Gabe Brown and Shane New - Groundswell workshop with Understanding Ag

Gabe Brown and Shane New - Groundswell workshop with Understanding Ag - Part 1

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@jimmydykes7961 Жыл бұрын

Transitioning to no till with cover crops for 4 yrs now,and my erosion problems have all but disappeared...still have work to do on marginal soils in places though

@biosyncfarm Жыл бұрын

our grandfather's soils were also surrounded by vast amounts of untapped wilderness. I believe the wildlands cushioned the detrimental effects of tillage for so long that we never noticed the damage until industrialization became the primary form of land management

@davidanton4958 Жыл бұрын

1st Jan 2023 sound is great on both parts. I don't think it matters where you are, or if you farmer or not, surely everybody should be taking this stuff on board? Why not millions of views, especially as everyone has a KZbin enabled device in their pocket! Originally from East Sussex I am dismayed that the East Sussex county web site states that lists 70% of the farming land in East Sussex as a degraded resource. If the climate was "brittle" instead of wet much of the county would already be desert. Driving down the (beautiful) Sussex lanes I pass fields with standing water after a heavy rain, but the concern is that 3 days later it still lays wet in those areas. Yes, I grew up hearing about the Sussex clay, it has been turned into the "get out of jail" free card for any malady that comes down the pike. Gabe, Ray, Allen and many others are explaining why that old adage is just not true.

@annaredding Жыл бұрын

Crazy, I did not know that about East Sussex soil. It seems that public awareness is very low both in farmers and public. You're spot on

@leelindsay5618 Жыл бұрын

I had a patch of clay in my front yard that would have standing rain for days and the house is around 50 years old. I lived here the past 15 years. My family always used chop & drop, but various times someone was hired to mow (and everyone else cuts the yard too short). Once I learned about carbon and soils, I started sprinkling shredded cardboard on the soil before rains. Now, while its raining, there is standing water, but within 30 minutes of the rain stopping, the water absorbs in. I'm still continuing and I hope soon to see no standing water.

@wendyscott8425 Жыл бұрын

@@leelindsay5618 Have you planted anything in that area? It would help a lot if the soil were covered with some sort of ground cover.

@incorectulpolitic Жыл бұрын

@@leelindsay5618 cardboard is full of toxic heavy metals.

@jedluciano1926 Жыл бұрын

Great Presentation! Just getting into small scale no till cover crops myself. However, someone should tell Gabe he's using the same soil sample shot from two different camera angles for 'tillage - high diversity' and 'no till - low diversity' (approx. 5min into the video). When he says they look almost identical, they actually are identical (just look closely at each).

@wendyscott8425 Жыл бұрын

As a resident of a town in Central California, I try to avoid driving out to the farms around here in the fall and wintertime. So much bare ground, it's very discouraging. I hope someone out here stumbles on this video so they can make things better for the land. We start out with excellent soil that feeds crops with the nutrients in that soil, but I can't help but think that the drought we had been having (it's raining today) is caused by not practicing regenerative techniques. So many of the almond farmers have bare soil under their trees. This is a shame. They think cover crops would take water away from the trees. I should think it would be obvious that that is not the case when it's 105˚ outside and the soil is bone dry.

@rixonsimmons2731 Жыл бұрын

f😮😢

@vivalaleta Жыл бұрын

Treat it like the good news that it is. Leave a regenerative ag info letter in their mailboxes.

@biosyncfarm Жыл бұрын

It's because cali farmers aren't allowed to use the water required, and they often times lease that land so they arent worried about degrading it at all

@wendyscott8425 Жыл бұрын

@@biosyncfarm Well, after all the rain we got last winter, I think they'll be in better shape. What farmers often don't realize is that regenerative agriculture creates rain. By having the ground covered all the time with grasses or cover crops, water is generated through evaporation, becoming clouds. There is way too much bare ground around here in the Central Valley, too much plowing, and the crops need all kinds of inputs that degenerate the soil. If the soil weren't so fantastically fertile in the first place, we wouldn't have much here, IMHO. Millions of years of granite dust sliding down from the mountains gives us soil that feeds crops generously, but of course, it still needs organic matter to make it whole.

@biosyncfarm Жыл бұрын

@@wendyscott8425 thats the thing, the government controls the water and subsequently the crops farmers can plant, essentially.

@vivalaleta Жыл бұрын

One question - how can Gabe's neighbors see his results and keep on doing what they do??

@farmerjoe1801 Жыл бұрын

In a word: Pride. I’ve been there and have seen the neighbors’ land…and it’s not pretty. Brown’s Ranch (with no irrigation) is like an oasis in a parched barren land. You would think that they would take notice and follow suit.

@vivalaleta Жыл бұрын

@@farmerjoe1801 Wow..... kinda gives one an idea of why we're in the mess we're in on this planet.

@richardjackson7894 Жыл бұрын

Just to report that I am struggling with the sound, too. I hope it can be fixed/is just me. Any hints on resolving the latter case, hive mind? With thanks

@vivalaleta Жыл бұрын

I think it was fixed.

@timothylane5877 Жыл бұрын

The sound seems to be garbled and extremely low. I cannot hear or understand even at full volume. When the ads come on they are blasting, very high volume. Other videos are fine on my speakers, for some reason this sound track seems to be completely inadequate. Based on comments it seems to be a sporadic issue. Perhaps providing subtitles would be a fix. I love listening to Gabe and Shane, looking forward to finding out what they are discussing in this video eventually. Thanks!!

@timothylane5877 Жыл бұрын

Follow up: The poor audio quality seems to have something to do with the bluetooth speaker I am using. When I plug a set of headphones into my computer I get excellent sound. when I switch back to the bluetooth device the sound drops out and is unintelligible. This is the only video on KZbin that I've seen this problem with. I wonder if it has something to do with the stereo settings used to record the presentation. Great presentation. Thanks for sharing!!

@doug7177 Жыл бұрын

Is it better to give long rest periods? Like grazing thru the farm only 2 or 3 times a year? If so, my pastures look like hayfields by May 1st.... do you just keep grazing the tall grass (fescue and orchard grass etc) even though it's starts getting rank, mature before you get thru it the first time...here in Kentucky?

@vivalaleta Жыл бұрын

Your best rest time for the property is particular. In a wet climate more turns for the creatures is better. It's more work but you're saving all that money one poisons.

@doug7177 Жыл бұрын

@@vivalaleta .... thanks for the reply, but I don't think I understood hardly any of it

@vivalaleta Жыл бұрын

@@doug7177 I was tired when I wrote it and should have abstained probably. Still what I'm trying to say is there's no hard and fast prescription for how often to move your herd.

@biosyncfarm Жыл бұрын

could probably get a few cuttings. Look up salad bar beef joel salatin