most farmers already knew that soil health was important.They just want you to believe they were ignorant before. If this farmer didn't know that before I would be very surprised. Organic farming has preached this for over 40 years.
I think it is more of a gradual understanding. The introduction of herbicides and insecticides seemed revolutionary at the time. These scientific break throughs helped farmers become more efficient and profitable. Imagine farming acres upon acres of land with slim profit margins and a pay off only at the end of the season, only to have crops destroyed or severely damaged because of infestation or disease. Bankruptcy! These practices gave a bit of security and thus these methods continued for generations. And yet slowly, at first, the yields reduced and the need for more acreage to be profitable increased. It was a run away train. Now we are here, with antiquated methods and a sprinkle of stubbornness and fear of the unknown. The only way it will change is through those that are bold enough to try new methods, which in reality are old methods long forgotten.
Awesome stuff future looks bright as can be. The little guys follow the big guys almost always. Once enough big guys dial it in we will see broad-scale change seemingly just in the nick of time. For some reason we humans need to destroy to understand.
What is the cover crop they used? How is the cover crop terminated? They told use their cash crop is corn which is interseeded after it dies with cover crop. The corn is then followed by barley as the main crop. Do they interseed barley with a cover crop and which one? Could they eventually switch from regenerative to regenerative organic with this transition?
Regenerative is organic since it doesn't require inputs. Also, cover crops vary from location to location depending on the climate, so he may not have said what he used because he didn't want to mislead anyone into thinking that would work on their fields in some other area of the country.
@@wendyscott8425 regenerative may be Organic sometimes, but the majority of growers are using herbicides and synthetic fertilizers. It is a move in a great direction. Unfortunately Organic isn’t always regenerative. USDA is in the clutches of industrial ag, it allows hydroponic, soil less, to be labeled Organic. No other countries do.
@ Agreed, although I haven't heard of too many regenerative ranchers or farmers using inputs. Why would they? I realized one day that the “organic” lettuce I was buying was grown without soil. So I stopped buying it. I’ve gone to a mostly carnivore diet now. It’s saving me money and time, even with the cost of the occasional grass-fed ribeye steak 🥩 I indulge in. 😋
The results were amazing: flash to a side by side image showing two pulled up plants side by side. Great scientific method 😀. Secondly, is that dude blind…how would he know based on the test results of the side by side image.
I think it would be awesome to take all the money we spend on trying to clean up the Chesapeake bay and just use that money to incentivize farmers to grow 50ft native grassland buffers around every pond, ditch, road runoff, etc. I think that would be money well spent for wildlife and water quality. It would work I think if farmers, conservationists, tax payers, and government officials would get together but thats probably asking quite a lot
People who know very little about crop farming have no idea what they are seeing. There are no real numbers regarding the cost of the seed/time returns on investment. These videos always leave out the real numbers. There are no soil test comparisons, no mention of crop quality test, soil biology numbers or anything that is important. Just someone's opinion about how great something is without any facts. Whoever makes these videos should at least show some real data.
It is a tiny step toward regenerative agriculture but they are still very far from the real regenerative agriculture. Some of the key techniques being used in real regenerative agriculture (not the industrial regenerative agriculture) to increase soil health are no tillage, no big machines compacting the soil, cover crops all year long, no use of chemical inputs and the integration of plants and animals. So these agriculteurs are still far from the real regenerative agriculture. Chemical companies are not promoting that approach, they rather use the same techniques as the cigarette companies in the 60s, they seed the doubts to not loose their lucrative business, they do not care about population health. Besides they need unhealthy people, otherwise their pharmaceutic business would go bankrupt.
422 square miles of crop production for animal feed when they could revert to natural ecologies and raise the same animals without the massive pollution
Love seeing this movement catching on more and more. Support your local regenerative farmers ❤
Regenerative is definitely the way to go forward. Thanks for highlighting this :)
Underrated video. So well produced.
Thank you so much! I am so excited to see even big farm like this can do it! Sharing this to more people~
I want to see this EVERYWHERE 💚 great work
Exciting! It seems like something many more farmers can get on board with because it's not a HUGE change, but it's a profitable one.
This is most definitely a HUGE change. if just one farmer can wrap their head around this principle. It's HUGE
It's crazy that Farmers are only now discovering that soil health is an important thing.
They aren't. They are just only now being convinced to take the temporary hit.
most farmers already knew that soil health was important.They just want you to believe they were ignorant before. If this farmer didn't know that before I would be very surprised. Organic farming has preached this for over 40 years.
I think it is more of a gradual understanding. The introduction of herbicides and insecticides seemed revolutionary at the time. These scientific break throughs helped farmers become more efficient and profitable. Imagine farming acres upon acres of land with slim profit margins and a pay off only at the end of the season, only to have crops destroyed or severely damaged because of infestation or disease. Bankruptcy! These practices gave a bit of security and thus these methods continued for generations. And yet slowly, at first, the yields reduced and the need for more acreage to be profitable increased. It was a run away train. Now we are here, with antiquated methods and a sprinkle of stubbornness and fear of the unknown. The only way it will change is through those that are bold enough to try new methods, which in reality are old methods long forgotten.
Very interesting , Kallstrom Sweet Corn says .
Awesome stuff future looks bright as can be. The little guys follow the big guys almost always. Once enough big guys dial it in we will see broad-scale change seemingly just in the nick of time. For some reason we humans need to destroy to understand.
What is the cover crop they used? How is the cover crop terminated? They told use their cash crop is corn which is interseeded after it dies with cover crop. The corn is then followed by barley as the main crop. Do they interseed barley with a cover crop and which one? Could they eventually switch from regenerative to regenerative organic with this transition?
Regenerative is organic since it doesn't require inputs. Also, cover crops vary from location to location depending on the climate, so he may not have said what he used because he didn't want to mislead anyone into thinking that would work on their fields in some other area of the country.
@@wendyscott8425 regenerative may be Organic sometimes, but the majority of growers are using herbicides and synthetic fertilizers. It is a move in a great direction.
Unfortunately Organic isn’t always regenerative. USDA is in the clutches of industrial ag, it allows hydroponic, soil less, to be labeled Organic. No other countries do.
@ Agreed, although I haven't heard of too many regenerative ranchers or farmers using inputs. Why would they? I realized one day that the “organic” lettuce I was buying was grown without soil. So I stopped buying it. I’ve gone to a mostly carnivore diet now. It’s saving me money and time, even with the cost of the occasional grass-fed ribeye steak 🥩 I indulge in. 😋
Is it possible to plant cash crop and cover crops at same time?
Was there a yield difference bewtween the 60" rows and whatever they normally space the crop at?
The results were amazing: flash to a side by side image showing two pulled up plants side by side. Great scientific method 😀. Secondly, is that dude blind…how would he know based on the test results of the side by side image.
Amazing info! I want to know if they can reseed the grain they harvested from last season ?
They should be able to do that. It's been happening for 10,000 odd years
Win, win, win! More of this, please
SO they're just interseeding w cover crop and calling that regen? I guess that will reduce runoff. Are they reducing chemical inputs? No glyphosate??
They still use herbicides
I think it would be awesome to take all the money we spend on trying to clean up the Chesapeake bay and just use that money to incentivize farmers to grow 50ft native grassland buffers around every pond, ditch, road runoff, etc. I think that would be money well spent for wildlife and water quality. It would work I think if farmers, conservationists, tax payers, and government officials would get together but thats probably asking quite a lot
👋
270,000 acres ?
People who know very little about crop farming have no idea what they are seeing. There are no real numbers regarding the cost of the seed/time returns on investment. These videos always leave out the real numbers. There are no soil test comparisons, no mention of crop quality test, soil biology numbers or anything that is important. Just someone's opinion about how great something is without any facts. Whoever makes these videos should at least show some real data.
It is a tiny step toward regenerative agriculture but they are still very far from the real regenerative agriculture. Some of the key techniques being used in real regenerative agriculture (not the industrial regenerative agriculture) to increase soil health are no tillage, no big machines compacting the soil, cover crops all year long, no use of chemical inputs and the integration of plants and animals. So these agriculteurs are still far from the real regenerative agriculture.
Chemical companies are not promoting that approach, they rather use the same techniques as the cigarette companies in the 60s, they seed the doubts to not loose their lucrative business, they do not care about population health. Besides they need unhealthy people, otherwise their pharmaceutic business would go bankrupt.
John Deer moved to Mexico......
422 square miles of crop production for animal feed when they could revert to natural ecologies and raise the same animals without the massive pollution
Baby steps.