will harris - a bold return to giving a damn - carbon cowboys conversations #3
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- To learn more about one of our favorite Carbon Cowboys, see @WhiteOakPastures' Will Harris’ newly released book “A Bold Return to Giving a Damn.” Whether you’re interested in joining the growing movement of farmers and ranchers fighting to heal our lands, or just want to know more from someone who's seen both sides of the fence, Will’s insights are priceless.
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I'm convinced that industrial, conventional farms only make money because they're so heavily subsidized by the government. If they're going to subsidize anything, I would much rather the government subsidize regenerative/permaculture farms, ranches, food forests, orchards, etc. That way, they can grow and sustain their businesses while also allowing us, the consumers, to buy better and far healthier products that are more locally produced, at far better prices.
This would also incentivize conventional farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture/permaculture, meaning supply would begin to meet demand, and so market forces would begin to shift naturally, further driving prices down and decreasing the overall need for government subsidies in the long-run, since they will be building healthy soil and renewing ecosystems instead of denuding the soil and destroying ecosystems.
Exactly this! The gov subsidizes the poisoners
That's the best way for what I know.
Just imagine how much benefit to the health of everyone consuming the fruit from all these farms ... self perpetuating eco machine
He's 100% accurate on the claims of grass fed beef. I was at a market in North Texas, and all of the grass fed beed was imported. It all came from a singular brand out of Australia.
And, it probly wasn't beef.
The importance of KEEPING agricultural land agricultural…AND preventing corporate takeover of agricultural land.
As a crab fisherman in the gulf I've watched the effect the fertilizers from central Florida have caused "red tide" blooms fii i a the Caloosahatchee River. It's made crabbing a dying way of life here
That breaks my heart. Were pretty much powerless against all these huge ag corporations running these monoculture farms, on dead soil. Them, and their buddies are pulling all the strings.
Years ago, fertilizer, pesticide and fungicide application was my job at the commercial level for over a dozen years. We're dealing with the same algae blooms up here in Ohio streams and lakes, which kills me because I've been an avid fly-fisherman for years. I live about 7 miles from the Ohio River. From what I've seen with my eyes, I'm not surprised the gulf is dealing with issues. So much farmland and residential runoff ends up in a small area near the mouth of the Mississippi.
Great conversation. "Giving a damn" is a sorely lacking commodity these days, but with more people having conversations like this, who knows how things might change? Best of luck with the future.
I love this series. I'm sharing all the info I can find in school libraries and AG programs. I will buy Mr Harris' book for three libraries. Keep doing it right. It may save the planet.
That's the way to do it! The only way things get better is if we all work together!
@@carboncowboysCan't make a new comment, can only make a comment under another comment, even after opting to read the community guidelines posted when I go to comments. Seems this information is being suppressed. Comments, likes, and views drive videos to be seen more. There should be way more. Perhaps their community guidelines don't support good farming, cattle practices?
@@beccagee5905I have noticed exactly the same thing when I have tried to comment on other videos regarding other entirely different topics. I do think this stuff goes against the "agenda" and is therefore being suppressed. They want us to stop eating beef, I think so they can better control us, but this type of information makes us more aware of how we can sustainably raise the same amount or more beef making us less reliant on the "controllers."
We need the “Will Harris College of Agriculture”. I will be his first student.
Chwck out his friend Gabe Brown, Allen Williams, and others at Understanding Ag!
Omg finally!!!! Evidence of the right conversations starting to happen!!!
Great interview. Inspirational. Should be required for Congress.
It's people like both of you that give me actual hope for the future. Thank you ❤
Can’t wait to read the book . I could watch Peter and Will chatting for hours
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Also loved the question about succession at the end! The future generation needs to be taught this way of farming not the "conventional way "
Understanding displaced cost is the key to fixing our society
I adore hearing Will Harris speak. Thanks for such a treat.
Will is an inspiration in so many ways.
All wealth comes from the soil so if it’s healthy then you will most likely be prosperous
Loved that conversation!! Thanks for what you guys do Peter!!
Also loved the question about succession at the end! The future generation needs to be taught this way of farming not the "conventional way "
👌🐔📸 Quality people, using quality strategies to produce quality products!👌🐔📸
Even those in the suburbs need to change the way their lawns are landscaped. Plant no mow with more native plants and flowers.
You know I killed my lawn about 6 years ago. I let it go natural for awhile then started to spread cover crop seeds. In the fall I pile the yard waste in the front and let it rot. While it’s “ugly” it saved us from flooding during the big rains over the last few years. Everyone else flooded but our ground did so well absorbing the rainfall with the “ugly” waste. I removed it in the spring, added a small swell and slowly been adding local natives in. Additionally the chicken bedding that doesn’t go into compost goes up front too. I do want to add a small patch of grass for grounding. It feels better, but just a small patch.
Just to stop having the lawn care companies use fertilizer, pesticide and fungicide treatments and it would make a big change. People need to fortify their soil naturally for a few years. Aerating and adding good soil...
just ordered Mr. Harris' book. You two are stellar human beings. Thanks for all you do.
I'm ten minutes in ani already loving theses Guy Conversation🤘😂🤘 Much love and respect for a True Blue Down to Earth guy's. Beautiful post and looking forward to seeing more ❤ Matt Australia 🌏
I really love your content... I've been learning a lot about microbes and the importance of soil health and love that you're educating people on the subject.
I am so encouraged by what’s being done here. With all the “bad” news out there you and your followers are a voice in the wilderness. I’m actually on the point of tears from the joy because of this project. Whether you’re a believer or not it’s inconsequential but OMG you’re making a difference.
I don’t care who wrote it. I want to listen to the audio book narrated by Will Harris. He’s got a voice as smooth as molasses
Great interview.
I am so glad someone cares about something other than money when it comes to food. Will Harris is a wonderful person and I really appreciate the fact that he exists. The book is spectacular by the way. Worth it. Will narrates it on audible, too.
This is my opinion.. I think it relates …. The health of the land and Soil … is like the human body. Conventional medicine address the symptoms and rush to prescribe a pill 💊… Same with with industrialize farming depending on chemicals and fertilizers that benefits chemical companies…. The Organic way of farming… seed banks… rotational grazing …native grasses coming back … benefits the farmer in addressing the costs and dependence on conventional farming. Even the biblical resting the soil every 7 years there is a tremendous benefit.
I’ve got 22 acres fertilizer free land an would love to talk
It makes me so sad that the ag land surrounding our home will likely soon be gone once the city caves to pressures to rezone. Farming, especially regeneratively, comes across as ministry work (for the cause, not the money) compared to developer money. My family home neighbors a multi-gen commercial flower farm operation in San Diego-a company widely respected in the grower circles, as they have more PhDs in their fam than any other farming family in the US (meaning they should know better). How do we get a conservative 60M/year operation to see the value in regen? If we can't, then the sad truth is that aerial and blower truck spraying of chemicals several times a week is worse than a thousand houses or a strip mall. :(
I hear you. I’m up in Yolo county, right next to UC DAVIS, and our two towns sold out to rezoning AG land to residential just so the big land developers can come in and out price us all. The good folks who work the land can’t afford to live here anymore. The land is quickly going away into ugly oversized homes. It’s sad. We moved here for the farming town.
That's what happened to the state of NEW JERSEY. it's known as the GARDEN STATE, feeding New York City & Philadelphia...
Then, strip malls & subdivisions.
Listening to the farmer talk makes me miss Lewis Grizzard 😢
5:12 economic damage not reflected…
So good! Recognizing the true costs.
5:28 through 5:48 damage.
The cost does not fall to the chemical company, etc.
great video!!
HealingLoveALL
How come we cut comment on some of your other vids?
Get him to introduce you to Joe. Need more like you on JRE. I'm here in part because of Will on JRE twice.
I would love to see you have a conversation with these ranchers and Bill Gates, who believes it is better for the planet for everyone to eat less or no meat.
No...Will is very wrong...misinformed about College Scholastics, transferring all around. Teaching just one narrow thought about farming.
Will doesn't understand college Professor Scholastics. Professors, to be a professors. Have to do original research on a narrow...unknown knowledge of the world. Then publish and defend their research. In order to become a Professor. Which now becomes his narrow speciality.
Ok...so yeah they transferr around. To bring new ideas to new parts of the country. Sooo....I like Will. But alot of his discussion is pretty much uniformed. Except for the overall topic. That we need to quit destroying the ground.
And as I say this. I have a large farm in Illinois. That's been in my family for over 200 years....and now working on 300 years. My Great Grandfather was a huge cattlemen. From the 1880s grasslands of Montana, clear to the east coast.
And while I too am a farmer. But yet I am also an Oceanographer. Educated with graduate degrees In Oceanogrpahy. Law.... Biophysiology, Chemistry and Mathematics. Doing research for my Professor on ag chemical cancers. Spending time sailing the ocean on research vessels...and sailing the oceans running other ships and other vessels. Including Fishing for King Crab in the Aleutians in the winter. And when I wasn't on a ship. I was farming. Even now....I do biochemical research. In metabolic diseases, that all stem from factory farming...and factory food production.
So anyway...
Wills a nice guy. But yes....in the western food systems of growing junk crap, to turn it into bags of junk crap that the world calls food.
The world is eating itself into disease, and a slow golden years misery!!
This will change!!
Jeffery...⚘️
@Jj-gi2uv
Hey....!!
I am developing not just a book. But a whole company around this. My family was the original settlers, of our sizeable, family farm in western Illinois. That's been in the family for over 200 years now. From which vegetables will be grown. With grassfed meats grown and raised, from Montana. In addition to seafood. From our boats in the Bering Sea, Alaska.
All of it...will go to supply our chain of farmers markets, in most major cities.
In addition....to continue building out our social media presence around the world. That focuses upon nutrition and metabolic diseases. That's laid out in a well organized manner.
Jeffery....⚘️
There is a global effort to totally do away with it cattle production, even if it's proven using good grazing methods to be good for the environment. Look at how our plains were thriving when millions of buffalo were grazing there. The land needs animals to sustain natural life, just as plants are, but more importantly using our intelligence to observe and use what we know to benefit the land.
@beccagee5905 Yep...!! And one thing to, that millions and millions of Buffalo always did that cows don't. Buffalo over 1,000s of years. Dug big Buffalo wallows. To roll in. To dust themselves from flies and insects.
There were millions and millions of these on the plains. That when There was rain and snow. These willows would catch the moisture into pools. That would soak down into the ground...for grasses to grow.
Which....over in Africa. They are re-greening their old plains. That are now barren and dry. By digging these shallow indentations in the ground. To catch rain that runs off the ground in these entrapments. That their wild animal populations use to dig...butvtheyvwere killed off...just like the Buffalo.
Also...in the US plains. They are transplanting beavers back in. That also damn up tiny streams in the plains. That form when it rains. These beaver dams are again creating shallow ponds. That puts more water in the soil.
And again...there were 100's of millions of beavers....building ponds on the arid plains. But they too were all trapped off!!