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THERE is now fast growing grasses that they could seed the desertified desert area just before the rain, the grass would fill in quickly, it tolerates drought and high heat...the cows could be allowed into these patches, taking back that area...it would cost too much , as it would be a little at time and because of the cows poop spreading and the birds helping to spread that poop around as they look for worms, sections could quickly and economically be taking back...EXCELLENT SERIES! GOD BLESS THEM ALL...thank you for not being Preachy or fanatical...but informative and knowledgable!
I interviewed a farmer in Virginia, USA who switched to rotational grazing, just like this farm in your video. It made an extraordinary difference in the health of his herd and in his income. He was no longer losing money. And he didn’t have to spend all this money on chemical inputs. There are so many benefits to rotational grazing. In the states, some call it grass farming, because you’re looking after the health of the grass , since that is what sustains your animals. When the farms aren’t so extensive, they have to monitor how long the grass is, and move the animals to the next paddock when the plants have had enough. It’s exciting to see the further and potential of this technique on damaged landscapes. With less greed and more concern for the ecosystem, they found the correct number of animals to graze and the proper method to manage them. Looking at desert landscapes always made me feel tense and sad. I love seeing such a place rebounding with such a variety of life. Thank you for this.
This is a MUST SEE video for all those who think that cattle by are problematic in land management. Clearly, if utilized intelligently within the context of the ecosystem, cattle can be an invaluable animal asset to restore the land with greenery. Share this video as much as you can to educate those who have been indoctrinated to have a negative knee jerk reaction to cattle.
Not indoctrination if correct and there are huge areas damaged by cattle. Agree if you are talking about people who say all cattle bad. Reality is there are huge areas of bad practice and enough to worry people. Solution is better practice so that there is less to worry about.
Management of the grazing is either aiding soil health or degrading soil health. Short duration of grazing followed by enough time for plants to fully recover and paracite cycles to be broken for the species grazed to avoid reinfection is wise. Continuous grazing or grazing more than 3 days in a paddock or returning too soon is less than ideal management and soil, plants, animals, and wallet will suffer.
It's nice to see seeing practices like this that will help farmers and the environment at the same time. I hope this type of thing will be standard practice or adopted by small and big farmers to help with our food supply.
Regenerative Agriculture has been showing amazing results for decades, even with Big AG fighting the knowledge getting out. Here in the great plains of Canada, I'm told we should include fowl, to cycle properly (you need a browser (goats), grazer (cattle), and birds (chickens) to better mimic nature, nutrient release, pest control, and wildlife promotion -- yes, promotion). One thing, if there were wolves they would hunt the cows and keep them moving. In Wild cattle herds, it's only a few cows to a bull, and they move all the time, you also get small herds of young bulls. And to understand how close cows and bison are, they can interbreed and their offspring are fertile, they fill the same niche. The difference, everyone will tell you, is that cattle are domesticated, but look at those cows, within a very short time their behaviour returns to a wild state, in a generation they would act like wild bison, not those tamed for thousands of years.
I just wanna say, I love your channel. Thank you for sharing all this. One day I will have land of my own and I plan on using a lot of what I've learned here.
Interesting to see the same basic principles: reduce grazing density, return organic matter to the soil, slow the flow of water off the land being applied in innovative ways in different countries.
@@philiptaylor7902 yes but I've been a student of holistic management and planned grazing for the last 3 years of my life. Ultra high density is optimal for breaking hard soil capping, followed by long rest periods. These guys don't have the highest herd density (probably restricted by fencing costs) and that isn't ecologically optimal. See Alejandro Carillo or Don Tachin for working examples.
Wonderful! It would be very helpful to apply such regenerative farming to the southern Sahara where tens of millions of people are moved out of their homeland by desertification
I think what we're seeing is a combination of two primary causal factors, one is lack of intensive grazing (one month every 1.5 years) versus any fertilization or trample effect of the presence of large animals. One thing that might be really useful is to plant trees that create a lot of biomass that is regularly shed.
Those mini river, can utilize when you make a big reservoir, and make some canals or irrigation to help and fertile those arid places, with that you can grow trees and some fruit bearing plants
Firstly, fantastic video, and my favourite one of this channel so far.🎉 One note to consider: 7:33 this isnt strictly accurate. You want a stocking rate (number of animals) that is matched to the carrying capacity of the land ( the amount of palatible vegetation on the ranch that the cows can eat whilst leaving enough residual). Density, on the other hand, refers to how closely those animals are spaced together. For optimal regeneration in desertifying lands, you actually want high stock density. You want the amimals to be practically shoulder to shoulder, as the bison were, and as the wildebeests in Africa often are. This creates maximum disturbance to hard soil capping by concentrating animal impact and them leaving long rest periods for recovery. For more info on this, look up Ultra Hugh Density Grazing (UHDG) from Mexican Ranchers Don Tachin and Alejandro Carillo. Rodger Savory also has useful videos about this on Las Cumbres Ranch's youtube channel. You are absolutely right about timing being a key factor though. Huge video. Well done 🌵
When I was a kid I used to go for vacation from the city to grandma which had few acres of pasture and few cows. It was in communist Poland. Each cow had a chain and my job was to choose a spot where grass was the highest, drive a stake , attach the chain to stake and cow could eat the grass within this circle only. Next day it was different spot. Was my grandma a genius?
Most definitely, but it will be hard to implement in this profit-driven world. In the long term this is better, but getting individual farmers to embrace it is another. Being from the Mid-west living around and being related to farmers, they wonder, "Why do this? The more cattle I raise or monoculture crop per acre I grow, the more I can make for my family!" We have a wrong-headed view of farming. When I see videos like this, where areas of decades-long drought develop year-round streams again, I just shake my head at our present situation around the world. This video isn't an anomaly! There are countless videos of deserts and temperate areas in which this has been done.
@@doelbaughman1924 You need to point out that while the primary crop in a polyculture may only net 90% of conventional, it's the other simultaneous crops/livestock that increase profitability way past that of monocultures. Plus with polycultures (especially those managed with livestock) you increase financial resiliency against crop disaster as well as generally increase profitability with each additional crop, reduce the need for irrigation, reduce/stop use of expensive synthetic chemical inputs, etc. Polycropping is way more rotatable, even if it typically fails to get government support like conventionally raised crops...
Ideally the shift to new ground would be once per day with no set grazing. Just some points. 1. The recovery period allows sward plants to seed to provide more cover which will not happen with set grazing. 2. Dung Beetles to turn, and loosen the soil adding organic matter into the soil away from the sun. This is extremely important because this is dry country, and once organic matter is secured into the soil the soils ability to absorb water takes a large lift. 3. Covering the soil the plants. This has two implications. 3a. This shades so cools the soil, and will lower water evaporation, and 3b. The intercepting cover absorbs the force of raindrops that would otherwise hit the soil directly with the kinetic energy of an explosive hence the erosion rates on non covered ground. 4. This becomes self reinforcing as the land manager becomes a land shepherd via stock management, and also making the human a keystone species for ultimate landscape species diversity as there is now habitat for the species that set stocking forced out. Deserts are caused by poor soil management either by poor stock management or by cropping which also bares the soil. 5. The Dung Beetle here is the unsung hero. There has to be Beetle stock for soil where worms are not present as a keystone species for that environment.
Good explanation. Moving the livestock a lot means adequate green cover remains and protects soil. They have been somewhat successful because these cattle are skittish and naturally move more. Think the comnentators missed that. They also need plant diversity.
Would love to see a comparison of this and Alejandro Carrillo's Las Damas Ranch in the Chijuajuan Desert. Their methods, their soil building effectiveness, their water-holding capacities,...
@@b_uppy even very domestic cattle will cover the whole paddock looking for grazing. I think the main thing they going for them is long recovery period
@@knoll9812 A paddock is pretty small, bad word choice. That said cattle will be picky and overgraze tastier food over less tasty food. That tends to kill off the desirable greenery and encourages inedible/unpalatable/poisonous forbs, grasses, and woody plants. Moving cattle often is important. That these cattle are skittish makes them move more readily on their own...
This is great! These types of videos show that there is so much hope in helping the world as long as humans are actively participating and being proactive in natural processes.
First time I heard that cattle soften the ground. I often hear that soil get compacted if trod often (hence why some home gardeners plan the plots to be within arms reach).
Bison were there in the Pleistocene and early Holocene too. Only 12,000 ya there were horses, Colombian mammoths, giant armadillos, wild horses, giant sloths, mastodonts, and a whole host of other native megafauna which the ancestors of the indigenous Americans wiped out.
If you are looking for more information on the topic of grazing management and restoration of agricultural lands; Two folks who have plenty of content on yt are Gabe Brown (North Dakota) and Greg Judy of Missouri. Warning, Greg's videos from his daily adventures is raw and unedited. Some will be windy and most will be herky jerky, but there are a couple or three new ones each week. Skip the rough ones.
AMP Grazing; adjusted to the environment. See Peter Byck, also filming farmers and ranchers doing AMP grazing where they concentrate more cattle for shorter periods of time, and native birds are returning to areas they haven’t been in over 10 years. Cows produce less methane, the perennial grasses store more carbon…win-win! Glad scientists are able to monitor & report. There are so many positive ways small farmers can take back control of our food from mega-corporations.
Thank you for showing us this amazing project. I first heard about this method from a scientist named Allan Savory who gave a really good and inspiring talk on TED called, “how to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change.” He once had a government in Southern Africa kill many elephants because he thought that their over grazing was causing desertification but when he looked closer he saw that it was human mismanagement, the grazing of livestock without shepherds who move their flocks about on a regular basis. In your video they separate them into those areas but I believe that you can get the same results and maybe even better by employing a group of shepherds to strategically move the herds about the land in a way that is fruitful to the land. This information can save the planet in ways if God is willing and if we are sure to make sure that all people on earth are aware of this method.
No. It forms a crust. If it rains it ends up polluting water. On healthy, diverse, mob-grazed pasture dung beetles sequester dung into the soil where it's fertility is better utilized. Letting cattle do their thing naturally avoids overwhelming the dung beetles. It also avoids burning plamts because the manure is too hot (because it's in a small amount instead of concentrated), etc...
Amazing. I live in a simular area this would work in. Animals are the key also because they are sequestering carbon. Their farts are only an issue on unhealthy land.
See How many cows per acre Joel Salatin gets on his farm . You can follow up with chicken or turkey three days behind to eat the maggots out the cow dung and then no fly problems,increased profit. ❤😂🎉
Thank you for the video! Such an amazing contrast. A bit of a shame about their move away from Criollo cattle which are so adapted to low nutritional environments. Angus and Red Wagyu are high maintenance animals and won't breed well in such conditions. In your future videos can you visit Johann Zietsman? He advocates using unimproved cattle breeds like Criollo and African Sanga cattle which can breed in any tough environment for regenerative purposes.
Agreed. Wagyu and Angus taste best when fattened on CORN and have a less desirable flavor profile when pastured/grass-fed grass. They need to crossbreed with a breed that fattens well on pasture. I know Hereford on grass tastes a lot better than Angus on corn or grass... Unsure if you know this but livestock grazed on diverse pasture have a higher, more desirable nutritional profile compared to livestock fed on conventional ag systems.
@@b_uppy yeah we run Angus on our farm because the market demands it. Exclusively pasture fed. We have tried Red Wagyu and even on prime pasture and hay they have a tough time finishing. Unfortunately black animals are associated with quality in the Japanese/Asian market. This means much better breeds (in my opinion) eg silver Murray Greys, with better temperament and heat adaptibility are at risk of dying out. The processors also want large animals, but the larger the size the poorer their reproductive rates and efficiency on pasture. Explains why there are a lot more Wilderbeast than Elephants. Just hope this amazing ranch isnt falling for this trap. It's like buying Ferrari cattle, expecting them to perform on this 'off road' environment.
@@AussiePharmer Part of it stems from a skewed study way back when that said Angus beef won a taste test. It was CAFO raised, grain-fed Angus against other CAFO raised cattle breeds. It was a poor study. We had big Hereford and they were very efficient despite the soil being low in selenium.
@@Marilou-g5t yeah i went to Gregs grazing school nearly a decade ago. Its achievable for sure, but our work life balance won't let us commit fully. Better to raise moderate frame animals and have the rotations right first.
It would go a lot faster if they trapped the seasonal rain water with intermittent dams in those valleys to allow the water to slow down and soak into the soil. Its been working in northern Africa.
Thats right but none of them are here anymore or very rare due to hunting, there might be a cougar in the vecinity they testing some poo now. The bighorn population are now in a protected herd in north baja, very rare to see them herw
Im not sure why the cattle vs bison grazing comparison matters. There is not a range like the range the bison covered with highways, fences, govt land. So cattles grazing difference is less of a factor today.
it is like people have to learn all over from scratch how to shepard the animals and land after removing themselves from it for too long. really seems like common sense if you are someone who''s been in nature and in touch with the land all your life.
Yes but conventional agriculture is what most folks raising animals are accustomed to. They are the ones who need to understand how much better their land and profits could be. This doesn't happen without animal management. Those managing the most animals are doing it conventionally, because that is how they are set up and what they know. It took massive failures of small time farming operations for my two main gurus of RA to question the standard operating practices and procedures. Folks don't like change, but these men chose to question what they knew and they came up with some fantastic answers and spectacular results. Good luck with your land and animals. I'm working on fence.
Interesting beneficial adaptation of introduced animals to a degenerated local environment. It reminded me of the way nomadic herders move their cattle in other dry parts of the world, like Africa.
You should check out Allan Savory TED talk about using livestock and moving them in herds like they are being hunted by an apex predator. The effects are amazing.
All Praises to this kool folks for making this move to save the earth. I hope americans will do the same to nourish their land rather than wasting their time luring the internet.
It;s great and it had been known to permaculturists and range managers for a long time. It is establishing controls so all cattle being grazed are managed better. I am from the the Sonoran desert (Tucson AZ)and poor range management has been going on a long time. The bottom line for cattle ranchers (yes I had worked for one) is how much weight they can put on per month. In poorly managed areas, I have seen dead cattle and many with prickly pear spines all over their mouth. Not a great weight gaining strategy. And the number of cattle was excessive and the desert takes a long time to recover.
It's more important to avoid overgrazing than to worry about stocking numbers. Moving cattle frequently before grass is grazed too low is key. Much of the Sonoran desert used to be grass land over 150 years ago, with grass growing horse-high.
These are nguni cows we use them here in the Savannah of the Kruger park south africa. They rehabilitate land very well and very hardy to the most gruesome weather in africa
And when the doom and gloom brigade says the cows are killing the planet and want to destroy ranchers and farmers who manage their land regeneratively, please forward videos like this one.
You need more knowledge. Many cattle do produce methane because of what they are fed. Industrial cattle is the problem, organic or the kind shown in the video are not the problem.
George Monbiot debating Charles Savory on the validity of holistic management was pretty wild. I did get the impression Monbiot was there to win a debate and crush an opponent. Does this project add evidence to support the theory of holistic management or is it just a case of less intensive ranching being better for the land than very intensive ranching, but both being ultimately bad for planet?
There should be or there were but it was bighorn sheep that used to be the prodiment grazing animal and they all but dissapeared from being hunted, there is a protected population of them somewhere near the border
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THERE is now fast growing grasses that they could seed the desertified desert area just before the rain, the grass would fill in quickly, it tolerates drought and high heat...the cows could be allowed into these patches, taking back that area...it would cost too much , as it would be a little at time and because of the cows poop spreading and the birds helping to spread that poop around as they look for worms, sections could quickly and economically be taking back...EXCELLENT SERIES! GOD BLESS THEM ALL...thank you for not being Preachy or fanatical...but informative and knowledgable!
I interviewed a farmer in Virginia, USA who switched to rotational grazing, just like this farm in your video. It made an extraordinary difference in the health of his herd and in his income. He was no longer losing money. And he didn’t have to spend all this money on chemical inputs. There are so many benefits to rotational grazing. In the states, some call it grass farming, because you’re looking after the health of the grass , since that is what sustains your animals. When the farms aren’t so extensive, they have to monitor how long the grass is, and move the animals to the next paddock when the plants have had enough.
It’s exciting to see the further and potential of this technique on damaged landscapes. With less greed and more concern for the ecosystem, they found the correct number of animals to graze and the proper method to manage them. Looking at desert landscapes always made me feel tense and sad. I love seeing such a place rebounding with such a variety of life. Thank you for this.
@anikac8380 Please watch Carbon Cowboys and Kiss the Ground documentaries. They will show you so much.
@@philippinephoenix6869 kiss, the Ground was wonderful! Intelligent, well, crafted, passionate. Loved it, so… Indeed! I’ll check out carbon Cowboys.
@@anikac8380 Also "Roots so Deep You Can See the Devil Down There"
@@philippinephoenix6869 copy that, and thanks again!
Big ag, big chem, universities all push high inputs to keep farmers under their thumb. See Gabe Brown, Will Harris,...
Fills me with optimistism for our future, and for the planet as a whole. I hope to see these techniques spreading worldwide very soon. Peace!
Not too much. Deserts play a role in the Earth's ecosystem. Some areas need to be left hot and dry.
Any story about Land regeneration is awesome!
This is a MUST SEE video for all those who think that cattle by are problematic in land management. Clearly, if utilized intelligently within the context of the ecosystem, cattle can be an invaluable animal asset to restore the land with greenery. Share this video as much as you can to educate those who have been indoctrinated to have a negative knee jerk reaction to cattle.
Not indoctrination if correct and there are huge areas damaged by cattle.
Agree if you are talking about people who say all cattle bad.
Reality is there are huge areas of bad practice and enough to worry people.
Solution is better practice so that there is less to worry about.
Management of the grazing is either aiding soil health or degrading soil health. Short duration of grazing followed by enough time for plants to fully recover and paracite cycles to be broken for the species grazed to avoid reinfection is wise. Continuous grazing or grazing more than 3 days in a paddock or returning too soon is less than ideal management and soil, plants, animals, and wallet will suffer.
Really great info and a project providing proof. When is the video on mycelium and the goats coming out?
It's nice to see seeing practices like this that will help farmers and the environment at the same time. I hope this type of thing will be standard practice or adopted by small and big farmers to help with our food supply.
Regenerative Agriculture has been showing amazing results for decades, even with Big AG fighting the knowledge getting out.
Here in the great plains of Canada, I'm told we should include fowl, to cycle properly (you need a browser (goats), grazer (cattle), and birds (chickens) to better mimic nature, nutrient release, pest control, and wildlife promotion -- yes, promotion).
One thing, if there were wolves they would hunt the cows and keep them moving. In Wild cattle herds, it's only a few cows to a bull, and they move all the time, you also get small herds of young bulls. And to understand how close cows and bison are, they can interbreed and their offspring are fertile, they fill the same niche. The difference, everyone will tell you, is that cattle are domesticated, but look at those cows, within a very short time their behaviour returns to a wild state, in a generation they would act like wild bison, not those tamed for thousands of years.
Awesome. 👏🏽 they should implement this technique on all the neighboring farms.
That would be cool!
takes time for people to admit their wrong, but it is coming on many issues.
I just wanna say, I love your channel. Thank you for sharing all this. One day I will have land of my own and I plan on using a lot of what I've learned here.
Best of luck!
Great planning through care and management. This needs to go global. Water = life
Interesting to see the same basic principles: reduce grazing density, return organic matter to the soil, slow the flow of water off the land being applied in innovative ways in different countries.
You need to increase herd effect and animal impact. To do that, you actually need to increase herd density.
@@owlan99 Were we watching the same video?
@@philiptaylor7902 yes but I've been a student of holistic management and planned grazing for the last 3 years of my life. Ultra high density is optimal for breaking hard soil capping, followed by long rest periods. These guys don't have the highest herd density (probably restricted by fencing costs) and that isn't ecologically optimal. See Alejandro Carillo or Don Tachin for working examples.
@@owlan99 thanks for clarifying.
"Those things once the ruin of the forest can now be it's salvation. Fire, the ax, the gun and the cow." ~Aldo Leopold~
Wonderful! It would be very helpful to apply such regenerative farming to the southern Sahara where tens of millions of people are moved out of their homeland by desertification
This seems to be a copy of the work of Alan Savory whose pioneering work was in Africa.
But they've been building the green wall for a while now in the Sahara.
Yes although it seems like the green wall is progressing slowly in that the projects are sparsely spread to have a meaningful impact
@@halnineooo136 According to the documentaries I've watched, it's had a massive impact
Original project of ocean to ocean wall was a political elephant.
Has morphed into more scientific and useful direction
MASSIVE development in this channel to talk about this. Thank you 🙏
I think what we're seeing is a combination of two primary causal factors, one is lack of intensive grazing (one month every 1.5 years) versus any fertilization or trample effect of the presence of large animals. One thing that might be really useful is to plant trees that create a lot of biomass that is regularly shed.
Those mini river, can utilize when you make a big reservoir, and make some canals or irrigation to help and fertile those arid places, with that you can grow trees and some fruit bearing plants
Firstly, fantastic video, and my favourite one of this channel so far.🎉
One note to consider:
7:33 this isnt strictly accurate. You want a stocking rate (number of animals) that is matched to the carrying capacity of the land ( the amount of palatible vegetation on the ranch that the cows can eat whilst leaving enough residual).
Density, on the other hand, refers to how closely those animals are spaced together.
For optimal regeneration in desertifying lands, you actually want high stock density. You want the amimals to be practically shoulder to shoulder, as the bison were, and as the wildebeests in Africa often are. This creates maximum disturbance to hard soil capping by concentrating animal impact and them leaving long rest periods for recovery.
For more info on this, look up Ultra Hugh Density Grazing (UHDG) from Mexican Ranchers Don Tachin and Alejandro Carillo. Rodger Savory also has useful videos about this on Las Cumbres Ranch's youtube channel.
You are absolutely right about timing being a key factor though.
Huge video. Well done 🌵
When I was a kid I used to go for vacation from the city to grandma which had few acres of pasture and few cows. It was in communist Poland. Each cow had a chain and my job was to choose a spot where grass was the highest, drive a stake , attach the chain to stake and cow could eat the grass within this circle only. Next day it was different spot. Was my grandma a genius?
This is the vibe
Scientists show up after the farmer figures out the problem
Thats the norm
The lady is not a scientist
That's their job - to explain what has happened.
😂😂😂😂
Lol... What a silly comment
Thus proving 90% of the world's land can be regenerated and support billions, just get rid of the delites and let people do their thing
Roots so deep channel is a little better channel for explaining good grazing methods.
Most definitely, but it will be hard to implement in this profit-driven world. In the long term this is better, but getting individual farmers to embrace it is another. Being from the Mid-west living around and being related to farmers, they wonder, "Why do this? The more cattle I raise or monoculture crop per acre I grow, the more I can make for my family!" We have a wrong-headed view of farming. When I see videos like this, where areas of decades-long drought develop year-round streams again, I just shake my head at our present situation around the world. This video isn't an anomaly! There are countless videos of deserts and temperate areas in which this has been done.
@@doelbaughman1924
You need to point out that while the primary crop in a polyculture may only net 90% of conventional, it's the other simultaneous crops/livestock that increase profitability way past that of monocultures. Plus with polycultures (especially those managed with livestock) you increase financial resiliency against crop disaster as well as generally increase profitability with each additional crop, reduce the need for irrigation, reduce/stop use of expensive synthetic chemical inputs, etc. Polycropping is way more rotatable, even if it typically fails to get government support like conventionally raised crops...
A ridiculous number of ac are dedicated to corn. I think its 70% that is entirely devoted to feed. Thats dang wasteful
@@joebobjenkins7837
Feed and fuel.
Native Americans were the lions of the Americas. Thats why the bison heard were so large back in the day and why the mid-west soil is so fertile.
Used to be fertile.. crops are grown in fertilizer while soil washes away…
Wow, very nice!! Amazing to see
That’s amazing!🙌🏼🌳
It really is!
I am living in a traditional agriculture country.
Here, we have no deserts, everything is cultivable.
It all depends, on grazing animals management.
I love this. These folks are brilliant.
This is your best one yet.
Really enjoying watching this channel improve and do such important work.
Thank you
Wow, thank you!
Is there a way to use water-capture strategies on the land, like terracing on contour, swales, water ponds and water retention barriers?
Coming in the next episode
Ideally the shift to new ground would be once per day with no set grazing. Just some points. 1. The recovery period allows sward plants to seed to provide more cover which will not happen with set grazing. 2. Dung Beetles to turn, and loosen the soil adding organic matter into the soil away from the sun. This is extremely important because this is dry country, and once organic matter is secured into the soil the soils ability to absorb water takes a large lift. 3. Covering the soil the plants. This has two implications. 3a. This shades so cools the soil, and will lower water evaporation, and 3b. The intercepting cover absorbs the force of raindrops that would otherwise hit the soil directly with the kinetic energy of an explosive hence the erosion rates on non covered ground. 4. This becomes self reinforcing as the land manager becomes a land shepherd via stock management, and also making the human a keystone species for ultimate landscape species diversity as there is now habitat for the species that set stocking forced out. Deserts are caused by poor soil management either by poor stock management or by cropping which also bares the soil. 5. The Dung Beetle here is the unsung hero. There has to be Beetle stock for soil where worms are not present as a keystone species for that environment.
Good explanation. Moving the livestock a lot means adequate green cover remains and protects soil. They have been somewhat successful because these cattle are skittish and naturally move more. Think the comnentators missed that.
They also need plant diversity.
There is evidence that herding or wire fencing the animals in tighter, and moving 2-3 times per day on occasion can improve the soil faster.
Would love to see a comparison of this and Alejandro Carrillo's Las Damas Ranch in the Chijuajuan Desert. Their methods, their soil building effectiveness, their water-holding capacities,...
@@b_uppy even very domestic cattle will cover the whole paddock looking for grazing.
I think the main thing they going for them is long recovery period
@@knoll9812
A paddock is pretty small, bad word choice. That said cattle will be picky and overgraze tastier food over less tasty food. That tends to kill off the desirable greenery and encourages inedible/unpalatable/poisonous forbs, grasses, and woody plants. Moving cattle often is important. That these cattle are skittish makes them move more readily on their own...
Does anyone know if biochar would be suitable for a climate like this? I feel like in the most part it might help double the productivity.
This is great! These types of videos show that there is so much hope in helping the world as long as humans are actively participating and being proactive in natural processes.
incredible results!!!! Thank you for sharing!
You're so welcome!
Loved the video❤
Looks promising.
First time I heard that cattle soften the ground. I often hear that soil get compacted if trod often (hence why some home gardeners plan the plots to be within arms reach).
Compacted if walked on repeatedly and too much, but if moved around and left to rest, then it beaks it up just the right amount
@@LeafofLifeWorld what's the suggested amount of time that cattle can be kept in one plot before they completely compact the soil?
This is awesome. My one question is before cows were brought to the americas what mammal played the grazing role in this area?
Big horn desert sheep in this area
Bison were there in the Pleistocene and early Holocene too. Only 12,000 ya there were horses, Colombian mammoths, giant armadillos, wild horses, giant sloths, mastodonts, and a whole host of other native megafauna which the ancestors of the indigenous Americans wiped out.
thx for the hope
Best one yet!
To figure the run of a right angle triangle for every 12" just add 5" , so in your case you had 96", just 40" = 136"
Still waiting for part 2 of this video
Thanks we are still editing them
If you are looking for more information on the topic of grazing management and restoration of agricultural lands; Two folks who have plenty of content on yt are Gabe Brown (North Dakota) and Greg Judy of Missouri. Warning, Greg's videos from his daily adventures is raw and unedited. Some will be windy and most will be herky jerky, but there are a couple or three new ones each week. Skip the rough ones.
Such a clear difference
I cant wait to see the next video on this project!
Coming soon!
AMP Grazing; adjusted to the environment. See Peter Byck, also filming farmers and ranchers doing AMP grazing where they concentrate more cattle for shorter periods of time, and native birds are returning to areas they haven’t been in over 10 years. Cows produce less methane, the perennial grasses store more carbon…win-win! Glad scientists are able to monitor & report. There are so many positive ways small farmers can take back control of our food from mega-corporations.
Thank you for showing us this amazing project. I first heard about this method from a scientist named Allan Savory who gave a really good and inspiring talk on TED called, “how to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change.”
He once had a government in Southern Africa kill many elephants because he thought that their over grazing was causing desertification but when he looked closer he saw that it was human mismanagement, the grazing of livestock without shepherds who move their flocks about on a regular basis.
In your video they separate them into those areas but I believe that you can get the same results and maybe even better by employing a group of shepherds to strategically move the herds about the land in a way that is fruitful to the land.
This information can save the planet in ways if God is willing and if we are sure to make sure that all people on earth are aware of this method.
Now they need to put boulder checks in the gullies to slow the streams and put water into the ground.
Next video we will cover the watershed
@@LeafofLifeWorld I can't find that episode.
Amazing work
Fantastic!!!!
Ingenious practice.
I'd like to see what a couple of beavers could do around there. You might want to bring them wood so they don't fell all the trees .😊
Truely inspirational. Thank you.
Would using a rotavator and muck spreader be more effective, I wonder.
I can't imagine that the crust is 100% waterproof.
No. It forms a crust. If it rains it ends up polluting water.
On healthy, diverse, mob-grazed pasture dung beetles sequester dung into the soil where it's fertility is better utilized. Letting cattle do their thing naturally avoids overwhelming the dung beetles. It also avoids burning plamts because the manure is too hot (because it's in a small amount instead of concentrated), etc...
Pretty cool to see! I hope one day we can bring the bison populations back up closer to what they were before we almost exterminated them.
Bison are hard to contain, and removing fences and letting them run wild across the US would be hard for ranchers to monetize...
Bison arent actually native to this particular region it would be bighord sheep they also threatened
I would like to see more of the watershed restoration
Its coming soon
Limited herd size. Massive paddock rotation. Approximately 1 1/2 yrs to get to the original paddock.
Amazing. I live in a simular area this would work in. Animals are the key also because they are sequestering carbon. Their farts are only an issue on unhealthy land.
OMG that is just wonderful...this makes me so happy. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁
Tis a slay
Great content 🔥
See How many cows per acre Joel Salatin gets on his farm . You can follow up with chicken or turkey three days behind to eat the maggots out the cow dung and then no fly problems,increased profit. ❤😂🎉
Lovely video again. Thanks!
How long is it gonna take to fully recover?
We need more of this
Thank you for the video! Such an amazing contrast. A bit of a shame about their move away from Criollo cattle which are so adapted to low nutritional environments. Angus and Red Wagyu are high maintenance animals and won't breed well in such conditions. In your future videos can you visit Johann Zietsman? He advocates using unimproved cattle breeds like Criollo and African Sanga cattle which can breed in any tough environment for regenerative purposes.
Agreed. Wagyu and Angus taste best when fattened on CORN and have a less desirable flavor profile when pastured/grass-fed grass.
They need to crossbreed with a breed that fattens well on pasture. I know Hereford on grass tastes a lot better than Angus on corn or grass...
Unsure if you know this but livestock grazed on diverse pasture have a higher, more desirable nutritional profile compared to livestock fed on conventional ag systems.
@@b_uppy yeah we run Angus on our farm because the market demands it. Exclusively pasture fed. We have tried Red Wagyu and even on prime pasture and hay they have a tough time finishing.
Unfortunately black animals are associated with quality in the Japanese/Asian market. This means much better breeds (in my opinion) eg silver Murray Greys, with better temperament and heat adaptibility are at risk of dying out. The processors also want large animals, but the larger the size the poorer their reproductive rates and efficiency on pasture. Explains why there are a lot more Wilderbeast than Elephants. Just hope this amazing ranch isnt falling for this trap. It's like buying Ferrari cattle, expecting them to perform on this 'off road' environment.
@@AussiePharmer check into direct marketing, like Gabe Brown, Greg Judy, Joel Salatin, or Will Harris...
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Part of it stems from a skewed study way back when that said Angus beef won a taste test. It was CAFO raised, grain-fed Angus against other CAFO raised cattle breeds. It was a poor study.
We had big Hereford and they were very efficient despite the soil being low in selenium.
@@Marilou-g5t yeah i went to Gregs grazing school nearly a decade ago. Its achievable for sure, but our work life balance won't let us commit fully. Better to raise moderate frame animals and have the rotations right first.
Thank you!!!❤
It would go a lot faster if they trapped the seasonal rain water with intermittent dams in those valleys to allow the water to slow down and soak into the soil. Its been working in northern Africa.
Covering that in an up and coming video
Is there enough land available in the area to be able to still raise enough cattle in this way to meet the market demand?
the criollo cattle are almost native animals after 500 years in the desert
Actuality Cougars and Jaguars are historically native to this area along with deer 🦌 and bighorn sheep 🐑 so to mimic the cycle is smart.
Thats right but none of them are here anymore or very rare due to hunting, there might be a cougar in the vecinity they testing some poo now. The bighorn population are now in a protected herd in north baja, very rare to see them herw
Im not sure why the cattle vs bison grazing comparison matters. There is not a range like the range the bison covered with highways, fences, govt land. So cattles grazing difference is less of a factor today.
This is great!
Thank you.
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Maybe it could be interesting for you, also it isn't your workload know and maybe you already know about.
it is like people have to learn all over from scratch how to shepard the animals and land after removing themselves from it for too long. really seems like common sense if you are someone who''s been in nature and in touch with the land all your life.
Yes but conventional agriculture is what most folks raising animals are accustomed to. They are the ones who need to understand how much better their land and profits could be. This doesn't happen without animal management. Those managing the most animals are doing it conventionally, because that is how they are set up and what they know.
It took massive failures of small time farming operations for my two main gurus of RA to question the standard operating practices and procedures. Folks don't like change, but these men chose to question what they knew and they came up with some fantastic answers and spectacular results.
Good luck with your land and animals. I'm working on fence.
Pretty good job, just keep on
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They move them once a month? They should be moving at minimum once per 3-4 days before grasses begin to regrow.
Would require huge resources and labour in this environment
Humans are keystone species..... we are the animals that manage the world.
Interesting beneficial adaptation of introduced animals to a degenerated local environment. It reminded me of the way nomadic herders move their cattle in other dry parts of the world, like Africa.
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You should check out Allan Savory TED talk about using livestock and moving them in herds like they are being hunted by an apex predator. The effects are amazing.
Thats what is already said in this video
All Praises to this kool folks for making this move to save the earth. I hope americans will do the same to nourish their land rather than wasting their time luring the internet.
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Great video!
Yet vegans will tellyou we dont need cattle
It;s great and it had been known to permaculturists and range managers for a long time. It is establishing controls so all cattle being grazed are managed better. I am from the the Sonoran desert (Tucson AZ)and poor range management has been going on a long time. The bottom line for cattle ranchers (yes I had worked for one) is how much weight they can put on per month. In poorly managed areas, I have seen dead cattle and many with prickly pear spines all over their mouth. Not a great weight gaining strategy. And the number of cattle was excessive and the desert takes a long time to recover.
It's more important to avoid overgrazing than to worry about stocking numbers. Moving cattle frequently before grass is grazed too low is key.
Much of the Sonoran desert used to be grass land over 150 years ago, with grass growing horse-high.
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I bet AMP grazing would work wonders here.
These are nguni cows we use them here in the Savannah of the Kruger park south africa. They rehabilitate land very well and very hardy to the most gruesome weather in africa
Can be done where there is a good management.
And when the doom and gloom brigade says the cows are killing the planet and want to destroy ranchers and farmers who manage their land regeneratively, please forward videos like this one.
You need more knowledge. Many cattle do produce methane because of what they are fed. Industrial cattle is the problem, organic or the kind shown in the video are not the problem.
Only plants can convert solar energy into biochemical energy through photosynthesis. Plant diversity enhance the efficiency HB
Siento que por falta de información nos asemos daños a nosotros mismos y el ambiente
George Monbiot debating Charles Savory on the validity of holistic management was pretty wild. I did get the impression Monbiot was there to win a debate and crush an opponent. Does this project add evidence to support the theory of holistic management or is it just a case of less intensive ranching being better for the land than very intensive ranching, but both being ultimately bad for planet?
I do not doubt Monbiot’s sincerity in his disbelief in the sustainability of holistic management
Those are not rivers…even in desert countries. Try stream or creek on for size.
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This has nothing to do with the regenerative power of cows, it is all about reducing over grazing!
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Are there any mountain lions there? If so why are they not doing what lions and leopards do in parts of the African continent?
There should be or there were but it was bighorn sheep that used to be the prodiment grazing animal and they all but dissapeared from being hunted, there is a protected population of them somewhere near the border
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Would gave liked some information about finance. Do they make more money thN neighbours
We will discuss more about the business side in up and coming videos