Smartsoil Ground Cover - Ian & Dianne Haggerty - Regenerative agriculture

[@peace4peaceful]

Good to see a positive change. Often wonder how farmers got along before irrigation and chemical fertilisers. Waiting for the rain to plant seed. Then you have small countries like the UK having grain mountains in significantly smaller fields. I grow my own food. I'm lucky that way. But sheer greed has seen big business effectively crush small farmers. Same with fishing too. The good news though is across the globe we have market farmers using permaculture, no dig or no till methods to produce good food in a sustainable way. What's good for the planet is good for us. Good work guys.

[@carolewright6474]

Great work Ian and Dianne 🙏🙌

[@lesboucher542]

I LOVE hearing you say that we will never beat Mother Nature. I heard something a while back that has stuck with me and thought that you might enjoy it.... "We have it all the wrong way around, we aren't growing plants for food or cropping, plants are growing us so that when we die, we can be planted in the ground for them to feed on." Keep up the great work I hope that more and more people come on board over the next generations... I believe that they will...

[@peterjones9629]

So intelligent: smart business, strong morality, authentic living. Relevant now and for generations to come. Thank you Ian & Di Haggerty.

[@Gustav4]

let this type of farming spread all over Australia and the world for that matter.

[@thisearththeonlyheaven]

Thanks for highlighting farmers who work with nature to improve soils and increase biodiversity. No problems with music at all, quite enjoyed it. I have read about the Haggertys so good to see their farms and what they are doing.

[@smartsoil]

Thank you for your support Chris! Yes it seems it's a tough crowd with the music, but we like it too! :)

[@quimigal100]

Very interesting but the background music is extremely high!

[@das250250]

More farmers need to watch this

[@jasoncook2294]

Its really cool to see big farms seeing the light. Add carbon to the soil add life and take it out of the atmosphere.

[@EmmaSolomano]

A great little video. I'm glad that they addressed the challenges they face in implementing regenerative ag on such a large scale, and it was good to hear what they're doing about it. Another important point they mentioned was how we might get the signal to the consumer of the different ways our grains are grown,. There's definitely a lot of work to be done in that area - ingredients lists on our food don't tell us how the food was grown or the environmental impact it has.

[@Chapsikan2801]

Fantastic work guys, another point being the farmers aren't putting their health at risk as well by adopting this natural method.

[@neenalove9921]

What an inspirational and knowledgable couple.

[@smartsoil]

Absolute legends!

[@hahaha9076]

The whole world will produce food this way one day. It's easier to convince one of a lie than to convince one they've been lied to. I feel myself sit up straight and pay attention.

[@alaine842]

Really interesting couple - it’s a pity the music drowns out their important message!

[@raymondg.3173]

Excellent content

[@smartsoil]

Much appreciated

[@thegoodoldways]

Please leave off background music - so distracting. The content is what we come for! So good.

[@craigperry7376]

Very informative and interesting listen. I like the fact that you took up the challenge to help change the normal farming thinking. PS I listened to your story & didn’t hear the background sounds, although I knew it was there.

[@smartsoil]

Thank you Craig! Very much appreciated :)

[@lorsdart8534]

Great effort your both putting in Well done! Music’s crap though

[@polypoly7966]

Shame the inane noise made it hard to follow the speakers

[@smartsoil]

We apologise for your experience, some will like it, some won't, thanks for watching!

[@benjaminchristianhay]

@@smartsoil The subtitles would be redundant if you hadn't drowned them out with random ambient tones.

[@meganfedds]

This is so interesting and I'm trying to enjoy it but as others have said the sound mix needs to be addressed. Take the video down and fix the audio so that future watchers can enjoy this to it's full extent. The photography and filming is excellent. The music is good too but the mix of music to dialogue is doing this video a disservice

[@smartsoil]

Thanks for the tip, please see updated episode with Ian and Di now available on our channel.

[@enstamud]

The music bed is too high. Very distracting! Great vid though

[@fredmax2541]

I agree!

[@davemi00]

Like a Hollyweird doom soundtrack 👹

[@JanWagner77]

The video is great, the background „music“ is too loud and doesn’t fit the video.

[@cray369]

epic soundtrack

[@smartsoil]

Thank you C Ray!

[@andrewsmith9772]

Background music very annoying, cant hear very well. I want to listen to every word.

[@Nightowl5454]

That's from inexperience of the person making the video.🤔🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@lotti9576]

I am a convert , but what's the process :)

[@pepper419]

Australia will teach the rest of the world how to it.

[@wallyade5121]

would watch it all if it wasn't for the music, sorry it is noise.

[@pepper419]

At last.

[@theonlyjamiebourgeois9703]

what's that opening sound? song? love it!

[@smartsoil]

The Only Jamie Bourgeois Thank you, all the music you hear on the Smartsoil Media channel is created by the Smartsoil team, we’re glad you enjoyed it!

[@johnsuscovich4085]

With only 768 subscribers you could absolutely re-publish this video. Take another pass at the audio and make it more balanced. The trippy background music is too loud over the speakers and ruins the video right from the beginning. SO much work went into this. There is clear audio, beautiful shots, and it tells a story. It’s just mixed poorly.

[@kelli74]

Thank you for commenting. I agree. I hope they edit it.

[@das250250]

Reedit this and get rid of the back ground music so you can spread the word as opposed to killing it

[@downbntout]

WA - the postal abbreviation for the State of Washington in the USA

[@meganfedds]

Or...... Western Australia

[@damienmills293]

The sound track under these people talking is really annoying.

[@PinochleFrog]

that was just an ad....

[@pepper419]

For what?

[@DavidWilliams-ok5jo]

UN listenable due to background music

[@fireballxl5768]

Do not need the music otherwise interesting.

[@bigbrotheriswatching2680]

I can't wait till more gen Z people grow up and start doing this regenerative farming thing. Watching millennials try to interact with people is unbelievably cringe.

[@paulc.7547]

Jeeeez. Where can I turn off this annoying tunes of the background. Man.. I want information, not music.

[@shaunclohessy5105]

its been 10 mins and im still waiting for the logic of all this .. the exact point or a takeaway .. its just wearing me out hearing you's talking around the side of whatever it is ...

[@ceili]

The takeaway is that modern agricultural practices which have a heavy emphasis on chemical fertilisers is not needed, basically

[@FloriGarciaCasali]

The same for me. I got to understand using cover crops would be too expensive, and that when the do get some rain, native appear. But so, does all that microbial life in the soil depends on those natives and some lombricompost and from time to time having animals? Don t they ever have problema with any native becoming a “weed”?

[@credenza1]

That is a good point. This video assumes a degree of knowledge of regenerative agriculture principles which few people would have. It would be helpful to include a few minutes detailing the concepts behind RA, so that newbies could see the significance of the farming practices.

[@syedmnihal842]

Listened to it but could extract any thing to learn. Kept talking and talking but no takeaway message.

[@frankbertola3662]

Why do you need 18000 hct and no neighbours??? Get big or get out scholars. Brilliant as it is foolish

[@pepper419]

That's not big, that just WA.