Are we doing the “Right Things” or only doing the Wrong Things Better? - Groundswell 2022

Speaker: Dwayne Beck
The Dakota Lakes Research Farm (a farmer-owned entity) has developed low-disturbance, diverse, no-till programs. These have drastically improved the profitability and reduced negative environmental impacts worldwide. Unfortunately, this has only stopped the bleeding but has not healed the patient. Doing that requires switching agriculture from linear to circular systems.

[@allonesame6467]

Thank you for posting these mind-opening talks.

[@courtneyheron1561]

Thank you Dr. Dwayne Beck!

[@jerrylansbury9558]

To this date.......... farmers still irrigate their corn fields during the day time with sprinklers. They never heard of water drop irrigation ? And only at night time ?

[@cherylwhite1920]

thanks so much for discussing this important subject--checking in from Kansas where we need more no-till--again, thank you for sharing your experience

[@fastsetinthewest]

No till Roundup? Hahahaha

[@C.Hawkshaw]

Fascinating ! My relatives have raised wheat in Washington State since 1896 and they used to use draft horses for everything in the fields. I’m sure trains transported it. I wish they would switch to organic no-till.

[@fastsetinthewest]

Hahahaha

[@js290]

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[@entrepreneursfinest]

Like a dog chasing its tail. You go all electric vehicle and have rolling blackouts but now oil is cheap so we use 3 gallons of it to make enough electric to go the 25 miles you could have gone on 1 gallon.

[@papaal7014]

45 souls on lewis/clark expedition.

[@leelindsay5618]

Love the humor & the info. If they only made solar electric farm vehicles, or quads/ATVs for the grazing folks, farms wouldn't need any fossil fuels.

[@fastsetinthewest]

Hahahaha. Hahahaha. Electric what? Solar panels? Pollution and slave labor are all wrapped into solar. Where do we get electric? Wind power kills the environment. All the roads built to the turbines trash the landscape. Why is wind generation banned from Cape Cod?

[@jerrylansbury9558]

The bigger question is.......what to do with the batteries and toxic materials relating to such solar electric materials ? Anything produced requires some sort of energy. Pick your medicine ? Then live with the toxic after effects !
Where does lead to produced the batteries come from ? The earth..........how do those elements end up in a battery ? Major energy need ed to mine.....those elements including the elements needed for the solar materials.

[@js290]

@@jerrylansbury9558 Beck talked about energy flows... EVs are generally heavier (largely due to the battery)... impossible for a more massive vehicle to use less energy... the only clean energy is to use less...

[@papaal7014]

Petroleum is not a 'fossil fuel'
Not from ancient swamps.
From earth's mantel.

[@tealpaddles8664]

Change, the word no one adheres to