Five achievable ways for regenerating soil vitality | Ray Archuleta | Nobel Conference

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Last day of March 2022 and this information has PROVEN to be more pertinent to life than ever! I’m from New Mexico too and I see the same things that Mr. Archuleta sees. But I’m trying to change my little corner of the world. God made the system. I’m just throwing the necessary components together as the hired help. God makes it grow. I have many more seeds to plant, of a number of species. 1.25 acres of central New Mexico is about to bloom! I need to know the grasses that grow here naturally!

[@Sleep_Not_Found]

To me this is THE number 1 priority to address food security & slow the instability in the ecology system asap & help with recovery from severe inclement weather

[@abittwisted]

You have inspired me to do even more. I started earlier this spring to build my soil on my 1.5 acres. No till and all organic. Im going to buy some more books as I want to pass this information along to others that are wanting to help be great stewards of the land. :)

[@dr.froghopper6711]

I’m central New Mexico on 1.25 acres and I’m with you! Small pieces of land doing this will benefit entire neighborhoods! Our job is farming life!

[@csantana1]

I just found this and i am truly impressed how hard it was to find

[@nicolestautner1415]

Brilliant, thank you, this is the new way forward, and it Must be Addressed. Save Our Soils.....we are already paying the cost of not doing this

[@freemocean489]

This is the most critical dialogue we need to be having. Instead we have Beyond Burgers. Instead of sequestering carbon, we start wars so we can steal it from other countries.

[@Jefferdaughter]

36:49 "Every natural ecosystem has animals." That's large herbivores, grazing and browsing animals, as the photos on that slide show, not just microbial or tiny life forms. ***Not only does every natural ecosystem have animals - it has a lot of different kinds of animals all sharing the same land!*** Many kinds of herbivores, from large to small, many kinds of birds, and omnivores, and predators, etc. In Africa, zebras and wildebeast and antelope are seen together. On the American plains, it was bison and antelope and elk. Yet some people criticize farmers using ecological methods and keeping different species together on pasture; even some inspectors from the Department of Agriculture in some States. 39:06 "Look what they have done: Just CATTLE." 41:48 - A silly, and inaccurate image: Cattle emit methane via eructation, not flatulence. NOTE: Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (how the government thinks it can administer the oceans and the air escapes me...) using a mobile lab wee unable to detect methane around cattle. Where they did find it, and in large amounts, was near natural gas (methane) and oil wells - and in towns and cities where it was leaking from pipelines, sometimes in amounts so high that to light a match would have been dangerous. ***Healthy pastures on healthy soil absorb up to 200 times the amount of methane cattle emit per ACRE.*** Even in feedlots, cattle are not usually kept at 200 head per acre! As on Gabe Brown's farm in ND, Joel Salatin's farm in Va., Greg Judy's operation in Missouri, Allan Savory's place in Africa, and many others - when livestock is managed properly, through restoring the natural relationship between the animals we keep as livestock, the plants, and the soil life - wildlife abounds in diversity and numbers: 42:41

[@savedfaves]

True, healthy soils build soil life and methanotrophs handle the so called methane problem.

[@KyleDunnIt]

Deserves way more views.

[@sarahriedel1072]

This is so important to me. It makes so much sense. I love love love 💕 the major rain event test. To see it.... It's so wonderful. I hope I can put it all into practice soon when I "inherit" my childhood home in rural Eastern Colorado. I really hope I can make a difference.

[@futtermanfarms6791]

as I view this there are 39 thousand views. Lets all spread the word until there are 39 millions views and all do our part along the way.

[@Mi_amor12345]

Just a word (Bravo) 👍

[@maemamaema484]

Fantastic information. Thanks so much for for sharing

[@georgevalenzuela2489]

Great information! Thanks for sharing!

[@kevinmcgrath1052]

Congratulations Ray !!!

[@sachinugale9228]

I am from INDIA, you just study "Zero budget "farming from our Subhash Palekar sir. You got all the answer for everything.🙏

[@jekesainjikizana9734]

Palekar Ji is very special

[@forgoodnessache5399]

Ray should give a talk at Bioneers, and if he already has, he should give another!

[@mikehill1613]

Beautiful

[@racebiketuner]

As a fifth year student of soil science, I would say there are a lot of better options than praying. For example, replacing a typical urban with wood chips, creating a polyculture and learning how to foster a diverse insect population.

[@seattleareatom]

Masanobu Fukuoka of One-Straw Revolution fame said you have no rain because you cut the trees down.

[@ashtonburgess9569]

Trees ! Green manure keep something on the surface at all times

[@wendyscott8425]

Trees are good, but bushes are better, and grasses and forbs are even better! Grasslands suck in CO2 and cover the soil so the sun doesn't beat down on it and heat it, enabling microbes to grow underneath, which create a soil that absorbs water rather than just having it wash away the soil. Some deserts have trees, but that doesn't make the desert not a desert. In fact, in Saudi Arabia and other places in the Middle East, they've planted millions of trees at huge expense, and the sand just flows in between them. Without the soil being covered, the deserts will not be transformed no matter how many trees are planted.

[@Jefferdaughter]

After WWII, the government intentionally encouraged rural people to leave the land, to leave farming, to leave small towns - and migrate to the cities, and to the brand-new suburbs. After WWII, the emptying of rural towns and areas was intentional. No doubt the movement of people to the cities where factories could quickly be retooled to support a war was well-intentioned. Yet Eisenhower warned the American public to beware the military-industrial complex - and after WWII, much of this morphed into the agricultural-industrial complex. Films of the era show tanks rolling across fields becoming tractors. Chemicals used to compact the soil for makeshift airstrips, and for making explosives were sold as fertilizers. Chemical warfare agents were repurposed for use ON OUR FOOD. This is still being done, even as tons of soil loss in the USA is up to 10 X the amount of CROPS PRODUCED. .Yet the powerful industries that profit from ecologically destructive crop production methods - methods that reduce life to chemistry and the soil to factory floor - will NOT go away quietly while farms rediscover and develop ecologically REGENERATIVE methods. Even if it turns Earth to a ball of rock and dust that resembles Mars. After WWII, schools pushed students who did well in school to leave the farm in favor of jobs in the city. After all, the government planners reasoned, all a farmer needs to do is what the area USDA agriculture extension agent and the agriculture chemical, synthetic fertilizer, and machine salesmen told them to do. After WWII entertainment and the media began to portray farmers as backwards, ignorant, and even stupid. No wonder people left the land in droves. Others were smart enough to see that the money from farming was not going to go to the farmers, but to the manufacturers of the 'inputs' - and they left. Others instinctively did not like to farm in monocultures, fighting nature instead of respecting it, and working with it.

[@freemocean489]

Jefferdaughter yes, I have found much of this to be true also

[@Prometheus4096]

We want as few people possible to grow our food, because that frees up people for civilization. Civilization only started when people started to live in societies and it was possible for people to not farm their own food. And thus do other things. Like becoming engineers, scientists or artists. Every country wants to be industrialized. Which means less people living in rural areas and less people producing food.

[@TT-Freak]

Saddens me to see this doesn't have a several hundret million of views by now, while Greta and those other activists were just sitting in front of US- Congress not having a clue about all this.

[@robertjanez7467]

Greta and AOC think only having less cows and beef while erecting windmills on farm properties will save us. Meanwhile they fly across the country preaching and playing on their iphones yet never composting or growing their own food.

[@abittwisted]

Those others only live for division, chaos, and money. Not a care about the real issues at play.

[@charliewesterfield5262]

Do we need more cows or do we just let them out?

[@wendyscott8425]

Regenerative farmers don't just let them out, they manage them in mob grazing so they're moved frequently using electric fencing. They get fresh grass all the time that way, and their manure and other excretions feed the soil and plants they fed on before. More is better and more profitable for the farmers. The grass is essentially free since it grows no matter what with proper management, so a lot of cows can feed on it and then they make the farmer more money while they have deposited more natural fertilizer.

[@charliewesterfield5262]

Yes. I’m planning to start a farm. I know. It’s a youtube comment.

[@wendyscott8425]

@@charliewesterfield5262 Sorry? I guess I misunderstood what you were asking.

[@Prometheus4096]

Less livestock, less burning of fossil fuel, keeping the soil covered with living root in the soil, that's the way to go. Add solar and wind for free energy and precision fermentation though biotech, and we would be good to go. Sadly, there is a lot of resistance. Even Jay doesn't want to abandon his cow, though clearly he supports free range and opposes factory farming.

[@nickazar3348]

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[@Jefferdaughter]

I was unaware that there was any rangeland in Missouri. There is not. Then how can there be a ranch there? It is more likely that Archuleta and has family run a cattle farm there. Ranches run livestock, mostly cattle, on rangeland. We were taught that there were no ranches in the Mississippi watershed, or from there, east to the Atlantic Ocean. Regardless... some think that if a property raises livestock, it is a ranch. Or if they raise livestock that gets to breathe the fresh air and see sunlight and graze, it is a ranch. Not tru. Animals have always been an integral part of farming. Farms can function without crops, but it is much harder to build topsoil, increase organic matter in the soil, increase oxygen in the soil, and water infiltration, and increase biodiversity both below and above the soil surface, etc with properly managed livestock than with row crops. But Gabe Brown of Bismark, North Dakota is doing it with a combination of no-till, diverse cover crops, and livestock. (Other people are, too, but Gabe's wonderful presentations are available on KZbin.)

[@TS-vr9of]

(Merriam Webster) Ranch- a large farm for raising horses, beef cattle, or sheep. Nothing about rangeland in the formal definition. 150 acres breeding and raising mostly livestock and minimal crops. His Missouri farm can pretty well be defined as a ranch.

[@wendyscott8425]

Greg Judy seems to be doing pretty well with his cattle and sheep in Missouri. Doesn't that make his property rangeland? Well, maybe not but it still works.