consumption was not daily. Now it's remove all the prairie and cut down all the rainforest for more pastureland for incredibly inefficient calorie production
Terrible news… If farmers were forced to plant 10% of their fields in grass food would skyrocket at the grocery store… That extra demand would all Brazil farmers to cut down more rainforest an farm it…
@@govindasgarden Most chemicals an pesticide are now Bio… The parent ingredients come from trees and flowers now. By law we still have to say it causes cancer though because of California law… Fertilizer isn’t an issue where I farm… We are so confident thanks to are massive tile system that we put it down 6 months before its needed in the spring… Corn yields an lab tests show are very very expensive fertilizer is not leaving the fields thanks to the tile not allowing the fields to flood in the spring…
You don’t want that stuff planted in or around fields where we spray pesticide… You’ll wipe them all out… We only take advantage of those government programs on ground that not good for farming like if its poor rocky soil or its wet year round near streams…
In actual fact they are essential for the bees and other like wildlife to spread pollination across the countryside allowing nature to continue the propagation of plant life.😊
@@brqxton8974 Grass really? Lol We don’t even know what the original corn plant looked like… Whenever I see “Non-GMO Corn” at the grocery store I just laugh 😆
For any crops that rely heavily on pollination, these strips are a great way to boost productivity and yields, saving on expensive and often unnecessary man-made and polluting fossil fueled based fertilisers.
Ah, that’s so good to see… We’ve lost so many trees and prairies so that so many people can get morbidly obese, and it is very tragic. Thank God this is happening now, I’ve been praying for it
Some sunflowers would be pretty there as well. Could even sell them as cut flowers or use them to attract the bad pest from the wheat fields. They also break up hard soils. Sunflowers have many benefits to them.
This isn’t caring for the land… Its being lazy and living off government subsidies… Grass can’t come close to corn when it comes to keeping the soil healthy and creating more soil… It should only be used on land thats not suitable for farming…
Hope this practice catches on. I own some farm land in Illinois and currently the practice is to plant fence row to fence row and mow everything else like your front yard. I cash rent my land and struggle to get the farmer to quit mowing at least at certain times. Pheasants and quail no longer exist but the Turkey are showing up again. What’s strange is how these guys like to hunt but don’t seem to understand the value of habitat 😳
@@morrismonet3554Wow such disrespect for rural communities… They live in the middle of know where so 99.5% of Americans don’t need to grow their own food…
Don’t listen to these subsidies farmers… Corn 🌽 in the US creates more oxygen then the Amazon Rain Forrest during the summer…. An acre of corn can absorb over 36,000 pounds of CO2 during a growing season… Native Grasses only take in 2,000 - 10,000 pounds in a season… Corn also produces food and Bio-Fuel unlike Native Grass which produces absolutely nothing… Corn roots average 5-8 feet deep in just 100 days… Put in drainage tile and you see a drop in erosion by 40-60%…. Per year Corn also adds 12,000 - 15,000 pounds an acre of organic matter to the soil where native grasses only add 2,000 - 2,500… Grass is the worse thing you can plant unless you’re a bee farmer or your heavily subsidized…
The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) helps landowners, land trusts, and other entities protect, restore, and enhance wetlands or protect working farms and ranches through conservation easements. Farmers can be paid to have wetlands on their land.
Show them the data?! The empirical evidence!?! What a novel concept! Now if that would only work on some other major international and societal issues......🤔🙄
Canadian prairie homesteaders have done this for almost 200 years. you leave the slough for the migrating ducks and geese. wildflowers and game become prolific.
Awesome!!! Around my area farmers keep taking out fence line strips. Lots of habitat for many creatures including birds! Meadowlarks..bobolinks...bluebirds...just gone. Ugh.
The soil is not degraded 😂 Corn 🌽 in the US creates more oxygen then the Amazon Rain Forrest during the summer…. An acre of corn can absorb over 36,000 pounds of CO2 during a growing season… Native Grasses only take in 2,000 - 10,000 pounds in a season… Corn also produces food and Bio-Fuel unlike Native Grass which produces absolutely nothing… Corn roots average 5-8 feet deep in just 100 days… Put in drainage tile and you see a drop in erosion by 40-60%…. Per year Corn also adds 12,000 - 15,000 pounds an acre of organic matter to the soil where native grasses only add 2,000 - 2,500…
Fertilization/bees is really the only advantage, which is good, but lets not overestimate the advantage, A little critical reporting would be appropriate
That's beautifully reported, with laughter and insight side by side. What bothers me is that the principle and idea behind this is many (!) decades old. Change is slow, and money talks...even if this is more efficient, and brings tangible income benefits, too, it's counter intuitive and takes time to take root. Literally.
Been in agriculture for most of my life. This sort of thing is valuable for the environment and has some monetary benefit as well (my family has used buffer strips+no till for generations) but it is extremely difficult to encourage the average row crop farmer to engage in these practices. Most farmers are simply too stubborn to even hear out practices with solely environmental benefits, especially if they result in any sort of yield loss. Short of forcing sustainable practices on agriculturalists (which the government is horrible at doing, as they often make decisions without understanding how farming works at all), we are unlikely to see environmentally conscious practices take off as a universal trend. Most people just care about the business and that’s it.
One would think this would be obvious. Even if you didnt know about the environmental benefits, leaving a strip of land for wildlife and not planting EVERYTHING seems like the kind thing to do
If they try making it the law you'll get a lot of pushback. Hopefully more farmers will be convinced by the data and we'll see more of these prairie strips created voluntarily.
I refer to them as riparian zones. And again, wrote on it ages ago. Again, the rest of the world is not impressing me with their stories , that was covered years ago . But dismissed because my meanings or the way I described it, went over everyone's heads .
Prairie strips and riparian zones are 2 very different things. A riparian zone is a specific type of biome that has natural periodic/seasonal flooding. Prairie strips are representative of a savannah biome. A few trees here and there would add to the benefits of the system.
Wouldn't I love to do this with my farm? Yes, but unfortunately I have to make money with my land. Is prairie going to pay my taxes and insurance? Nope!
Depending on the plants, it can greatly reduce your need for pesticides. The native prairie plants will attract beneficial insect predators and reduce the pest load to where damage to crops will be minimal. However, this of course depends on the crop. If you're relying on European honeybees to work as pollinators, but not as honey providers, native prairie plants if carefully selected will attract pollinators that will stay year round. So, they won't pay your taxes/insurance, but they may help cut costs.
You'll have no quality land left if you don't diversify it. It's not just to be pretty... it improves the soil quality and water table in addition to improving biodiversity.
You might be surprised at the types of grants available to farmers to make environmental changes like this. www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/programs/sustainable-agriculture-programs
Been in agriculture for most of my life. This sort of thing is valuable for the environment and has some monetary benefit as well (my family has used buffer strips+no till for generations) but it is extremely difficult to encourage the average row crop farmer to engage in these practices. Most farmers are simply too stubborn to even hear out practices with solely environmental benefits, especially if they result in any sort of yield loss. Short of forcing sustainable practices on agriculturalists (which the government is horrible at doing, as they often make decisions without understanding how farming works at all), we are unlikely to see environmentally conscious practices take off as a universal trend. Most people just care about the business and that’s it.
the strip also provide support for local pollinators. farmers don't have to rent bees.
Also local fertilizer.
Dead insects and worms and stuff gonna have a safe haven there
corn and beans farmers don't rent bees silly, there's no need to
great until the AgCat is nearby, spraying pesticide
@@pmurt_kcufjust because corn and beans are primarily wind fertilized, doesn’t mean an active pollinator population doesn’t increase yields.
@@brqxton8974 you can think that all you want, and you'd be wrong
Though painfully slow, it's nice seeing agriculture move in a positive direction after 80 years of destruction.
The vast majority of farmers will continue dumping poison on their GMO corn until they are forced to stop.
you see the welfare checks they get to do it and who the majority of the cash goes to
@@pmurt_kcufvets, oil industry, and farmers i think. Crazy enough the rich get a bunch of handouts. How is it that the richest man the US is paying a less percentage of tax than i am?
@@pmurt_kcufAre you a farmer?
@@m87orion my family started farming with horses in the early 1900s, got through the burn in the 80s and fnally sold in the 90s after watching it become a welfare game for the rich to play at the expense of family farms.
Just wait till it all crashes, going to be fun
Finally something I can get behind!
We do 15 acres of it and love it! These programs need support! Actual GOOD government spending!
we are too indebt for any more government handouts.
@@michaeleldridge5640 These are not handouts... These are investments into agriculture, future, the environment, into peoples lives and health
why should the tax payers bribe land owners to do what's right? they already get billions in welfare every year.
@ not at all for ones like this that matter.
Cut the deadbeats and frivolous government programs-this ain’t one of them.
@@midwesternoutdoorsandnatur8272 ah and we've discovered the real issue with politics. one persons waste is another's world saving idea.
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This idea began in Europe. Such a simply perfect idea. I wish farmers on the Canadian prairies would do this!
they always have. Europeans have done it for thousands of years. they also dont' put up fences. see a Swiss calendar? no fences.
@@DwightStJohn-t7yfarmers across Europe employ multitudes of fencing types. Picturesque photos don’t tend to have ugly fences in them.
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Butterflies don’t feed the world…
Thankful for farmers that do this!
Most of that is only done on poor or wet ground thats not farmable… Really not a good deal… Corn is way better for the environment than grass an not many farmers like living off the government… Them saying 10% of a field should be grass would be absolutely devastating and food would triple in cost at the grocery store until Brazil cuts down more of the rain forest to take advantage an steal away that business that was lost…
Please don’t let the people on the TV tell you what you should think… Talk to actual farmers.. Not just a couple but many from all over in different industries… Organic and non organic…
So amazing! Often in conservation people take it as a zero-sum game, but this is an amazing compromise!
Rather have farm strips in prairie. Until then this is great
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You wanna starve ?
@@t.s.d.1376if Americans didnt have a beef obsession(chicken tastes way better btw) then we wouldnt need as much farmland
Well yes, but the whole world has a beef obsession. And meat obsession in general. It was sustainable at one point when the population was lower and consumption was not daily. Now it's remove all the prairie and cut down all the rainforest for more pastureland for incredibly inefficient calorie production
@@t.s.d.1376 much of our crop production is turned into ethanol or exported.
Love this story!
I always allow wild native grass to grow on 25% of my farm.
Theres no better grass in the world then corn though 😂
Good for you
this is literally the only piece of good/encouraging news i've seen in years. not weeks, not months. years.
nice to see some good news!!
Terrible news… If farmers were forced to plant 10% of their fields in grass food would skyrocket at the grocery store… That extra demand would all Brazil farmers to cut down more rainforest an farm it…
@ the amount saved in irrigation and fertilizer and pesticides, though…
@@govindasgarden Most chemicals an pesticide are now Bio… The parent ingredients come from trees and flowers now. By law we still have to say it causes cancer though because of California law… Fertilizer isn’t an issue where I farm… We are so confident thanks to are massive tile system that we put it down 6 months before its needed in the spring… Corn yields an lab tests show are very very expensive fertilizer is not leaving the fields thanks to the tile not allowing the fields to flood in the spring…
This is incredible!
This should be everywhere there's monoculture
You don’t want that stuff planted in or around fields where we spray pesticide… You’ll wipe them all out… We only take advantage of those government programs on ground that not good for farming like if its poor rocky soil or its wet year round near streams…
In actual fact they are essential for the bees and other like wildlife to spread pollination across the countryside allowing nature to continue the propagation of plant life.😊
Thank you! Please do more stories like this!
Jeremy Clarkson did this on his farm a few years back. Cool to see it happening elsewhere
Regenerative Agriculture is
increase Biodiversity in Soil
Positive impact on the land and Ecosystem
Corn is way way more regenerative than grass…
@@MrTGleanercorn literally is grass, you goober.
@@brqxton8974 Grass really? Lol
We don’t even know what the original corn plant looked like… Whenever I see “Non-GMO Corn” at the grocery store I just laugh 😆
@ we know exactly what native maize looks like, people still grow it. How ignorant to facts can you be?
@@brqxton8974Maize? So it’s not even called corn? 😂
This is a pretty cool idea
For any crops that rely heavily on pollination, these strips are a great way to boost productivity and yields, saving on expensive and often unnecessary man-made and polluting fossil fueled based fertilisers.
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❤😮❤ very nice
Ah, that’s so good to see…
We’ve lost so many trees and prairies so that so many people can get morbidly obese, and it is very tragic.
Thank God this is happening now, I’ve been praying for it
Greed. Western culture is greedy
Fantastic!
Great initiative! Nice to see people embracing the myriad benefits of this type of agricultural practice.
Never underestimate the benefits of joy. Doing the right thing matters.
A great idea that needs to spread. Keep the good news flowing.
we have this in germany since 10+ years ago - and it is pretty common now
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Love this slowly we are farming smarter again slowly but surely!
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THIS!!!
Definitely a good first step in prairie farming
This is really refreshing good news and a win for nature and communities 🥳🥳🥳
Some sunflowers would be pretty there as well. Could even sell them as cut flowers or use them to attract the bad pest from the wheat fields. They also break up hard soils. Sunflowers have many benefits to them.
Yes! Care for the land, and the land will take care of you!
This isn’t caring for the land… Its being lazy and living off government subsidies… Grass can’t come close to corn when it comes to keeping the soil healthy and creating more soil… It should only be used on land thats not suitable for farming…
Hope this practice catches on. I own some farm land in Illinois and currently the practice is to plant fence row to fence row and mow everything else like your front yard. I cash rent my land and struggle to get the farmer to quit mowing at least at certain times. Pheasants and quail no longer exist but the Turkey are showing up again.
What’s strange is how these guys like to hunt but don’t seem to understand the value of habitat 😳
Good for the soil, crops and Environment. Good farming work!
Parire's are more eye-catching than those lame monocultures
Awesome
It's good as long as developers don't build houses on the land
No one wants to live in Iowa. LOL
@@morrismonet3554 developers are buying farm land and putting high cost houses even in Iowa Even though your clueless
@@waterloo123100 You made that up. LOL
@@morrismonet3554iowa is still mostly rural and as such I can see people escaping the big cities for the relaxed atmosphere of such places.
@@morrismonet3554Wow such disrespect for rural communities… They live in the middle of know where so 99.5% of Americans don’t need to grow their own food…
They improve the soil because most of these wild grasses have in common is deep root structure.
Don’t listen to these subsidies farmers… Corn 🌽 in the US creates more oxygen then the Amazon Rain Forrest during the summer…. An acre of corn can absorb over 36,000 pounds of CO2 during a growing season… Native Grasses only take in 2,000 - 10,000 pounds in a season… Corn also produces food and Bio-Fuel unlike Native Grass which produces absolutely nothing… Corn roots average 5-8 feet deep in just 100 days… Put in drainage tile and you see a drop in erosion by 40-60%…. Per year Corn also adds 12,000 - 15,000 pounds an acre of organic matter to the soil where native grasses only add 2,000 - 2,500…
Grass is the worse thing you can plant unless you’re a bee farmer or your heavily subsidized…
Very wholesome video
Brillant! Cheers!!
The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) helps landowners, land trusts, and other entities protect, restore, and enhance wetlands or protect working farms and ranches through conservation easements. Farmers can be paid to have wetlands on their land.
This is a good initiative balancing environment without compromising production and productivity is the best way forward.
Permaculture is king
Excellent story
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It's about time! Agriculture has done nothing but unchecked damage for centuries.
Beautiful! Love to see conservation and protection of God’s green Earth!
I see you wore your Canadian Tuxedo for the segment.
The farmers at the time would have had no way of knowing this, but we may not have had the dust bowl if they had done something similar.
Show them the data?! The empirical evidence!?! What a novel concept! Now if that would only work on some other major international and societal issues......🤔🙄
Canadian prairie homesteaders have done this for almost 200 years. you leave the slough for the migrating ducks and geese. wildflowers and game become prolific.
Awesome!!! Around my area farmers keep taking out fence line strips. Lots of habitat for many creatures including birds! Meadowlarks..bobolinks...bluebirds...just gone. Ugh.
Humans live here too. Just saying…
Restore degraded Soil
Soil Microorganisms
Soil Ecosystem
Healthier Soil
The soil is not degraded 😂
Corn 🌽 in the US creates more oxygen then the Amazon Rain Forrest during the summer…. An acre of corn can absorb over 36,000 pounds of CO2 during a growing season… Native Grasses only take in 2,000 - 10,000 pounds in a season… Corn also produces food and Bio-Fuel unlike Native Grass which produces absolutely nothing… Corn roots average 5-8 feet deep in just 100 days… Put in drainage tile and you see a drop in erosion by 40-60%…. Per year Corn also adds 12,000 - 15,000 pounds an acre of organic matter to the soil where native grasses only add 2,000 - 2,500…
But that won't maximize your corporate sponsored profits or buy you a shiny 25.00 hat to show off at the diner!!!
If you have trees you can get more out of it
Get the GMO about of the seeds next, and the pesticides usage in the fields.
What introducing natural environments enter their original local system has benefits... What a mad mad world we live in.
[Sarcasm]
They all talk a good game, but as soon as the cameras are gone and the corn price picks up, those micro prairies will get plowed under.
Fertilization/bees is really the only advantage, which is good, but lets not overestimate the advantage, A little critical reporting would be appropriate
That's beautifully reported, with laughter and insight side by side.
What bothers me is that the principle and idea behind this is many (!) decades old.
Change is slow, and money talks...even if this is more efficient, and brings tangible income benefits, too, it's counter intuitive and takes time to take root. Literally.
Been in agriculture for most of my life. This sort of thing is valuable for the environment and has some monetary benefit as well (my family has used buffer strips+no till for generations) but it is extremely difficult to encourage the average row crop farmer to engage in these practices. Most farmers are simply too stubborn to even hear out practices with solely environmental benefits, especially if they result in any sort of yield loss.
Short of forcing sustainable practices on agriculturalists (which the government is horrible at doing, as they often make decisions without understanding how farming works at all), we are unlikely to see environmentally conscious practices take off as a universal trend. Most people just care about the business and that’s it.
One would think this would be obvious. Even if you didnt know about the environmental benefits, leaving a strip of land for wildlife and not planting EVERYTHING seems like the kind thing to do
Would you leave money on the table in your business just to be nice?
@@oe542 Yes. Especially if It supports the environment. The greed of weak men is going to destroy this planet.
@@PrismverseTales you’re a better person than most then.
Should be required
No, not all of Iowa. A large potion of Iowa was wooded.
If they try making it the law you'll get a lot of pushback. Hopefully more farmers will be convinced by the data and we'll see more of these prairie strips created voluntarily.
If this interests you - look into the work Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are doing.
Depends on who you ask.
Lol. when I was a kid we called those fence lines. California clean farming wipes out everything it turns out.
Something the rest of the world has done for over 100 years
Where?
@oe542 even the soviet union did it in the 30s with tree lines each field
@@00-Dima That would be a disaster… They tried that in the Dakotas now they have a real mess…
@MrTGleaner what mess was that
@@00-Dima All the dead trees.
Americans are desperate for honest effective action and content like this..
This guy is the exception. IA, MN, ND, SD, often some of the most willfully ignorant/backwards farmers in the world.
Joey of _Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't_ would likely approve.
I refer to them as riparian zones. And again, wrote on it ages ago.
Again, the rest of the world is not impressing me with their stories , that was covered years ago .
But dismissed because my meanings or the way I described it, went over everyone's heads .
Prairie strips and riparian zones are 2 very different things. A riparian zone is a specific type of biome that has natural periodic/seasonal flooding. Prairie strips are representative of a savannah biome. A few trees here and there would add to the benefits of the system.
These two things are no were near similar.
Hmmm, 500 of colonial exploitation and extraction has caught up with this generation !!🎉
You know this would be great…but you have to have a home first let alone an extra field laying around. Who is this for 12% of us?
Wouldn't I love to do this with my farm? Yes, but unfortunately I have to make money with my land. Is prairie going to pay my taxes and insurance? Nope!
Depending on the plants, it can greatly reduce your need for pesticides. The native prairie plants will attract beneficial insect predators and reduce the pest load to where damage to crops will be minimal. However, this of course depends on the crop. If you're relying on European honeybees to work as pollinators, but not as honey providers, native prairie plants if carefully selected will attract pollinators that will stay year round. So, they won't pay your taxes/insurance, but they may help cut costs.
Their point is that you make money by not spending as much on costs and benefit your whole investment.
You'll have no quality land left if you don't diversify it. It's not just to be pretty... it improves the soil quality and water table in addition to improving biodiversity.
Such a short-sighted and narrow- minded attitude.
You might be surprised at the types of grants available to farmers to make environmental changes like this.
www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/programs/sustainable-agriculture-programs
Been in agriculture for most of my life. This sort of thing is valuable for the environment and has some monetary benefit as well (my family has used buffer strips+no till for generations) but it is extremely difficult to encourage the average row crop farmer to engage in these practices. Most farmers are simply too stubborn to even hear out practices with solely environmental benefits, especially if they result in any sort of yield loss.
Short of forcing sustainable practices on agriculturalists (which the government is horrible at doing, as they often make decisions without understanding how farming works at all), we are unlikely to see environmentally conscious practices take off as a universal trend. Most people just care about the business and that’s it.
Hard times have taken a lot of good farmers… Only the cautious have survived…