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Eckhart Farms
Приєднався 28 лис 2022
This Channel is about a farmer communicating farm related stuff to other farmers and people who don't farm or are thinking about farming but later watch this video and decide not to farm and would just rather watch someone else do it.
IS FARMER COMPOST SAFE?
Chris shares tips for gardeners on why it is important to know the source of your compost and why going cheap might cost you in the end.
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Відео
Joe Rogan Thinks We Farm Wrong?
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Chris covers some of the more nuanced discussion and interdependence in the food and feed production industry. He also talks about the math behind how to feed 7 billion people.
Local Regenerative Farming Effects
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Chris share his perspective on the Regenerative Farming Movement and how it is impacting Consumers and Farms
Glyphosate Follow up Video
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Follow up Video to Glyphosate kills 3 reasons to not use glyphosate. This video was made to address some questions and comments from that video.
Do Consumers Make Farms Use Glyphosate?
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Chris discusses why consumer behavior may be the biggest contributing factor to the use of controversial chemicals on the farm.
Should We Consider Using Glyphosate Again?
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Chris discusses why he is considering using glyphosate on their farm for pre planting of wheat and other crops.
WHICH INNOCULANT DO I USE ON MY WHEAT?
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Chris explains which innoculant he prefers to use on his wheat seen and why. www.mycogold.com/wheat-biological-seed-treatment www.eckhartfarms.com
Why Mycorrhizal FUNGI inoculant on WHEAT CROPS is AMAZING
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Chris shares his experience using Mycorrhizal products on their farm and why you should also if you are growing annual grass crops.
Making COVER CROPS work for your DRYLAND WHEAT farm.
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Chris discusses how to overcome challenges that hold farmers back from experimenting with cover crops and how specific cover crop mixes are a staple on their operation.
GLYPHOSATE KILLS - 3 reasons to stop using roundup on your farm
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Chris talks about why he doesn’t want to use glyphosate on his farm, but also why people might want to rethink trying to ban the use of glyphosate on farms.
A 220 pound person would have to drink 142,500 Liters of glyphosate, as applied on plants, at one time, to get a ld50 dose. (that is 38,600 gallons. or a cube 33 feet on each side). For table sugar, a 220 pound person would get an ld50 dose if they ate 63 pounds 15 ounces of white sugar. Why is sugar not carrying a skull and cross bones? What is used to descale pipes today? Citric Acid. Let us ban citrus fruit then. Yes. it ties up minerals until it is broken down. With growing temperatures at least 50% is broken down every 15 days. Forbes wrote this about the IARC (the "bad" report in 2015) :- "In March 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, issued a report labeling the weed killer glyphosate a “probable carcinogen.” This ruling caused consternation in the scientific and agricultural communities. Glyphosate, which is manufactured by Monsanto and is the active ingredient in the company’s popular Roundup, is one of the most widely-used herbicides worldwide. It is cheap, effective, and has low toxicity. IARC’s ruling goes against the assessment of every other agency that has evaluated the compound, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the European Food Safety Authority, and the World Health Organization, of which IARC is a part." Please re-reads:- "goes against the assessment of every other agency that has evaluated the compound, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the European Food Safety Authority, and the World Health Organization". Even California, which on so many products I buy require cancer causing warning, has NOT found Glyphosate to be cancer causing at any level. Please use what you want. I do limit round-up use in my garden to "absolute needed" (such as bind weed, horse tail and thistle). But I think the "organic" reaction is far, far over stated and under confirmed. Thank you listening and please check my sources (goggle search will find them). Please check.
A lively discussion point, and we know that Giant Agrichem doesn't freely reveal to the public the details of all its own tests that might reveal the full extent of the downsides we are concerned about
I am wanting to spray under brush on my farm, but I do not know what to use. Fence lines and corners in the field starting to grow up. I cannot control anymore with my bush hog
@@heffptbo I understand the struggle, I’m not %100 anti Glyphosate usage, more just concerned about the over usage and dependency of big AG using the product. Especially on food production. Overall I think it goes with the saying “everything in moderation.” Thanks for watching
Good mang lawman 1 ❤
I wanted to ask about using this for Egyptian wheat for screening purposes in dry North Central Texas. Also for Switchgrass for the same purpose . Thanks appreciate the ideas.
I’ve used this product on all of my grasses that I’ve planted, wheat, barley, triticale, Brome grass, ect. The best bet is always to leave check strip when doing a trial and see if there is a difference come harvest time.
Great video!! Check out Gabe Brown in North Dakota. Rogan definitely doesn't even understand regenerative agriculture. Gabe is primarily a grain farmer but does seed combinations like corn and hairy vetch, or cow peas. So when the corn gets combined the vetch or peas are already in place and a green cover is already there.
Will it kill corn if you get it on it???
Absolutely yes unless it is GMO round up ready (only available to farmers).
probably should stop spraying pesticides instead because it’s significantly worse by a massive margins
I think it will be a group effort some land can sustain this type of farmming and outhers can be better for animals.
I hate the hole 60 crops left theory. First of all they have been saying thay for years now so how is it still 60 crops left? and secondly what land are they talking about? The land in Montana is different then the land in Michigan the land in Michigan is different then the land in Florida the land is Florida is different then the land in Washington. And every region grows different crops and used different farming practices.
Science doesn't overrule nature Best perspective I have heard from a natural grower
9:04 Bacteriacide
jo is right first we need to bring bacl carbon in soil at 20% we are about 3 %, now 1% increase in carbone mean 20,000 gallon water retan in soil, plus we need to remineralise soil including basalt and softrock phospahte and lime then we need to bring back biology in soild with Johnson Su compost to get about four fungis per bacteria in soil, that will be a radical change and bring back brix and micronutrient in all grain fruit and veggies on 5 years expect significative health increase in animal and human...
Well Trump doesn’t know how to farm now I guess Joe Joe Rogen doesn’t know anything farming either both are a couple of crooked idiots
Good ol bro Rogan Fresh off Wikipedia
City boy telling farmer how to do something just like the government
Very interesting, thank you.
Chemical herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemical amendments all work to kill something. They all kill more than what is targeted. Check out how Gabe Brown and family garden, if you want low input produce. Sowing Prosperity also discusses regenerative practices.
Great advice! Thanks!
You bet! Glad it was helpful!
Ive been asked this a few times now this fall and winter about sourcing compost. We thought it might be helpful to post a video on the topic addressing some of the concerns someone should have when either applying compost/manure to their garden, straw bale gardening, or covering flower beds with straw. Thanks for watching!
Joe's podcast is about making money so he has to come up with new stuff to talk about, he'll hack off everyone eventually.
We farm wrong? That’s coming from someone that doesn’t have a clue about what it takes for farmers to produce their products. Every farm is different and every farmer goes the extra mile to make their farm as productive as possible.
We are with you. All these new young people just don't know. They listen to the Greenies and don't understand how new farmers are farming even better than they know.
I'm no farmer but I agree with your perspective. Lot of experiments do not take a wholistic approach because they simply can't. We can't rely on interventional studies that look at how things work in a controlled environment, without taking everything else into account. But we can look into observational studies, even then with a grain of salt as correlation does not imply causation in some cases.
Well they have demonized farming to the extent farmers are arguing, that is actually their intent, we need to meet our neighbors and work together in forming our own coop that benefits our community and not the big grain or beef monopolies. We need to organize with our neighbors in trading commodities (I know this is a far cry and probably cant work but it may come to this), it would be better than the monopolized industrialized systems that are suppressing the free markets we should have. We sell our product to a capped market that traders(traitors) operate under export and import costs that other countries can afford the cheap labor(under poverty), we are left out of the negotiations. And furthermore we pay for the free trade through our taxes to fund over sea transaction through the right of free trade because we Insure those transactions, we are being stolen from domestically on both ends of the transaction. This is treasonous.
You pulled numbers from feeding 18 people per farmer in the 1940,s to 164 people per farmer, I also dont know if that number is accurate but just think of the number of farms that went out of business, especially in the 80's, or the number of acres Bill Gates now owns, how many farms did he buy? Look at the hog industry. Look at the monopolization of the seed companies that sell seed and you have to use their propriety glysophates. This is a compounding problem. There is a 1988 New York times article "Farm Population Lowest Since 1850's. An estimated 240,000 people left the land last year, dropping the nation's farm population to its lowest level since before the Civil War".
He's repeating a lot stuff that you hear other places. He isn't terribly far off. When you look at the average broad acre grain farmer they do carry a lot of death vs life. I think I would be in a similar spot as you. That you're trying to be as sustainable as you can. But you still need to make a living and you get a lot better crap from both worlds. We absolutely could feed the world. With Soil health based firing period it would just mean that ten or fifteen percent of the population is farming versus one percent
It takes all types of farming to feed the world today. We all need to get along try to learn and do what makes you happy 😊
You’re just trying to financially survive. If you want to farm a specific way, it’s up to you. It’s your land. On our farm, we have topography that is too sloping to grow plants and it’s like a jungle. Appalachian hills. We use cattle to keep the land manageable and produce something at the same time. I’ve seen farms that over graze and soil is destroyed in one season. If managed properly, grazing lands can create some amazing soil and support a surprising number of animal units that is financially sustainable. But if you don’t enjoy raising and dealing with many issues of livestock, then you should stay away from it (water, freezing, feeding, vaccines, breeding, winter birthing). Honestly most farms should avoid raising livestock, most create an inhumane situation in winter and have no idea how to prevent the nightmares that happen.
I do personly agree with you on the herbicide use i have ben working in agriculture for 20 years and seen alot of differend operations in Denmark usa and australia in australia are they now paying the price for the over use of herbicides australian farmers was the first to go in to notill as a standard they are now a place where they can apply as much glyphosat as they can afford and where it has very little to no effect. The farmer i did work did notill for 30 years when i was there he was fed up with the sprying and herbicide bill he was using huge amounts of glyphosat parequat and atricine. His yields was going down and we sav herbicide dammege to the crops and nutrence defencies the only thing there was triving was the weeds. He did end up buying a moldboard plough and other tillage inplements and are now starting to see good crops again. The best way to farm as i see it, is to diversifie as much as the operation allow, get as many differend crops in to the rotation as posseable use what tool there are needed tillage fertilizers herbides, livestock and balance it to make the operation profitable.
People should worry about covering farmland with solar panels
Ha Ha! You'll never see Joe Rogaine at a farm for anything more then a photo shoot. Last time he was on one, all he did was bitch about the smells. He ended the show with, This place stinks, let's get out of here! He doesn't get the 1.8% of our population feeds the World!!! The Chinese like to say, Why so few farmers? Because they have millions of them, but would still starve without our food.
I find it odd that Eckhart mentions Joel Saladin and White Oak Farms but fails to mention a regenerative farmer who does produce crops. Gabe Brown, from Bismarck, North Dakota grows crops without using industrial inputs like insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and chemical fertilizer that kills soil life. Gabe's focus is farming on LIVING soils. By increasing life in the soil it also increases organic content which effectively mitigates both drought and floods. Water penetrates into the soil at a much higher rate in soils that have a higher percentage of organic content. "Industrial" methods of tilling the ground releases CO2 into the atmosphere while killing soil life and breaking down organic content. "No till" with use of multi species cover crops creates a symbiosis between plants, soil life, and livestock that actually fertilizes each other while sequestering carbon into the ground. Gabe Brown is free from sending vast amounts of cash to purchase agricultural chemicals. He admits he does not have the highest yields in his area but they are always above the county average and he makes more profit than surrounding farms because his costs are much lower. Gabe Brown has proven his methods are effective at both growing crops AND regenerating soil life, fertility, and water absorption. ua-cam.com/video/9yPjoh9YJMk/v-deo.html
Hey, we appreciate the feedback and the simple answer is Gabe Brown to my knowledge hasn’t been on the Joe Rogan podcast. I have a lot of respect for Gabe and he has had a positive impact on my farm. I’ve had multiple personal conversations with Gabe over the phone, and those conversations are part of what led us to where we are at today. I owe Gabe many thanks for helping us make the positive changes that we have made on both our annual crops and our perennial crops.
It is the industrial model that killed the small family farm and is depleting the soil. Over-centralized agriculture has been hard on the land and the refined carbs are killing us as a people.
Very interesting comparison just a thought but have you ever considered factoring in the calories burnt producing your annual crops in the form of diesel agrochemicals and inorganic fertilisers
We appreciate the feedback! I wondered when that question or statement would arise. I think it will lead to some interesting debates. I will try my best to explore that viewpoint in another video. I’m so excited about this channel and the discussions and comments that have come from it. Thanks for watching!
@@eckhartfarms look forward to the findings / debate
Joe Rogan is a idiot
They process the whole animal, think about all the products that they don't talk about. Medicines, cosmetics, leathers, pet food, and a lot more.
The government criminalized farming. Without a huge investment, we can't sell cuts of meat off our farm. Its illegal to sell raw milk. These things were once common practice in America. Government regulations and government subsidies encouraged the specialization.
We all need to chat and learn different ways together We can't rotational graze here because there's a mixture of wet dry area and when the cows move around its a natural way to go certain times of the day They move around the whole farm and in the woods Yes there's certain weeds they won't eat but we just got a pony and he loves thoes weeds :) There's many different ways and I think that's great for biodiversity animals and plants
If we made the cows stay in a smaller padock they would eat all the weeds because they had to Some of these weeds have a place too... Many are native and important plants that cows just don't like they prefer the grass so let them eat what they want and move around in a herd
@@wildedibles819 ultra-high density for very brief time on a paddock, then rest-recovery until all the plants regrow leaves and roots. Check out Gabe Brown, Allen Savory,... Understanding Ag, Savory Institute-respectively. Properly managed grazing can heal the soil and grow more (and more diverse) forages-which will support more (and more diverse) wildlife...
Ps tell me why wheat is making people sick . Gmo , bioengineering, eho went along with it .( We all did ) time to stopp and chang Also why do eheat grain farmers finish off with glycophate.its a fact it disrupts human gutts . I ate wheat as a kid no problem now we all get sick ???
Joe Rogan should stick with martial arts. He doesn't understand ag enough to go on utube and talk like an expert. Joe talking about ag would be like me talking about MMA
Hey thanks for taking the time to comment and helping our channel grow.
You definitely aren’t the farm he’s talking about
Thanks! We tend to think that way also, but the man has a a lot of influence that was making its way back to my neighborhood. Thought it might be a good idea to tell our story. Thanks for watching.
How many countries do we feed??
Thats a great question, I'm not exactly sure.
This and all comments against glyphosate is total bull. You say trust the science,well eat your own words and check the science on this topic. Don’t fall into a wacko attitude about this chemical when you have no idea of what it’s uses are and how it is used. You people talk about gmo’s and how that is bad, but you are also first in line for the next vaccine for COVID or the flu; you idiots are making yourself a gmo organism by doing such. Hipicrites you are.
It's exactly what French farmers are saying, they have the knowledge, pay for everything, know what sales and what not when to seed and how....unfortunately those farmers have been demonised for so many years, financially penalise by bureaucratic regulations and green norms from peoples who know very little in reality. I guess they had enough ! Btw the so called organic revolution the EU have been pushing so hard for, turned to be a total economical failure as anticipated by numerous farmers... It's the hard truth some don't want to see, not that you shouldn't try different.
I think farmers really try to keep to themselves and their own business almost to a fault. Then an event like what is happening in Europe occurs and people are surprised. The average farm there and here I think feels either mis represented or under represented forsure. Thank for taking the time to comment.
So many good comments inculding your own responses then back on their comments. Thanks for making every attempt to be a responsible steward of the land and to animals. Get the government out of giving out subsidies on everything ...farming, energy, (fossil fuels & green, etc) . If we appreciated what has value, it will always sell itself. I grew up on a small family dairy farm in MN since late 1950's. Very mixed bag of concerns. One, ...why are we growing corn for energy? Two, ...maybe look at meal size portions we see everywhere . To see people primarily of the THE WEST exploding in size or body weight is directly related to over-eating and processed junk foods. Three, ...I worked for years in the grocery store industry and friends in restaurants and the amount of food being thrown away because of spoilage, a few speckles or odd shaped is absolutely horrible (30%-45% when counting food products never leaving the farm). Fourth, etc are where you and I can add more defects we humans seem to have to the list. Yes, mono is horrible and more and more land farmed with proceesed fertilizer is just dead soil. Can we feed the world on old farming practices (pre-1950's), I think we can if we cared at all about the quality of food we put in our bodies. Everyone has money for new $1000 cell phones, computers, expensive tvs, sports shoes, etc, but they all expect CHEAP FOOD! What a joke we humans have turned into:<( God help us..........
Thank you! We are trying to bring content that adds value, educates folks, or just causes viewers or ourselves to stop and think and have more productive discussions with one another. We wanted something more than just an "entertainment vlogging in a tractor" content. Your response helps drive us to create more. Also thanks for sharing your story. We appreciate your time and viewership.
ROGAN SUCKS
You neglected the fertilizer you need for the wheat as compared to the pasture. Also you could grow wheat on the pasture land every xth year for a couple of years. I do wish the government would get out of agriculture and then see where things go. Thoughtful video.
Amen to all of that! As far as the fertilizer goes, I wasn't sure because the manure out the back of the cows is technically the same fertilizer value as if i could source local manure. I use compost and or bio solids in leu because the animal operations in my area all shut down or left due to either uncompetitive size or urban sprawl. I would argue or agree that straight out of the animal back on the land while grazing is the most efficient and the healthiest for the soil. Thanks for watching!
Properly managed animals fertilize the soil. Chemical fertilizers cause lazy plant root nutrient swapping. Check out dr Elaine Ingham. Chemical wormers, insecticides, herbicides, and other killing agents-also kill the many beneficial worms, insects, herbaceous plants,... Biomimicry and all natural is ideal.
….no discussion of herbicides and petroleum-based fertilizers which are poison
I felt like the video was already running too long so I drew a line. But yes there is that piece also. In our state even some of the holistic regenerative farms I know still use herbicides to manage noxious weeds mandated to be controlled by the county. We have been moving away from the chemicals to using in crop tillage with a rotary hoe or tine weeded where it is applicable. Also much cheaper than herbicides but takes longer and weed timing is crucial. We’ve just about eliminated our synthetic fertilizers usage through the use of crop rotations, bio solids, compost, cover crops, mycorrhizae inoculants on seeds, and biological extracts from composts. The synthetics at traditional use rates are so damaging to soil biological systems functioning properly. You raise a great point and we hope to cover it more in the future. Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. Check out some of our other videos on the channel if you like because we hope to educate other farmers and show them another way to not only be better stewards of the soil biology, but to remain profitable in the process. Thanks for watching!
I can’t watch right now, and quite frankly, I don’t care. I only want to say this, it “ain’t” about you, it “ain’t” about me. It’s about the consumer. Actually, our entire food system became “F’d” because of consumer demands. I really don’t care what other farmers do. I don’t buy in to a lot of the claims from the environmental lobby. But I do care about human health, and the ag and food system in general is toxic. I also care about my own independence as a farmer and livestock producer, which is an at scale operation spread across 5 counties. I generate my own fertility and pest resistance, I don’t buy it, and my yield drag is about 15%, but my revenue per acre is 40% more. That doesn’t include the income we generate from protein production.
I hear you. The consumer demands of cheap food is not helping anybody. Folks can say it’s to feed the poor until they need to seek subsidized healthcare and pin a lifestyle of poor food choices on taxpayers. I find myself wondering why isn’t everything subsidized? Lol I see your point and if this video ain’t your flavor I understand, I made it for me and farmers like me to share with neighbors and friends that ask them questions like “Why aren’t you farming like….______?”. Your operation sounds like you’ve worked hard to get where you are at and I admire that. Is there a channel to follow? I’d like to learn more about your operation if you care to share and who knows we may have our own herd here one day soon also. We appreciate the feedback.
Most big farmers are not doing what u are doing. He is not talking to you.
Yeah I'm able to draw that conclusion as well, however we are under heavy urbanization pressure and many of my neighbors and friends that listen to podcasts and youtube don't know that. Thanks for the feed back for sure.
@@eckhartfarms Nuance is Hard
Mono Crops will always be needed so long as that land is in some kind of rotation where anmials are building topsoil at some point in the process