Gabe Brown_Regeneration of our lands for a sustainable future
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Gabe Brown gave this key note presentation "Regeneration of our lands for a sustainable future" as part of the 2017 AERO Expo held in Butte Montana. aeromt.org/
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New Brunswick Canada. Corn - repeat - grown around 20,000 chicken houses. All the land now owned by factory farm owners. In the last 40 yrs. I did not realize it! Now I retired - and working on bringing 2 properties - 80 acres and 25 - to a Regen situation. Thank YOU so much for keeping this info up - online. Gives me threads to follow and decide how to begin. Sadly - I started with till, because that was how my grandfather and dad taught me 45 yrs ago. In a Month - I am working to follow Regen and continue. PLanting again tomorrow. 125 day grow season here.
One of my favoured 'shares': getting this out on UA-cam.
Every farmer that takes a check from the government should be required to watch this series first.
On whether we have learned anything since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, which was an important factor in the Great Depression - Those in the middle of the country know that many, maybe most, of the windbreaks that were planted in response to the Dust Bowl have been removed. to make it possible to use larger and larger machinery to plow, till, plant, spray, spray, and spray (not a typo), then harvest the fields.
After all, many textbooks told us that the main function of soil was to hold the roots of plants.
In addition to slowing wind across fields, windbreaks and hedgerows provided a refuge for soil life, pollinators, beneficial insects, and wildlife.
Diversity = Resilience
People thought that the problems of the Dust Bowl were solved forever:
- We could pump water from deep underground to irrigate, so who cared if it didn't rain?
- Soil fertility did not matter, since we could just apply synthetic fertilizers. These were originally marketed as 'artificial manure'.
- Toxic chemicals sprayed on food and feed crops would 'cure' any disease or pest problems that showed up because of drought-stress, or infertile soils, etc.
Gabe's presentation, showing the loss of nutrients in food, and the loss of topsoil to wind and water erosion show how foolish this thinking is.
NOTE: The 'soil as root holder' mindset created a huge market for the chemical companies. The plants grow on depleted, compacted soil, but they do not grow well. They NEED the insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides BECAUSE the soil is not healthy, and the plants are therefore not healthy. Like humans, those who are malnourished (even if overweight) are vulnerable to disease. Livestock producers know malnourished animals are also vulnerable to parasites.
Little did they known that the processes of tilling harvested the nutrients from the soil life that was killed. The application of synthetic fertilizers essential 'mines' the nutrients in soils that were put there by the interaction of sunlight, plants, the soil food web, and herbivore animals, and other animals. Too many people, on farms and in cities, think that animal hurt the environment, but without the massive herds of herbivores, the deep fertile soils that are still being mined via industrial style crop production in much of the Mid-West would not exist.
In healthy soil, there are more organisms in a tablespoon of soil than there are people on Earth, and there are TENS of THOUSANDS of different species of soil life, each with a role to play.
really, really wish we could have seen more of his visuals....
Yes, That would be the better outcome but they are not available. We will do better next time......
there's a lot of him on youtube, for example: ua-cam.com/video/uUmIdq0D6-A/v-deo.html
Hi Lani, Yes this was the first video recording we did that day, and we had problems getting the slides to the How to farm and garden editor. You can see more information with pictures in the video Sustainable Farming and Ranching in a Hotter, Drier Climate by Gabe Brown at AERO MT Expo.
@@EclipseVisualSystems -It's a common problem; those filming presentations tend to shoot the speaker and spend very little time on their slides. Yet we really don't need to see the speaker at all to understand their talk. As pretty as Gabe is... it would have been much better to record his slides, with just an occasional look at Gabe. That way we can listen to him as we take in what he is showing us on his slides - instead of having to constantly stop the video, or go back... That takes a lot more time, something most farmers do not have.
Looking forward to at least 2/3rds of the time on slides next time! Thank you for recording Gabe's talk, and for sharing it with us!!
The staff at AERO was not able to get the slides from him. They had better success on the 2018 presentations.
If would like more information watch Sustainable Farming and Ranching in a Hotter, Drier, Climate.
He mentions in one video that the grasslands of the US mid-west (Colorado, etc.,) the first 'explorers' encountered were saddle high.
Gabe is lovely but could we see his photos he's discussing instead of looking at him?
You know he's from North Dakota when he says he spends 6 months every winter visiting other ag producers.
Can this be used in our garden? A smaller scale
Definitely can be used at any scale. The channel has many good videos where you can learn about the how too.
If there is any kind of dirt, sand, clay, etc, these principles can apply successfully
Wyoming?