Whether or not the practice stores carbon, it is still beneficial for so many other reasons. You keep wind from eroding the top soil, keep moisture in the soil, add nutrients, give bees a place that is hospitable, helps control wildfires and creates a better micro biome. Seems like a win even though we can't quantify a carbon market.
Except cover cropping increases wild fire risk in the winter, no till works but there is zero scientific evidence that cover cropping will increase or continue current yields. Cover cropping also risks completely crop failures in a cold spring because it can cause completely seed failure with failed germination and not break through the composting cover crop. Aka the seed rots in the ground. The most effective system for field nutrient health is 7 year 1/7 fallowing of the fields where farms let 1/7 of their fields go each year allowing natural growth then till it under in the fall which is a practice thousand of years old but has fallen out of practice.
@@aaron4135aaron, where do you come up with cover crops increase the likelihood of fires in the winter? And if it did, would that not add additional carbon to the soil? Forestry practices include control burning and wildfires are followed by recovery which is quite quick with the increase of fertility of the soil. Cover crops help to retain the soil so that it is not lost when fields sit idle in between plantings. Farmers ought to be practicing the regenerative farming techniques because it works. Plant yourself a garden, build up your soil over the years and you will know what works and what doesn't. But this plan of buying and selling carbon credits is ridiculous in my opinion. Farmers need to sink or swim based on best practices and fair markets. Subsidizing them only grows a government that is already out of control. In the end, those who really profit are the industrial farms because they have the lobbyists. We need to level the playing field and get government out of the way.
I've recently finished reading Louis Bromfield's "Pleasant Valley". He had it all pretty much figured out in the 1940s, when he went back to America to farm in his childhood valley and help restore beaten and broken land on Malabar Farm. Climate change wasn't a thing then, but he already had the foresight to know that monoculture, tillage, extractive farming was not the way and would lead to disaster. It is a truly uplifting book which every farmer would benefit from reading. I highly recommend it.
Allow cattle to free range the cover crops before your main crop and you’ll come to find a massive increase in carbon stored and the amount of rain not only sequestered but also held to feed the plants. 👌🏼 combining no till and free ranging cattle goats and sheep would make a huge difference.
Agrivoltaics and regenerative agriculture are a perfect pair. Solar arrays with sheep grazing should get some serious attention. Perrenial crops and agroforestry crops should get some serious attention. Chestnuts, hazelnuts, and other nuts can replace soy and corn for a source of oils, fats, and starches.
I am wondering the same thing. Notice that organic or other non-chemical system wasn’t mentioned. This was all about carbon sequestration rather than building the soil micro biome. I’m guessing they’re conventional & GMO aside from the cover crops & tilling. This might be like doing a *dirty* version of regenerative ag, akin to dirty keto.
Yeah, I heard that and thought the same thing. Regenerative farming is likely a good thing. I noticed his equipment. That tractor and no-till drill is not cheap. It’s expensive for a convention farmer to switch over to no-till.
Prof Foley's commentary is excellent and highlights all problematic but also beneficial aspects. So-called regenerative agriculture is trying to sell itself for what it is not yet (possibly) able to deliver. The focus should be on long-term carbon STORAGE: nothing prevents farmers to sequester carbon in one decade and release it all in the next. What is 10 years for carbon dioxide, the half-life of which is 1000 years? What's worse it allows businesses to continue their emissions (since they bought the rights through carbon credits). There are more certain ways of reducing emissions quickly: curbing food waste and deforestation, cutting back on animal products, restoring native forests to where they belong, generally consuming less etc.
When those big companies get involved int regenerative farming is the moment that this practice will become corrupt and changed from its original form.
Not necessarily, typically companies follow where the money is. Most companies would benefit from the earth continuing to stay habitable in the near future.
There is a difference between regenerative farming and organic regenerative farming. Both are better for the local environment than conventional farming
They are on the right path. After some time, practice, and improvement, we need to collect the data from these guys and institute regenerative practices nationwide. No, no, worldwide!
You know this does way more then just helping the climate. It also helps the wildlife. Fields in the fall go from feast to famine in one day. The Deer, Turkey, Grouse, Quail, and many other wildlife have a long hard winter with hundreds of thousands acres of barren lifeless land after harvest. It's gotten even worse since the rise of round up ready crops as well because after the corn or beans are harvested there use to be at least the weeds undergrowth for them to forage on for the winter.
It’s not perfect but that’s everything in life it’s better than traditional farming because they still use a lot of herbicides, and we don’t know what kind of herbicides they’re using, there are many more natural herbicides that break down in nature we have no clue if he’s using those or not
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Regenerative agriculture is a must. But, letting some land turn back into wilderness is also a must. There's no one magic bullet here. It's going to take a multi-faceted approach to solve climate change. I agree that it's ultimately up to consumer demand to change the way we do things.
@@heavymetalbassist5 This sounds like you are running a smaller operation. Would this option be applicable/economically viable on a large scale operation of 1000's of hectares? The entire point is to reduce tillage or remove tillage to limit the impacts on soil carbon loss and improve soil conditions. It appears you are recovering the effects of tillage by adding in a lot of compost.
I support and encourage farmers like this. I'm now very selective of what I buy because even fresh food has become toxic. I tend to go towards smaller producers who sell more expensive but smaller size grains, fruits and veggies which are usually likely grown organically. Too much chemicals nowadays...
I'm wondering can the farmers, cut or harvest the cover crop close to the soil and either allow it to lay and decompose before planting their corn crop? Or recover the biomass after harvesting the cover crop, and use it elsewhere? Much thought should go into the cover crop being selected and used.
Im surprised that the complete focus of this video was on the carbon sequestrian. What about building and protecting top soil, which we are losing and depleting at an alarming rate worldwide. There is also the mined phosphorus in synthetic fertilisers that is becoming increasingly scarce, expensive and we will eventually run out of.
The focus should be on long-term carbon STORAGE: at the moment nothing prevents farmers to sequester carbon in one decade and release it all in the next. What is 10 years for carbon dioxide, the half-life of which is 1000 years? While making extra profit and, what's worse, allowing businesses to continue their emissions (since they bought the rights through carbon credits)
@@irinaherzon9745 That's why if people understand the other benefits of regenerative farming, if done correctly that risk of the carbon getting released again is less likely to happen. If they understand they can save money on synthetic fertilisers and other products with this approach as well as produce a more profitable product they are more likely to take part. A bit like how I use less fertiliser, water and other products on my garden at home because I make the effort to compost my food and garden scraps
No actually it's VERY different. 4 fields is bascially 4 giant monocrops and the monocrop changes every year. It's better than just planting the same thing and depleting the soils, but it's still a monoculture. In contrast, TRUE regenerative agriculture (i.e. not what this guy was doing when he's spraying his covercrop), is the creation of a dense and diverse POLYCULTURE. It's this polyculture that is critical, especially when discussing soil stability (loss of topsoil) and biome collapse (our current insect extinction event). Regenerative agriculture practices like Permaculture are way way WAY more beneficial than a simple 4-fields rotation. It's like saying checkers and chess are the same thing.
@@karlwhalls2915 Why would you want the root eaten? The entire point is to hold the soil in place. A bigger impediment to massive scale is that it would require access to a massive amount of animals to eat the grasses. ua-cam.com/video/zIMqtjda6Ag/v-deo.html
@@samuelwilliams7331 Because they need to grow a crop on the field. If you leave the roots and crowns (as grazing does) the cover crops will regrow rapidly outcompete the germinating grain. You cannot grow the corn in the weeds, basically. They must be killed, or die naturally, or be poisoned, etc.
I think this is a good idea, but know that organic farming is on the other end of the spectrum when it comes to climate conscious farming. Organic farming produces significantly more Co2 than standard industrial farming, since it uses the same damaging mono cropping practices in a much less efficient way. It’s just the absence of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides that allows them to market their product as organic, at a much higher price, with the false consumer belief that it’s better.
@@willamtaft5899 No, you dont know what youre saying. Small farms do not produce more co2. I get a 401K for growing, from a major wallstreet ag company. You dont. Shh be quiet kid.
Regenerative Ag has many options for killing off cover crops in time for cash crops. Many conventional farmers starting down the regenerative path are still married to chemicals and spraying, but once they start applying more and better tools, they can reduce all chemicals including fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Understanding Ag channel on youtube has more info.
I agree but I'm also Leary as that would give people reason to jack up the price on something that from what these farmers said is about the same work and possibly even more cost effective... brands and labels add value unfortunately. We've seen the price of that in many other markets.
i would be curious if this practice of regenerative farming could be done with my yard. no not looking to sell my carbon. but do the practices to keep good soil and reduce the amount of fertilizers i use
Its essentially just seedbombing some meadow flowers into your soil. That will always be beneficial. I've had great soil improvement and a great return of pollinators. Plus it's quick and easy colour. Wins all round.
If you have a cover crops (grass) on your yard all year long your already doing it. Now if you till up your yard every season then you could effect some change.
@@kelrune Look up Charles Dowding on youtube. He has a more specific version of this called No Dig farming. Its a variation of no-till. Like the 2nd guy they interviewed here, its all about adding compost to your soil and not disturbing them.
As someone who invests in “vertical farms” these farms are highly specialized and require MASSIVE capital cost. They are not a one sized fits all solution for example non western nations which don’t have freely accessible capital can not build even industrial farms. The only successful market so far for these highly industrialized styles of farming is the netherlands which a unique market which can sustain this style of farming. There are other factors such as crops which are not built for these styles of farming.
@@ttopero permaculture diversifies farming. Regenerative farming practices often still encourage mono-cropping. And nature sure doesn’t like mono-crops!
They should work on finding a cover crop that they can harvest, some other off season food crop or maybe a flower crop for sale to the flower industry. Something that makes a profit to make that work at the end of the season worth it and profitable.
@@Santospirito007 That's only $42,000 per year average for an enormous amount of work, that you do 7 days a week. Planting a cover crop takes a lot of work and costs money. Might as well plant something that makes a profit eh... Farmers don't always make a profit, sometimes there are bad years where they loose their crops to one thing or another, a little extra profit from a cover crop can help get through those rough years.
@@jean-claudelol563 we’ve found that the cost of planting cover crops is definitely worth it during the drought years, the root structure and organic material in the soil held moisture much better than our neighbors
It's amazing how in 2021 that any sort of synthetic fertilizer is necessary anymore. If we go down the path of nature and work with her, we can easily feed the world with healthy food.
His way of farming is great, but that carbon market thing is ridiculous - it's like middle ages when wealthy payed the church for "canceling" their sin.
i have 15 acres of mature pine trees and i want to transition into growing bamboo. i plan to make biochar from bamboo on site. how can i get from point A to point B while earning carbon credit? should i make biochar from pine? should i harvest slowly while replacing with bamboo?
Regenerative Agriculture is NOT just about sequestering carbon... It is about improving soil health - and thus more nutrient food, reducing monoculture, cutting off the pesticide and fertilizer use which devastates soil health and emits massive amounts of pollution during its own production process.
This is also why the west is so dry rn because when you don't keep soil healthy in a region, it gets hotter in that area the less the soil is protected.
It's very very different. Check out this video to see how different it is: ua-cam.com/video/cFLyGVhu0bY/v-deo.html&lc=UgzXvmAwMBZa06B_2KV4AaABAg. It's called "this will change how you garden forever".
Compost makers use fuels then turn it to carbon in the air right? If we read the athmostpheres balance sheet are they making enough carbon than they take away?
These practices follow sustainable agriculture practices not regenerative or restoration agriculture practices for those practices you plant more perrinieal crops and less anniuals. Plus to be truly sustainable or regenative you must reduce and eliminate synthetic inputs of everything including chemical herbicides and pesticides over the course of a few years while maintaining the other practices. Additionally the Heaney soil test measures the levels of carbon both inorganic and organic in the soil and those are what CO2 turns into when introduced to the soil by the plants photosynthetic properties.
Whaaat?, it's already known method in Asian since the beginning of time 😒, when the price goes down farmer tend to just replant again on top of current plant
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"regenerative" farming is another way of saying "government subsidies for not farming". Which makes total sense in a global food shortage. We're so progressive and awesome.
My generation learnt about global warming in high school, It changed label to climate change not long after, The point is not that is a thing or that its a threat. take climate change as a concept, and humanity as one organism, dominance doesn't mean force or pressure, it doesn't describe a right to exploit harm or control, it does mean responsibility, similarly to how our parents once has dominance over us as children. This planet will become as we envision it, Our numbers are so many and our capability so large that we are now directly affecting how it evolves and how life here sustains. What this planet will be in 20 years from now will be the result of what we deem important. Our values morels and priorities will be reflective of the environment we pass down to our children to inherit. Once humanity crosses the threshold of 10 billion the impact we will have will be felt by every single generation of humans born on this planet after that, Which places us at a very precarious position . We are looking down the barrel of a gun knowing what we do or don't do during our life times will create a precedence that will be follow by future generations. We must lay the foundations of the world to come, We must begin to steer in a direct to lead the way for future generations to continue with. The threat we now know is very real isn't the only reason for humanities need to become more aware. we are part of this planet and it is a part of us its our home. We have spent all of human history thus far being selfish as individuals, we have nice homes cloths, cars, stuff, etc. Our numbers are so many now that we must being to become a selfish super organism by ensuring we have a nice planet to exist within. Begin to think of your house or flat as merely a dwelling and the planet our real home. trust me on this if we do this right with the knowledge we have gained thus far the changes we make will create a planet that enhances our experiences lifestyle and lives in ways you cant possibly imagine because humanity has never attempted such things on a scale able to bring forth real change.
Do not let the big corporate polluters piggyback on the carbon sequestering the farmers are doing. Just monetize the carbon credit and let the banks do that job, because they are the ones who are paying the oil companies and get the money for that from the carbon that oil companies flush out. That would automatically financially incentivize not just farmers, but it would also make investing on better technologies to measure carbon sequestering an interest of the banks, meanwhile making it detrimental for banks to give more loans to oil companies
agriculturist as a school course or professional is studying about the different soil or land at the same time they study about a plant that is suitable to so many different kind of a soil (they were a professional in the farming industry) making them called agriculturist
I'm very sad for my farmers here in India. Many of them don't even have this kind of knowledge. They just depend on govt. for loan waivers, DBTs and MSPs. They only stick to 1-2 type of crops.
Sounds like you just informed lots of people a good job spot an way to teach people. Make a big class and charge 1 to 5 per head, you will gain huge following real quickly, especially on those farmers who are poor but have a smartphone and wifi nearby.
I think you don't know how common regenerative farming, permaculture and multilayered farming is in India. The whole of India is not just a few farmlands in Punjab and Haryana. A lot of the farms in India that are not heavily mechanized are doing one or other kind of healthy farming practices. Just look up Permaculture in India and you'll know what went under your radar
The ocean contains 20 times more CO2 than the land, and 23 times more than farm land, notwithstanding the planet is 70% oceans. Of the total landmass 27% is livestock and only 7 percent of the total landmass is cropland. I am for a healthy clean planet and an advocate of regenerative farming, however, it has little to no effect on climate, especially when you consider the numbers involved and the fact that the total human contribution to CO2 in the atmosphere is 3%, 12ppm of the total 420ppm.
If we maximize and prove carbon sequestration by detailed measurements by certain sequestration techniques in certain solis/lattitudes etc, we don't have to expensively measure each and every time. So carbon credit for certain validated techniques and only check the use of the proven techniques. Much easier and cheaper for farmers. It needs to be implementable worldwide, so also in Africa for example.#SaveSoil
It is every owner of land in America that should be concerned by this. In fact home land is bigger than farm land so... If you are worried about climate change start with your own backyard.
Farmers : I practice this farming because it is sustainable and makes better products. Market : let us lose focus on the good of farming and just think about turning a profit from a free market that's incapable of thinking long term. Sounds good, let's leave it to trading to handle the solutions to the problems that trading brought in the first place.
This could be an authentic way to financially reward good stewardship & land repair. The challenge is that it’s coming from big-industry that cares less about the true benefits & more about their balance sheet & bottom line.
@@austinbevis4266 I absolutely agree. My point is that this market could encourage poor decisions regarding farming practices to boost this revenue. I prefer to pay a decent price for good food in a market where most of the money goes to the farmer.
Given that Bill Gate is the biggest private owner of farmland in US, he could use his position to push for policy changes in favor of regenerative agriculture. BTW, practicing regenerative agriculture also makes the land and the surrounding more resilience against floods and droughts, and mitigates the adverse effect of climate change.
@@rickagfoster I was vegetarian for 15 yrs, and have now been wfpb for the last 13 ongoing years....animal agriculture, palm oil, and the atrocities we are doing in the ocean.....yep, most do NOT want to discuss and/or deny, or just want to remain ignorant.
Consumers will not drive regenerative agriculture- the shift will be based on economics, not ideology. Growers that make the shift will be the low cost, high quality producers moving forward, in addition to all of the other benefits to soil, ecology, and resilience to a changing climate. Farmers and ranchers growing regeneratively are now and will be making more money. It's smart business.
Well, the problem isn't just tillage. It's also monocropping. It's leaving soils bare. It's loss of topsoil and insect collapse from all those things. Really, all the governments have to do is STOP providing INCENTIVES to the unsustainable farming, and START providing incentives to the regenerative farmers. This has to be done slowly because just swapping over quickly will bankrupt current farmers. It takes time to transition to regenerative agriculture. Their soils are dead, so they can't just sow a dense polyculture into a dead field and expect crops to grow without fertilizers. It takes a few years to rebuild the soils using pioneer plants and nitrogen fixers. But really all we need to do is stop propping up unsustainable practices that aren't even working (ecologically and economically).
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy yes, I meant that. Why it's not a law still - let's say in X years all the fields must be sustainable. The same way they plan to get rid of cars with combustion engines.
Then grow your own food and see how it works out for you! Remember also food grown in Mexico and South America have almost no restrictions on the chemicals and pesticides they use plus they are allowed to use human waste as fertilizer increasing the possibility of many diseases
@@santillbrezon2161 stop using the word chemical and be specific. Any chemical can be lethal in the right dose. It's the dose that determines lethality not the substance. Look at LD50 studies
Only second half of the report tells the truth: it is hard to measure CO2 benefit from this business. It seems like a tricky hatchhike in wave of eco business resonance, not a serious solution.
the lady CNBC reporter needs to get her act together and dig deeper into this. no-till farms are not necessarily. the most successful at carbon sequestration. the signal is that they are not getting the carbon deep in the soil as the resource person says (i also believe he has not gone around and really looked into the work of very successful farmers). carbon sequestration cannot be achieved by above-ground generated carbon from crop residue. it is by way of carbon exuded by roots of healthy plants that it is achieved - deep down. check out how the soil darkens where the roots reach. and yes, it can be the silver bullet...blessings to all
In the corn & cover crop example here "healthy plants" are being grown all year round though, producing exudates. So one would expect to see organic matter building up deep in the soil aswell. Why do you think that's not happening as much as expected/desired and what's your solution?
Excuse me....he said once the seeds are planted and start coming up. He will "spray off" the cover crop of the flower crop. Well....to speay off the cover crop....he's spraying glyphoste chemicals ...(weed sprays"....Round Up!!! Which Round Up,degrades the soil!!!! And too....Round Up gets picked up by the plants into the food change!!!! And I say this. As I have a signicant farm in Illinois. That my family has farmed for 200 years. Glyphosate most certainly degrades soil. And is a chelator of minerals. That depletes minerals in the foods people eat. And depleted minerals is a HUGE cause of metabolic disease in people.
Ummmmm..... doesn't sell your carbon credit to another company kind of defeat the purpose of reducing carbon emissions, we all live on the same planet ffs
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@@samuelwilliams7331 Then label the stuff and get incentive that way. Carbon credits just means buy off your polution and continue with business as usual. I.e. creative bookkeeping that doesn't fix anything other than pretty up someones bankaccount.
we used to spray the sludge of human waste on farm lands, after in was reclaimed, I think the smell would was bad, not as bad as cow waste, nut the human waste is not being composted, we still use the old way, putting it in water when most animals will bury it, that is nature showing you something, what would grow after composting will be amazing, but we still do not get how much damage we are doing to the whole world by not seeking other soultions, makes no sense, any farmer will tell you what does pass is good fertilizer, yet we throw it in water and think we can get the solids out, yes even people pass seeds that will germinate, we lose so much of the fine stuff, how much longer do you think this practise can go on? the Oceans, we even do not understand the creek will overflow from the river, if it was not modified>3 ( destroyed) so developer can
Regenerative agriculture is a great idea. Carbon credits are a terrible one. The ones that pushed it to this point have created a system to move on to that allows them to continue making bank and gaining even more control.
I live in canada and want to start farming. 2M dollar start up cost kind of hampers things! Especially when you lose 90% of your revenue to land and equipment loans and most of the rest to input costs. You need 1k+ acres to really make a living profit and that will cost you into the hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the land depending on where you operate. Gone are the days when you can make a decent living on 35-100 acres mostly because you are not allowed to store this years harvest for planting next year. Your seed company owns the seed and if you try they will sue you into oblivion for patent violation or something.
Large scale Farming involves inputs and outputs and as of that one needs a strong and continuous flow in of real cash to stand and grow the business very well
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Regenerative farming will drop the wells to wheels carbon foot print of E85 biofuel from 46% to 23% of gasoline fast. Capturing CO2 in corn ethanol makes biofuel powered ICE vehicles cleaner than EV's. Farmers even open up another market for corn: carbon credit compensation. Brilliant.
I have so many questions about this subject. Does anyone know the answers to this? Could cover crops also be used to absorb methane from cattle in the form of their poop?
No they can't. That's the problem with methane. Once it's released, it takes roughly 8 years to break down in to CO2, and then that CO2 lasts in the atmosphere for about another 100 years. The mechanism for converting methane into CO2 in the air is oxidation. Plants can't deal with the methane itself. Methane is 100x worse of a greenhouse gas than CO2, but when you take into account everything (including the fact that the 8 years I mentioned is just a statistical half life, it's not like 100% of it converts after 8 years), taking all that into account, methane is about 30x worse than CO2. This is why large methane releases from say melting permafrost is really really REALLY scary. We can deal with the CO2 by planting more plants (and those plants will thrive in CO2 heavy air), but the methane itself is brutal. Death-knell.
what if we get rid of a lot of the cattle we have and just use that land for farming? Or just plant cover crop on all of that grazing land to take co2 out of atmosphere?
Maybe we shouldn't get rid of livestock altogether but rather look at native alternatives. The great north American plains had bison as part of the ecosystem. Until theu were nearly eradicated to disrupt the native American livelyhood.
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Whether or not the practice stores carbon, it is still beneficial for so many other reasons. You keep wind from eroding the top soil, keep moisture in the soil, add nutrients, give bees a place that is hospitable, helps control wildfires and creates a better micro biome. Seems like a win even though we can't quantify a carbon market.
@Pinned By CNBC stfu
Except cover cropping increases wild fire risk in the winter, no till works but there is zero scientific evidence that cover cropping will increase or continue current yields. Cover cropping also risks completely crop failures in a cold spring because it can cause completely seed failure with failed germination and not break through the composting cover crop. Aka the seed rots in the ground. The most effective system for field nutrient health is 7 year 1/7 fallowing of the fields where farms let 1/7 of their fields go each year allowing natural growth then till it under in the fall which is a practice thousand of years old but has fallen out of practice.
@@Jj-gi2uv Perhaps some new farm machinery that can roll down cover and plant at the same time would help.
@@aaron4135 fallowing is a part of crop rotation. Cover crop is not a bad idea. But must be covered in soil before planting.
@@aaron4135aaron, where do you come up with cover crops increase the likelihood of fires in the winter? And if it did, would that not add additional carbon to the soil? Forestry practices include control burning and wildfires are followed by recovery which is quite quick with the increase of fertility of the soil. Cover crops help to retain the soil so that it is not lost when fields sit idle in between plantings. Farmers ought to be practicing the regenerative farming techniques because it works. Plant yourself a garden, build up your soil over the years and you will know what works and what doesn't. But this plan of buying and selling carbon credits is ridiculous in my opinion. Farmers need to sink or swim based on best practices and fair markets. Subsidizing them only grows a government that is already out of control. In the end, those who really profit are the industrial farms because they have the lobbyists. We need to level the playing field and get government out of the way.
I've recently finished reading Louis Bromfield's "Pleasant Valley". He had it all pretty much figured out in the 1940s, when he went back to America to farm in his childhood valley and help restore beaten and broken land on Malabar Farm. Climate change wasn't a thing then, but he already had the foresight to know that monoculture, tillage, extractive farming was not the way and would lead to disaster. It is a truly uplifting book which every farmer would benefit from reading. I highly recommend it.
1:15 “spray the cover crop off” wait so you are using herbicide? Yeah that seems sustainable.
Heard that too, and wondered if I just misunderstood what was being said.
I was thinking the same thing when I heard they sprayed off the cover crops 🤔
Matter can not be created or destroyed so scientifically all agriculture is sustainable
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Please let me know what the alternative to spraying would by if you remove tillage for weed control?
Allow cattle to free range the cover crops before your main crop and you’ll come to find a massive increase in carbon stored and the amount of rain not only sequestered but also held to feed the plants. 👌🏼 combining no till and free ranging cattle goats and sheep would make a huge difference.
Agrivoltaics and regenerative agriculture are a perfect pair.
Solar arrays with sheep grazing should get some serious attention. Perrenial crops and agroforestry crops should get some serious attention. Chestnuts, hazelnuts, and other nuts can replace soy and corn for a source of oils, fats, and starches.
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That's not true
SPRAYING the cover crop ruins the whole thing. Roundup isn’t safe.
Yes, this is GMO or Roundup ready crops. Disgusting that they frame this story as helpful to our environment. what a joke.
It’s not round up it’s just salt, water and a small part of chlorine. Very climate neutral, and it kills plants effectively.
@Robby Dey I don’t know much about glyphosates I just work for a farms.
@@brianmcdonald6735 good luck killing herbs without glyphosate.. It's near impossible
@@ramraghuwanshi2562 Yeah - people did starve to death due to weeds before RoundUp.
1:14 "and then we'll spray the cover crop off. . . ." Something big got glossed over right there. Exactly what is being sprayed?
I am wondering the same thing. Notice that organic or other non-chemical system wasn’t mentioned. This was all about carbon sequestration rather than building the soil micro biome. I’m guessing they’re conventional & GMO aside from the cover crops & tilling. This might be like doing a *dirty* version of regenerative ag, akin to dirty keto.
They spray cancer onto it - no biggie
It's Roundup, MSMA, and 2-4-D.
Yeah, I heard that and thought the same thing.
Regenerative farming is likely a good thing. I noticed his equipment. That tractor and no-till drill is not cheap. It’s expensive for a convention farmer to switch over to no-till.
Most definitely Monsanto roundup for roundup ready gmo corn
Prof Foley's commentary is excellent and highlights all problematic but also beneficial aspects. So-called regenerative agriculture is trying to sell itself for what it is not yet (possibly) able to deliver. The focus should be on long-term carbon STORAGE: nothing prevents farmers to sequester carbon in one decade and release it all in the next. What is 10 years for carbon dioxide, the half-life of which is 1000 years? What's worse it allows businesses to continue their emissions (since they bought the rights through carbon credits). There are more certain ways of reducing emissions quickly: curbing food waste and deforestation, cutting back on animal products, restoring native forests to where they belong, generally consuming less etc.
Exactly this
When those big companies get involved int regenerative farming is the moment that this practice will become corrupt and changed from its original form.
When they get involved in anything actually, and they are.
Not necessarily, typically companies follow where the money is. Most companies would benefit from the earth continuing to stay habitable in the near future.
@@IpSyCo Only if long term profits were rhe goal. They arent. The greed behind the drive ensures that its all wasted.
No they will super charge it green is more profitable now
They already are involved in it.
There is a difference between regenerative farming and organic regenerative farming. Both are better for the local environment than conventional farming
They are on the right path. After some time, practice, and improvement, we need to collect the data from these guys and institute regenerative practices nationwide. No, no, worldwide!
You know this does way more then just helping the climate. It also helps the wildlife. Fields in the fall go from feast to famine in one day. The Deer, Turkey, Grouse, Quail, and many other wildlife have a long hard winter with hundreds of thousands acres of barren lifeless land after harvest. It's gotten even worse since the rise of round up ready crops as well because after the corn or beans are harvested there use to be at least the weeds undergrowth for them to forage on for the winter.
So they spray weed killer on the cover crop. Fail.
It’s not perfect but that’s everything in life it’s better than traditional farming because they still use a lot of herbicides, and we don’t know what kind of herbicides they’re using, there are many more natural herbicides that break down in nature we have no clue if he’s using those or not
Crimp rolling would be the alternative to this which is more commonly used on regenerative farms
@@michigangardner6081chop and drop would be better genius
I am a sustainable agriculture major and it takes years for transforming traditional agriculture operations into sustainable agriculture.
You lost me at the word spray
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Regenerative agriculture is a must. But, letting some land turn back into wilderness is also a must. There's no one magic bullet here. It's going to take a multi-faceted approach to solve climate change. I agree that it's ultimately up to consumer demand to change the way we do things.
Great work! We need to support more farmers like these!
“Then we’ll spray the cover crop off.”
Thats what confused me. I cover crop, cut and drop, then wait 2 weeks till it in, wait a week, add a couple inches of compost and plant
@@heavymetalbassist5 Yes that’s the usual method, but using Glyphosate jives with no-till and it’s less costly. Mostly it’s less costly.
Where I'm from and it's very dry we till as little as possible and we spray off our cover crop and then use a vertical tillage like a coultor
@@heavymetalbassist5 This sounds like you are running a smaller operation. Would this option be applicable/economically viable on a large scale operation of 1000's of hectares? The entire point is to reduce tillage or remove tillage to limit the impacts on soil carbon loss and improve soil conditions. It appears you are recovering the effects of tillage by adding in a lot of compost.
Exactly same thought.
I support and encourage farmers like this. I'm now very selective of what I buy because even fresh food has become toxic. I tend to go towards smaller producers who sell more expensive but smaller size grains, fruits and veggies which are usually likely grown organically. Too much chemicals nowadays...
I'm wondering can the farmers, cut or harvest the cover crop close to the soil and either allow it to lay and decompose before planting their corn crop?
Or recover the biomass after harvesting the cover crop, and use it elsewhere?
Much thought should go into the cover crop being selected and used.
What if Bill Gates switches all his farmland to regenerative farming?
bill gates has bigger plans for you buddy
He is a hardcore corporate overlord, who is pushing lab grown meat so that can also be monopolized by big companies
@@aleenaprasannan2146 at least we’d have a break from our beef and chicken monopolies then
@@Izacundo1 I think you don't understand the meaning of monopoly
@@joekara Half the world is burning and you trying to argue something we figured out in the 1800s. Catch up.
Im surprised that the complete focus of this video was on the carbon sequestrian. What about building and protecting top soil, which we are losing and depleting at an alarming rate worldwide. There is also the mined phosphorus in synthetic fertilisers that is becoming increasingly scarce, expensive and we will eventually run out of.
Well this is technically protecting top soil
The phosphorus problem is why we animals in sustainable ag systems
The focus should be on long-term carbon STORAGE: at the moment nothing prevents farmers to sequester carbon in one decade and release it all in the next. What is 10 years for carbon dioxide, the half-life of which is 1000 years? While making extra profit and, what's worse, allowing businesses to continue their emissions (since they bought the rights through carbon credits)
@@irinaherzon9745 That's why if people understand the other benefits of regenerative farming, if done correctly that risk of the carbon getting released again is less likely to happen. If they understand they can save money on synthetic fertilisers and other products with this approach as well as produce a more profitable product they are more likely to take part. A bit like how I use less fertiliser, water and other products on my garden at home because I make the effort to compost my food and garden scraps
So it's a modern version of the four Fields crop rotation method.
Yeah something many farmers don’t do anymore
No actually it's VERY different. 4 fields is bascially 4 giant monocrops and the monocrop changes every year. It's better than just planting the same thing and depleting the soils, but it's still a monoculture. In contrast, TRUE regenerative agriculture (i.e. not what this guy was doing when he's spraying his covercrop), is the creation of a dense and diverse POLYCULTURE. It's this polyculture that is critical, especially when discussing soil stability (loss of topsoil) and biome collapse (our current insect extinction event). Regenerative agriculture practices like Permaculture are way way WAY more beneficial than a simple 4-fields rotation. It's like saying checkers and chess are the same thing.
yep, it is just a ley farming system. literally hundreds of years old.
@@Wombat_rides_again I know right
Can you feed livestock on the cover crop? That'd fertilise and till the land ready for the next crop.
Absolutely.
Gabe brown does
That is not viable for commercial crops at any sort of scale, takes too long and they don’t graze out the roots.
@@karlwhalls2915 Why would you want the root eaten? The entire point is to hold the soil in place.
A bigger impediment to massive scale is that it would require access to a massive amount of animals to eat the grasses.
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@@samuelwilliams7331 Because they need to grow a crop on the field. If you leave the roots and crowns (as grazing does) the cover crops will regrow rapidly outcompete the germinating grain. You cannot grow the corn in the weeds, basically. They must be killed, or die naturally, or be poisoned, etc.
I would absolutely buy products that had a trusted "regeneratively farmed" system's stamp on them, like the organic growers have already.
I think this is a good idea, but know that organic farming is on the other end of the spectrum when it comes to climate conscious farming. Organic farming produces significantly more Co2 than standard industrial farming, since it uses the same damaging mono cropping practices in a much less efficient way. It’s just the absence of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides that allows them to market their product as organic, at a much higher price, with the false consumer belief that it’s better.
Global warming is fake
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They do this in the mari-ganja cannabis industry already for a few years, it's called (Clean Green Certified)
@@willamtaft5899 No, you dont know what youre saying. Small farms do not produce more co2. I get a 401K for growing, from a major wallstreet ag company. You dont. Shh be quiet kid.
What does spray off consist of that sounds less than ideal.
Spraying and regenerative farming doesn’t mix. Wrong people to represent this topic.
Regenerative Ag has many options for killing off cover crops in time for cash crops. Many conventional farmers starting down the regenerative path are still married to chemicals and spraying, but once they start applying more and better tools, they can reduce all chemicals including fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Understanding Ag channel on youtube has more info.
They should make it mandatory for labels to say whether something was farmed regeneratively
I agree but I'm also Leary as that would give people reason to jack up the price on something that from what these farmers said is about the same work and possibly even more cost effective... brands and labels add value unfortunately. We've seen the price of that in many other markets.
We need permaculture farms. Not regenerative farms.
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@@donnyt857 Yay, happy to see permaculture mentioned here
We subsidize monocrops, instead subsidize for the soil, true!
Why spray terminate a cover crop when you can crimp? 😖 Edit: crimp and plant in one pass
this is not real regenerative agriculture, it's industrial farming disguised at its best.
i would be curious if this practice of regenerative farming could be done with my yard. no not looking to sell my carbon. but do the practices to keep good soil and reduce the amount of fertilizers i use
Its essentially just seedbombing some meadow flowers into your soil. That will always be beneficial. I've had great soil improvement and a great return of pollinators.
Plus it's quick and easy colour. Wins all round.
If you have a cover crops (grass) on your yard all year long your already doing it. Now if you till up your yard every season then you could effect some change.
@Pinned by ClearValue Tax more fake
Look up permaculture on UA-cam. There are some amazing videos.
@@kelrune Look up Charles Dowding on youtube. He has a more specific version of this called No Dig farming. Its a variation of no-till. Like the 2nd guy they interviewed here, its all about adding compost to your soil and not disturbing them.
We should move "some" of our crops into vertical farming (non-commodity crops strawberry, lettuce, etc.)
Can’t do vertical farming with tall crops or trees. We need permaculture farms. Not regenerative farming.
As someone who invests in “vertical farms” these farms are highly specialized and require MASSIVE capital cost. They are not a one sized fits all solution for example non western nations which don’t have freely accessible capital can not build even industrial farms. The only successful market so far for these highly industrialized styles of farming is the netherlands which a unique market which can sustain this style of farming. There are other factors such as crops which are not built for these styles of farming.
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Is a good video on the topic from a separate climate perspective.
@@donnyt857 we can & should be doing both. Follow nature’s example & diversify processes & crops.
@@ttopero permaculture diversifies farming. Regenerative farming practices often still encourage mono-cropping. And nature sure doesn’t like mono-crops!
They should work on finding a cover crop that they can harvest, some other off season food crop or maybe a flower crop for sale to the flower industry. Something that makes a profit to make that work at the end of the season worth it and profitable.
210k in profit over 5 years isn't enough?
@@Santospirito007 That's only $42,000 per year average for an enormous amount of work, that you do 7 days a week. Planting a cover crop takes a lot of work and costs money. Might as well plant something that makes a profit eh... Farmers don't always make a profit, sometimes there are bad years where they loose their crops to one thing or another, a little extra profit from a cover crop can help get through those rough years.
@@jean-claudelol563 we’ve found that the cost of planting cover crops is definitely worth it during the drought years, the root structure and organic material in the soil held moisture much better than our neighbors
hemp?
3:54 - You're showing steam from cooling towers, and letting the viewers assume that's smoke.
Steam is wasted energy from fossil fuel burning.
Yes Monsanto we see you coming with that big herbicide sell
It's amazing how in 2021 that any sort of synthetic fertilizer is necessary anymore. If we go down the path of nature and work with her, we can easily feed the world with healthy food.
His way of farming is great, but that carbon market thing is ridiculous - it's like middle ages when wealthy payed the church for "canceling" their sin.
i have 15 acres of mature pine trees and i want to transition into growing bamboo. i plan to make biochar from bamboo on site. how can i get from point A to point B while earning carbon credit? should i make biochar from pine? should i harvest slowly while replacing with bamboo?
Regenerative Agriculture is NOT just about sequestering carbon... It is about improving soil health - and thus more nutrient food, reducing monoculture, cutting off the pesticide and fertilizer use which devastates soil health and emits massive amounts of pollution during its own production process.
This is also why the west is so dry rn because when you don't keep soil healthy in a region, it gets hotter in that area the less the soil is protected.
What we wanna do is present what we have always done in a new way oh and we love marketing
No. That's definitly not it. Did you watch the video at all? Well it didn't explain any of the science this is far from conventional agriculture.
It's very very different. Check out this video to see how different it is: ua-cam.com/video/cFLyGVhu0bY/v-deo.html&lc=UgzXvmAwMBZa06B_2KV4AaABAg. It's called "this will change how you garden forever".
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Compost makers use fuels then turn it to carbon in the air right? If we read the athmostpheres balance sheet are they making enough carbon than they take away?
These practices follow sustainable agriculture practices not regenerative or restoration agriculture practices for those practices you plant more perrinieal crops and less anniuals. Plus to be truly sustainable or regenative you must reduce and eliminate synthetic inputs of everything including chemical herbicides and pesticides over the course of a few years while maintaining the other practices. Additionally the Heaney soil test measures the levels of carbon both inorganic and organic in the soil and those are what CO2 turns into when introduced to the soil by the plants photosynthetic properties.
Whaaat?, it's already known method in Asian since the beginning of time 😒, when the price goes down farmer tend to just replant again on top of current plant
In all ramifications of business there are do’s and don’ts. I’m a livestock and orchard farmer and as you know there are inputs and outputs involve in all businesses most especially farming that needs care and norture till it grows and stands firmly.
What am I saying,as a farmer one shouldn’t have just one source of income flow.steady flow in of cash helps 💯✅ in pushing the game to another higher level.
I have my little secret of steady in flow of cash and wouldn’t mind sharing with fellow farmers.it’s very important if you understand
@@mark.lewiswalberg2067 young farmer starting out wouldn’t mind hearing your cash flow tips
"regenerative" farming is another way of saying "government subsidies for not farming". Which makes total sense in a global food shortage. We're so progressive and awesome.
what do you spray the crop off with?
Hope those sticky notes aren’t his password but they probably are
They are, thanks
Nice catch
What are they spraying on the cover crop to knock it down to start to die and rot before the corn comes up from seeding?
Round up probably
Regenerative farming is one of the keys to human survival.
Great, but no links or connects for those of us interested in this?
We have been doing this in the south east for years.
My generation learnt about global warming in high school, It changed label to climate change not long after, The point is not that is a thing or that its a threat. take climate change as a concept, and humanity as one organism, dominance doesn't mean force or pressure, it doesn't describe a right to exploit harm or control, it does mean responsibility, similarly to how our parents once has dominance over us as children. This planet will become as we envision it, Our numbers are so many and our capability so large that we are now directly affecting how it evolves and how life here sustains. What this planet will be in 20 years from now will be the result of what we deem important.
Our values morels and priorities will be reflective of the environment we pass down to our children to inherit. Once humanity crosses the threshold of 10 billion the impact we will have will be felt by every single generation of humans born on this planet after that, Which places us at a very precarious position . We are looking down the barrel of a gun knowing what we do or don't do during our life times will create a precedence that will be follow by future generations.
We must lay the foundations of the world to come, We must begin to steer in a direct to lead the way for future generations to continue with. The threat we now know is very real isn't the only reason for humanities need to become more aware. we are part of this planet and it is a part of us its our home. We have spent all of human history thus far being selfish as individuals, we have nice homes cloths, cars, stuff, etc. Our numbers are so many now that we must being to become a selfish super organism by ensuring we have a nice planet to exist within.
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I fully support regenerative agriculture as long as glysophate isn't used.
These are ancient Indian agriculture practice. World are coming to these practising now.
Do not let the big corporate polluters piggyback on the carbon sequestering the farmers are doing. Just monetize the carbon credit and let the banks do that job, because they are the ones who are paying the oil companies and get the money for that from the carbon that oil companies flush out. That would automatically financially incentivize not just farmers, but it would also make investing on better technologies to measure carbon sequestering an interest of the banks, meanwhile making it detrimental for banks to give more loans to oil companies
agriculturist as a school course or professional is studying about the different soil or land at the same time they study about a plant that is suitable to so many different kind of a soil (they were a professional in the farming industry) making them called agriculturist
what spray do u use.
Clover also makes really good honey for beekeeping
We don't have any say in the Amazon being destroyed, thats various logging companies and the brazilian government supporting them, and only them
I'm very sad for my farmers here in India.
Many of them don't even have this kind of knowledge. They just depend on govt. for loan waivers, DBTs and MSPs. They only stick to 1-2 type of crops.
Sounds like you just informed lots of people a good job spot an way to teach people. Make a big class and charge 1 to 5 per head, you will gain huge following real quickly, especially on those farmers who are poor but have a smartphone and wifi nearby.
Rice-wheat is not the only things covered under the msp
I think you don't know how common regenerative farming, permaculture and multilayered farming is in India. The whole of India is not just a few farmlands in Punjab and Haryana. A lot of the farms in India that are not heavily mechanized are doing one or other kind of healthy farming practices. Just look up Permaculture in India and you'll know what went under your radar
The ocean contains 20 times more CO2 than the land, and 23 times more than farm land, notwithstanding the planet is 70% oceans. Of the total landmass 27% is livestock and only 7 percent of the total landmass is cropland. I am for a healthy clean planet and an advocate of regenerative farming, however, it has little to no effect on climate, especially when you consider the numbers involved and the fact that the total human contribution to CO2 in the atmosphere is 3%, 12ppm of the total 420ppm.
Can one use any plants for cover crops? and How about using cover crops that are marketable?
If we maximize and prove carbon sequestration by detailed measurements by certain sequestration techniques in certain solis/lattitudes etc, we don't have to expensively measure each and every time. So carbon credit for certain validated techniques and only check the use of the proven techniques. Much easier and cheaper for farmers. It needs to be implementable worldwide, so also in Africa for example.#SaveSoil
It is every owner of land in America that should be concerned by this. In fact home land is bigger than farm land so... If you are worried about climate change start with your own backyard.
Farmers : I practice this farming because it is sustainable and makes better products.
Market : let us lose focus on the good of farming and just think about turning a profit from a free market that's incapable of thinking long term.
Sounds good, let's leave it to trading to handle the solutions to the problems that trading brought in the first place.
This could be an authentic way to financially reward good stewardship & land repair. The challenge is that it’s coming from big-industry that cares less about the true benefits & more about their balance sheet & bottom line.
@@ttopero absolutely, and then encourage short term thinking to maximize revenue from this economy
Farmers exist on razor thin margins, they need any money they can generate
@@austinbevis4266 I absolutely agree. My point is that this market could encourage poor decisions regarding farming practices to boost this revenue. I prefer to pay a decent price for good food in a market where most of the money goes to the farmer.
@@SuperYellowsubmarin you know so little about agriculture that you believe this nonsense. I'm a 5th generation farmer BTW
Given that Bill Gate is the biggest private owner of farmland in US, he could use his position to push for policy changes in favor of regenerative agriculture. BTW, practicing regenerative agriculture also makes the land and the surrounding more resilience against floods and droughts, and mitigates the adverse effect of climate change.
CNBC: Carbon credits.
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Farming is hard af!
nothing is hard if you enjoy doing it!
It will not be consumers, in general we are not informed and make impulsive purchases.
Most do not want to be informed. Try laying out the facts on animal agriculture and witness the denial that ensues.
@@rickagfoster I was vegetarian for 15 yrs, and have now been wfpb for the last 13 ongoing years....animal agriculture, palm oil, and the atrocities we are doing in the ocean.....yep, most do NOT want to discuss and/or deny, or just want to remain ignorant.
Consumers will not drive regenerative agriculture- the shift will be based on economics, not ideology. Growers that make the shift will be the low cost, high quality producers moving forward, in addition to all of the other benefits to soil, ecology, and resilience to a changing climate. Farmers and ranchers growing regeneratively are now and will be making more money. It's smart business.
Why doesn't government just ban tillage?
Well, the problem isn't just tillage. It's also monocropping. It's leaving soils bare. It's loss of topsoil and insect collapse from all those things. Really, all the governments have to do is STOP providing INCENTIVES to the unsustainable farming, and START providing incentives to the regenerative farmers. This has to be done slowly because just swapping over quickly will bankrupt current farmers. It takes time to transition to regenerative agriculture. Their soils are dead, so they can't just sow a dense polyculture into a dead field and expect crops to grow without fertilizers. It takes a few years to rebuild the soils using pioneer plants and nitrogen fixers. But really all we need to do is stop propping up unsustainable practices that aren't even working (ecologically and economically).
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy yes, I meant that. Why it's not a law still - let's say in X years all the fields must be sustainable. The same way they plan to get rid of cars with combustion engines.
I don't like it when farmers use chemicals.
Then grow your own food and see how it works out for you! Remember also food grown in Mexico and South America have almost no restrictions on the chemicals and pesticides they use plus they are allowed to use human waste as fertilizer increasing the possibility of many diseases
It’s because you don’t know how it difficult it is for farmers.
Go back to grade school science class. Remember the table of elements? All matter is made up of chemicals.
@@markhasenour12 a lot of chemicals on farms are no good.
@@santillbrezon2161 stop using the word chemical and be specific. Any chemical can be lethal in the right dose. It's the dose that determines lethality not the substance. Look at LD50 studies
The atmosphere and our climate is not disconnected from the vegitation on earth!
Dont care about mitigating climate change, but do care about saving the soil. Also, anything that involves the government is doomed to fail
Only second half of the report tells the truth: it is hard to measure CO2 benefit from this business. It seems like a tricky hatchhike in wave of eco business resonance, not a serious solution.
the lady CNBC reporter needs to get her act together and dig deeper into this. no-till farms are not necessarily. the most successful at carbon sequestration. the signal is that they are not getting the carbon deep in the soil as the resource person says (i also believe he has not gone around and really looked into the work of very successful farmers). carbon sequestration cannot be achieved by above-ground generated carbon from crop residue. it is by way of carbon exuded by roots of healthy plants that it is achieved - deep down. check out how the soil darkens where the roots reach. and yes, it can be the silver bullet...blessings to all
In the corn & cover crop example here "healthy plants" are being grown all year round though, producing exudates. So one would expect to see organic matter building up deep in the soil aswell. Why do you think that's not happening as much as expected/desired and what's your solution?
Excuse me....he said once the seeds are planted and start coming up. He will "spray off" the cover crop of the flower crop.
Well....to speay off the cover crop....he's spraying glyphoste chemicals ...(weed sprays"....Round Up!!! Which Round Up,degrades the soil!!!! And too....Round Up gets picked up by the plants into the food change!!!!
And I say this. As I have a signicant farm in Illinois. That my family has farmed for 200 years.
Glyphosate most certainly degrades soil. And is a chelator of minerals. That depletes minerals in the foods people eat. And depleted minerals is a HUGE cause of metabolic disease in people.
This is a no brainer for Farmers
Ummmmm..... doesn't sell your carbon credit to another company kind of defeat the purpose of reducing carbon emissions, we all live on the same planet ffs
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No, it incentivizes the farmer to do the right thing. Yes, no one works for free.
@@samuelwilliams7331 Then label the stuff and get incentive that way. Carbon credits just means buy off your polution and continue with business as usual. I.e. creative bookkeeping that doesn't fix anything other than pretty up someones bankaccount.
this shoulda been happening forever. this is inevitible.
we used to spray the sludge of human waste on farm lands, after in was reclaimed, I think the smell would was bad, not as bad as cow waste, nut the human waste is not being composted, we still use the old way, putting it in water when most animals will bury it, that is nature showing you something, what would grow after composting will be amazing, but we still do not get how much damage we are doing to the whole world by not seeking other soultions, makes no sense, any farmer will tell you what does pass is good fertilizer, yet we throw it in water and think we can get the solids out, yes even people pass seeds that will germinate, we lose so much of the fine stuff, how much longer do you think this practise can go on? the Oceans, we even do not understand the creek will overflow from the river, if it was not modified>3 ( destroyed) so developer can
Just loved 12:47 showing a nuclear electric plant emitting STEAM into the atmosphere.
every time pollution is discussed they show that. no wonder bumpkins think that's pollution instead of harmless water.
so much BS in the news feel good to see something like this... its refreshing and accurate
1:12 Spray with what? Glyphosate?
So... do you spray off the cover crop with poisonous chemicals??
I hope this takes off. It's better for the environment, not to mention fields of random plants look so much better than fallow ones.
Support grassfed only regenerative beef, lamb, pork and pastured chicken as well as veggie farms with regenerative practices.
Spraying the cover crop makes it worse
Regenerative agriculture is a great idea. Carbon credits are a terrible one.
The ones that pushed it to this point have created a system to move on to that allows them to continue making bank and gaining even more control.
He’s taking government money and continues to destroy the soil.🤯
you said it, bro!
we have a water problem that is making desert conditions, when that human waste can be composted by sun? and used to regrow vegation?
4:45 Passwords?
If I lived in the US, I would want to become a farmer.
I live in canada and want to start farming. 2M dollar start up cost kind of hampers things! Especially when you lose 90% of your revenue to land and equipment loans and most of the rest to input costs. You need 1k+ acres to really make a living profit and that will cost you into the hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the land depending on where you operate. Gone are the days when you can make a decent living on 35-100 acres mostly because you are not allowed to store this years harvest for planting next year. Your seed company owns the seed and if you try they will sue you into oblivion for patent violation or something.
Large scale Farming involves inputs and outputs and as of that one needs a strong and continuous flow in of real cash to stand and grow the business very well
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You can make up to 3x profit of the amount invested.this has been my means of surviving my walberg’s farm till date.i’m into livestock rearing and orchard
@@ADobbin1 you can get 1k acres in the US for a few million if that. hundreds of millions would get you an empire.
Regenerative farming will drop the wells to wheels carbon foot print of E85 biofuel from 46% to 23% of gasoline fast. Capturing CO2 in corn ethanol makes biofuel powered ICE vehicles cleaner than EV's. Farmers even open up another market for corn: carbon credit compensation. Brilliant.
That is one smart farmer!
How about making it illegal to leave the land bare over winter.
I have so many questions about this subject.
Does anyone know the answers to this?
Could cover crops also be used to absorb methane from cattle in the form of their poop?
We just need to stop eating beef then the cattle won't be a problem anymore.
No they can't. That's the problem with methane. Once it's released, it takes roughly 8 years to break down in to CO2, and then that CO2 lasts in the atmosphere for about another 100 years. The mechanism for converting methane into CO2 in the air is oxidation. Plants can't deal with the methane itself. Methane is 100x worse of a greenhouse gas than CO2, but when you take into account everything (including the fact that the 8 years I mentioned is just a statistical half life, it's not like 100% of it converts after 8 years), taking all that into account, methane is about 30x worse than CO2. This is why large methane releases from say melting permafrost is really really REALLY scary. We can deal with the CO2 by planting more plants (and those plants will thrive in CO2 heavy air), but the methane itself is brutal. Death-knell.
what if we get rid of a lot of the cattle we have and just use that land for farming? Or just plant cover crop on all of that grazing land to take co2 out of atmosphere?
But the savages need their beef...so not gonna happen.
They do that already, lol
Maybe we shouldn't get rid of livestock altogether but rather look at native alternatives. The great north American plains had bison as part of the ecosystem. Until theu were nearly eradicated to disrupt the native American livelyhood.
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Livestock is not the problem. How we raise livestock is the problem.
ban Monsanto, thats how you fix this
Wow you are ignorant!