Livestock on the Land - Full-Length Film

Livestock on the Land is a story by Practical Farmers of Iowa about the ways that farmers are building a regenerative agriculture by centering their operations around the animals they care for. Whether it's through rotational grazing or cover crops or fertility for crop fields, livestock hold the key to protecting our soil, cleaning up our water and even providing habitat for wildlife. But most importantly, livestock give farmers a chance to get started, grow businesses, provide for their families, work together, and ultimately, bring back the next generation to start it all over again.
To learn more and get involved: practicalfarmers.org/programs...
#livestockontheland #regenerativeagriculture
Stay up-to-date on PFI by subscribing to our KZbin channel or following us on social media:
practicalfarmers.org/
/ practicalfarmers
/ practicalfarmer
/ practicalfarmer
Join Practical Farmers of Iowa today:
practicalfarmers.org/get-invo...

[@badmoon8663]

The folks who want to shift to a plant based diet to save the planet need to watch this. The fastest way to sequester carbon in the soil is to include ruminants in the system. In the process we can revitalize rural communities. I am an retired rotational grazer. I know from experience that mimicking nature is the way to go.

[@RaiderDelic]

@badmoon8663; 1: THANK YOU for farming 🩶🖤, 2: THANK YOU for how you did it 🩶🖤. Sincerely 🙏🏾. I hope you see this Thank You, as well as my comment of this doc’, just above/after your comment, here.

[@andylyon3867]

No one wants a plant diet, they are brain washed into it, to be brainwashed you have to have allot of issues already.

[@ben-jam-in6941]

@@RaiderDelic Hey good for you! Really it’s important to always thank our farmers and ranchers. It’s a hard way to make a living and if not for the love and devotion to doing it.. well it wouldn’t usually be worth the worry alone. Also ya it’s even better that this person did it while taking care of the soil that makes it all possible. I wanna add my thanks as well.

[@jenkosgoldadventures]

Agree we are designed to eat animals

[@ronaldshort9819]

the folks who want everyone to change to a vegetarian diet are commies pushing a globalist agenda....simple as that....and they have no interest in regenerative farming or soil health or rural areas...just sayin

[@ronmckinley4761]

The American Farmers and ranchers are the most important people in America. NOT the politicians in Washington. This farmer/rancher says when the cattle leave the land the people will leave, and the community will die. And she is right.

[@Reciprocity_Soils]

"Where do you get your water?" My goodness!! Let's feed the soil with goodness, so the soil will feed us with greater good. Peace and health.

[@kevinpoole4323]

Have a Full Life but Always Come Back to the Farm

[@Lafayettelyle]

Move to the City. Make a little money. Move back to the country and farm it all up. An old man told me, "Son , there is money in farming". "I ought to know, I put it there".

[@jjime1175]

We were once stewards of the land working with nature but with the introduction of synthetic fertilizers and chemical weed killers we became dominions of the land. The same became of livestock, they once grazed our lands and then we pushed them into pens to eat,sleep and live in their own waste so scientists introduce chemicals to deworm and fix the ailments we gave to livestock. I believe in what these farmers do and it’s what I do on my farm, live with nature and not try to control it.

[@Lafayettelyle]

Synthetic fertilizers?????

[@sookibeulah9331]

@@Lafayettelyle versus natural fertiliser- dung, compost, wood chip….

[@toni4729]

The world needs good ol' nature back again. Keep up the good work. We love the farmers and the animals.

[@IowaMercMan]

This was a surprisingly emotional video for me. I grew up in SE Iowa in the 60s, 70s and my hometown (Richland) was a vibrant, busy, little farming community. You could barely find parking around the square on a Saturday. I saw what happened in the 1980s farm crisis, and the long term impacts to small communities today. I am hopeful more young farmers and homesteaders can acquire land and pursue regenerative farming. Because it breaks my heart watching these industrial-farming corporate raiders, who call themselves ‘farmers’, continue to pillage the land with no ethical or economic concept of being the land’s long-term caretaker. Healthy farms produce healthy food. We all need more of that.

[@gabriellagodsent9012]

Touching

[@gussampson5029]

​@claudiabarrosprofeciamor Never gonna happen. Human beings evolved to eat meat and animal fat. It's necessary for brain health. Meat that is raised well has far more nutrition in it than plants and complete proteins that are necessary for our metabolism. This is one reason why vegans are much more likely to have mental illness and vote Democrat. We need MORE meat production as animals are a healthy and necessary part of any ecosystem, not to mention they provide economic diversity to farmers who live very difficult lives to begin with. Meat is here to stay. You should have a nice juicy steak.

[@rollingacresfarmatlanticio2190]

This is the future of Iowa. We need to break down the corporate hold so Iowans can have clean water, clean soil and clean air. The Farm Bill is coming up in 2023. This is the time to work for farm policy that works for the people not the corporations.

[@usmangani71]

Are you aware about the protests by Farmers in India against Farm Bills being introduced?

[@wendyscott8425]

This is the future of the world. The one thing this movie didn't make much mention of was how regenerative agriculture creates soil that absorbs not only more water but carbon as well. Both these excess greenhouse gases-water vapor and CO2-are important to put back into the soil, out of the air, and out of the oceans.

[@Hakkeholt]

European yesterday set up a regulation to move more farm subsidie to smaller farms than to the big multinationals.

[@koreanature]

My best friend, that's a great video. I will always cheer for you in Korea I'm looking forward to a great video. Have a nice day.

[@AbeYoung]

Well thanks to you I'm going back to my grandma's farm in new mexico to do 3 weeks of work.

[@NewHeritageFarms]

YAYAYAYAYAYAY!

[@kevinpoole4323]

Food is the Staff of Life

[@gtiggsmusicstudent]

This is the best news i have had from America in a long time, i said i would never visit america but i guess i was wrong, i would pay for a trip to see this kind of regeneration and community spirit. for me nothing beats rebuilding our planet one person at a time.

[@gabriellagodsent9012]

Yeeessss

[@andrewcooke-hedin1903]

I love smart, industrious, good hearted people. Thank you for solving the problems by putting boots on the ground!

[@diyhomeowner3879]

I am currently getting ready to move back to Iowa. I am currently active duty in the Navy and will finish my career in Des Moines as a recruiter where I will retire. While there, I want to start a farm. However, it is super expensive to get land. Watching this production keeps me motivated to stay with my dream. I grew up on a cattle farm in NW Minnesota, and on the farm is where I want to end up. I appreciate everyone who is putting this together, and hopefully one day I can meet some of you.

[@geostoned]

There are programs for retired military from the NRCS to help with expenses at least. As a retired military meme bet you move to the head of that line. Yeah, the land is the biggest expense by far though. Maybe new and beginning farmer program may help you as well...

[@diyhomeowner3879]

@@geostoned I will look into those, I appreciate the info.

[@jerrylansbury9558]

I just posted this.....with out reading your comment here first....... As a child.... I always wanted to farm ! At the age of 14 I set my mind to just that ! Every cent that touched my hands went to my bank ! ( My dresser drawer ) My parents gave me 25 cents each day for the noon meal at school. Little did they know I saved it all ! Until one day my mom found all the coins in my dresser drawer. She took it all ! Never to be returned. At that point I realized I had to open a bank account. I never went anywhere..never school prom....never movies...never school activities. Never had a drivers license until I was age 19 . Why have a car when you could work at home and drive dads free of charge ? After joining the Peace Corps in 1978 to 1980 in Liberia Africa...it opened my eyes. I truly wanted to farm ! I was even able to save money in the Peace Corps. Back home in 1981 I had 70,000 dollars to my name. And I set out looking for a farm. Yes now days you can still start farming if you really have the true desire ! " Save your money " !!!!!!!! Im now 63 yrs old and had the farm I bought in 1986 paid for in 12 yrs. However now days young folks cant stay home....need snow mobiles..... cars.......trucks.... golf carts....boats....you name it they need it. They say they cant get started farming ? Please ! My own boy just started milking on an 80 acre parcel of land last year. 25 cows so far. There are beginner farmer programs out there. Had a great banker help my boy get started. No other banker could compare to how my boys banker helped him. Seldom do you find a banker guiding a client through all the hoops in farming as his banker did !

[@diyhomeowner3879]

@@jerrylansbury9558 I appreciate the reply, I am like you and have been saving money especially for this and doing more so in the recent years. I am planning on starting small and working up. Eliminating the "frivolous" stuff is the hardest for some, however I, like my father buy something, take care of it and run it until it wont go anymore, and then fix it and run it some more reducing my spending. I wish good luck to your son and all the best, he truly is living my dream right now.

[@jerrylansbury9558]

@@diyhomeowner3879 One key point.... check around and talk to bankers. They are in no way " equal " !! Ninety nine percent have no care in the world relating to what the client is working towards ! Find a banker that is willing to help maneuver your way through the financial maze. My boy found he was able to apply for two programs due to the virus issues and another grant. No other bankers even mentioned it to him. There is a big difference in bankers !

[@michaelaregenfuss5968]

What a great and important documentary. I hope Iowa does become the regenerative farming capital of the country. An exciting prospect.

[@shanetiernan607]

I think this is film is well done and these are some really good stories. It talks about the rural/urban divide but there is also a rural/rural divide between small scale farms and "commodity" farming operations. What's missing from the film is a more in depth look at the economic sustainability of these systems. Many of these farms still require off farm incomes in order for the families to be economically viable. What also needs to be recognized is for all the critics around livestock confinement systems these systems have allowed many young farm and non-farm families to stay in our rural communities. Had it not been for these systems rural out-migration of families and losses to our rural communities could have been much higher. There needs to a balanced effort to work cooperatively between both small scale and commodity farm operations because one can't survive without the other. At the end of the day farms need to be economically sustainable be they small scale or large scale. I've worked in Ag finance for nearly 40 years entirely in rural community organizations. I lived through the 80's farm crises and watched as we lost nearly and entire generation of farm families. I also worked for eight years with a NE Iowa regional food group trying to gain support and momentum for a new generation cooperative that would pool production from small farm operations into regional and statewide distribution networks that had more market power to deal with food supply chain networks, but what I found out is many of these small scale farm operators still have a scarcity mentality when it comes to working with other farmers they see as competitors for a small share of local markets. Ultimately what was revealed is many don't really want to work together to build an economically sustainable regional food system which is very unfortunate. Despite all their rhetoric around building sustainable agriculture systems when it comes right down to it many of them remain unwilling to work together cooperatively to build an economically sustainable network. The local food movement in Iowa could be so much more than farmers markets and a few small scale integrated operations, but until farmers on both sides (small scale and commodity) recognize the need to work collectively real progress and economic sustainability will remain out of reach for many of them. PFI has done great work in Iowa, but I would like to see them put more emphasis on building and comprehensive system of economic and environmentally sustainable food networks that have real power and opportunities to build the scale necessary to have a real impact on our rural communities and the state.

[@jontaiber7020]

Incredible production. So proud of these hard working and innovative farmers setting an example for the world.

[@diyhomeowner3879]

One thing I chuckled about while watching this video is the erosion piece. I remember as a kid hearing all of the large row crop farmers blame cattle farmers for the erosion. But in all reality, it all comes down to the steward of the land and not specific to any type of farmer.

[@kenharris8743]

Beautiful and very educational thank you.

[@j.m.r.f6286]

Thank you, gracias

[@user-kd3qz6nx7v]

🙏🙏🙏ขอบคุณ ขอบคุณ และขอบคุณThank you for sharing your knowledgeable experience. I really like this video.

[@scottschaeffer8920]

Great illustration of what is a real problem-factory farms. We want producers to be prosperous but, we gotta get diversified.

[@Lifestayll123]

Good idea

[@user-re3zl1uj2c]

These are hard working people facing real life challenges best part in the conversation i herd from them is getting down to work in tackling problems at hand. NO COMPLAINING I REPEAT NO COMPLAINING but get to work in solving the problem. Its what I would love to see these mind set across our universe. I simply don't want to name a scapegoat here but there are talks in other part of the world which make one wonder if the work of Government is parenting matured people problems, I didn't here any one here begging anything from the government, rather the narrator said may be the government has a role to play here. I LOVE THIS MENTALITY. BRAVO.

[@jimtaylor2725]

i wish more people would watch this and really think about what is being said. Very well done. Thank you to all the farmers who made this possible. i wish all of you the very best in health and good fortune in 2021

[@dennisf.macintyre117]

You're talking about selling, serving Pizza on your farm. Let me please share what finally got me eating it after retirement. Visiting my daughter who went to teach English in South Korea. I learned to love a triple cheese pizza that was always served with at least 6 or 8 bread and butter sweet pickles. They also serve some of there pizza's with mashed potatoes around the outside. Enjoy! I did! ( From Southern Ontario)

[@MissAllyson707]

I hope this starts to change and improve each year.

[@oldriverfarm]

Love this film. Very ambitious and a bit long for our short attention spans. Let's all keep telling our stories and connecting our work.

[@kevinpoole4323]

God and Country the Land The People the Future The Church America Make a Comeback.

[@brettpayton6286]

Originally from NE Iowa now living in Northern Missouri on my own farm. I really have enjoyed this an other videos. Thanks

[@rgjbruin]

Really enjoyed this, thank you!

[@thatonedog819]

It's still called regenerative agriculture

[@alancross2826]

Well done, a brilliant informative film and to the likes of Seth Watkins for keeping an open mind. In Australia it took nearly 40 years for Peter Andrews to be recognised for his work on regenerating water systems to benefit the drought stricken land, ie, Natural Sequence Farming, you all have one another to work together to show governments how this benefits all. Your own area production plant or plants for easy access is needed after the covid scare. Keep updating its a great watch from here in the UK. Regards

[@rahmanpratomo4681]

Traditional farming communities in Korea developed a system called JADAM, which has been proven to be used to make the land more alive. Namely maximizing the use of plants that have certain ingredients that are adapted to local conditions, livestock manure, mineral salt water, and other materials that are easily available nearby, then connected and integrated with the food chain system between plants, animals and humans, including the use of microorganisms. . I have started applying it to several areas of land that have been damaged, because the humus has been lost due to mining activities on the island of Kalimantan, where the condition of the soil is very similar to the condition of dry desert soil and is almost rocky. This effort is showing very good results and if this is tried to be applied on the African continent and other desert lands, it seems that it will slowly improve naturally and bring benefits that move very quickly. Greetings from me in Indonesia and it would be very good if the JADAM system which was pioneered by agricultural experts in Korea is implemented. Please see this method which has been widely broadcast on many KZbin channels, as a reference. Good luck and greetings to a healthy and green earth.

[@troybishoppthegrasswhisper3703]

HOLY COW: It's Meghan Filbert, the new celebrity farming advocate. Can I get an autograph?

[@allenferry1268]

Why is it that all the beef, lamb and pork needs to be inspected. If the USDA gave an exemption to smaller farmers like there is for poultry and rabbits co-ops could be formed to include processing and sales locally.

[@marshagiere9894]

Is it anti trust to prohibit sale direct to consumer?

[@lupineh7831]

Vote forRFK, Jr who will help these farmers and this type of farming

[@randybutler4772]

Thank you for sharing.

[@lisariggin5060]

Excellent story that I hope influences further efforts and investment to build on the great work already being done on farms in Iowa.

[@ahsanuddinhabib925]

Good job

[@josephklingelhutz6182]

PFI is truly inspiring. Love what you do!

[@teodorojaranilla5008]

incredible and inspiring; Thank You!!

[@AAa-cf1oe]

💙

[@tangalicious4515]

Special bunch

[@ferree1709]

Impressive production!

[@irkone]

great music over the credits - sounds like Kurt Vile

[@chelseacrowe8798]

I love cows

[@Ashley-mt8uf]

❤❤❤

[@JamesColeman1]

Nice work

[@dexterking9003]

My dad always mention three things in life government churches and banks all corrupted, farmers need help not foreign countries we come for us

[@timothytripp4594]

Your father was totally correct

[@gabriellagodsent9012]

Lawyers

[@lyralong]

#defundMonsanto

[@parissamuel6676]

"I'll love to help Breeding."

[@brycesmith3618]

Individuals actually who are in Ag I'm sure are nodding their heads because this is more common then the general public perceives.

[@Dave-gl7fk]

To stop erosion -> plant woody perennials. Chestnuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, fruit trees and bushes. + Livestock

[@fredomogerd726]

FARMERS

[@user-ji3ec5wy7d]

Откормочные загоны приносят прибыль, потому что при питании зерном скот быстрее набирает вес, чем при питании травой. Но, как и у молочных коров, у мясного скота желудок не приспособлен к той концентрированной пище, которую они получают при откорме. Часто, стремясь получить больше клетчатки, чем им дают при кормлении, животные вылизывают свою шерсть и друг друга. Попадание большого количества волос в рубец может вызвать абсцессы. Но если зерно разбавить клетчаткой, которая так необходима животным, то прибавка в весе будет не такой быстрой. П.Сингер "Освобождение животных"

[@oldlefty1267]

We all have to do our best to try to support people like this with buying their products. The consolidation of agriculture is not an accident, it is about control. Bill Gates, Klaus Schwaab, the entire World Economic Forum hates this. The plan is for us to eat bugs and grains to keep us sick and docile. Support your local farmers the best you can.

[@galeseverson3192]

Yeah, Nick Wallace

[@nancyfahey7518]

@43:08 that's a stump or root. That's not a hand sticking up out of the dirt.

[@ben-jam-in6941]

One of many big issues I see is the fact that it’s nearly impossible for a young person to buy a farm/ranch. If you don’t inherit the land or a substantial amount of money or other assets you can put against a loan you just about don’t stand a chance. I live in Northeast Alabama and was raised in the beef cattle industry with my family owning a Stockyard (livestock auctions aka salebarns) from the very late 1970’s-2006ish my Grandfather owned 3 different salebarns in Northeast Alabama. We also owned and lived on a farm and had cattle in my life either at home or at the Stockyard from my birth until my grandfather and father decided to sell out and retire in 2006. My father who was having health problems that kept him from getting around good asked my very immature young dumb butt and my brother (who’s 5 years younger) if we wanted to sale the farm or keep it (with some conditions like simply taking care of it and in use) and being in my 20’s and not even close to settling down I was adamant that I was done with everything to do with cattle (think about seeing anywhere from 600-1500 head at the stockyard every Tuesday from age 10-25) so I voted to sell it. I felt regret pretty quick as did everyone else in my family. I didn’t get a vote over selling the Stockyard and truly if my Grandfather had split it among his children it would be too many “hands in the pot” with only a couple of those “hands” actually running the business. Anyway my father didn’t have the kinda money it takes to help me just go buy a few 100 acres (that’s a big spot in North Alabama) once I got my head back on and realized raising cattle and farming is all I know and what I’m best at. I honestly rarely see a farm for sale locally that hasn’t been spit into smaller lots by the realtor anyway. When I was growing up especially in the late 80’s and 90’s but also on into the early 2000’s my father would often keep a herd here and there on farms he would rent/ lease from the owners. We had a board up at the stockyard you could tack business cards on or post equipment for sale.. It usually had posts saying 00acres good fencing and year round water in X-town for rent or lease call Joe Bob at… I even rented a farm myself when I was something like 15years old. As it often happened then I bought a small herd from the owner and asked him if he would like to rent the pasture for a few months or something. So I paid him in cash for the small herd and paid rent every month for a few months or longer probably either waiting for the bred cows to calve or putting weight on them with something (put them on one of those mineral licks that make them wanna eat even cheap hay). It was a win win. Anyway that seems to be a thing of the past now as well. I’ll stop now but I could add the problem around here of having to also have chicken houses on your cattle farm to make enough money to keep cattle and how not many of my generation know anything about cattle and it can only be less that have a clue or are even interested in knowing the younger you go. What’s the future hold??

[@joshthecapguy7832]

Its hard watching all this farm land in the west valley of Phoenix being sold off little by little

[@arthurraygross4983]

Why don't farmers form Cooperative Slaughter and Distribution Corporations so they can get MORE of the VALUE ADDED Profits so Small farmers can make a decent Living?

[@Forester-qs5mf]

I would have thought people in rural areas would be drinking rainwater like in Australia.

[@0711mama]

Are they drying their crops with chemicals at harvest?

[@shelburnjames7337]

Holistic method

[@shelburnjames7337]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6esfapnZ8qWhq8

[@NewHeritageFarms]

Allan Savory Holistic Management? That's a yes for me - but I'm retired - so I'm just all talk at this point. lol

[@robertdiceston3336]

Too many have gone away from cover crops that protect the soil and keep the soil rich for other crops.

[@LtColDaddy71]

Everybody thinks of Texas and Montana when it comes to where beef comes from, but cattle on lush I state pasture is by far the most sought after, highest quality beef their is on the planet. It brings a lot more money also. Where we drop the ball is genetics. We have to get back to the 1000 lb weights, and animals that grade well on grass alone. Corn is great chicken and pig feed. It’s great for our gas tanks. But it’s terrible for people and ruminants to eat. A lighter weight animal is very feasible for dual use land schemes. They don’t destroy farmland, and can be part of the rotational use of that land.

[@wendyscott8425]

No reason to feed cattle. Let them feed themselves! Grass-fed 100% is where it's at. Greg Judy shows people how it's done all year round, with minimal hay that he only spreads out in the winter when necessary, and which helps heal the land with the carbon and seed that comes along with it. Cows don't need grain. They need grass. And the grass needs them. And don't even get me started about the soil... 😏

[@NewHeritageFarms]

I agree 99%. I attended Grey Judy's 2013 Spring seminar, I've also have heard Allan Savory and Sepp Holzer speak in person. Not to mention all the other trail blazers in Permaculture and Regenerative farming. But letting people figure their own way too it is what's working about this community in particular. And "new" farmers, nationwide, in general. But painfully slow, I know, at any given point in time or from our perspective. We have to let them convert themselves. We can support infrastructures that inspires their journey, like this film.

[@timothytripp4594]

I am speaking out and I don't care who don't like it if my government doesn't like what I have to say too bad I'm going to say it anyway no matter who likes it or not I believe in being a person that stands up for what is right not what the government thinks is right

[@alostpilgrimsjourney5953]

More power to you Brother.

[@mdashrafalli4857]

নাইছ

[@oisinwallace5367]

Vegans take things too far this is what REAL farming is actually like

[@2xsurviver]

Why music

[@hichamkomha8359]

Hello sir . Do you sell cows to Morocco

[@wayne4768]

What does that mean? We kill our cover crops? Herbicides?

[@NewHeritageFarms]

Yes, he's still spraying so he can have a "fresh and clean" (plowed) fields to plant his feed corn and soy. So he's not totally "there" yet but you can hear him evolving even by the end of the film.

[@tundrawomansays694]

I am so sick of eating Monsanto and ConAgra.

[@toni4729]

Don't give up your livestock or your land to big business. It'll kill off the planet.

[@RaiderDelic]

Seriously, Respectfully, Sincerely, rename this documentary “Rotational Grazing” 🩶🖤 (of course I know that’s not possible; it’s already in the can🎥 and presented 🤓). Rotational Grazing; -redeems the land 🌿, -serves the animals 🐮, -and keeps the Farmers/Land-Owners in good business 🤑. Rotational Grazing is what the ENTIRE PLANET 🌎 should get back to 💡. Seriously, Respectfully, Sincerely, THANK YOU, Iowa Farmers 🩶🖤🙏🏾. And this is from me; -plant based 🧄🧅, -some eggs 🥚, -too much chocolate 🍫🙄. Again, THANK YOU, Iowa Farmers 🩶🖤🙏🏾.