I have cashcropped for 40 years and no tilled for 30. Too bad I didn't find people like Gabe Brown, Dave Brandt and Dave Johnson until recently. Their revolution is in motion. Hope I last long enough to see it through. Higher organic matter, less synthetic inputs, and C02 reduction are an unstoppable combo.
A message I started talking about to farmers 40 years ago and have lectured on at ACRES USA, the 1st Humus Experts Meeting in Austria, and at the Worlds Agri Expo. We can grow and add to soil the bacteria that cause soil aggregation. It's very affordable to the farmer. We can add to the soil the microbes that make Siderophores that can chelate the nutrient elements in the soil, making them available to the crop. We can produce and add to a crop the Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria, which have all been identified, gene sequenced, and referenced at the global resource of microbiology, the ATCC.
@@thatamerican3187 Agreed that C02 is the basis of life on the planet and is in short supply for plants. It needs to go into the soil as organic matter and stay there. We vent off the gas when we till the soil and use excess nitrogen.
Gabe, thank you so much for what you do! A great model for the future! I am a university prof in the water profession at TUHH in Hamburg, Germany. My institute does research how farmers can assure clean and abundant water below their land. You are my teacher and I teach about your success in international classes.
I once said in a conference in Geneva "Gabe and Jill Clapperton are more a threat for biotech than Greenpeace". I think I was not exaggerating. What a clear, powerful, hopeful message!
@Panthera Regenerative AG can reverse this pollution put out by the likes of Monsatan, in just one year. There is a way to repair the land in just a few days, it may require a little disking of the soil just before planting. It's called compost tea, spray just ahead of the disk, the sun can not destroy the new biology being introduced. This is no different than a sick person getting a blood transfusion. If done this way the farmer can not use chemicals or fertilizers, as they kill biology, the farmer then would brodcast a cover crop once the corn gets 6 inches high. This will cause the biology in the soil to take off and feed the plants what it needs to produce a crop. The farmer will see a reduction in crops but the quality will go way up. BTW the plow is more destructive to our environment than all industry and transportation put together, every time the farmer plows tons of co2 blows off into the atmosphere. And where is all this carbon? It is in the oceans where it is killing off biology there.
Mr Brown is a Superstar! He makes the most sense. I hope US Ag farmers and ranchers pay attention and follow this remarkable man's lead. I'd love to visit his operation some day and experience his nature's way production model first hand! Kudos to Mr Brown!
I could watch Gabe Brown’s lectures allllll day. And I live near DC, work for a technical company, and only have a container garden on the deck. His talks are so informative, with real life examples from he and his wife’s own lives, and his insight into into people make him approachable and trustworthy. There’s a great lectures by him on RUclips. Highly recommend!
I have been using these strategies to change my land independently relying on a combination of legumes and different grasses. I am excited im not the only one to think of this. My neighbors thought i was weird. I am in the Arizona desert and have terriformed a barren backyard into a food forest. I use these exact same strategies. Awesome info, I agree. I use these strategies on my channel.
Easily the most clear, concise, complete explanation of what all producers should be doing. Bravo! If only 10-15% of the world's agricultural land achieved about half of what you have in terms of organic material, and water infiltration - then the atmospheric CO2 would return to early 1900 levels, and floods and drought would soon be forgotten.
mark harris you probably mean Walter Jehne - fantastic 2hr lecture on RUclips, or else watch the much shorter summary on Regenerative Agriculture from channel “Just have a think”.
Jason Simmons I think the point of soil building is not just to be carbon neutral as a means of food production but to actually use the plants to draw carbon out of the atmosphere and down into the soil (carbon + minerals, and fungi & other biologicals = topsoil, that thing we’ve been losing at an alarming rate). This can actually have a huge effect on atmospheric carbon, if the calculations can be believed. Yet another giant reason why Gabe Brown’s methods are essential to explore at scale
This is so important. The world needs to consider resource management in a different light; we have all we need, fields, animals, plants... We’re just not taking very good care of it.
This is the most important speaker TED Talks has recorded. For Mr. Brown's sake, I hope he can keep talking, because he has a natural talent for speaking, and a wealth of common sense. My advice to him is he should have the same good sense about his own body, so he can have more years of teaching us how to live sensibly. He is a national treasure!
This leaves me with a lot of excitement. This is a world solution for restoring our soil back to the way it is meant to be.Cause we are connected to the soil.
Wow! Very inspirational. We need a change in legislation - applying this way of agriculture should be made law. We need to get off fossile fuels and toxins. This lecture shows the way forward.
This leaves me with a lot of excitement. This is a world solution for restoring our soil back to the way it is meant to be.. Cause we are connected to the soil..
@Panthera I subscribe to Stockman GrassFarmer and I routinely see ads featuring sound valued cattle in their teens and even 20s farmed this way. Those are the foundation genetics sought after by other farmers buying young cattle. Edit: Mr. Brown feeds no purchased feeds at all.
thank you so much, so inspiring talk with relax presentation. i bet all the human with common senses realized about the important of soil preservation watched this video. this video also greatly helping me with my current study on soil fertility management in Malaysia. Thank you boss.
This type of farming reduces both flooding and the agricultural heat island effect versus the typical monoculture way, and best of all he's not suckling from the taxpayer's teats. Would the Mississippi ever flood if everyone farmed this way? Would we reduce the severe tornados/storms if the ground was kept cool by a continuous year-round blanket of cover crops?
"...reduce the severe tornados/storms if the ground was kept cool by a continuous year-round blanket of cover crops" Wow. I think you're on to something Nicholas. I've often wondered about the severe tornados/storms that so often travel through that area. It's unlike any other place on earth. I never came up with any conclusions of my own, but yours sounds like a very good possibility.
This is an excellent talk covering the basics of a more healthy and sustainable approach to agriculture. It deals with an approach that I've been in favor of for some time, even though I'm not a farmer. As he says, monoculture growing practices in the "industrial ag production model" are killing the soil, robbing nutrients from the crops we need to live healthy lives, and destroying biodiversity that the planet must have to survive. I wish this presentation could be included at every ag program and school in the country, provided to farmers of every scale, and in fact to average Americans who need to understand what an enlightened, natural approach to agriculture means for all of us, so they would try to support farmers who operate this way. Great stuff. Thank you.
A powerful inspiring message of hope for our future. The planet needs politicians to legislate pro this type of farming. The planet needs we consumers to vote with our wallets and seek out environmentally beneficial produce. I think many farmers will struggle to change from the current/destructive model as huge chemical companies shove their poisons down the farmers throats (and all our throats literally). Politicians and governments must step up and support farmers to change. Consumers must show we want the good stuff. The more of us who turn away from "McProduce" the more farms and supermarkets will have to take notice. We consumers will ultimately need to be a big part of the solution.
New York City/New Jersey girl here but have loved to garden all my life. This is so inspiring. My question is, I understand that dollars per acre can be really good using this system, but how about calories per acre? In other words, could we feed the world using this model? And how about the marketing/distribution end of things? Those big Midwestern farms are optimized for harvesting, storing, and shipping enormous quantities of one or two crops. Isn’t it difficult to get those economies of scale on biodiverse farms like this?
I know this is an old comment but in some of his recent 2021 interviews he talks about the caloric and nutrient density of his crops. He has the paperwork proving his beef has more Omega-3 fatty acids than wild caught salmon.
Look's like he jumped off a tractor just minutes ago, and probably did. The best part of the speech is the last part: making a profit without subsidies. The present agricultural model is regulated and largely funded by big government. If we get big government out of agriculture, small (organic) farmers stand a chance to grow.
I have always said..we didn't get booted out of the Garden of Eden by any God..we ushered ourselves out...silly us...great logical presentation...Thanks!
Gabe is *the best* . Why, oh why, is it taking so long for his wisdom to "catch on"? Fear, greed, habit, corporate intimidation & disinformation and political ignorance. :-| This will change!
Current farm subsidies and crop insurance will not cover people wanting to transition to regenerative farming because its to complex. It's keeping many farmers from even trying to apply Gabes soil principles.
@@JesseOtto Gabe is a farmer not a researcher. data is being collected on his farm which helps prove his principles work. but he refuses to simplify his adaptive farming system. It's hard to prove a single regenerative concept if all the pieces are needed for it to function as complete ecosystem. What researchers have found is that what he's doing works, he's building soil carbon levels at light speed and his crops are resistant to climate extremes.(flood or drought)
@@JesseOtto I'm not going to write a research paper for you, but feel free to read the research of many of Gabe's friends, mentors, and colleagues. search google scholar for Jonathan lundgren, Kristine Nichols, Rick Haney, Walter Jehne, Christine Jones, Fred Provenza for starters. Proving Gabe's soil health principles individually as I mention is very hard, because they have very powerful intertwined positive synergies to each other. All the mechanisms are trying to be deducted, but The real proof is in the pudding. The proof being, diverse and prolific soil microbiology, diverse native insect, bird, and ruminant populations on his ranch, Increased water infiltration rate, increased water holding capacity, increased soil organic carbon levels, Increased mineral availability to plants, Increase cat ion exchange capacity(The ability of the soil to hold onto nutrients and prevent leaching),increased nutrient density of crops grown on his land proved via tissue sample.
No “mechanical” tillage. But how do you define that, because many animals do till the soil. I think a distinction needs to be made between tilling and plowing.
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Great presentation. Question: how do you kill the cover crop without till and without herbicide? Would this be feasible in a place of lower latitude that isn't so cold year-round?
Like Justin mentioned, the first thing is growing cover crops that can be terminated by a roller. In Gabe's case he rolls down or grazes down his spring cover crop. His fall covercrop is terminated by heavy snow and bitter cold.
Google roller crimper and watch some of the videos. Informative on how the bio mass is laid down as a cover on the soil which limits the growth of weeds. And there are machines for planting through the cover. Almost wish I was a farmer now.
you drill seed into the pasture... ie you push the seeds into the ground without lifting any soil, hence keeping the soil 'armour' in tact. Yes, his long lectures are riveting...
Grüß Gott! Cooles Video! Gut gemacht... ✌🏼 Hast du schon mal zufällig das Miracle Hydrogen Rich Water aus einem solchen Aktivwasser Generator schon mal getrunken? Dieses Getränk ist einfach super! 😊 Ich trinke es vor allem nachdem arbeiten . :D
The knowledge about ADHD ADD, degenerative deseases is growing year by year. In the last few years they are figuring out that some of the causes are that we are not assimilating, absorbing the nutrients needed for healthy gut microbial activity which has been directly related to cognition activities. The nutrient density or lack of is closer to a BULLSEYE than was ever realized. Be well.
If I’m not mistaken half or more of Gabe’s land sits fallow every year... if my land sat fallow I’d be out of business in less than a year... we put tile drainage in because we get 10 times the amount of rainfall that Gabe brown gets on his farm...
The capital input for a conventional farm is far higher than for an organic one. If you don't use fertilizer, pesticides and lots of machinery, you have far less costs, thus need to make less profit to make a living. Also a mixed agriculture farm is the best insurance against pests and market fluctuations. What matters in the end is which farm has the higher ROI per acre? (Also I am wondering, lots of rainfall can be utilized for something, ponds for breeding fish and ducks perhaps?)
The problem we have today is that we all want to advance our causes telling half truth. Why fo we have to use fear to convince. I love what this gentleman has to say, but when he said that his way is nature way, I feel a bit cheated. Doesn't he needs trucks internet roads etc for his operations? When he ask himself why do farmers till the soil, as if he es the lonly Quijote, I feel a bit cheated. In Argentina most farmers don't till the soil. They develope" siembra directa" long time ago. We have many things to improve and we can do it best without having to destroy what others do.
i wonder if there really is a need for farmed animals. he seems to focus on soil biodiversity while forgetting about animal biodiversity (10000 years ago we made up 1% of all animals. today we and our farm animals make up 98%. source: cowspiracy facts). also he doesn't really look like his diet is the best to drive down health care costs. a whole foods plant-based diet might be a better bet (see/read "how not to die").
Yep, that's the sad thing. People south of him in the corn belt brag about having 4-5% organic matter levels. Corn belt prarie soils have been degraded from what was once 10-12% organic matter. What took buffalo thousandths of years to make we degraded more then 50% in 100 years of tillage.
We're losing the bees through the pesticides and what's going to pollinate our fruit and vegetables when the bees are all gone? We can't do it ourselves. They're already doing this in China.
I’m more than fed up of this corporation run world and their barbaric practices. It’s all based on dependence and control and of course big profits for a few. I pray humanity recognise their relationship to nature and stop giving their power away to those who have no intention of taking care of us or our planet.
look at plants that naturally drain soil through transpiration (taking water from the soil and putting in back into the atmosphere) eg willow (and others) - plant them around each field - would have to work out how many and how close but ask around ...and just start!
Agreed. If this information becomes more widely known and practiced, we can solve climate change and have overall more fertile soils worldwide within just a few years.
The use of chemicals are an easy fix for farmers, but at what cost? How about the beekeeper that has been poisoned out of business? Is it fair for one part of Agriculture to destroy another for their own laziness and greed?
Not necessarily. You can roll and crimp a cover crop and create a mat of biomass that smothers out weeds. I'm calling b.s. on the bug side of things. I don't think beneficials or predators are going to be able to substitute a conventional insect management system.
@@justinparrish2056 he builds bird houses to encourage a large bird population on his operation to help with certain insects, perhaps he has losses from bugs, but the lack of inputs, and the lack of killing beneficials, more than make up for the losses. Plus he has integrated livestock into the operation, so stuff that got half eaten by bugs, he monetizes as protein, or just as soil fertilizer.
How do we define confinement? There are trade offs to free range livestock. They are more vulnerable to the elements and predation and injury. Humane confinement may be better. See current research.
His livestock are confined to a small paddock surrounded by an electric fence. They are moved to a fresh paddock 2-4 a day. His herd is adapted to his climate and he doesn't own a barn. His cows are on pasture 365 days a year grazing, when the ice gets to thick for the cows to break through he unrolls hay bales for them. If portable fencing is considered confinement then this specific confinement is good. Anything that doesn't allow the cows to move off their manure at least once a day is negative to the cow health and "not humane".
Monoculture is a vague word. Does if mean one variety? Over how much space? Over how much time? Conventional agriculture rotates crops and uses cover crops, so it is not absolute monoculture.
He wasn't claiming he needed to feed 9 billion people. That was put in the presentation to show convention producers that he doesn't lose yield growing natures way. Thats the typical line chemical companies use as an excuse to brain wash conventional producers into pouring on more chemicals to boost their yields. He know's feeding the world isn't his job, he just had to shut down the doubters that would use that as an excuse not to change their practices.
The majority of people worldwide are fed by small local family farms, not industrialized agriculture. Regenerative agriculture supports this model and will feed everyone.
This leaves me with a lot of excitement. This is a world solution for restoring our soil back to the way it is meant to be.Cause we are connected to the soil
Thank you for your work and sharing it. Our vision is that a new view has emerged where people are reverent of our interconnectedness with nature, Humanity is living regeneratively and our planet is restored, balanced, and abundant. Together, we can do this!
Your damn lucky to have bees, no longer possible in the Midwest killing fields. I only see bees when a migratory beekeeper come in the area, but this year no bees can be seen, he must of lost all or moved to a new area. I used to run 300 hives in this area, but not any more. Would lose at least a 100 hives at harvest time, 100 lbs of honey and no bees left in hive. Craziest thing I ever seen in over 40 years of having bees, other live hives in the apiary would not touch the dead out honey.
This leaves me with a lot of excitement. This is a world solution for restoring our soil back to the way it is meant to be.Cause we are connected to the soil.
This TEDX is from 2016. I would really love to know what Gabe Brown thinks of the historic flooding in the Midwest this year and how soil health (or lack thereof) has contributed to the ability of industrially-farmed fields to handle unprecedented amounts of precipitation. Gabe, we need an updated lecture from you!
Your question is right on! If the land throughout the Midwest could infiltrate water like Gabe's there would be minimal flooding. Also just think, if the land is getting drier then the oceans and seas are rising and the so called expert scientist blame global warming. The land can not sustain this mono-culture farming something is going to break! The founding Fathers of this land did not plant mono-culture crops they farmed just like Gabe. When Monsatan convinced the Government to allow the use of bomb material to be used for agriculture, was the beginning of our problems.
@@beemanminnesota7683 the elevated temperature of the atmosphere leads to more rapid evaporation of groundwater (surface and subsurface) and that leads to increased moisture content of the upper atmosphere, which further warms the atmosphere. What you refer to as "so-called expert scientists" do, in fact, blame global warming - as well they should. Global warming affects the entire water cycle - not simply the phase-change from solid to liquid (i.e., melting the ice cap). Go look at data / plots on the moisture content of the upper atmosphere over the last 25+ years (or more).
It's so sad because here in this North Central region, these greedy bastards invited another big Ag company that makes pesticides to build a factory here. DeKalb county has less biodiversity than places I've seen in Chicago because they just grow their Monsanto corn and soybeans. There's more insect pests here than I ever saw even near Chicago! I don't know if they'll change anything here until stuff just stops growing.
Guess what these sick farmers are doing now. They are Tiling the water in every little low spot on the land. Tiling the natural holding ponds into the rivers creating a complete disaster making it a desert in the dry years here and a massive flood for the rivers during wet years. These sick freaks are ruining everything and the idiots that play with monopoly money don't care. People need to wake up to what's going on and overpower they sickos and tie their hands until these sickos understand they have a soul.
How fitting it is, the event titled "Roots to Wings," In North Dakota's embrace, where the soil sings. For "Strength through the Soil," their proud motto, A tale of challenges in agriculture's grotto. How do we feed nine billion souls by 2050? With tilled soil and monoculture, a production shift. Fields of wheat, corn, soybeans extend, Livestock in confinement, practices to mend. Yet, these methods have a cost untold, A loss of biodiversity, a story unfold. Native range land, once teeming with life, Reduced to monocultures, a world in strife. Statistics from North Dakota State University, In Walsh County, topsoil's dramatic eulogy. From 34 inches to 15, a stark decline, Organic matter dwindling, nature's design. The consequences visible, the proof is clear, Soil that once thrived, now shedding a tear. Pore spaces vanish, water can't infiltrate, Tile drainage surfaces, a human-made fate. A plea for biodiversity, for nutrient cycling, Synthetic fertilizers, a costly piling. Weeds prosper with nitrogen's embrace, Herbicides follow, a toxic chase. Chelates bind metals, micronutrients gone, Diseases thrive, a struggle prolonged. Fungicides and pesticides, a deadly dance, A decline in pollinators, a shrinking chance. Projected negative returns, a dire tale, Impacts on health, on communities frail. Nutrient densities decline, a silent scream, Ailing bodies, a fading dream. But nature's way, a beacon of hope, Five principles to embrace, a new scope. Least disturbance, armor on the soil, Diversity's dance, a lifeblood foil. Leave roots in the ground, an extended stay, Optimize solar energy, let nature's way. Animal impact, a holistic plan, Bees buzzing, part of the clan. A journey from shallow topsoil to organic delight, No synthetic crutch, a profitable height. Nature's principles, a regenerative art, Feeding the world, healing every part. In North Dakota's fields, a silent plea, To nurture the soil, embrace diversity. Roots to wings, a journey so vast, A story of healing, a future cast.
I have cashcropped for 40 years and no tilled for 30. Too bad I didn't find people like Gabe Brown, Dave Brandt and Dave Johnson until recently. Their revolution is in motion. Hope I last long enough to see it through. Higher organic matter, less synthetic inputs, and C02 reduction are an unstoppable combo.
The reduced herbicide is incredible!
brilliant, love to hear that you're practicing these things!! it's inspiring. hopefully more and more farmers will move beyond conventional farming.
Co2 as you may have realized is plant food. It's not harming anything.
A message I started talking about to farmers 40 years ago and have lectured on at ACRES USA, the 1st Humus Experts Meeting in Austria, and at the Worlds Agri Expo. We can grow and add to soil the bacteria that cause soil aggregation. It's very affordable to the farmer. We can add to the soil the microbes that make Siderophores that can chelate the nutrient elements in the soil, making them available to the crop. We can produce and add to a crop the Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria, which have all been identified, gene sequenced, and referenced at the global resource of microbiology, the ATCC.
@@thatamerican3187 Agreed that C02 is the basis of life on the planet and is in short supply for plants. It needs to go into the soil as organic matter and stay there. We vent off the gas when we till the soil and use excess nitrogen.
Gabe, thank you so much for what you do! A great model for the future! I am a university prof in the water profession at TUHH in Hamburg, Germany. My institute does research how farmers can assure clean and abundant water below their land. You are my teacher and I teach about your success in international classes.
Healthy soil is the best way to secure a lot of water and clean water.
We ned more people like you in the universities. I hope your students continue what you teach them.
great!! i would be interested in learn about your research. Do you have any publication or can i go to any website where i can read about it?
That is super cool. Sounds like a class I would love.
God bless you. Please continue
I once said in a conference in Geneva "Gabe and Jill Clapperton are more a threat for biotech than Greenpeace". I think I was not exaggerating. What a clear, powerful, hopeful message!
greenpeace means nothing we know that
glad you mean it in a positive way
@Panthera how do we know what's possible?
@Panthera Regenerative AG can reverse this pollution put out by the likes of Monsatan, in just one year. There is a way to repair the land in just a few days, it may require a little disking of the soil just before planting. It's called compost tea, spray just ahead of the disk, the sun can not destroy the new biology being introduced. This is no different than a sick person getting a blood transfusion.
If done this way the farmer can not use chemicals or fertilizers, as they kill biology, the farmer then would brodcast a cover crop once the corn gets 6 inches high. This will cause the biology in the soil to take off and feed the plants what it needs to produce a crop. The farmer will see a reduction in crops but the quality will go way up.
BTW the plow is more destructive to our environment than all industry and transportation put together, every time the farmer plows tons of co2 blows off into the atmosphere. And where is all this carbon? It is in the oceans where it is killing off biology there.
Mr Brown is a Superstar! He makes the most sense. I hope US Ag farmers and ranchers pay attention and follow this remarkable man's lead. I'd love to visit his operation some day and experience his nature's way production model first hand! Kudos to Mr Brown!
I could watch Gabe Brown’s lectures allllll day. And I live near DC, work for a technical company, and only have a container garden on the deck. His talks are so informative, with real life examples from he and his wife’s own lives, and his insight into into people make him approachable and trustworthy. There’s a great lectures by him on RUclips. Highly recommend!
I have been using these strategies to change my land independently relying on a combination of legumes and different grasses. I am excited im not the only one to think of this. My neighbors thought i was weird. I am in the Arizona desert and have terriformed a barren backyard into a food forest. I use these exact same strategies. Awesome info, I agree. I use these strategies on my channel.
Awesome! Can't wait to see it
How's it going? I'm in the highlands just outside of Reno NV. Any tips on cover crop for the fall in our climate? Thank you in advance.
@@highlandsgardeningcoach mini clover works great. it only grows 4-6 inches tall so you never have to mow your lawn again
Mr. Brown.. truly my hero. Endeavoring to model this ranch after his.. Thank you for showing us the way...
Easily the most clear, concise, complete explanation of what all producers should be doing. Bravo!
If only 10-15% of the world's agricultural land achieved about half of what you have in terms of organic material, and water infiltration - then the atmospheric CO2 would return to early 1900 levels, and floods and drought would soon be forgotten.
I heard something like this from a renowned soil biologist but don't remember the exact quote. Do you remeber your source?
mark harris you probably mean Walter Jehne - fantastic 2hr lecture on RUclips, or else watch the much shorter summary on Regenerative Agriculture from channel “Just have a think”.
Jason Simmons I think the point of soil building is not just to be carbon neutral as a means of food production but to actually use the plants to draw carbon out of the atmosphere and down into the soil (carbon + minerals, and fungi & other biologicals = topsoil, that thing we’ve been losing at an alarming rate). This can actually have a huge effect on atmospheric carbon, if the calculations can be believed. Yet another giant reason why Gabe Brown’s methods are essential to explore at scale
This man is an absolute genius. We need more young people following and learning from these innovators.
Thank you so much Gabe... we WILL win this for the earth!!!
This is so important. The world needs to consider resource management in a different light; we have all we need, fields, animals, plants... We’re just not taking very good care of it.
We need this all over the world. Thank you sir.
SO MUCH respect for Farmers!🤍🤍
This is the most important speaker TED Talks has recorded. For Mr. Brown's sake, I hope he can keep talking, because he has a natural talent for speaking, and a wealth of common sense. My advice to him is he should have the same good sense about his own body, so he can have more years of teaching us how to live sensibly. He is a national treasure!
Anything he can do to stay well would be a service to us all.
This leaves me with a lot of excitement. This is a world solution for restoring our soil back to the way it is meant to be.Cause we are connected to the soil.
Wow! Very inspirational. We need a change in legislation - applying this way of agriculture should be made law. We need to get off fossile fuels and toxins. This lecture shows the way forward.
Amazing work. You are giving back and not just taking from the earth. 👏🏽✨🙏🏽
Excellent presentation. In the long run good soil is vital to good health.
Bahasanya sangat jelas, mudah dipahami, terima kasih Gabe Brown
This leaves me with a lot of excitement. This is a world solution for restoring our soil back to the way it is meant to be.. Cause we are connected to the soil..
He is a hero!!!!!!
Haven't eaten any beef or any other animal meat for 6-1/2 years but his beef I might not be scared to buy
@Panthera I subscribe to Stockman GrassFarmer and I routinely see ads featuring sound valued cattle in their teens and even 20s farmed this way. Those are the foundation genetics sought after by other farmers buying young cattle. Edit: Mr. Brown feeds no purchased feeds at all.
His grassfed beef on healthy diverse pasture has as much Omega 3s as wild caught Salmon.
@@leelindsay5618 really? How many mg?
This is beautiful and so needed. It must happen on a grand scale. Thank you for this!
thank you so much, so inspiring talk with relax presentation. i bet all the human with common senses realized about the important of soil preservation watched this video. this video also greatly helping me with my current study on soil fertility management in Malaysia. Thank you boss.
Amazing to hear Gabe Brown...
This type of farming reduces both flooding and the agricultural heat island effect versus the typical monoculture way, and best of all he's not suckling from the taxpayer's teats. Would the Mississippi ever flood if everyone farmed this way? Would we reduce the severe tornados/storms if the ground was kept cool by a continuous year-round blanket of cover crops?
"...reduce the severe tornados/storms if the ground was kept cool by a continuous year-round blanket of cover crops"
Wow. I think you're on to something Nicholas. I've often wondered about the severe tornados/storms that so often travel through that area. It's unlike any other place on earth. I never came up with any conclusions of my own, but yours sounds like a very good possibility.
Such an amazing speaker
I started my first cover crop in a small corner of my balcony. Very exciting. Breaking the rules.
Love this! Thank you.
Amazing! Great presentation, nature do have it figured out!
"if we had listened to the old, old cultures, we wouldn't be standing in this mess."
Freakin legend. What a legend!
Incredibly interesting
Love this concept so much!!
Solid stuff, I'll try to remember to recommend this fellow to any corn/soy farmer I meet.
This is an excellent talk covering the basics of a more healthy and sustainable approach to agriculture. It deals with an approach that I've been in favor of for some time, even though I'm not a farmer. As he says, monoculture growing practices in the "industrial ag production model" are killing the soil, robbing nutrients from the crops we need to live healthy lives, and destroying biodiversity that the planet must have to survive. I wish this presentation could be included at every ag program and school in the country, provided to farmers of every scale, and in fact to average Americans who need to understand what an enlightened, natural approach to agriculture means for all of us, so they would try to support farmers who operate this way. Great stuff. Thank you.
Fantastic presentation, thank you.
I’m really considering looking at forming my first entrepreneurial endeavor around this. Very cool, and awesome presentation
Amazing presentation. Anyone who eats food should watch this.
Well, I certainly hope Mr. Brown's ideas have caught on in the 6 years since this talk.
SWEET talk !
Am here again.
Wow.
Love this guy!
Inspiring and great information
A powerful inspiring message of hope for our future. The planet needs politicians to legislate pro this type of farming. The planet needs we consumers to vote with our wallets and seek out environmentally beneficial produce.
I think many farmers will struggle to change from the current/destructive model as huge chemical companies shove their poisons down the farmers throats (and all our throats literally).
Politicians and governments must step up and support farmers to change. Consumers must show we want the good stuff.
The more of us who turn away from "McProduce" the more farms and supermarkets will have to take notice. We consumers will ultimately need to be a big part of the solution.
New York City/New Jersey girl here but have loved to garden all my life. This is so inspiring. My question is, I understand that dollars per acre can be really good using this system, but how about calories per acre? In other words, could we feed the world using this model? And how about the marketing/distribution end of things? Those big Midwestern farms are optimized for harvesting, storing, and shipping enormous quantities of one or two crops. Isn’t it difficult to get those economies of scale on biodiverse farms like this?
I know this is an old comment but in some of his recent 2021 interviews he talks about the caloric and nutrient density of his crops. He has the paperwork proving his beef has more Omega-3 fatty acids than wild caught salmon.
Not enough views ! Bravo sir.
Outstanding and so logical. Thanks for the great work Gabe.
excellent!!!
It amazes me why any farmers are still following the broken model of agriculture and not going the natural route.
Look's like he jumped off a tractor just minutes ago, and probably did.
The best part of the speech is the last part: making a profit without subsidies. The present agricultural model is regulated and largely funded by big government. If we get big government out of agriculture, small (organic) farmers stand a chance to grow.
Don't forget about the farmers who are Tiling the earth's natural ponds. That should be illegal no question!
I have always said..we didn't get booted out of the Garden of Eden by any God..we ushered ourselves out...silly us...great logical presentation...Thanks!
Without pesticides, how do you terminate your cover crops?
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Gabe is *the best* . Why, oh why, is it taking so long for his wisdom to "catch on"? Fear, greed, habit, corporate intimidation & disinformation and political ignorance. :-| This will change!
For Goodness Ache Perhaps because Gabe and other soil restoration advocates do not published research papers to back up theirs claims.
Current farm subsidies and crop insurance will not cover people wanting to transition to regenerative farming because its to complex. It's keeping many farmers from even trying to apply Gabes soil principles.
@@JesseOtto Gabe is a farmer not a researcher. data is being collected on his farm which helps prove his principles work. but he refuses to simplify his adaptive farming system. It's hard to prove a single regenerative concept if all the pieces are needed for it to function as complete ecosystem. What researchers have found is that what he's doing works, he's building soil carbon levels at light speed and his crops are resistant to climate extremes.(flood or drought)
@@TS-vr9of Show me the data
@@JesseOtto I'm not going to write a research paper for you, but feel free to read the research of many of Gabe's friends, mentors, and colleagues. search google scholar for Jonathan lundgren, Kristine Nichols, Rick Haney, Walter Jehne, Christine Jones, Fred Provenza for starters. Proving Gabe's soil health principles individually as I mention is very hard, because they have very powerful intertwined positive synergies to each other. All the mechanisms are trying to be deducted, but The real proof is in the pudding. The proof being, diverse and prolific soil microbiology, diverse native insect, bird, and ruminant populations on his ranch, Increased water infiltration rate, increased water holding capacity, increased soil organic carbon levels, Increased mineral availability to plants, Increase cat ion exchange capacity(The ability of the soil to hold onto nutrients and prevent leaching),increased nutrient density of crops grown on his land proved via tissue sample.
No “mechanical” tillage. But how do you define that, because many animals do till the soil. I think a distinction needs to be made between tilling and plowing.
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Great presentation.
Question: how do you kill the cover crop without till and without herbicide?
Would this be feasible in a place of lower latitude that isn't so cold year-round?
In warmer climates you have to use a roller crimper, and you're timing has to be right, but you can mechanical terminate it with one.
Like Justin mentioned, the first thing is growing cover crops that can be terminated by a roller. In Gabe's case he rolls down or grazes down his spring cover crop. His fall covercrop is terminated by heavy snow and bitter cold.
YESSSSIR!
how do you sow large areas of land without tilling? What is the process you use to get the soil covered after planting?
Shelley Wilson there is much longer lectures he gives that are an hour to two hours long. The lectures are far more detailed.
thanks
Google roller crimper and watch some of the videos. Informative on how the bio mass is laid down as a cover on the soil which limits the growth of weeds. And there are machines for planting through the cover. Almost wish I was a farmer now.
@@dancarroll79 Yes, yes, yes, and we would not need any stinking fertilizers, GMO's, herbicides, and pesticides poison!
you drill seed into the pasture... ie you push the seeds into the ground without lifting any soil, hence keeping the soil 'armour' in tact. Yes, his long lectures are riveting...
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Dieses Getränk ist einfach super! 😊
Ich trinke es vor allem nachdem arbeiten . :D
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The nutrient density or lack of is closer to a BULLSEYE than was ever realized.
Be well.
If I’m not mistaken half or more of Gabe’s land sits fallow every year... if my land sat fallow I’d be out of business in less than a year... we put tile drainage in because we get 10 times the amount of rainfall that Gabe brown gets on his farm...
The capital input for a conventional farm is far higher than for an organic one. If you don't use fertilizer, pesticides and lots of machinery, you have far less costs, thus need to make less profit to make a living. Also a mixed agriculture farm is the best insurance against pests and market fluctuations. What matters in the end is which farm has the higher ROI per acre? (Also I am wondering, lots of rainfall can be utilized for something, ponds for breeding fish and ducks perhaps?)
And yet he makes money? How does he do it? is he lying? Or is he right?
wrong it is not fallowed its rested after a grazing cycle
Self-reliance lived.
The problem we have today is that we all want to advance our causes telling half truth. Why fo we have to use fear to convince. I love what this gentleman has to say, but when he said that his way is nature way, I feel a bit cheated. Doesn't he needs trucks internet roads etc for his operations? When he ask himself why do farmers till the soil, as if he es the lonly Quijote, I feel a bit cheated. In Argentina most farmers don't till the soil. They develope" siembra directa" long time ago. We have many things to improve and we can do it best without having to destroy what others do.
i wonder if there really is a need for farmed animals. he seems to focus on soil biodiversity while forgetting about animal biodiversity (10000 years ago we made up 1% of all animals. today we and our farm animals make up 98%. source: cowspiracy facts).
also he doesn't really look like his diet is the best to drive down health care costs. a whole foods plant-based diet might be a better bet (see/read "how not to die").
Reclaiming carbon from the atmosphere ie....(carbon dioxide)is would be the the greatest economic boon to the world and human health in history
Tilling the soil releases vast amounts of CO2. Capture it back and then don't release it again. Common sense.
2:19 The soil used to be 8% organic matter?!! Holy cow!
Yep, that's the sad thing. People south of him in the corn belt brag about having 4-5% organic matter levels. Corn belt prarie soils have been degraded from what was once 10-12% organic matter. What took buffalo thousandths of years to make we degraded more then 50% in 100 years of tillage.
Yep
We're losing the bees through the pesticides and what's going to pollinate our fruit and vegetables when the bees are all gone? We can't do it ourselves. They're already doing this in China.
I’m more than fed up of this corporation run world and their barbaric practices. It’s all based on dependence and control and of course big profits for a few. I pray humanity recognise their relationship to nature and stop giving their power away to those who have no intention of taking care of us or our planet.
You shud bring to acaut thad yur roduct have More Enzimes AND aminoasis then mother agriculture
To have confidence in your speaker they should no be over weight.
Why not use charcoal
If we couldnt drain our soils we couldnt be here, low lands areas close to sea level needs to be drained, no way out.
Can you prove that?
Most crops are produced on high land areas
There are lots of crops that can be grown in wet lands. It is foolish to grow crops that are not suited for the area.
look at plants that naturally drain soil through transpiration (taking water from the soil and putting in back into the atmosphere) eg willow (and others) - plant them around each field - would have to work out how many and how close but ask around ...and just start!
Please American people do what this good man says. And then bring it to other countries NOT guns and conflicts. You can influence your government
Please get this message out through Greta Thunberg. Thank you so much for articulating it so well!
Agreed. If this information becomes more widely known and practiced, we can solve climate change and have overall more fertile soils worldwide within just a few years.
What is blud on about
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Conventional agriculture uses no till, especially if utilizing Roundup ready seed, and this diminishes soil erosion and eutrophication.
Dude your clueless. I'm sorry, get some help. Perhaps read something other then a Chem company catalog.
The use of chemicals are an easy fix for farmers, but at what cost? How about the beekeeper that has been poisoned out of business? Is it fair for one part of Agriculture to destroy another for their own laziness and greed?
What a long string of clichés. Organic farming relies heavy on tillage. Obviously it should be avoided.
Not necessarily. You can roll and crimp a cover crop and create a mat of biomass that smothers out weeds. I'm calling b.s. on the bug side of things. I don't think beneficials or predators are going to be able to substitute a conventional insect management system.
@@justinparrish2056 Healthy soil biology > Robust plants > Less pest problem
@@justinparrish2056 he builds bird houses to encourage a large bird population on his operation to help with certain insects, perhaps he has losses from bugs, but the lack of inputs, and the lack of killing beneficials, more than make up for the losses. Plus he has integrated livestock into the operation, so stuff that got half eaten by bugs, he monetizes as protein, or just as soil fertilizer.
How do we define confinement? There are trade offs to free range livestock. They are more vulnerable to the elements and predation and injury. Humane confinement may be better. See current research.
His livestock are confined to a small paddock surrounded by an electric fence. They are moved to a fresh paddock 2-4 a day. His herd is adapted to his climate and he doesn't own a barn. His cows are on pasture 365 days a year grazing, when the ice gets to thick for the cows to break through he unrolls hay bales for them. If portable fencing is considered confinement then this specific confinement is good. Anything that doesn't allow the cows to move off their manure at least once a day is negative to the cow health and "not humane".
Monoculture is a vague word. Does if mean one variety? Over how much space? Over how much time? Conventional agriculture rotates crops and uses cover crops, so it is not absolute monoculture.
Dictionary: Monoculture-the cultivation of a single crop in a given area.
You are not feeding 9 billion people! You sure don't feed Bulgaria anything worth eating!
He wasn't claiming he needed to feed 9 billion people. That was put in the presentation to show convention producers that he doesn't lose yield growing natures way. Thats the typical line chemical companies use as an excuse to brain wash conventional producers into pouring on more chemicals to boost their yields. He know's feeding the world isn't his job, he just had to shut down the doubters that would use that as an excuse not to change their practices.
@@TS-vr9of that is not how I heard it... But anyways! In a way you are absolutely right
The majority of people worldwide are fed by small local family farms, not industrialized agriculture. Regenerative agriculture supports this model and will feed everyone.
@@Metaphysics-for-life I was talking about America feeding EVERYONE!
It's impossible the large corporate farms don't know all of this. Think harder about our country's food production issues. You're missing it.
This leaves me with a lot of excitement. This is a world solution for restoring our soil back to the way it is meant to be.Cause we are connected to the soil
I was doing handsprings all through this but when he said 'no subsidies' I went happy-dance ballistic
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this is the most scientific pro permaculture thing ive watched yet
i'd recommend watching more gabe brown videos, but also check out ray archuleta
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!! im with you 100%... thk you and god bless you.
Mr. Gabe Brown, should be the Sec. Of Ag! As a beekeeper, you offer a better future for our food system!
Your damn lucky to have bees, no longer possible in the Midwest killing fields. I only see bees when a migratory beekeeper come in the area, but this year no bees can be seen, he must of lost all or moved to a new area.
I used to run 300 hives in this area, but not any more. Would lose at least a 100 hives at harvest time, 100 lbs of honey and no bees left in hive. Craziest thing I ever seen in over 40 years of having bees, other live hives in the apiary would not touch the dead out honey.
This leaves me with a lot of excitement. This is a world solution for restoring our soil back to the way it is meant to be.Cause we are connected to the soil.
Brilliant stuff. Should get more views
This TEDX is from 2016. I would really love to know what Gabe Brown thinks of the historic flooding in the Midwest this year and how soil health (or lack thereof) has contributed to the ability of industrially-farmed fields to handle unprecedented amounts of precipitation. Gabe, we need an updated lecture from you!
Your question is right on! If the land throughout the Midwest could infiltrate water like Gabe's there would be minimal flooding. Also just think, if the land is getting drier then the oceans and seas are rising and the so called expert scientist blame global warming.
The land can not sustain this mono-culture farming something is going to break! The founding Fathers of this land did not plant mono-culture crops they farmed just like Gabe. When Monsatan convinced the Government to allow the use of bomb material to be used for agriculture, was the beginning of our problems.
@@beemanminnesota7683 the elevated temperature of the atmosphere leads to more rapid evaporation of groundwater (surface and subsurface) and that leads to increased moisture content of the upper atmosphere, which further warms the atmosphere. What you refer to as "so-called expert scientists" do, in fact, blame global warming - as well they should. Global warming affects the entire water cycle - not simply the phase-change from solid to liquid (i.e., melting the ice cap). Go look at data / plots on the moisture content of the upper atmosphere over the last 25+ years (or more).
It's so sad because here in this North Central region, these greedy bastards invited another big Ag company that makes pesticides to build a factory here. DeKalb county has less biodiversity than places I've seen in Chicago because they just grow their Monsanto corn and soybeans. There's more insect pests here than I ever saw even near Chicago! I don't know if they'll change anything here until stuff just stops growing.
Guess what these sick farmers are doing now. They are Tiling the water in every little low spot on the land. Tiling the natural holding ponds into the rivers creating a complete disaster making it a desert in the dry years here and a massive flood for the rivers during wet years. These sick freaks are ruining everything and the idiots that play with monopoly money don't care. People need to wake up to what's going on and overpower they sickos and tie their hands until these sickos understand they have a soul.
@@ewitherell7205 I'm in South Dakota.
I'm starting to do the thing's you say on a microscopic scale compared to your operation. Thank you for giving my family back a future!
Corn, soybeans-Illinois diversity.
How fitting it is, the event titled "Roots to Wings,"
In North Dakota's embrace, where the soil sings.
For "Strength through the Soil," their proud motto,
A tale of challenges in agriculture's grotto.
How do we feed nine billion souls by 2050?
With tilled soil and monoculture, a production shift.
Fields of wheat, corn, soybeans extend,
Livestock in confinement, practices to mend.
Yet, these methods have a cost untold,
A loss of biodiversity, a story unfold.
Native range land, once teeming with life,
Reduced to monocultures, a world in strife.
Statistics from North Dakota State University,
In Walsh County, topsoil's dramatic eulogy.
From 34 inches to 15, a stark decline,
Organic matter dwindling, nature's design.
The consequences visible, the proof is clear,
Soil that once thrived, now shedding a tear.
Pore spaces vanish, water can't infiltrate,
Tile drainage surfaces, a human-made fate.
A plea for biodiversity, for nutrient cycling,
Synthetic fertilizers, a costly piling.
Weeds prosper with nitrogen's embrace,
Herbicides follow, a toxic chase.
Chelates bind metals, micronutrients gone,
Diseases thrive, a struggle prolonged.
Fungicides and pesticides, a deadly dance,
A decline in pollinators, a shrinking chance.
Projected negative returns, a dire tale,
Impacts on health, on communities frail.
Nutrient densities decline, a silent scream,
Ailing bodies, a fading dream.
But nature's way, a beacon of hope,
Five principles to embrace, a new scope.
Least disturbance, armor on the soil,
Diversity's dance, a lifeblood foil.
Leave roots in the ground, an extended stay,
Optimize solar energy, let nature's way.
Animal impact, a holistic plan,
Bees buzzing, part of the clan.
A journey from shallow topsoil to organic delight,
No synthetic crutch, a profitable height.
Nature's principles, a regenerative art,
Feeding the world, healing every part.
In North Dakota's fields, a silent plea,
To nurture the soil, embrace diversity.
Roots to wings, a journey so vast,
A story of healing, a future cast.
Outstanding. Thanks for your contribution.
this is what i am trying to do on a very small scale, or should i say that i was trying to do till i lost my land that iwas renting!!
@Bill Gates needs to see this