Quotable quote: "We try to grow things that want to die, and kill things that want to live. That is pretty much how (industrial) agriculture functions." Colin Seis Well said!
Thank you for making this material available! (Note to people videoing presentations: please spend more time on the slides and less focused on the person.) A few things stood out: - Australia once had exceptionally fertile soils! - The high relative cost of 'the best' farm equipment today compared to the 1930s-1950s. - Superphosphate was only cheap because of government subsidy. - The 'old timers' were right: in the long run, the superphosphate DID ruin the land. - Industrial agriculture is crashing all over the WORLD - but is still being promoted by governments and agri-industry companies as 'the only way to feed the world'. Sigh. *By working WITH the natural world, the crash can not only be halted, but reversed!* It is simply logical (eco-logical!). A brilliant man. Thank you, Colin Seis.
As a city slicker, the thing I got out of the farm equipment to yield cost was that the middle men & monopolies & demands by consumers for the lower & lower food costs are destroying farmers livelyhoods. Am I right in my understanding of that?
Going beyond the agi-industry worldwide, there is a root problem: The superstitious belief (faith) in govt., i.e., institutionalized violence as a moral way for social interaction. It isn't. It is killing our species. A new political paradigm of voluntary goverance would be moral and allow for correction of mistakes. The present paradigm of "might makes right", e.g., might of the majority, might of the ruler, might of the experts, might of bureaucracy, and might of law for the sake of law (rules are rules) is not sustainable, not logical, not moral. It continues based on fear of change, fear of self dependence, self goverance. That fear has to end with the recognization of rights for every individual as a primary value that is the only way to achieve the "common good".
Some people in the USA are planting cash crops (small grains, primarily) into cover crops with good success, but instead of grazing them down - and getting the benefits of another income source via the livestock, plus the biological stimulation from the saliva, grazing action, hoof action, urine and manure - they are using machinery to crimp and lay down the cover crop. Better than plowing or dosing everything with poison herbicides, but... a long way down in efficiency and benefits from what Colin Seis does.
Quotable quote: "We try to grow things that want to die, and kill things that want to live. That is pretty much how (industrial) agriculture functions." Colin Seis
Well said!
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Thank you for making this material available! (Note to people videoing presentations: please spend more time on the slides and less focused on the person.) A few things stood out:
- Australia once had exceptionally fertile soils!
- The high relative cost of 'the best' farm equipment today compared to the 1930s-1950s.
- Superphosphate was only cheap because of government subsidy.
- The 'old timers' were right: in the long run, the superphosphate DID ruin the land.
- Industrial agriculture is crashing all over the WORLD - but is still being promoted by governments and agri-industry companies as 'the only way to feed the world'. Sigh.
*By working WITH the natural world, the crash can not only be halted, but reversed!*
It is simply logical (eco-logical!). A brilliant man. Thank you, Colin Seis.
As a city slicker, the thing I got out of the farm equipment to yield cost was that the middle men & monopolies & demands by consumers for the lower & lower food costs are destroying farmers livelyhoods. Am I right in my understanding of that?
Going beyond the agi-industry worldwide, there is a root problem: The superstitious belief (faith) in govt., i.e., institutionalized violence as a moral way for social interaction. It isn't. It is killing our species. A new political paradigm of voluntary goverance would be moral and allow for correction of mistakes. The present paradigm of "might makes right", e.g., might of the majority, might of the ruler, might of the experts, might of bureaucracy, and might of law for the sake of law (rules are rules) is not sustainable, not logical, not moral. It continues based on fear of change, fear of self dependence, self goverance. That fear has to end with the recognization of rights for every individual as a primary value that is the only way to achieve the "common good".
Some people in the USA are planting cash crops (small grains, primarily) into cover crops with good success, but instead of grazing them down - and getting the benefits of another income source via the livestock, plus the biological stimulation from the saliva, grazing action, hoof action, urine and manure - they are using machinery to crimp and lay down the cover crop. Better than plowing or dosing everything with poison herbicides, but... a long way down in efficiency and benefits from what Colin Seis does.
We have to put carbin into the ground! I will try it in ever piece of ground I own,!
The Moron (More on) principle! :D I laughed so hard!
I missed the "more on" lol so glad you pointed that out Red Baron Farm, that IS funny!
For the whole picture read: "The Natural Way of Farming: The theory and practice of green philosophy" by Masanobu Fukuoka
is there any way to do that in europe? you apparantly need dry summers for that.
The pasture cropping part starts at 28 minutes....
The material is good,but poor videoing. Please ,next time ,focus on the slides and not the presenter.