Years ago I watched a short film about reclaiming land at the edge of the encroaching Sahara. For many years roaming herds of ungulates were blamed for the phenomena as their urine and sharp hooves caused the loss of topsoil. When actual scientific observation and study was done it showed that the opposite was the case. It was the thinning of the herds that was correlating with increased loss of topsoil. Areas, where the herds moved through, showed healthier vegetation growth.
@@peterbyck4221 I can't even remember exactly when I saw it. I think it was on the Discovery channel back in the early nineties or even the late eighties. The fact that it has remained obscure may mean that they discovered their thesis was wrong, or it just got forgotten. Hans Asperger's observations of autistic children remained unknown for many years before they were unearthed, so it just may be that with all the social/political upheavals of the region that their work was forgotten. This guy, www.youtube.com/@mrbisse1 has some video about rehabilitating some pasture on his farm by letting the pigs graze and stir things up.
*Bison not buffalo in North America. That said, great to see some truth finally surface as sustainable patch-burn-grazing and rotational grazing of native prairie grasses is a huge way to help with climate actions across North America.
" At last this is hitting mainstream media! " Don't worry, the vegan propagandists backed up by the big food and big fertilizer industries will fight back...
More water held by the roots when it rains = cleaner rivers, more fish. And no more chemical fertilizers, pesticides, Round-up in the ocean!!! And ranchers make a LOT more money.
I'm shocked this was shown on CNN! However, I highly doubt that regenerative farming will get much press in the future. Corporate interests have been controlling the narrative since the 1950's.
This is information that every human needs to know! Nature has tools for us, and we need to leave our technological hubris behind before we destroy all of it!
Don’t forget the Dung beetles. The real winners. No smell. No piles of piles left. Native grasses with root 12-15 ft down. It’s insane. Buffalo did the same thing, instinctively.
It's not just about climate change. Regenerative farming is also necessary to put nutrition back in our food and get toxins out! The dead "food-like" substances that fill the processed foods sections in grocery stores are responsible for virtually all the chronic diseases that are overloading our healthcare system and causing early miserable deaths.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR WORD TO SPREAD ON GRAZING REGENERATIVELY, THANK YOU, BILL WEIR FOR HAVING THE WISDOM TO BRING THIS LIFE ALTERING METHHOD TO LIGHT. ROOTS SO DEEP YOU CAN SEE LIGHT NOT THE DEVIL...
Dont forget all the water issues related to the current farming practices. Every field in iowa has tile lines trenched thru it. So when we get any amount of rain, it floods really bad or we get 3-5ft bubbles of water rushing down our streams and rivers. That just sucks top soils, and nutrients down those tubes and out to the oceans within a few weeks
Common across humanity until ww2. That when big Ag moved in and today we have Monsanto ( or Bayer or a German company sharing bayers ownership to throw us off the label )
Sarah Taber talks about this. She tells how current american farming is modeled after 1950s factories. You grow food for animals one place, feed them in another. They all happen in silos. But it is inefficient in the long run, not to mention inhumane for animals and bad for our health as well. She was explaining how moving animals around on the land was the way to go. Glad to see this in action
Would be interested to see the numbers. In wildfire country, open grazing is needed to eat all the fuel down. Places like Montana and California have almost zero rain half the year. Especially California. Not so sure regenerative grazing would work there. At the same time, they don’t t fertilize or irrigate at all. They Dry farm then ship the cattle to Colorado feed lots. One thing that would make California’s efficient is allowing for local butchering of cattle instead of shipping them off.
After 50 years of conventional farming we have started rotational grazing of about 50 Hereford cows. Nothing prettier than a healthy herd of cows grazing grass instead of being confined and eating corn.
No mention in this CNN article about the number one carbon sequestration system in the world. Healthy grassland prairie. Roots so deep. Mammals breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. What happens to the carbon? It’s moved down and locked into the soil.
Cows and livestock do not contribute nearly as much as cities. They say that they “can’t measure” ( I call BS) industry, humans, vehicles, paving, houses, buildings, etc..
Can it scale? Not to the ridiculous size of modern farms. But it can 10x the reveue per acre... and it can scale enough to put more farmers back on the land... large scale farms are better for john deere, monsanto, and Cargill... will the world starve? No, but the ethanol plant may go broke... not sad.
So excited to see you guys getting some much needed national exposure!! I want to see this series so badly, the teasers on YT are great but I want the deep dives! 😊
Keep an eye out! We're fighting for the best streaming home possible for the series, but there's going to be lots more content coming. After a decade of hard work and research, we're planning to bring this message everywhere it needs to be heard.
@@carboncowboys guys this is SO important, I’ve been preaching this part of the climate solution for years! Definitely will keep a lookout 👀 for announcements and new content on the channel, thanks for the great work! 👏🏻👍🏻
Most cattle aren't even grazed. This is a very small percentage of the cows we use for food. What we eat are kept in massive buildings and fed corn and never see a field. Even if every one of these farmers changed to this method it's nothing in the big scheme of meat production. CAFOs don't need land so why would they bother with this.
Stop taking the government subsidies and practice what our ancestors did up til about the 1950s when modern farming techniques took over. There used to be a documentary on Netflix about a farmer who did that. Started growing other crops than the government subsidized, rotated his cows etc. His land was HEALTHY. Is crops Abundant, his livestock Plentifle and fly free.
Ok but that’s labeling livestock not cows. What percentage of that overall 14% belongs to cows. It’s much smaller so we need to get the breakdown first to understand cows part in that percentage. Simply watch animals in the wild like bison, wilder beasts etc. they move in, graze, stomp, leave manure and move on. It’s nothing new.
No way... Sherlocks.... "simple hack".... it's nature's way... just get outside... go as far from the city and watch nature... all the answers are there!
Peter made his first film on regenerative grazing, Soil Carbon Cowboys starring Gabe Brown, Allen Williams, and Neil Dennis, over ten years ago. We've also featured friend of the channel Greg Judy multiple times - he's awesome! Stay tuned for more on Joel Salatin - we're a tiny team with limited resources - but we're certainly fans. Check our shorts for more - or start with Soil Carbon Cowboys and the other nine films currently available here on UA-cam! ua-cam.com/video/MDoUDLbg8tg/v-deo.html
I'm not a CNN fan but hats off to them for covering this topic.
I wonder how much people like bill gates fought this.
Congratulations to CNN. How many acres of corn and wheat should be converted to grazing instead of feed lots.
CNN do more coverage of this!!! Great Interview!!!
Makes perfect sense even to this city boy. Amazed to see CNN airing this. There's hope for the world after all.
I haven’t heard a bob white in over 25 years. Great to know ethically raising cows can be sustainable and a big plus for the environment.
Would love to see a 1 year update! Thanks for reporting on this, Bill!
We gotta keep this fight going against the machine!
Keep up the good work!
Years ago I watched a short film about reclaiming land at the edge of the encroaching Sahara. For many years roaming herds of ungulates were blamed for the phenomena as their urine and sharp hooves caused the loss of topsoil. When actual scientific observation and study was done it showed that the opposite was the case. It was the thinning of the herds that was correlating with increased loss of topsoil. Areas, where the herds moved through, showed healthier vegetation growth.
That's a compelling study Nick. Do you have a link to that short film by any chance - I know it's been years since you've seen it.
@@peterbyck4221 I can't even remember exactly when I saw it. I think it was on the Discovery channel back in the early nineties or even the late eighties. The fact that it has remained obscure may mean that they discovered their thesis was wrong, or it just got forgotten. Hans Asperger's observations of autistic children remained unknown for many years before they were unearthed, so it just may be that with all the social/political upheavals of the region that their work was forgotten. This guy, www.youtube.com/@mrbisse1 has some video about rehabilitating some pasture on his farm by letting the pigs graze and stir things up.
Absolutely Amazing!!
25 years later Joel salatin and gabe brown can say “F ing finally!!!”
Joel and Gabe are pioneers - and great teachers - and kind hosts!
Was about to say I saw this Year's ago by Joel
And Bill Mollison - Permaculture 1960's (not strictly about cows but covers all the bases with letting mother nature do her job)
50 years later Alan Savary can say "I told you about this in the 70's." His TED talk is eye-popping.
He was truly a visionary. Imagine of people had listened.
Imagine if he had kept silent. Would this movement had come this far? And now it's our onus to keep it growing. Literally.
*Bison not buffalo in North America. That said, great to see some truth finally surface as sustainable patch-burn-grazing and rotational grazing of native prairie grasses is a huge way to help with climate actions across North America.
At last this is hitting mainstream media!
I guess better late than never.
Our goal is to make this the new mainstream. With solid research in hand, we're just getting started.
" At last this is hitting mainstream media! "
Don't worry, the vegan propagandists backed up by the big food and big fertilizer industries will fight back...
BRAVO! A huge piece on CNN, in my mind probably has the broadest base of viewers :)
Hell, yes. Even the main news has got the message.
More water held by the roots when it rains = cleaner rivers, more fish. And no more chemical fertilizers, pesticides, Round-up in the ocean!!! And ranchers make a LOT more money.
Exactly! AMP Grazing and regenerative agriculture can help not just farmers, but everyone who surrounds them as well!
I'm shocked this was shown on CNN! However, I highly doubt that regenerative farming will get much press in the future. Corporate interests have been controlling the narrative since the 1950's.
Thanks CNN for highlighting what some farmers have known for decades! It just wasn’t conducive to the sales of products by large Ag corporations.
Great piece.
Thanks! We're blown away by Bill Weir's support.
This is information that every human needs to know! Nature has tools for us, and we need to leave our technological hubris behind before we destroy all of it!
Wonderful! I hope it catches on because I do not want to eat lab grown meat🤢
I almost didn’t watch this bc CNN posted it so I thought there would be some bs talking about stopping farming
Thank you! The way we treat our food animals is a disgrace. We should have seen this years ago when the movement happened.
Don’t forget the Dung beetles. The real winners. No smell. No piles of piles left. Native grasses with root 12-15 ft down. It’s insane. Buffalo did the same thing, instinctively.
It's not just about climate change. Regenerative farming is also necessary to put nutrition back in our food and get toxins out! The dead "food-like" substances that fill the processed foods sections in grocery stores are responsible for virtually all the chronic diseases that are overloading our healthcare system and causing early miserable deaths.
Chuffed to bits here in the UK, this is beautiful
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR WORD TO SPREAD ON GRAZING REGENERATIVELY, THANK YOU, BILL WEIR FOR HAVING THE WISDOM TO BRING THIS LIFE ALTERING METHHOD TO LIGHT. ROOTS SO DEEP YOU CAN SEE LIGHT NOT THE DEVIL...
Curious for the peer review
“Going against the grain…” - no pun intended.
Dont forget all the water issues related to the current farming practices. Every field in iowa has tile lines trenched thru it. So when we get any amount of rain, it floods really bad or we get 3-5ft bubbles of water rushing down our streams and rivers. That just sucks top soils, and nutrients down those tubes and out to the oceans within a few weeks
It is a travesty that farmers have to have second jobs to pay for fertilizer. Save our farmers!
0:33 blaming it on the farmer instead of big ag that controls them? How do the conventional farmers survive the transition away from big ag?
Common across humanity until ww2. That when big Ag moved in and today we have Monsanto ( or Bayer or a German company sharing bayers ownership to throw us off the label )
Sarah Taber talks about this. She tells how current american farming is modeled after 1950s factories. You grow food for animals one place, feed them in another. They all happen in silos. But it is inefficient in the long run, not to mention inhumane for animals and bad for our health as well. She was explaining how moving animals around on the land was the way to go. Glad to see this in action
Would be interested to see the numbers.
In wildfire country, open grazing is needed to eat all the fuel down. Places like Montana and California have almost zero rain half the year. Especially California. Not so sure regenerative grazing would work there.
At the same time, they don’t t fertilize or irrigate at all. They Dry farm then ship the cattle to Colorado feed lots.
One thing that would make California’s efficient is allowing for local butchering of cattle instead of shipping them off.
I'm shocked CNN showed this story. Amp farming is the solution. Not normally what CNN advertises.
After 50 years of conventional farming we have started rotational grazing of about 50 Hereford cows. Nothing prettier than a healthy herd of cows grazing grass instead of being confined and eating corn.
No mention in this CNN article about the number one carbon sequestration system in the world. Healthy grassland prairie. Roots so deep. Mammals breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
What happens to the carbon?
It’s moved down and locked into the soil.
Cows and livestock do not contribute nearly as much as cities. They say that they “can’t measure” ( I call BS) industry, humans, vehicles, paving, houses, buildings, etc..
Imagine being called out on your bullshit so often that you have to finally tell the truth.
Can it scale? Not to the ridiculous size of modern farms. But it can 10x the reveue per acre... and it can scale enough to put more farmers back on the land... large scale farms are better for john deere, monsanto, and Cargill... will the world starve? No, but the ethanol plant may go broke... not sad.
Actually it can scale like that. There is one couple in Texas that runs 5000 cows on their operation - and they run it themselves.
This piece made me hate CNN less than I used to.
WOW! Even CNN now admits that God has/had a better plan all along. Hmm
You should reach out to Fox News and have them feature this info
So excited to see you guys getting some much needed national exposure!! I want to see this series so badly, the teasers on YT are great but I want the deep dives! 😊
Keep an eye out! We're fighting for the best streaming home possible for the series, but there's going to be lots more content coming. After a decade of hard work and research, we're planning to bring this message everywhere it needs to be heard.
@@carboncowboys guys this is SO important, I’ve been preaching this part of the climate solution for years! Definitely will keep a lookout 👀 for announcements and new content on the channel, thanks for the great work! 👏🏻👍🏻
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God made cows and they exist on the earth and it makes total sense they can exist without hurting the earth. Human beings twist and warp all things.
Most cattle aren't even grazed. This is a very small percentage of the cows we use for food. What we eat are kept in massive buildings and fed corn and never see a field. Even if every one of these farmers changed to this method it's nothing in the big scheme of meat production. CAFOs don't need land so why would they bother with this.
This is not new they’ve been doing this with sheep for quite a while
It your meat locally from small farmers!!
Stop taking the government subsidies and practice what our ancestors did up til about the 1950s when modern farming techniques took over.
There used to be a documentary on Netflix about a farmer who did that. Started growing other crops than the government subsidized, rotated his cows etc. His land was HEALTHY. Is crops Abundant, his livestock Plentifle and fly free.
I always found it funny that we blamed cows so after millions of dollars y’all came to conclusion that it was the cows fault lol
Ok but that’s labeling livestock not cows. What percentage of that overall 14% belongs to cows. It’s much smaller so we need to get the breakdown first to understand cows part in that percentage. Simply watch animals in the wild like bison, wilder beasts etc. they move in, graze, stomp, leave manure and move on. It’s nothing new.
The same thing works for sheep and pigs as well.
He looks like Ron desantis lol
No way... Sherlocks.... "simple hack".... it's nature's way... just get outside... go as far from the city and watch nature... all the answers are there!
💦 'promo sm'
Wood hooo
No mention of greg judy, joel salatin, gabe brown, or anybody else. Its good they are finally catching up, but holy shit this is ridoculous.
Peter made his first film on regenerative grazing, Soil Carbon Cowboys starring Gabe Brown, Allen Williams, and Neil Dennis, over ten years ago. We've also featured friend of the channel Greg Judy multiple times - he's awesome! Stay tuned for more on Joel Salatin - we're a tiny team with limited resources - but we're certainly fans. Check our shorts for more - or start with Soil Carbon Cowboys and the other nine films currently available here on UA-cam! ua-cam.com/video/MDoUDLbg8tg/v-deo.html
It your meat locally from small farmers!!