We do regenerative livestock in Uruguay. We started studying at the Savory Institute. The changes are excellent, working with biomimetics changed our lives. Good luck with the movie, thanks for sharing so much.
I am a soil sampler working in the rural midwest, and I see these problems every day. It is a broken system that confines livestock to tens of feet per animal, and then uses hoses that stretch for miles to knife their manure into the desert of corn and beans that surround them. Every year I see fewer pastures and more CAFO's, and the abundance of life turned into an over medicated, sterile expanse of two crops whose profits go straight past the farmers and into the industrial machine corporations. Thank you for this video. The problem is not with livestock, but how they're managed. For you vegans out there, look at the ingredient list on your veggie burger. You're eating from the same system that is displacing ecosystems through monocropping. No you're not eating a cow, but the soybeans and corn you're eating are displacing entire sets of species. Buy local and eat smart.
Hi Rabbit, Do you have friends who can go along with you and film what you are doing? We would love to get your story told as a soil sampler. Let me know if we can help. Where are you located?
@@PunkRockGardener This, and the original comment imply that vegans necessarily eat monoculture crops and are all as blissfully unaware of the issues as the general consumer public. While I agree that many vegans tend towards 'junk-food vegan' diets of Beyond X, Impossible Y, and Boca Z, the inherent awareness that many vegans have about what they are eating pushes self-education more towards a diet of (hopefully) sustainable but (definitely) less planet-damaging diets. Lets not classify groups of people as being 'wrong' or 'right' but instead look at what each person is doing that is 'right' so we can all move in that direction.
Also on TH-cam are other very successful regenerative farmers/ranchers showing the way. In the US there is Gabe Brown from North Dakota with a very diverse operation, Greg Judy in Missouri with a much simplified operation, and Will Harris in Geogia with a diverse and growing meat operation that includes his own USDA approved meat packing operations on site, and he is repopulating his neighboring ghosttown with employees and their families.
Indeed. If you’ve not seen it already watch the film Kiss The Ground. It has Allen Savory as well as all the farmers in this short. They are practicing what Allen has taught.
We do this style of rotational grazing for our cattle on a small scale, but our grass is PHENOMENAL and the horses on a neighboring farm have even escaped their pasture, and snuck into ours to eat the lovely grass and clover when the gate is open!!
Its a travesty that you guys don't have more subscribers and this amazing film doesn't have more views than it does either. Please don't give up guys, you are the real deal and it will pay off for you I hope. We need MORE film on regenerative ranching and agriculture. Please think about expanding your material and becoming the first channel to really document who are practicing these forms of farming in North America. Dr. Allen Williams is not only an amazing human being by the looks of it but also perhaps a REAL Doctor.....which is rare these days! Great work guy, thank you.
Thank you Ian, That means a lot. I am working on pitching this as a show called Chasing Soil. I would go around the US (and the world) highlighting and comparing farming practices like this
@@finianmakepeace772 Thank you for your reply Finian, I'm honored. I would caution you before you attempt to lie down in the devil's pit of mainstream media, it is toxic and redundant, they just don't know it yet. Why not try crowdfunding and stay alternative? I would say this though, there seems to be a massive move with people who find a very worthy cause and USE it to, in all honesty, as a mechanism supply their own lifestyle and status. People are getting wise to it, and are quickly losing respect and their once long life shelf, is now becoming rather short indeed. Please don't fall into that obvious trap. The antidote is to put a few years in of hard graft and economic toil to prove you really mean it for the right reasons, this will become crucial to career longevity and worth any time soon. I wish you all the very best in your endeavors, as I amongst many will be its beneficiary, and I'm sure you personally really mean it from the heart. GOOD LUCK Brother.
@@SilentSherlock666 if it does not rain as usual, the better soil will be able to retain much more water. They have such projects in Australia, they renature the small rivers and build small dams. That way the water flows slowly and the surrounding land can take it up. Before it was a straight running current and not much grew around. It started to green again. Such soil soaks up water like a sponge and releases it slowly. They had a major draught in Australia, in a drone shot one could easily identify the farms that work with that method (turning the streams to their natural state). They still were green.
@@SilentSherlock666 In Colombia farmers grow bushes and some plants. The cows forage in that open forest and they really like to eat those plants or leaves from bushes. I think the flowers are ones that can bind the nitrogen of the air (large stems, yellow petals), I did not recognize them. anyway they are high in proteine and the cows like them. On such land one can have MORE cattle (they are also moved around after a short time, I think they use electric fences. That way they do not trample everything down / destroy the surface, they just break it down enough for new growth, they fertilize it - and they move quicker than pests and bugs and diseases can grow / spread. In Colombia the farms were in an area with many hills, and on traditional grassland the cows had ruined the underground and it was obviously much drier. Rainfalls then wash it out to make things worse. (It looked like they had enough rain, it was cloudy. But once the good "spongy" soil is washed out and there is only a felt of old grass eaten down to the ground, rain cannot trigger much growth anymore. If you plant bushes and trees of course they hold the earth better in place during a downpour. Moreover the cattle finds enough food so they do not have to let them graze down all of it before they move them to the next lot. That farm was part of a test run, and they were obviously doing much better than their neighbours.
@@happinessyogateacher it can be, but I prefer small scale and decentralised, and more people working for their food in the area they live in. That means less disconnection, because I belive disconnection from nature and not knowing what it takes to produce food is one of the biggest problems of humanity today
@@Talasbuan I agree with connection to the land! Some of our locals have school tours, day camps, festivals, etc. Locally sourced is best for most. Of course, dedesertification might mean venturing into parts of the world where small farms would best serve the project if they collected into larger herds.
Little farmer’s daughter been saying this since ten years old. Repeating obvious ancient wisdom passed on to me by regenerative farmers, “DIRt FARMERS” denigrated by BIG FARMA AND BIG PHARMA. Nearly HOPELESS, Dr. Savory’s TED Talj restored by HOPE.
@@etienne_oosthuizen Yip, Zim was way ahead in terms of innovative farming practices until... My wife's Grandfather's farm was sadly expropriated in the early 2000s and lies barren to this day. I've recently joined an Organic Fertilizer company named GuanoBoost and we are determined to change the agricultural landscape in SA! www.guanoboost.com For any farmers out there who are interested in regenerating their soils please give me a call: Brendon +27(0)842595763
@@johnnyhaigs243 My wife's Grandfather's farm in Zimbabwe was sadly expropriated in the early 2000s and lies barren to this day. I've recently joined an Organic Fertilizer company named GuanoBoost and we are determined to change the agricultural landscape in SA! www.guanoboost.com For any farmers out there who are interested in regenerating their soils please give me a call: Brendon +27(0)842595763
I am taking a college course called People and Geography and my professor linked this video! One of the few my professors link that is actually interesting. I am so happy I came across your channel I hope more people come across this amazing documentary!! Keep up the good work
Thank you so much for giving a hope to us as we knew for so long that Humans are destroying the planet in many dimensions but truly by the agricultural horrible practices all over the World but especially in the US. This is urgent to modify our practices, our way of life! Merci from France!
I once saw a short film where somehwere in the UK they have diversified their grazing land so much that many many cows can graze it is is Never depleted. It was like so thick and rich it regenerated faster than the cows could eat it all.
Crop and stock rotation has been practiced in the UK and other countries for centuries as a way to improve the quality of the soil. I was taught this in primary school.
Andre Voisin an agronomist (1903-1964) from France developed a theory from his researches and that look like yours in his book "the grass productivity conservation" and then, he inspirited Allan Savory.
The solution puts the “political problem solvers out of power “ there is money at stake for fear mongers to keep offering their false solutions. The @doctors” go out of business when the patient is healthy.
This is amazing film. I think everyone should see film.i don't know that much farming but seeing that soil which is important to all of us , these farmer should take better care of there land.
It usually depends on the season, amount of biomass, etc. in the case of this video and time of year and growth. Moved once or twice a day to paddocks about one acre in size.
Just keep mulching it will regenerate itself. Increase microorganisms in soil. If there are no Microorganism we will die. Microrganisms will help in healthy food crop and even harvest water which is mandatory for living.
If you watch again, you might spot that he had watering tanks situated in the corner of those paddocks. Some farmers will run a water line through the pasture and have multiple connection points to connect a tank that has an automatic float valve that stops before the tank would overflow. He's in AL so maybe not much concern in winter, much tougher in say ND though!
Also, Ranchers & Farmers pick land near rivers, lakes and areas with seasonal regular water supply. Then they create water ditches/canals to siphon a portion off of said cycling bodies of water. Connecting to these created water ways is hence available to the animals or farmers with crops.
Another problem with the lack of soil water infiltration and the formation of stagnant water is it will become increasingly hazardous with diseases like malaria as it spreads northwards. It is not only essential for tackling climate change but it is vital for farmers and farmworkers that we get rid of these industrial methods.
Why aren't more farmers doing this? Partly, they don't know. And partly, (in US) they are subsidized to maintain CAFOs, to keep the lands planted wall-to-wall with fodder and grain crops, and keep the animals on the smallest possible acreage.. Changing that might help.
Our mission is to raise awareness around these practices. We invite you to watch our upcoming documentary coming to Netflix next Tuesday, September 22. Learn more at kissthegroundmovie.com & kisstheground.com.
Interesting, mongols and any nomads do the same with cattle from ancient time. :) I'm glad that the western people got that this way is better then big farms.
Good on you mate. Passion for soil and regeneration agriculture instead of agri business bottom line money not health and sustainability. Family farmers have farmed with nature all around the world for ever. Chemical farming and land degradation are new.
I wish someone would let a portion of the farmland or a write off for having bee friendly plants. This could be for anybody who could do that. Then we would not have agricultural deserts. A possible wish. That is why I selah and put certain plants here on the little patch of Earth I am lucky to be on. Thank you.
These diverse pastures that have 60-90 days of rest host the local wildlife before and after the cows graze through. Local insect and wild animal populations recover and thrive with this kind of management.
feed is grown in one region and then milled with various other ingredients. The CAFO cattle operations import this feed from elsewhere. With regenerative agriculture, the cattle live on pasture, no feed is imported, it is under their hoofs.
Ilan Goldman we delivered corn to the mill today & they brought out a load the same day. It’s 10 miles away. I invite you to come out to a farm. Again, I’m not fighting regenerative Ag but I encourage both sides to be in the middle not set behind a screen to increase emotional thoughts of negativity that is for the clicks not the facts.
@@reginaminary959 Ruminants, such as cattle have evolved to eat and survive on pasture. They also browse on trees and shrubs. Putting them in a feedlot is good for narrowly measured economic efficiencies, but creates problems (i.e."externalities") that are paid for by everyone else, in terms of pollution of the soil, air and water. Erosion of fields to grow grain, fuel consumed to produce, harvest, transport and mill the grains. The question posed by the documentary is why go to the trouble of spending all that time and energy to produce feed for cattle? Why bother raising grains/legumes for cattle and instead just have them sustainably graze on the farmland which was already being used for them (indirectly) anyway?
Ilan Goldman our cattle actually run on 4000 acres of grass. Many shrubs can kill cattle as they are poisonous in their digestive system. Again, I invite you to come to our farm rather then believe what is big screen. Again, I’m for Regenerative Ag. However, I do ask your profession as I would more want to inquire knowledge from someone who is in the field. I want people to pay 50%+ of their paycheck for food rather than wasteful amazon junk. But then I remember the children who as of right now if even school is the only meal they get. We need a happy medium for the planet, the economy, human kind. We are making ever effort we can on wages I assume are much less than yours. Again I encourage you to come to a ranch. 48 hours with no sleep helping a baby calf born in this world to a mother who wanted to beat it into the mud. Along of the worry of will I even break even this year or will I take a loss? We are doing our all out here. I’m sure we can find some opinionated negativity in your job as well.
It's dry there probably because of all the years of abuse to the land. Regenerative agriculture as oposed to conventional farming would hold more water in the ground as you build your topsoil up and your grass roots go deeper. Conventional farming has no regard to nature and working with nature.
@@hamishbuttner3263 @Hamish Buttner no- its native /virgin soil...we just dont get any rain here....like this summer we have only gotten 1-2 inches of rain total... we have to irrigate with aquifer ground source water to farm here... since cattle eat so much grass daily, it is not a good system for cattle grazing here... they require massive amounts of land to scavenge or major supplementing with feed
@@hamishbuttner3263 really its a economic system failure- we over produce food- too much waste to keep a faulty economic system in place (capitalism)- we need a new system, but human nature is greedy and manipulative in general...
I live in a harsh, dry area. We have been managing our farm in this manner for the last 15 yrs', the results are amazing, whilst our neighbors are swirling in dust & destocking during summer our property is an absolute oasis, didn't happen overnight & we don't ever overstock, but practise management of the land & livestock. It's old school to blame lack of rain, it's all down to management
@@VK-qo1gm what techniques is you incorporate to make this effective in a dry area? Trying to get tips- because most of these tutorials are for high rain fall areas...
Hi Andrei! Thank you for your question. Luckily our advisor Rodger Savory is right here with us and got excited about answering this question in a really succinct form: "Quadrupling the number of cattle and moving them hourly to fresh grazing." We're actually producing another video soon about this subject, so stay tuned! In the meantime, if you'd like to learn more you can check this video out: www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change?language=en
@@KissTheGround thank you for your reply, it seems quite confusing for me that increasing the amount of animals help reduce methane emissions, i have taken several courses (and actually i´m enrolled in your course on next April) could Rodger be more specific?
@@andreimalvaes5960 Thank you so much for taking the course! I'm sure you will love it, as I see you are super interested in this. Would you mind sending me an email to guido@kisstheground.com ? I'd love to set you in the right direction :)
@@KissTheGround Can I have that information also, please? As a previously committed vegan (now not) this will be the one question that will be continuously asked by friends and acquaintances and I have no factual way of answering them. Sending email to you today. Thnx
I’m no expert in this (am just a consumer looking in from the sidelines with wonder and joy) but I have heard that if cattle can eat a diverse race of grasses and forage it can reduce methane. Apparently, if they are able to do so, cattle will seek out certain leaves to self medicate when their stomachs aren’t feeling great and doing so changes their ‘emissions’.
We definitely need that too! And, there are innovative, low-energy ways to grow citrus in cold climates too. See what this retired postal worker from Nebraska has done: th-cam.com/video/ZD_3_gsgsnk/w-d-xo.html
They run feedlots for profit and no other reason, big business is not really interested in anything other than profit, the older farmer generation loved the land and lifestyle and profit came last , not many think like this anymore
yes, and with the model of making more biomass and good feed on the land so that cows don't need to be fattened up at the CAFO can have a huge part in making the CAFO obsolete.
Generally agree with the story. A little fact checking needed. For example 1/ Organic matter is more than 50% carbon. More like 60-70% 2/ assumes all cattle are finished in feedlots around the planet. Look at Australia, New Zealand and African country’s systems. 3/ the suggestion that soil carbon increases indefinitely is wrong. Change the farming system and it will find a new plateau. For example this system may make it go from 1% to 4% organic matter. 4/ saying 50% of global carbon emissions come for livestock is false. Maybe 15% and then it is an atmospheric carbon cycle. There is no net carbon dioxide increase like comes from burning fossil fuel. Anyway a good yarn and heading in the right direction.
It makes no sense why they're not all doing this. It makes more sense, it costs them less money because they're not trying to figure out what to feed them. They get to have a more humane life. It's just a no brainer. The more we can do things similar to nature the better we will be. The more we do things more man made and human influenced the more we are being destructive.
@@Zakthextremest Sitting under a tree reading a book one day, I saw a tiny bug hardly bigger than 2mm, and it had a beautiful pattern on it. It walked around checking things out and reacted to my finger, it was obviously sentient. Vegans think the only sentient beings are warm and furry with big brown eyes.
@@quakerlyster >_> Cockroach lover. You should get a reality check. Some animals are pests that need to be killed. Bedbugs are a prime example. Who the fuck is arguing sentience?
@@Zakthextremest You the fuck are arguing sentience since you said cockroaches are sentient beings. That's the point of the original comment. You are also making a strange jump in logic since you assume that I think that all sentient beings should not be removed or killed if necessary, I keep a gun at home and won't hesitate to use it against a sentient intruder. As for cockroaches, try to let go of your emotion over them and see the bigger picture, that they may be an important part of the food chain.
Hi Christian, I am the creator of this film. Part of the reason of reorienting this was to give people as sense of this emerging idea. I am friends with Allen Savory and respect the hell out of him. As you see, the Savory institute actually sponsored the making of this short film (meaning, paid money to have it made). We need more messaging to get out to all people and have it coming from different areas so it has broader reach. Thanks for looking out for Savory and all he stands for. Just wanted to let you know that we worked with their team and this and Allen didn't have any problem with it. Its all the same movement. Would love to get to know you more and work with you to keep spreading the word. Thanks for leaving the comment though because it is important that we address this things.
If you want to see fertility you need to see my chicken runs , i rotate, it was the hungriest soil out now its lush and stays moist because it's got good cover
Do I understand this correctly, you are trying to convince people killing cows is a good thing? Is soil health your only worry? What about human health? What about the cows?
Most of the information here is miss information. In a High Plains feedlot the cattle are very happy. Go and see for yourself. As far as increasing Soil Organic Matter .5% each year...look at the math. Grass with 36" of rain and large application of needed nutrients will grow producing less that 7,000 lbs of carbon from CO2. Most of the carbon will be lost to grazing and micro biology. Maybe 2,000 lbs of carbon goes into soil OM. Also existing OM is mineralized out of the soil at a rate of . .. 9" of soil weighs 6 million lbs thus 1,500 lbs is lost if OM has a half life of 25 years. If a gain of 600 lbs C is achieved. and the soil has 120,000 lbs of carbon that is a gain of .5% organic matter or about .02% or from 4% to 4.02% not 4 to 4.5% It is not possible to increase OM .5% points each year. There is not enough solar energy from the sun in one year. Grass is not all that energy efficient just a few percentages points is stored.
Let's say a cow weighs 2000 lbs. at slaughter, for easy math. Let's say, again for easy math, the cow weighs 200 lbs. at birth or purchase. On the land, it gains 1800 lbs. Let's say that growth takes 5 lush acres. Let's say, fully dried and powderized, the cow weighs 600 lbs. So, in agricultural financial terms, including permaculture, the cow is equal to taking 600 lbs. of biomass in the form of NPK and trace minerals, plus 1400 lbs. of water. So that's 120 lbs biomass taken per acre per 2 years plus roughly 275 lbs water per acre per two years. If a farmer doesn't literally return that biomass to the soil, how is that regenerative? Does this farmer actually buy in a 600 lb pallet of nutrients for every cow he sells? I eat meat and this just doesn't add up to my mind. Since mob grazing produces greater grass root growth and soil penetration, are we not actually pulling nutrients up from the deep, producing greater fertility, but still not retuning those nutrients to the total soil body? The cows are not generating "new" biomass. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. In gardening and farming we return what we take with compost, manures, rock dust, kelp, or humanure if we're really on the ball. Where is that here? Am I missing something? Isn't this system still a very much "open" nutrient cycle. To be regenerative shouldn't all who eat from a landspace compost their own waste on that exact same land? Otherwise isn't it still taking but never returning?
Hi Davey, great question. So, the wonderful thing about building soil is that the biology is the big leader. First, most of the mass of the plants comes through the process of photosynthesis (carbon from the air and water from the ground). Next the average of 5% left of minerals etc comes from the soil. The good news, biology that is built by the plants sharing their carbon sugars out of their roots is what is making the minerals that we once locked away in sand silt or clay (or other forms of rock material), available. So, while you can get some losses in soil mineral content from taking things off the land, the biology that is increasing as you regenerate the soil and bring more life to it, is making nutrients far more available in the soil. As Gabe brown points to in the film Kiss the Ground, his planting of diversity of cover crops is helping to make more nutrients available to his plants therefore he doesn't need to add fertilizer or mineral supplements.
still an unsustainable system cuz it relies from (cheap) oil and I imagine lots of cover crop seeds... the only way is veganic farming,incorporating it with a food forest
Hi there, Allen doesn't require cover crops. All the new plants on his piece actually came back from native seed bank when the soil conditions got better.
Forest Management is key to reducing wild fires. But the federal government is too cheap. So instead of using all that wood for export, making paper or building houses, we're watching it burn and importing lumber from Canada. 😅
Strip away demand 100%: mostly of supermarkets, and stores that use a supermarket-like doctrine and outlook, of careless and autonomic shelf replenishment. DO NOT support them.
I didn't hear one good benefit for the animals....yes, better for the agriculture, but what about the animals??!! He didn't say one thing...that's disturbing...
Being vegan is your personal choices, but soils need animal organic matter to best build their biomass carbon sucking infrastructure. Animals are part of nature, guys. You can't remove them without messing with nature. Being vegan to save the planet sounds great on paper, but soils will dwindle without animals.
@@savedfaves There is no contradiction. Lots of veggies and starches, plus dairy, eggs. And meat as a treat. In short how most people ate in the past in the last few thousand years. FDR promised a chicken in every pot on Sunday. Mao Tse Tung promised a bowl of rice every day (that sales pitch makes you realize how desperately poor the Chinese population was then). Mao did not talk about rice with meat. And indeed: in many areas of Africa and India people still eat little to no meat, it is too expensive and they have no fridges. Eggs if they are lucky and a chicken on holidays if they are really lucky. (I saw a video about a charity in Africa and they met a young man. When they were in the city they bought him some fast food (a burger). He said he had not eaten meat in 2 years. In India the castes have different rules what they are allowed to eat, the highest caste, the Brahmans are not allowed to eat any meat. One theory is that India went through a terrible draught a few thousand years ago. So the richest that could have bought the meat did monopolize the land for their luxury product. If the area is not cool / rainy than it is much more efficient to produce plants that humans can eat instead of producing meat. During war meat has always been rationed. Under adverse circumstances the limited capacities to produce food were not used to produce meat for the richest and most influental group of society. enough land was used to grow food for those who ate little meat anyway. It IS possible to have sustainable agriculture (think centuriers even millenia) feeding a society mostly with starches (and eggs, and vegetables, sometimes milk). See India, see China. In China they cultivated rice under water (that prevented soil erosion, and I think allowed for more crops).
Animals on farms operated this way are very happy and healthy. I've heard many of these farmers say their animals have no diseases and need no antibiotics or other medicine. They are eating fresh grass all the time, not standing around in their own manure, and they like being in a "mob" since this is how they instinctually behave to protect themselves from predators. Regenerative farms also have pigs that spend most of their time out in the fields eating grass, chickens that follow the cows and pick through and spread their droppings to get the seeds and bug larvae, keeping down the flies, and they have sheep, turkeys, and goats doing different things to keep the plants healthy and the animals fed. It's a very nice life for them. I would buy meat from one of these farms in a second. In fact, I'm going to be visiting one nearby soon to check it out since I just heard about this system a few weeks ago and finally found a farm here that grows their produce and animals this way using no chemicals. It's really pretty fantastic when you think about the good it all does for everyone involved.
Please let me know which. The very start that says 50% of GHG from animal agriculture was a sound nite trying to communicate what is being said which could be moss heard as something we were stating as fact. Aside from that, what else was off?
Without animal organic matter soils lose richness. The urine provides nitrogen and other minerals and the dung provides nutrient rich organic matter. Gardeners have known to use organic manure on poor soil since forever. The stomped grass cover provides the mulch to build biomass, hold water and draw atmospheric carbon. It's nature.
There are regions where there is too much rain and it is too cool for a lot of crops / produce (think Vermont). This is where the dairy and meatfarms are. You could not grow wheat in a lot of areas of Texas (not without irrigantion), but there is still enough grass to feed livestock if they move around enough.
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, remember? Plants and animals evolved together. They feed each other. Plants and animals both feed the soil, which then feeds the plants, which then feed the animals, and it's a continuous balance, as it was when millions of bison roamed our plains. If animals are involved, the soil, much of which has been blown away all over the world, will regenerate much faster and produce much more abundant vegetable crops that taste better and provide more nutrition. I've never seen a vegetarian escape illness. To think being a vegetarian or a vegan will solve every problem is unrealistic. People also evolved along with the animals and plants and have a digestive system that can accommodate both. I realize a lot of people don't believe this, yet if you look back in history, if it weren't for animals back when edible plants were unavailable during the last ice age, we wouldn't be here to talk about whether or not to eat animals. Nature always has predators and prey. Sorry, that's just how it is, so we might as well honor how life has evolved and participate with gratitude for such abundance. Besides, have you had grass-fed beef? SO tasty!
Except that 70% of the agricultural land on the planet is not suited for row-cropping but for grazing. There is no way for everyone on the planet to be on a plant-based diet without forcing entire countries in some areas of the globe to give up their food sovereignty and become dependent upon imports.
I mean you talking about fac farmed animal ag I get it, I appreciate that because lots of family farms and grass-fed farmers are struggling with many farms like this being destroyed due to giant fac farmed animal ag. So I appreciate you destroying the fac farm, but don't destroy small family Grassfed Farmers. Thanks
We do regenerative livestock in Uruguay. We started studying at the Savory Institute. The changes are excellent, working with biomimetics changed our lives. Good luck with the movie, thanks for sharing so much.
Thank you!!
Thank YOU for doing your part
I am a soil sampler working in the rural midwest, and I see these problems every day. It is a broken system that confines livestock to tens of feet per animal, and then uses hoses that stretch for miles to knife their manure into the desert of corn and beans that surround them. Every year I see fewer pastures and more CAFO's, and the abundance of life turned into an over medicated, sterile expanse of two crops whose profits go straight past the farmers and into the industrial machine corporations. Thank you for this video.
The problem is not with livestock, but how they're managed. For you vegans out there, look at the ingredient list on your veggie burger. You're eating from the same system that is displacing ecosystems through monocropping. No you're not eating a cow, but the soybeans and corn you're eating are displacing entire sets of species. Buy local and eat smart.
Hi Rabbit, Do you have friends who can go along with you and film what you are doing? We would love to get your story told as a soil sampler. Let me know if we can help. Where are you located?
I've read somewhere that most of the soy that is grown, is for cattle feeding (esp. in the Amazon) Am I wrong about that?
Very well put, vegans aren’t above this. Grow more gardens, they’re easy and fun!
@@PunkRockGardener This, and the original comment imply that vegans necessarily eat monoculture crops and are all as blissfully unaware of the issues as the general consumer public. While I agree that many vegans tend towards 'junk-food vegan' diets of Beyond X, Impossible Y, and Boca Z, the inherent awareness that many vegans have about what they are eating pushes self-education more towards a diet of (hopefully) sustainable but (definitely) less planet-damaging diets. Lets not classify groups of people as being 'wrong' or 'right' but instead look at what each person is doing that is 'right' so we can all move in that direction.
Beautifully said
Watch Alan Savory's TED talk on this topic that got him a standing ovation like I've never seen before.
Restored my HOPE that the message of how to resequester carbon to rebuild the health of the earth.
Also on TH-cam are other very successful regenerative farmers/ranchers showing the way. In the US there is Gabe Brown from North Dakota with a very diverse operation, Greg Judy in Missouri with a much simplified operation, and Will Harris in Geogia with a diverse and growing meat operation that includes his own USDA approved meat packing operations on site, and he is repopulating his neighboring ghosttown with employees and their families.
Indeed. If you’ve not seen it already watch the film Kiss The Ground. It has Allen Savory as well as all the farmers in this short. They are practicing what Allen has taught.
This video should be used to showcase all the advantages of regenerative ranching, all over the world. Immediately. It's urgent.
Please share! Thank you
100% respect to you for taking the time to make this.
Thank you!
We do this style of rotational grazing for our cattle on a small scale, but our grass is PHENOMENAL and the horses on a neighboring farm have even escaped their pasture, and snuck into ours to eat the lovely grass and clover when the gate is open!!
📌 🆘Bravo Dr. Allen Williams, if only farmers' were aware of the success of Regenerative Farming ! 👍👍👍💕❤
Its a travesty that you guys don't have more subscribers and this amazing film doesn't have more views than it does either. Please don't give up guys, you are the real deal and it will pay off for you I hope. We need MORE film on regenerative ranching and agriculture. Please think about expanding your material and becoming the first channel to really document who are practicing these forms of farming in North America. Dr. Allen Williams is not only an amazing human being by the looks of it but also perhaps a REAL Doctor.....which is rare these days! Great work guy, thank you.
Thank you Ian, That means a lot. I am working on pitching this as a show called Chasing Soil. I would go around the US (and the world) highlighting and comparing farming practices like this
@@finianmakepeace772 Thank you for your reply Finian, I'm honored. I would caution you before you attempt to lie down in the devil's pit of mainstream media, it is toxic and redundant, they just don't know it yet. Why not try crowdfunding and stay alternative? I would say this though, there seems to be a massive move with people who find a very worthy cause and USE it to, in all honesty, as a mechanism supply their own lifestyle and status. People are getting wise to it, and are quickly losing respect and their once long life shelf, is now becoming rather short indeed. Please don't fall into that obvious trap. The antidote is to put a few years in of hard graft and economic toil to prove you really mean it for the right reasons, this will become crucial to career longevity and worth any time soon.
I wish you all the very best in your endeavors, as I amongst many will be its beneficiary, and I'm sure you personally really mean it from the heart. GOOD LUCK Brother.
Wheres the land for this? Its clearly unsustainavle
And what if it doesnt rain or you dont find much river or ground water for the grass?
@@SilentSherlock666 if it does not rain as usual, the better soil will be able to retain much more water. They have such projects in Australia, they renature the small rivers and build small dams. That way the water flows slowly and the surrounding land can take it up. Before it was a straight running current and not much grew around. It started to green again. Such soil soaks up water like a sponge and releases it slowly. They had a major draught in Australia, in a drone shot one could easily identify the farms that work with that method (turning the streams to their natural state). They still were green.
@@SilentSherlock666 In Colombia farmers grow bushes and some plants. The cows forage in that open forest and they really like to eat those plants or leaves from bushes. I think the flowers are ones that can bind the nitrogen of the air (large stems, yellow petals), I did not recognize them. anyway they are high in proteine and the cows like them.
On such land one can have MORE cattle (they are also moved around after a short time, I think they use electric fences. That way they do not trample everything down / destroy the surface, they just break it down enough for new growth, they fertilize it - and they move quicker than pests and bugs and diseases can grow / spread.
In Colombia the farms were in an area with many hills, and on traditional grassland the cows had ruined the underground and it was obviously much drier. Rainfalls then wash it out to make things worse. (It looked like they had enough rain, it was cloudy. But once the good "spongy" soil is washed out and there is only a felt of old grass eaten down to the ground, rain cannot trigger much growth anymore.
If you plant bushes and trees of course they hold the earth better in place during a downpour. Moreover the cattle finds enough food so they do not have to let them graze down all of it before they move them to the next lot.
That farm was part of a test run, and they were obviously doing much better than their neighbours.
Thank you so much for your work and for making this little film! Small scale, regenerative farming is the future!
It can be large scale, if managed correctly...
@@happinessyogateacher it can be, but I prefer small scale and decentralised, and more people working for their food in the area they live in. That means less disconnection, because I belive disconnection from nature and not knowing what it takes to produce food is one of the biggest problems of humanity today
@@Talasbuan I agree with connection to the land! Some of our locals have school tours, day camps, festivals, etc. Locally sourced is best for most. Of course, dedesertification might mean venturing into parts of the world where small farms would best serve the project if they collected into larger herds.
Little farmer’s daughter been saying this since ten years old. Repeating obvious ancient wisdom passed on to me by regenerative farmers, “DIRt FARMERS” denigrated by BIG FARMA AND BIG PHARMA. Nearly HOPELESS, Dr. Savory’s TED Talj restored by HOPE.
We are sharing your amazing documentaries in South Africa. Thank you for your work.
Thanks Colleen! More to come
So tragic to hear of the land expropriation going down in SA. It really is putting strain on the South African farmers.
Hi Colleen, irony is that this ranching technique was developed in Zimbabwe in the 60s, google Holistic Management.
@@etienne_oosthuizen Yip, Zim was way ahead in terms of innovative farming practices until...
My wife's Grandfather's farm was sadly expropriated in the early 2000s and lies barren to this day.
I've recently joined an Organic Fertilizer company named GuanoBoost and we are determined to change the agricultural landscape in SA!
www.guanoboost.com
For any farmers out there who are interested in regenerating their soils please give me a call: Brendon +27(0)842595763
@@johnnyhaigs243 My wife's Grandfather's farm in Zimbabwe was sadly expropriated in the early 2000s and lies barren to this day. I've recently joined an Organic Fertilizer company named GuanoBoost and we are determined to change the agricultural landscape in SA!
www.guanoboost.com
For any farmers out there who are interested in regenerating their soils please give me a call: Brendon +27(0)842595763
I am taking a college course called People and Geography and my professor linked this video! One of the few my professors link that is actually interesting. I am so happy I came across your channel I hope more people come across this amazing documentary!! Keep up the good work
Thank you so much for giving a hope to us as we knew for so long that Humans are destroying the planet in many dimensions but truly by the agricultural horrible practices all over the World but especially in the US. This is urgent to modify our practices, our way of life! Merci from France!
Regenerative Ranching, is just another term for Holistic Management that was developed in Zimbabwe in the 1960's ... @Savory Institute
Yes. They partnered with us to create this film. Thanks for your comments!
Watch Alan Savory's TED talk on this topic that got him a standing ovation like I've never seen before.
This farmer’s daughter saw that TRD TALK and it got me out of hopelessness about the fate of our EARTH.
@@happinessyogateacher HOWEVER....trust the greedy ones to find other ways to speed up the ecological doom clock. They have never failed so far.
Allan Savory was responsible for the shooting of 40,000 elephants. He should be in prison.
Thank you for making such an important movie!
Brilliant. Well done. Sharing far and wide.
Savory Foundation is also doing this. Magnificent.
please, gather some volunteer translators so we can share it internationally. I`m gonna share it here, in Brazil! Thank you!
Thank you!!
Contact the Savory Institute with its growing network of regenerative hubs worldwide!
I once saw a short film where somehwere in the UK they have diversified their grazing land so much that many many cows can graze it is is Never depleted. It was like so thick and rich it regenerated faster than the cows could eat it all.
Crop and stock rotation has been practiced in the UK and other countries for centuries as a way to improve the quality of the soil. I was taught this in primary school.
Andre Voisin an agronomist (1903-1964) from France developed a theory from his researches and that look like yours in his book "the grass productivity conservation" and then, he inspirited Allan Savory.
Yes, we worked with Allen Savory on the messaging of this piece
this soil science is so relevant I/we need to see more of these home grown solutions
This film is amazing! Why does it only have that little views when this could be the solution to everything?
Thank you!!
The solution puts the “political problem solvers out of power “ there is money at stake for fear mongers to keep offering their false solutions. The @doctors” go out of business when the patient is healthy.
People are busy watching Cardi B BS
This is amazing film. I think everyone should see film.i don't know that much farming but seeing that soil which is important to all of us , these farmer should take better care of there land.
Respect! Keep up the good work Allen!
🙌🙌🙌🙌 people need to share this
Por favor traducción...dónde puedo encontrarlo con traducción ?para poder entender
sharing!!!!!!
How long do they stay in the paddock for which season? Please be technical and give the numbers.
Also, fantastic doc!
daily moves using portable fences, depending on the season and local climate the cattle can come back a few weeks later or up to 2-3 months
It usually depends on the season, amount of biomass, etc. in the case of this video and time of year and growth. Moved once or twice a day to paddocks about one acre in size.
Just keep mulching it will regenerate itself. Increase microorganisms in soil. If there are no Microorganism we will die. Microrganisms will help in healthy food crop and even harvest water which is mandatory for living.
A GRASS AND SOUL FARMER WHO USES CATTLE TO DI THE WORK!
I am wondering about watering the cattle when they are moved daily? Especially in the winter.
If you watch again, you might spot that he had watering tanks situated in the corner of those paddocks. Some farmers will run a water line through the pasture and have multiple connection points to connect a tank that has an automatic float valve that stops before the tank would overflow. He's in AL so maybe not much concern in winter, much tougher in say ND though!
Also, Ranchers & Farmers pick land near rivers, lakes and areas with seasonal regular water supply. Then they create water ditches/canals to siphon a portion off of said cycling bodies of water. Connecting to these created water ways is hence available to the animals or farmers with crops.
Another problem with the lack of soil water infiltration and the formation of stagnant water is it will become increasingly hazardous with diseases like malaria as it spreads northwards. It is not only essential for tackling climate change but it is vital for farmers and farmworkers that we get rid of these industrial methods.
Thank you for your work!
Excellent, Thank you!
We do this in Germany...why is America so far behind. Sad
Why aren't more farmers doing this? Partly, they don't know. And partly, (in US) they are subsidized to maintain CAFOs, to keep the lands planted wall-to-wall with fodder and grain crops, and keep the animals on the smallest possible acreage.. Changing that might help.
Our mission is to raise awareness around these practices. We invite you to watch our upcoming documentary coming to Netflix next Tuesday, September 22. Learn more at kissthegroundmovie.com & kisstheground.com.
exactly!
how do ai start this cinda farmin?thank ya fer the video
Hopefully there will be a short video on poultry
Interesting, mongols and any nomads do the same with cattle from ancient time. :) I'm glad that the western people got that this way is better then big farms.
Good on you mate. Passion for soil and regeneration agriculture instead of agri business bottom line money not health and sustainability. Family farmers have farmed with nature all around the world for ever. Chemical farming and land degradation are new.
Wow where can we donate?
Hi Garrett! Thank you! Here's a link: kisstheground.com/become-a-member/
Thank you!!
Awesome!
Years ago, mass production for profit was the reason they left grass fed methods- more cows on less land; so sad.
Sharing 👍
This is exciting
Would love to share this in Belgium! Please reach out. x
Agriculture really needs to change.
I wish someone would let a portion of the farmland or a write off for having bee friendly plants. This could be for anybody who could do that. Then we would not have agricultural deserts. A possible wish. That is why I selah and put certain plants here on the little patch of Earth I am lucky to be on. Thank you.
These diverse pastures that have 60-90 days of rest host the local wildlife before and after the cows graze through. Local insect and wild animal populations recover and thrive with this kind of management.
This is how they do it in Mexico still ever since i can remember 💚🐎🇲🇽🇺🇲🇸🇲🌎
Thank you
I’m for regenerative ag, however I’m confused about the import comment. The USA is an exporter of soybeans. Only maybe 2012 we imported soybeans.
feed is grown in one region and then milled with various other ingredients. The CAFO cattle operations import this feed from elsewhere. With regenerative agriculture, the cattle live on pasture, no feed is imported, it is under their hoofs.
Ilan Goldman we delivered corn to the mill today & they brought out a load the same day. It’s 10 miles away. I invite you to come out to a farm. Again, I’m not fighting regenerative Ag but I encourage both sides to be in the middle not set behind a screen to increase emotional thoughts of negativity that is for the clicks not the facts.
@@reginaminary959 Ruminants, such as cattle have evolved to eat and survive on pasture. They also browse on trees and shrubs. Putting them in a feedlot is good for narrowly measured economic efficiencies, but creates problems (i.e."externalities") that are paid for by everyone else, in terms of pollution of the soil, air and water. Erosion of fields to grow grain, fuel consumed to produce, harvest, transport and mill the grains. The question posed by the documentary is why go to the trouble of spending all that time and energy to produce feed for cattle? Why bother raising grains/legumes for cattle and instead just have them sustainably graze on the farmland which was already being used for them (indirectly) anyway?
Ilan Goldman our cattle actually run on 4000 acres of grass. Many shrubs can kill cattle as they are poisonous in their digestive system. Again, I invite you to come to our farm rather then believe what is big screen. Again, I’m for Regenerative Ag. However, I do ask your profession as I would more want to inquire knowledge from someone who is in the field.
I want people to pay 50%+ of their paycheck for food rather than wasteful amazon junk. But then I remember the children who as of right now if even school is the only meal they get. We need a happy medium for the planet, the economy, human kind. We are making ever effort we can on wages I assume are much less than yours.
Again I encourage you to come to a ranch. 48 hours with no sleep helping a baby calf born in this world to a mother who wanted to beat it into the mud. Along of the worry of will I even break even this year or will I take a loss? We are doing our all out here. I’m sure we can find some opinionated negativity in your job as well.
I apologize for any insult but I’m looking for help not hinder.
Got to be in a wet/rainy area for this system to work real well... we live in southern AZ- it is less effective here ...
It's dry there probably because of all the years of abuse to the land. Regenerative agriculture as oposed to conventional farming would hold more water in the ground as you build your topsoil up and your grass roots go deeper. Conventional farming has no regard to nature and working with nature.
@@hamishbuttner3263 @Hamish Buttner no- its native /virgin soil...we just dont get any rain here....like this summer we have only gotten 1-2 inches of rain total... we have to irrigate with aquifer ground source water to farm here... since cattle eat so much grass daily, it is not a good system for cattle grazing here... they require massive amounts of land to scavenge or major supplementing with feed
@@hamishbuttner3263 really its a economic system failure- we over produce food- too much waste to keep a faulty economic system in place (capitalism)- we need a new system, but human nature is greedy and manipulative in general...
I live in a harsh, dry area. We have been managing our farm in this manner for the last 15 yrs', the results are amazing, whilst our neighbors are swirling in dust & destocking during summer our property is an absolute oasis, didn't happen overnight & we don't ever overstock, but practise management of the land & livestock. It's old school to blame lack of rain, it's all down to management
@@VK-qo1gm what techniques is you incorporate to make this effective in a dry area? Trying to get tips- because most of these tutorials are for high rain fall areas...
This is a great system, but it was developed by Allan Savory.
Yes, Allan Savory was the mastermind behind this before anyone else
Totally know :)
Valerie K even before Polyface Farm’s Joel Salatin?
what´s the best way to lower methane emissions besides reducing the number of cattle in the world?
Hi Andrei! Thank you for your question. Luckily our advisor Rodger Savory is right here with us and got excited about answering this question in a really succinct form: "Quadrupling the number of cattle and moving them hourly to fresh grazing." We're actually producing another video soon about this subject, so stay tuned! In the meantime, if you'd like to learn more you can check this video out: www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change?language=en
@@KissTheGround thank you for your reply, it seems quite confusing for me that increasing the amount of animals help reduce methane emissions, i have taken several courses (and actually i´m enrolled in your course on next April) could Rodger be more specific?
@@andreimalvaes5960 Thank you so much for taking the course! I'm sure you will love it, as I see you are super interested in this. Would you mind sending me an email to guido@kisstheground.com ? I'd love to set you in the right direction :)
@@KissTheGround Can I have that information also, please? As a previously committed vegan (now not) this will be the one question that will be continuously asked by friends and acquaintances and I have no factual way of answering them. Sending email to you today. Thnx
I’m no expert in this (am just a consumer looking in from the sidelines with wonder and joy) but I have heard that if cattle can eat a diverse race of grasses and forage it can reduce methane. Apparently, if they are able to do so, cattle will seek out certain leaves to self medicate when their stomachs aren’t feeling great and doing so changes their ‘emissions’.
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Rock on Alan
It's like Permaculture Farming
We definitely need that too! And, there are innovative, low-energy ways to grow citrus in cold climates too. See what this retired postal worker from Nebraska has done:
th-cam.com/video/ZD_3_gsgsnk/w-d-xo.html
great video
please give us our Indonesian translation from the tropics of Indonesia
They run feedlots for profit and no other reason, big business is not really interested in anything other than profit, the older farmer generation loved the land and lifestyle and profit came last , not many think like this anymore
yes, and with the model of making more biomass and good feed on the land so that cows don't need to be fattened up at the CAFO can have a huge part in making the CAFO obsolete.
Check out Gabe Browns Montana Ranch
Generally agree with the story. A little fact checking needed. For example 1/ Organic matter is more than 50% carbon. More like 60-70% 2/ assumes all cattle are finished in feedlots around the planet. Look at Australia, New Zealand and African country’s systems. 3/ the suggestion that soil carbon increases indefinitely is wrong. Change the farming system and it will find a new plateau. For example this system may make it go from 1% to 4% organic matter. 4/ saying 50% of global carbon emissions come for livestock is false. Maybe 15% and then it is an atmospheric carbon cycle. There is no net carbon dioxide increase like comes from burning fossil fuel. Anyway a good yarn and heading in the right direction.
That rancher needs to go to every other rancher and educate. Impressive
He has! Him and his team Understanding ag actually help transition over 32 million acres in the US alone
It makes no sense why they're not all doing this. It makes more sense, it costs them less money because they're not trying to figure out what to feed them. They get to have a more humane life. It's just a no brainer. The more we can do things similar to nature the better we will be. The more we do things more man made and human influenced the more we are being destructive.
Cruelty to sentient beings, these are beautiful loving animals as are dogs!
💙 PROTECT ANIMALS!💙
Where's cruelty to be seen here?
Yeah I suppose we shouldn't kill cockroaches, since they're sentient beings.
@@Zakthextremest Sitting under a tree reading a book one day, I saw a tiny bug hardly bigger than 2mm, and it had a beautiful pattern on it. It walked around checking things out and reacted to my finger, it was obviously sentient. Vegans think the only sentient beings are warm and furry with big brown eyes.
@@quakerlyster >_>
Cockroach lover.
You should get a reality check. Some animals are pests that need to be killed. Bedbugs are a prime example.
Who the fuck is arguing sentience?
@@Zakthextremest You the fuck are arguing sentience since you said cockroaches are sentient beings. That's the point of the original comment. You are also making a strange jump in logic since you assume that I think that all sentient beings should not be removed or killed if necessary, I keep a gun at home and won't hesitate to use it against a sentient intruder. As for cockroaches, try to let go of your emotion over them and see the bigger picture, that they may be an important part of the food chain.
He’s using Alan Savourys system that Alan developed and pioneered , without giving him any credit. Very sad he has even renamed it.
Hi Christian, I am the creator of this film. Part of the reason of reorienting this was to give people as sense of this emerging idea. I am friends with Allen Savory and respect the hell out of him. As you see, the Savory institute actually sponsored the making of this short film (meaning, paid money to have it made). We need more messaging to get out to all people and have it coming from different areas so it has broader reach. Thanks for looking out for Savory and all he stands for. Just wanted to let you know that we worked with their team and this and Allen didn't have any problem with it. Its all the same movement. Would love to get to know you more and work with you to keep spreading the word. Thanks for leaving the comment though because it is important that we address this things.
Translate to Spanish please; greetings from Chile
is this a vegan movie?
nope its not
If you want to see fertility you need to see my chicken runs , i rotate, it was the hungriest soil out now its lush and stays moist because it's got good cover
Do I understand this correctly, you are trying to convince people killing cows is a good thing? Is soil health your only worry? What about human health? What about the cows?
Most of the information here is miss information. In a High Plains feedlot the cattle are very happy. Go and see for yourself. As far as increasing Soil Organic Matter .5% each year...look at the math. Grass with 36" of rain and large application of needed nutrients will grow producing less that 7,000 lbs of carbon from CO2. Most of the carbon will be lost to grazing and micro biology. Maybe 2,000 lbs of carbon goes into soil OM. Also existing OM is mineralized out of the soil at a rate of . .. 9" of soil weighs 6 million lbs thus 1,500 lbs is lost if OM has a half life of 25 years.
If a gain of 600 lbs C is achieved. and the soil has 120,000 lbs of carbon that is a gain of .5% organic matter or about .02% or from 4% to 4.02% not 4 to 4.5% It is not possible to increase OM .5% points each year. There is not enough solar energy from the sun in one year. Grass is not all that energy efficient just a few percentages points is stored.
Let's say a cow weighs 2000 lbs. at slaughter, for easy math. Let's say, again for easy math, the cow weighs 200 lbs. at birth or purchase. On the land, it gains 1800 lbs. Let's say that growth takes 5 lush acres. Let's say, fully dried and powderized, the cow weighs 600 lbs. So, in agricultural financial terms, including permaculture, the cow is equal to taking 600 lbs. of biomass in the form of NPK and trace minerals, plus 1400 lbs. of water. So that's 120 lbs biomass taken per acre per 2 years plus roughly 275 lbs water per acre per two years. If a farmer doesn't literally return that biomass to the soil, how is that regenerative? Does this farmer actually buy in a 600 lb pallet of nutrients for every cow he sells? I eat meat and this just doesn't add up to my mind. Since mob grazing produces greater grass root growth and soil penetration, are we not actually pulling nutrients up from the deep, producing greater fertility, but still not retuning those nutrients to the total soil body? The cows are not generating "new" biomass. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. In gardening and farming we return what we take with compost, manures, rock dust, kelp, or humanure if we're really on the ball. Where is that here? Am I missing something? Isn't this system still a very much "open" nutrient cycle. To be regenerative shouldn't all who eat from a landspace compost their own waste on that exact same land? Otherwise isn't it still taking but never returning?
Hi Davey, great question. So, the wonderful thing about building soil is that the biology is the big leader. First, most of the mass of the plants comes through the process of photosynthesis (carbon from the air and water from the ground). Next the average of 5% left of minerals etc comes from the soil. The good news, biology that is built by the plants sharing their carbon sugars out of their roots is what is making the minerals that we once locked away in sand silt or clay (or other forms of rock material), available. So, while you can get some losses in soil mineral content from taking things off the land, the biology that is increasing as you regenerate the soil and bring more life to it, is making nutrients far more available in the soil. As Gabe brown points to in the film Kiss the Ground, his planting of diversity of cover crops is helping to make more nutrients available to his plants therefore he doesn't need to add fertilizer or mineral supplements.
still an unsustainable system cuz it relies from (cheap) oil and I imagine lots of cover crop seeds... the only way is veganic farming,incorporating it with a food forest
Hi there, Allen doesn't require cover crops. All the new plants on his piece actually came back from native seed bank when the soil conditions got better.
It was the cows that regenerated that land btw.
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Forest Management is key to reducing wild fires. But the federal government is too cheap. So instead of using all that wood for export, making paper or building houses, we're watching it burn and importing lumber from Canada.
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What shit?
Toy guys need to watch cowspiracy, dominion and earthlings, forks and knives!
why if you don't like don't watch it don't force your belief on us...
Strip away demand 100%: mostly of supermarkets, and stores that use a supermarket-like doctrine and outlook, of careless and autonomic shelf replenishment. DO NOT support them.
I didn't hear one good benefit for the animals....yes, better for the agriculture, but what about the animals??!! He didn't say one thing...that's disturbing...
Can you not see how much better the animals are rather than in factory farms :/
Being vegan is your personal choices, but soils need animal organic matter to best build their biomass carbon sucking infrastructure. Animals are part of nature, guys. You can't remove them without messing with nature. Being vegan to save the planet sounds great on paper, but soils will dwindle without animals.
@@savedfaves There is no contradiction. Lots of veggies and starches, plus dairy, eggs. And meat as a treat. In short how most people ate in the past in the last few thousand years. FDR promised a chicken in every pot on Sunday. Mao Tse Tung promised a bowl of rice every day (that sales pitch makes you realize how desperately poor the Chinese population was then). Mao did not talk about rice with meat.
And indeed: in many areas of Africa and India people still eat little to no meat, it is too expensive and they have no fridges. Eggs if they are lucky and a chicken on holidays if they are really lucky. (I saw a video about a charity in Africa and they met a young man. When they were in the city they bought him some fast food (a burger). He said he had not eaten meat in 2 years.
In India the castes have different rules what they are allowed to eat, the highest caste, the Brahmans are not allowed to eat any meat. One theory is that India went through a terrible draught a few thousand years ago. So the richest that could have bought the meat did monopolize the land for their luxury product.
If the area is not cool / rainy than it is much more efficient to produce plants that humans can eat instead of producing meat. During war meat has always been rationed. Under adverse circumstances the limited capacities to produce food were not used to produce meat for the richest and most influental group of society. enough land was used to grow food for those who ate little meat anyway.
It IS possible to have sustainable agriculture (think centuriers even millenia) feeding a society mostly with starches (and eggs, and vegetables, sometimes milk). See India, see China. In China they cultivated rice under water (that prevented soil erosion, and I think allowed for more crops).
Animals on farms operated this way are very happy and healthy. I've heard many of these farmers say their animals have no diseases and need no antibiotics or other medicine. They are eating fresh grass all the time, not standing around in their own manure, and they like being in a "mob" since this is how they instinctually behave to protect themselves from predators. Regenerative farms also have pigs that spend most of their time out in the fields eating grass, chickens that follow the cows and pick through and spread their droppings to get the seeds and bug larvae, keeping down the flies, and they have sheep, turkeys, and goats doing different things to keep the plants healthy and the animals fed. It's a very nice life for them. I would buy meat from one of these farms in a second. In fact, I'm going to be visiting one nearby soon to check it out since I just heard about this system a few weeks ago and finally found a farm here that grows their produce and animals this way using no chemicals. It's really pretty fantastic when you think about the good it all does for everyone involved.
Kiss the Ground is pretty thoroughly debunked by George Monbiot's "Regenesis" book
Lots of inaccurate info ok this video
Please let me know which. The very start that says 50% of GHG from animal agriculture was a sound nite trying to communicate what is being said which could be moss heard as something we were stating as fact. Aside from that, what else was off?
The film was great, the preview not so much. Too much doom and gloom.
It's unnessesary. There are now millions thriving on plant based diets - a shift towards plant agriculture is the only solution.
Exactly
Without animal organic matter soils lose richness. The urine provides nitrogen and other minerals and the dung provides nutrient rich organic matter. Gardeners have known to use organic manure on poor soil since forever. The stomped grass cover provides the mulch to build biomass, hold water and draw atmospheric carbon. It's nature.
There are regions where there is too much rain and it is too cool for a lot of crops / produce (think Vermont). This is where the dairy and meatfarms are. You could not grow wheat in a lot of areas of Texas (not without irrigantion), but there is still enough grass to feed livestock if they move around enough.
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, remember? Plants and animals evolved together. They feed each other. Plants and animals both feed the soil, which then feeds the plants, which then feed the animals, and it's a continuous balance, as it was when millions of bison roamed our plains. If animals are involved, the soil, much of which has been blown away all over the world, will regenerate much faster and produce much more abundant vegetable crops that taste better and provide more nutrition. I've never seen a vegetarian escape illness. To think being a vegetarian or a vegan will solve every problem is unrealistic. People also evolved along with the animals and plants and have a digestive system that can accommodate both. I realize a lot of people don't believe this, yet if you look back in history, if it weren't for animals back when edible plants were unavailable during the last ice age, we wouldn't be here to talk about whether or not to eat animals. Nature always has predators and prey. Sorry, that's just how it is, so we might as well honor how life has evolved and participate with gratitude for such abundance. Besides, have you had grass-fed beef? SO tasty!
Except that 70% of the agricultural land on the planet is not suited for row-cropping but for grazing. There is no way for everyone on the planet to be on a plant-based diet without forcing entire countries in some areas of the globe to give up their food sovereignty and become dependent upon imports.
This is joke there is no sustaineble way to farm livestock!
Although I appreciate the sentiment, better yet, simply #CancelAnimalAG.
I mean you talking about fac farmed animal ag I get it, I appreciate that because lots of family farms and grass-fed farmers are struggling with many farms like this being destroyed due to giant fac farmed animal ag. So I appreciate you destroying the fac farm, but don't destroy small family Grassfed Farmers. Thanks