Helping Farmers Grow More With Less
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- The unpredictability of a changing climate means much greater uncertainty for farmers all over the world. On this episode of Future Ready, Emily Chang checks in with CropX, an agronomic data company hoping to guide the world’s farmers into an unknown future.
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The monoculture is also a contributing factor to poor soil health and pollinator die off.
@@highcue Let's assume the OP is about farming, not a backyard hobby.
In the case of farming, a farmer is a businessman. They are motivated by profit.
Is it shocking that a small farmer growing on just 1 acre can net near $100,000? This doesn't work with monoculture and the reasons are VAST. Monoculture ignores the science of farming. In which case you need to understand regenerative agriculture. And, there are farmers that own hundreds of acres of land and have switched to mostly regenerative ag. practices.
So, there is no scale at which excellent farming techniques that require no chemicals doesn't work. There is ONE model where it isn't at easy, ONLY one, and that's farming hundreds of acres of grain. However this is being worked out by different people around the world.
So this is something that takes too long to explain. If a person wants to know where EFFECTIVE agriculture is heading, you need to first study regenerative ag. And this ties in different techniques such as organic and no-till farming. But it's a lot more than just that, and no-till farming doesn't mean NEVER till. It really means developing the health of the soil to the point you never need to till again, and this could include some initial tilling.
In the US the best example of developing very healthy pasture that is never worked after initial treatments other than maybe some treatments of compost is Joel Salatin. He can outcompete other ranchers because his lands are more fertile along with the way animals are moved across it. He gets more cattle/acre than most farmers never using chemicals.
The only farmers that are going to be in trouble are those that ignore regenerative ag. Chemicals sterile the soil and that's a terrible practice. It makes for unhealthy plants that a farmer then feels compelled to dump more chemicals on such as fertilizers which also sterilizes soil. The only way to stop that cycle is stop using chemicals. This has been shown all over the US regardless of big ag companies ignoring it and telling farmers they have the solutions.
@@highcue that’s called a garden patch - monoculture is more like the 60 acres of corn in my back yard, across the street and up and down the road
Farmers employ several strategies to increase agricultural productivity while using fewer resources. These methods are essential for sustainability and addressing the challenges of feeding a growing global population. Here are some ways farmers achieve "more with less":
Precision Agriculture: Farmers use technology, such as GPS-guided tractors and drones, to optimize planting, irrigation, and harvesting. This minimizes waste and ensures resources are used efficiently.
Crop Rotation: Alternating crops in a field each season helps improve soil health and reduce the risk of pests and diseases. It also allows the soil to replenish its nutrients naturally.
No-Till Farming: This technique involves minimal soil disturbance during planting. It reduces erosion, conserves moisture, and decreases the need for fertilizers and fuel.
The problem with this is not the technology for measuring water, which that makes a lot of sense and is important for large farms, no so much for smaller farms.
The problem is the notion that this is a technology that helps with the VERY THING that has been destroying agriculture all over the world, and that's using chemicals.
There is only one SOLID technique that will save the world's agriculture instead of it continually getting destroyed over time and that's regenerative agriculture. Adding chemicals means over time certain chemical levels become too high in the soil and farmers are trying to overcome that with ever more chemicals to balance it out. This is called soil sterilization and its the opposite of how plants naturally grow.
John, those ships have sailed. The only interest Tech has in farming is the water. Water they need for chips and mineral extraction.
Maverik Adventures right below you.
Helping farmers grow more with less profit.
What happened to The Circurt w/ Emily Chang?
Seven-minute commercial. 😒
More.... Is ALWAYS more...
these videos open my brain
if you find this comment not so meaningful i am fit for nothing
Great 👍
What about small farmers?
What about them?
Emily looking so cute
a) This video was basically paid advertisement from CropX (my guess is Nokia is an investor which is why we saw their logo at the top left at the start of the video). This is really shoddy and scary journalism, and surely must violate ethics. Journalism can NEVER be neutral when funded by a company (or its investors), and the brief mention of a few of CropX’s competitors doesn’t make this video neutral in any functional manner.
b) Emily’s statement that “farmers haven’t changed practices in 10K years or so” is beyond factually incorrect. The advent of chemical agriculture at the turn of the 20th century, and its supercharging after the 2nd world war, and the addition of a smorgasbord of biocides has been a massive gamechanger in how agriculture operates compared to only a couple of centuries ago. Farmers are a diverse group, with many more than willing to change if the right incentives are provided (they notoriously sticky trap they are in now is a result of current incentive structures; in the US one of these is the scandalous insurance system which essentially has mothballed a significant transition to regenerative agriculture)
The future is to use grow tents to have multiple grow seasons.
That is very ressource and energy intensive so not the future or only for very expensive stuff, not feeding the world
outdoor greenhouses or shadow tents
This sounds similar to Yara International's AtFarm project (which helped recommended correct fertiliser application through satellite data).
(Disclaimer, I worked for them between 2020 and 2021)
As soon as you put chemicals into soil, you sterilize it. The best farmers produce the best crops and they avoid chemicals. There is a relationship that's destroyed by using chemicals and this is REAL science because you can see it under a microscope.
The symbiotic relationship starts with a plant producing sugars which pass through the roots into the soil. These sugars feed a biome of life. This biome produces elements that are then available to the plants which take this up through their roots. In other words roots are a two lane highway. The inputs to this system is compost. It also relies of plants being in the ground year round or almost year round. It also means no-till, which kills the biome in the soil. This system may also need organic materials to add specific elements into the ground such as potassium. Doing this with natural things vs. chemicals means you don't sterile the soil.
This is the most effective technique in the world for growing healthy plants that need no chemicals, along with building healthy soil over time along with being a carbon sink which also means the soil is making carbon available to the plants.
This is a VERY brief description of regenerative agriculture and it IS the form of agriculture that can save farmers from the very harm they do by using chemicals. It's also how the natural world works. SHOCKING. The natural world actually takes care of itself without humans dumping chemicals around the world.
Helping farmers grow more with less farmers. Ask yourselves why the US has some best farmland, in the world. Yet we use less than 2% of this land for vegetables and fruit. We have long produced enough to go around. Producing more sure but why? For who? Shareholder pockets that’s who
This is patronizing. Farmers can take a walk through their fields and know more than your technology can provide.
You leftists are really funny. You can't observe all of a field at all times throughout the day throughout the year, and certainly not precisely.
You've clearly lived your whole life in a giant city and take agriculture for granted.
A farmer allwayes know when to irrigate ..or not..
Sensors are useless.companis want to sell their product..
Yep, we all know that companies don't care about their costs.
Next you'll tell me farmers don't need seeds because there are companies that just want to sell seeds.