Allan Savory

Allan Savory's General Session address at the 2018 No-till on the Plains Winter Conference, Jan 30, 2018.

[@diannaskare7829]

I have watched Everything , and shared much on social media , about Allen Savory and the land changes using the Holistic Management (common sense as he said) ,,, and in this one old...er ,lol, womans opinion … this young woman had the best introduction of anyone so far ! Just perfect!! His(Allen Savory) work has brought home the many years of growing up on farms and ranches , watching the grassland replaced by sagebrush and the animals disappearing. the water along with them !! This whole movement of grassing the prairies ( which WILL help to refill the aquifers) is so hopefull it brings tears! The beauty of animals and healthy land and water ….. heals the soul as well as the body and mind ! I pray that we get away from using all chemicals on Mother Earth , I come from strong ancestors of long lives but have had many in my close family die from disease before 60 because of the work and exposure they had … that's not counting the birth troubles and the diseases our children grew up with ! so as Holistic Management and others like it are accomplished world wide to change public opinion and arrange their priorities in a responsible healthy manner … Im Hopeful ! Thank you for all your doing !

[@diannaskare7829]

Darn . isn't there another video for the next day ?

[@wendyscott8425]

@@diannaskare7829 It's hard to imagine running out of KZbin videos on regenerative agriculture. I've been watching them for weeks and there are still more!

[@rexmann1984]

@@wendyscott8425 hooked as well. I had watch his Ted talk years ago. Didnt he had a channel and all these bonus talks with people from all over.

[@wendyscott8425]

@@rexmann1984 I've gone out of my way to find grass-fed beef and lamb, plus pasture-raised chicken and eggs. I'm discovering how delicious this all is besides being nutritious and supportive of regenerative farmers. :)

[@rexmann1984]

@@wendyscott8425 I live on a swamp, basically, so I've been thinking that maybe hogs would be the way to go. I have now been binge watching for the second day. They actually got a bunch of lessons on his channel

[@s.milderjones4594]

Your talks give me 👍 great hope for I cannot begin to see the way to any conclusions about what needs being done without so much cognitive clarity. Thank you many times over.

[@bclaytz]

Got his book on Audible now, an hour in and it's great. He's making me want to buy some acres in a desert lol!

[@agaluszka]

Dear viewers of this video ! - I ask you to do same as I'll do. I'll share Allan Savory great discoveries with my family members and my friends. His (globe saving) information needs to be widely spread, so we can save our children and grandchildren from catastrophe.

[@kam70111]

Love you, Allan Savory. Your Enunciation is clear and understandable.

[@shannonkringen]

thanks for this

[@amandacarey4804]

Excellent! Wake up world...

[@petercain5702]

Alan,your teaching is based on The Universal Laws of Attraction.which is Meta physics and Spiritual .

[@mc-tv7uu]

wonderful advice

[@StayPrimal]

Great video man !

[@nateengland4695]

Yes we export our grain and their nutrients overseas. Well along with that grain we are export our ancient groundwater. I say that ancient groundwater is also a very important resource like soil.

[@diannaskare7829]

The sad thing is we wouldn't need to use the aquifers if the upper ground water was there to use instead it runs off and evaporates because no grasses... but the true paradox … the chemical plants that are making chemicals to make healthy soil ( Herbicides, Pesticides , Fertilizers ) is using more ground water then you farmers would need with natural rich soil . Savory does have a proven grazing plan to save crops too ;)

[@downbntout]

Best line in the talk: 'It's not a goddam grazing system'

[@panstriato2]

I thod the best one was that ´´everytime we blame we see a finger pointing back at us´´.

[@panstriato2]

Or that ´´profit comes from cutting costs´´. To many great quotes to choose!

[@Jefferdaughter]

@@panstriato2 - More accurately, perhaps, 'Every time we point a finger, there are three pointing back at us - though we often do not see them.'

[@downbntout]

You could repost this with a catchier title, to help more people get their lightbulb switched on

[@pollyjetix2027]

The root is evil, as exemplified by Lucifer's thought: "I will exalt my throne." Those who aspire for personal power (domination over others) inevitably destroy those dominated. True wisdom is humble, and seeks no personal gain, but instead, the gain of the community. Which is the root of goodness: love. The pursuit of benefiting others. Honoring others. Finding fulfillment and meaning in community, instead of in the mirror, alone.

[@wendyscott8425]

And if you save and improve the soil for all subsequent generations, that's a heluvalota benefit for others you'll never even know.

[@Dan-gs3kg]

@@wendyscott8425 Give with the right such that the left knows not of it

[@dawnbern2917]

So well said thank you

[@janaoh5785]

His methods relate to restoring grasslands. What about in areas where we need to restore forest, what is the method? Do we use livestock for reforestation?

[@cpcattle754]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3iYg2uaeN2hl7c This link might help. It all comes down to your specific holistic context.

[@Jefferdaughter]

In America, few have even seen a forest. They see areas covered with stunted, scrubby trees, crowded together, nearly all the same age, and *lacking the animals that are integral and essential parts of the forest ecology* and think they are seeing a forest. Somewhere it was written that some of the Indians* of South America did not have a separate word for the jaguar, as they did not see that animal as separate from the jungle. I don't know if this is true of these people, but the point is, absolutely. Without the animals that belong in any given ecosystem, that ecosystem is incomplete - and will not function properly. There are advantages to the Western-reductionist way of thought. Like the watch in Savory's example, it can be useful to look at the parts of something to help us understand how it works. But it will not FUNCTION unless we put it back together again. Nature does not care if the animals that fill the ecological niches are 'domestic' or 'wild'. Where the ecosystem is fractured - by fences and highways across the plains, for example - humans have to step in and restore the 'management' that is missing. In the case of grazing animals, that means keeping the animals mobbed together and moving frequently to fresh ground, as they would in the presence of predators and with the need to move to get food when they are not being fed... This movement can eliminate the need for the animals to be treated with chemicals to keep flies away, or chemicals to kill internal parasites. In short - we have to understand that humans ARE PART OF THE ECOSYSTEM, too. We need to inhabit our planet like we belong here. Most - perhaps ALL - of the destruction that human activity has caused comes from one flawed concept: that humans are somehow separate from the rest of the Earth. If we make it to Mars, the most important discovery we will make is that humans are part of a biological system, a system that functions as part of the planet as a whole. Oops, there it is again, 'holistic'. *The word 'Indian' in this context reportedly came from the observations of the people Columbus met in the New World. He was so impressed with the way they lived in harmony with each other and the natural world around them that he referred to them as 'a people 'en DIos' ' - or a people in God. (Reportedly, much of the sub-continent we now call 'India' was then, though in a different political configuration, known as 'Hindustan', and was not called India for another 200 years.) 'Native' simply means the place of birth, like the 'nativity scenes' at Christmas time.

[@sheraklassen4163]

I worked for many years in the tree seedlings industry. Growing mostly black spruce to replace the black spruce cut down with clear cut logging. . Northern Ontario. Many times native tree stock out-performed the seedlings we grew. There is a lot of root systems and dormant seeds still in the topsoil. Now where there is a loss of topsoil from forestry I expect that would need to be also addressed. You pose an interesting question though.

[@oceanwonders]

What he's said in other videos is that in areas that are humid year-round, they can take abuse and things re-grow. It's grasslands, with *seasonal* rainfall, that degrade. Definitely *don't* use livestock for reforestation since forests wouldn't have been trampled by herds the way grasslands were.

[@roycedaviss4707]

The greatest human on the planet is Allan Savory. Management has to change. From reductionist to holistic. He keeps referring to 'we will talk about [things] tomorrow'. Are you able to post the next talk?

[@downbntout]

I went to their channel page and there are a string of speakers

[@johnauner671]

Well, Julian Assange is as important. Without Assange, nobody will be able to hear Savory in 2021.

[@oceanwonders]

@@johnauner671 Nice.

[@jamesshelburn5825]

Letting the cover crops go to seed is the only possible way to develop regional varieties based on natural selection #SunnHemp sunflower legume 12-months covered with blooms excellent for bees

[@verenauhle7274]

Very convincing explanations, Allan Are Theresia trustworthy numbers in the theoretic C storage capacity of " average" soll under "average" conditions for no till grass and crop land? Thanks from Rolf/Spain

[@johnauner671]

Harvard does reductionist study. Perhaps the derivative industry profits.

[@rexmann1984]

@58:00 I have a better answer than Allan even does. Your gonna be able to sell so much more beef than your competition that don't use this management that you will eventually being able to buy more and more land from your competition that doesn't adopt this method.

[@Dan-gs3kg]

The power of very high stocking rate, and low input costs

[@johnauner671]

Americans and Bavarians may need 2 weeks of training.