Roots So Deep: How can regenerative grazing benefit climate and biodiversity?

Wednesday, October 11
Roots So Deep: How can regenerative grazing benefit climate and biodiversity?
- Peter Byck, Professor of Practice, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University

[@shannonmaris3011]

I wish the sound was better in the interviews. This is fantastic information. So hopeful Ren Ag. can turn the tide - soon!! The numbers really speak for themselves.

[@kuliatv]

This is incredibly important work and needs to be shared far and wide. Looking forward to seeing the film and the published research.

[@andrewbarker8631]

The cool thing about farmers is theyre passionate about the craft and are highly likely to listen about this stuff even if they wont change

[@lenayeagle9650]

I love the spreading of this movement! Grow grow grow!

[@trinsit]

12:30 changing minds takes a sales team. WE have to convince you or else you'll keep doing the same thing and fight everything along the way. It's not science. It's sales. I'm trying to find where I can jump in somewhere. This is a product I believe in and will sell.

[@jerrywatercutter9551]

Education is the first step.We need to educate people on the concept of how to convert to this system.

[@melissasueferrin3409]

Just making a comment to try to get this more views!

[@rhondamontiel3827]

I really appreciate this work. I just wish I could have heard a lot of what was being said

[@Thefivemilebeef]

Great work guys !

[@lauraw.7008]

Another good point with dryer summers, draw-down of moisture decreases risk of forest fire as well.

[@bonitabeach3127]

I like the analogy of the US Bison to the cattle.

[@SecondLineNews]

I understand the first speaker said it as a rhetorical device, but the fact is the bison aren't gone. Neither are the indigenous Tribes whose relationship with the Bison was/is also important.

[@AlleyCat-1]

The bison are gone, in the sense that they no longer roam free across the west & Midwest like they use to. They are now reduced to a small section of Yellowstone, a park in Nebraska, South Dakota, etc. So, in a sense he is right ... the bison are gone compared to how they were in west back in the day.

[@lafondawilliams]

​@@AlleyCat-1ecologically extinct is what google returns

[@brianevans2377]

Is your documentary available on DVD ?

[@johngault8688]

Yes, it would be profitable for the farmers, but not for the fossil fuel industry.

[@trinsit]

It WOULD be profitable for them too. Their only downfall is that it's destroying the planet throwing carbon in the atmosphere. If farmers everywhere were sequestering the carbon, then no one would be freaking out about climate change and they can keep doing their business uninterrupted. Their actual competition is far more efficient electric tech. Which is where the company Locoal comes in. Lol.

[@viking722nj]

can't hear any of the conversation

[@lauraw.7008]

18:51 I cannot understand a word of the person you showed after this point. What did he say?

[@yrp237]

The other thing that is glaringly obvious to me is when it's time to sell the farm (if/when that occurs in the future) the AMP farmers will be able to get a huge premium over the conventional farmers. They have the proof & data that their farm is healthy. Bitcoiners in the future will pay serious amounts of bitcoin for an AMP farm but they will not part with near the same amount for conventional when they know they have 15 years or so of work to get it in tip top shape. (If you are not aware, a lot of OG bitcoiners are into regenerative farming, better food, etc. They are the new money coming in to the space. Also, I'm guessing the 1st Gen farmers took classes, learned new techniques and conventional farmers didn't. I have zero farming background but I erroneously thought all farmers were fixated on their soil (some movie where the dad shows the kid the soil & explained the importance) so I stupidly thought all farmers obsessed over the health of their soil. Obviously I didn't realize with mono crops they don't. So thankful AMP farming/ranching is being shared. It's so obvious even to a non farmer that soil health is #1 and everything else comes from that.

[@user-kv2pt4lu9y]

Farmers gave been going to classes run by the state's land grant universities, county conservation districts,...Funding for these classes is through govt grants, BIG business donations,... Multi-generation farmers are following the advice of the instruction given. The interests pushing the agenda are not what they should be. People want cheap food, cheap food policy subsidizes bad methods. See 100,000 Beating Hearts-about Will Harris. Look up Steve Kenyon's youtube videos for a chart he shows of ag financial wellness and look when farmers began loosing money and BIG business began raking in the profits. Cheap food and health discussed on Mark Hyman, MD with Gabe Brown or Allen Williams. There are many pieces to this complex puzzle. This merely touches the surface. Lots to relearn that our great- great- great- generations past ancestors may have known about stewarding the earth.

[@TCS86]

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[@janlabuschagne4759]

Ek boer in Namibia en is nou 15 jaar op my Namib plaas hiermee besig. My reenval is 250 mm reen. Ek het vanjaar nogg net 100 mm reen gekry en het genoeg weiding vir die volle bestokking. As jy 7 jaar dit doen ,hey jou veld verdubbel.

[@markpiersall9815]

Consider installing a Screech Owl nest box. Owls eat rodents which host ticks and attract pit vipers.

[@ctsmith580]

With the carbon sink description (slide image) it looks like the pasture is collecting carbon from the atmosphere. Is that really what's happening though? I think the increase in soil carbon levels has more to do with tramppled forage being decomposed by earthworms and such.

[@magnuseriksson5547]

That is indeed what is happening. Plants "suck" carbon out of the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis. A surprisingly large portion of that carbon is exuded (called root exudates) into the soil to attract microbes. This microbial community serves many important functions for the plant. They make nutrients available to the plant that otherwise would be unavailable. So yes... it is atmospheric carbon that builds soil carbon. Even if soil carbon came from trampled forage, its origin would still be from the atmosphere since that's what plants use to build their bodies.

[@capnjan9835]

All good info but volume control is a big issue. I turned it off after 10 minutes. You need presentation skills.

[@SolarSolaceFarms]

Wonder how well the CEO of McDonalds actually get the information you speak of. I would imagine that is as hard to be sure of as a consumer who buys “grass fed” proteins. Lot of trust that in a few cases I know of doesn’t pan out.

[@chrisretterath4818]

Sound quality is very poor in places

[@koltoncrane3099]

Idk about regenerative grazing. Normal grazing like pasture rotation and simply grazing grass down and moving them seems fine. I look at Redmond, Utah, state bird refugee. The state took land for a bird refugee and guess what? Most of the birds never go there. You see them on farm land that’s used or pasture that’s grazed. They used to graze a 1000 head of yearlings and now that land is a bird refugee and just weeds. It’s impressive cause the weeds are as tall as a deer’s head. Back when it was grazed there was grass and still cover for wildlife cause there’s tamerack by the river. Today it just needs to be burned or sold back to a rancher to graze. In reality they should have just done a hunting easement cause ranchers probably don’t care as long as people shut the gate and are mature about it. Leaving gates open and letting cattle escape a pasture or even mountain allotment is definitely frustrating.

[@leelindsay5618]

With regenerative grazing, its Adaptive, Multi-Paddock or AMP grazing. Rotational is better than set stocking, but it plateaus after a short time and the diversity of plants is limited, the forage height is limited if the rotations are too slow and/or if the land does not have enough rest. Longer rest periods and different paddock shapes change how the animals graze and which grasses and forbs are stimulated. Someone can start with moving animals every 2 or 3 days, and break it up so the areas get a minimum of 30 days of rest in an area with an average of 30 inches of more per year of rain.

[@kevinedwards7079]

There are ways to get what you want and obeying the law is only one of infinite kinds of revenge you can take its a matter of morality versus business ethics words matter but actions change reality defend yourself or look at the ant or I came I saw I conquered the police are not the law

[@chrisstanford3652]

🐂🌾🌱🍔😋

[@billgoodwin8013]

What recognized peer reviewed scientific journal is this work published in?

[@davidscopaz4177]

Getting someone with a southern accent to think in ecologocal terms is like getting an elephant to do algebra.

[@andrewwhittmore196]

Except almost all the leaders in sustainable agriculture that are farmers are people with southern accents

[@davidscopaz4177]

@@andrewwhittmore196 aside from Dr Allen Williams none come to mind. Could you elaborate?

[@andrewwhittmore196]

@@davidscopaz4177 Allan nation of Mississippi , joel salatin in Virginia . Greg Judy and jim gerrish in Missouri the top leaders and heifer international is one of the best institutions for this based on Little Rock Arkansas please read books from all of these people

[@sookibeulah9331]

⁠@@davidscopaz4177Will Harris. He has a full on Georgia drawl. There’s a few from Texas I can’t think of right now. Then there’s Joel Salatin - Virgina and Greg Judy from Missouri but I suppose that’s southern Midwest.

[@davidscopaz4177]

@@sookibeulah9331 Ill accept the nomination of Will Harris. Good point.

[@jackson8085]

Complete greenwashing. There is no regenerative grazing. It's a myth, but people love to hear good news about their bad habits. In this case, consuming the world's most inefficient carb to protein converter the cow. Beef is only 2% of our calories and uses 80% of all agricultural land, that number only increases when you switch the cows diet to grass from grain.

[@zaphodbeeblebrox3967]

Nope. 44% of farmland in the U.S. is used for cattle, and most of that is classed as marginal, meaning unsuitable for growing food crops. (USDA, web, 2019). You don't even have the basic info correct; stop getting your facts and figures from idiots with a flawed agenda.