How Regenerative Agriculture Brings Life Back to the Land | Gabe Brown | TED

[@tbbbbb123]

I'm so sorry to hear about your diagnosis, Gabe. Thank you for all you do for spreading the word.

[@audreysuter4315]

Go carnivore for optimal healing

[@jamesrichey]

I have been applying regenerative principles to my own garden. Gabe Brown in his book, Dirt to Soil, helped me recognize the importance of my own soil. I hope we can move away from conventional farming to help heal the planet.

[@klklKL-KlitzekleineKleinigkeit]

Dear Gabe! You say "the ecosystem started healing itself." Wow! You are part of the ecosystem and maybe you can heal yourself, too! I am full of gratitude! I send you a lot of strength and hugs from Germany.

[@MegaSnail1]

We love you Gabe. Your legacy reaches far beyond your land. I continue to share your videos with whom ever will listen. Thank you

[@earthsystem]

This is an honest farmer, I love this talk. My heart goes out to him, my family were Oklahoma farmers back when, befor the bankers got their land.

[@pop91541]

It took him 30 years to find out. Thank you for sharing this good thing to communities.

[@prophecyrat2965]

Natives allways knew.

[@millanferende6723]

Yeah "we" always knew... just the corporations and the "social engineers" have gotten the best of us for quite a while. But not anymore. The truth, including ancient cultures and wisdom we always knew, is coming out.

[@millanferende6723]

I only hope that people with this information reach Bill Gates. (and no don't tell me he won't do it, as anyone can be convinced with the right rhetoric and support.)

[@ving1389]

Thank you Gabe Brown! Truly hope your experience, shared so sincerely will help convert more minds towards regenerative farming.

[@Marilou-g5t]

@@ving1389 vote with your dollars

[@PorchGardeningWithPassion]

I am working on adding these principles to my gardening practices on the porch of my apartment. He did a great job adding a lot of context to a complicated goal 👊🏻🌻👊🏻

[@andreasherzog2222]

If you are new to regenerative agriculture, here is your list of videos to watch: 1. the legendary TED-talk of Allen Savory (kinda inventor of all this) 2. several TEDx-talks of Gabe Brown and Joel Salatin 3. check out the YT-channels of Gabe, Joel and Greg Judy (the third Guru of reg ag). They have tons of howTo-videos showing how it is done in much detail. Especially if you are a (wannabe) homesteader.

[@ruceblee969]

Also Dr. Allen Williams

[@jefferyheppler7650]

Farmer Jesse of @notillgrowers

[@lenayeagle9650]

​@@ruceblee969I was going to comment the same thing! Also, on the same topic, Dr. Christine Jones, Nicole Masters, John Kempf. The lost goes on! ❤

[@denniskemnitz1381]

​@@lenayeagle9650ya wanna get them on the list.

[@denniskemnitz1381]

​@@lenayeagle9650why the lost...it is a list.

[@taracmonroe]

Love this. Excellent talk. Thank you for your insight and sharing your experiences. Hope regenerative agriculture becomes the norm very soon.

[@ambivertseph]

We need more Earth heroes like Gabe! Thank you for spreading the word and making a huge difference in the farming industry.

[@scottschaeffer8920]

God Bless You Gabe! My home state of Illinois is black, actually brown because of soil degradation. As Leopold said “ Rich Land, Poor Country. We harvest less that 30,000 wild pheasants now, we used harvest over a million. I hope regen ag is the future.

[@TheHokieDoke]

HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE MORE VIEWS???? This is crucial information! While I don't have a farm, I actively seek out pasture raised animal products from local farms (I'm lucky that way!). We live in a time where the monoculture crops that are used to make food that is unfit for human consumption (refined grains, refined sugars, and industrial seed oils) get more government subsidies than fruits and vegetables. My hope is that this next administration can make some changes to this and incentivize farmers to use regenerative agriculture to heal the soil, have higher yields, more profits, and healthier food for all of us!

[@BlindGrower420]

As a horticulturist, thank you! All those years of experience to find out how to treat our soils! I’ve always had a feeling about soil and no tilling and using cover crops. I’ve never had prior knowledge but it just made sense to me. I hope to have my own farm one day and maybe own multiple so I could help practice these methods and heal the soil for future generations.

[@jc1865]

Thank you. We need more people joining the movement to save our soils.

[@matthill367]

I always had some intrigue into soil. Like life just springs out of it, yet its something so overlooked. Soil is alive, just like the planet itself.

[@thaliacrew1]

Bless you, Gabe Brown. I show Kiss the Ground education video and your testimony in that movie has reached so many students from a rural background that regenerative agriculture is THE answer for modern society to draw down carbon from the atmosphere. You are a bold and brave soul, sir.

[@AnthonySNY]

I have a small organic regen farm, which I'm trying to do between my regular job. the problem is it's impossible to make a living when distribution is controlled by a handful of corporations, who set the prices on everything. huge corporate farms want to keep us priced out of the market, and its done by choking our access to consumers. a bunch of kale is $4 in the store. the buyers want to pay 50 cents. corporate farms will break laws and pay fines to make themselves profitable, because it keeps the market cornered. meanwhile, the general public really has no idea how bad their food quality is.. so they'll buy what ever is in front of them.

[@denniskemnitz1381]

Sell produce at farmers market. Dennis

[@denniskemnitz1381]

"KEEP ON TRUCKIN AND MOST OF ALL IT SEEMS COMPLICATED" for a long time. Dennis

[@salimufari]

More than just putting the food in the lunch room at school we need to start teaching cooking & food awareness in school & at a much younger age. So many kids are just eating corn dogs, fries & chicken 'nuggies' because their parents haven't taught them that nutrition is key to growing up & staying healthy in life. We can fix this in the ways outlined in this video.

[@everythingaohkay]

This was an amazing lecture and watch. Thank you for featuring this!

[@dalehodges5362]

Healthy microbiology works like a sponge absorbing minerals into rootzones and holding moisture there too.

[@rdapigleo]

Great talk about diverse farming, well spoken from real experience.

[@rudbarnes8577]

For home gardeners, too. I'm growing a cover/green manure crop for my new garden beds for trees, shrubs, perennials and vegies. Puts organic matter and nutrients into the soil.

[@GlynDomingue]

I'm doing this in my garden and seeing a big difference in less than 2 years. Adding compost and using compost extra and worm castings. Looks like I may be using less water to grow a crop. The plants look a lot better and have no bugs or fungus.

[@beentheredonethat6584]

I have the same results on a new 20x40 foot garden that was a patch of weeds on ground that could not be dug into with a garden fork. Using only horse manure, compost and winter cover (no synthetic fertilizer and no pesticide) after 3 years I get a huge harvest from amazingly healthy plants and absolutely zero pest problems. My soil is great as deep as I want to dig it and now I can practice completely no-dig gardening. My water consumption is way less than in previous gardens, I don't have to pay for fertilizers, etc and I don't have to dig or till. .

[@cyclonicsquid4189]

This guy is very informative and has a great sense of humour.

[@Tinachimneycreekfarm]

A wonderful presentation. We are using these principles and hope to regenerate our land too. We’re already seeing improvements in the soil and biodiversity.

[@Goldeneyes2534]

Thank you. One of the best and most important video I have ever watched.

[@anitachisnell8412]

An excellent talk, I hope more people will listen to It and follow the good ideas.

[@jackhunter5853]

Well done! So hard to break with convention, especially when you’re in trouble

[@magsj2387]

Thank you Gabe for sharing your experience. Listening to your struggles and successes fuels me to keep learning and better practice regenerative gardening for my home and taking care of my soil. The wheels are turning now to animals. What animals can we incorporate into our home?…Thank you again.

[@AndrewRalph111]

Gabe is an inspiring figure.

[@tubenotter]

Gabe, a 'terminal' diagnosis is a dangerous curse by irresponsible people, it should never be accepted. Spirit is above matter, break the spell and invite the miracles that happend to others into you own life! Your great food is a soure of health. You have initiated to change the world and we want you around! Please decide to stay as part of principle 1. Myself and many others send you love and healing from Germany!

[@heretik111]

Sir, you are an inspiration.

[@-AkhilTej-]

🎯💎🏆 Great insightful & fruitful video 🏆💎🎯 लोकः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु ( May all beings lead prosperous life across Globe 🌍 )

[@blueglassog3600]

If only the world would focus on this

[@David-fd9cr]

Very inspiring!

[@jerryhoefs5803]

God bless you Gabe!

[@Mandellhouse]

Brilliant, and vitally important points made. One day all farms will be like this.

[@sparkysmalarkey]

One day . . .

[@monicadechering9489]

That was fantastic! Truly an inspiration. I will be incorporating those ideas into my large veggie garden. Sorry about your diagnosis. Perhaps you can heal yourself like you healed your soil.

[@farmlandlp]

Amazing talk! Fantastic job leading the way on this! We strongly believe in the power of regenerative farming at scale!

[@SaiKiranPasupuleti]

Love the Work and Talk.

[@1stanleygirl]

Love his book...love that TED had him do a talk.

[@Parthkumar_vekariya]

Really nice to hear about the concept and its importance. Thank you for that. It would be more helpful if you explain how to do it practically to understand better

[@jerryoliver7963]

Fantastic inspirational talk.

[@etienne4403]

Well spoken and good arguments. We can’t take risk with our soil. The risk is just too big for our health.

[@jacucool7894]

Thank you. 🇧🇷

[@kiranb814]

First time I came across this information was Save Soil initiative by Sadhguru. ❤ and KZbin led me to Gabe. He is so helpful and caring.

[@Picci25021973]

Gabe is my superhero!!! 😍😍😍

[@denniskemnitz1381]

"Climate change is about soil degradation Gabe said.. AMEN

[@missm4174]

I'm very glad Gabe and others are having success with regenerative farming. I discuss a variety of sustainable farming practices with my environmental science students every year. I'm genuinely curious though, according to Gabe's chart at 11:40, these methods are WAY better for the soil/ecosystem and lead to a 929% profit compared to conventional farming. So why aren't more farmers switching to regenerative practices? Is it just a lack of education? Is there an up-front cost barrier? I'm asking because there might be more people willing to give it a try if we could help them over that first hurdle.

[@denniskemnitz1381]

They more or less have to continue with previous knowledge and experience until change is possible on their operation. Change takes time experience and lots then more experience. Dennis

[@nickbono8]

It’s more complicated than people think, especially when the norm is to till heavily, apply fertilizer, seed, and spray pesticides. To practice regenerative agriculture takes a lot of learning, and trial and error and it really hasn’t been scaled and tested to produce the same amount of food that conventional farming has.

[@MarginalFarming]

@@nickbono8 a significant difference is the nutritional benefits that regen can provide.. when you have 3x the food nutrients you need 3x less production.

[@nickbono8]

@@MarginalFarming sure, but you still need to produce about the same amount of food. As the world has become globalized, farmers don’t just feed the local population, they feed the world. I have yet to see a working large scale farm implement these practices. I understand that it works, but I’ve only seen it being tried with smaller farms. With the amount of people that we need to feed, farms need a ton of output. Many can’t afford to let a field be grazed by cattle or let nature do it’s thing for even one season. I have hopes that we as humans can figure out a way to do this sustainably, but it won’t be easy.

[@MarginalFarming]

@@nickbono8 large corporate farms don't do it because shareholders are risk averse. I still consult in some of the largest horticulture operations in the southern hemisphere. Managers sabotage development to maintain their positions and agronomists are university trained and sponsored by chemical companies. One company director admitted that their company won't change until the system is regulated and it becomes expensive to pay for bad practices, carbon sequestration, chemical contamination etc. Believe me, when I am my desk listening to the garbage and nonsense of excuses why pesticides get sprayed for "Just in case something happens" when best practices are available to grow crops with healthy soils instead of poisoned soils it hurts my head. One managers excuse was "A farm with 700 employees and 120000 acres is like steering a cruise ship, it take a long time to turn around" My reply was "The problem with your company is that you don't have a navigator or a captain" Every day is a battle mate ..

[@ProgressiveEconomicsSupporter]

Impressive performance on this so very important topic of regenerative farming!!🙏🇩🇪

[@vyho1273]

Great. The content is useful and intriguing ❤

[@benster_bmm8711]

10:55 how does the soil make such a difference in profit? 17 $ in 1993 and 158 $ per acre profit in 2023, crazy difference

[@tubenotter]

The great new principle #1 "Know your context - inner conection and stewardship for the land" should be expanded to be concious about and to assure a full flow of the vital energy plasma. It is THE key factor for growth. Love and care suports it, but most land needs concious energetic clearings and getting rid of the parasitic energy suckers as a constand bus simple task of etheric hygiene.

[@prophecyrat2965]

The Natives always knew. Yall just had to Manifest your Mechanical technological desntiny and destory the future for all organic life.

[@JasonBarnett-YTisantiWest]

Great video

[@RakeshKumar-wq5zn]

Excellent

[@nancylee4992]

Every American should know this information.

[@G47FF]

So after watching this video i have a question Can i use regenerative method on my 3 acre land while all neighboring land is on conventional agriculture??

[@jekesainjikizana9734]

yes you can

[@666bruv]

Of course, once fully established, you have bench marking in place. You can compare your block to your neighbours

[@tubenotter]

Sure, and when your land is not flooded or in drought like the plots around some will start asking you...😀

[@GrooveTasticThang]

He has cracked the code and has the experience to communicate- listen up farmers ( and vegans!)

[@MGBranco]

I hope Americans pay attention more to this!

[@TheHonestPeanut]

We won't. Too many are fully attached to "conventional ag" as part who they are.

[@AngelPrissy]

​@@TheHonestPeanutonly certain people

[@sooma-ai]

Gabe Brown shares his journey from conventional to regenerative agriculture, highlighting how it revitalizes soil, increases biodiversity, and improves food quality. He outlines six ecological principles and four ecosystem processes that guide regenerative farming practices.

[@saminselenciata4861]

Finally

[@Clark16000]

Chemicles are nothing to play with

[@father_talks4983]

Дякую за це відео.

[@sparkysmalarkey]

Just like this guy, no one changes until they have no choice.

[@markus_selloi]

That is such a wrong statement lmao

[@AngelPrissy]

That isn't accurate

[@denniskemnitz1381]

@@sparkysmalarkey that's a lot of negative approach and attitude.Dennis

[@sparkysmalarkey]

@@denniskemnitz1381 It comes from a place of frustration because it's been known for a very long time. No one cared because the kill everything way was still working.

[@Clark16000]

Mindset play a big role in this topic

[@Gregoryleejrxyz]

🔥🔥🔥

[@geoffhoppy]

A fascinating and informative presentation. I’m not a farmer but have long believed in the need to return to a form of agriculture that takes care of the soil and biodiversity. Yet whenever I have discussed with others the response is always that it would not be possible to feed the world if everyone farmed in this way. Personally, I am sure this is a ‘lie’ promulgated by Big Ag but know of no study or research that proves it to be misleading. Does anything exist that busts this position?

[@denniskemnitz1381]

Sure...catch the regenerative wave beginning with Gabe and quite a few more teachers. Dennis

[@AngelPrissy]

Many studies and proof in action. This speaker being one of them.

[@MarginalFarming]

3x more nutrition that regen can provide = 3x less food required for production. Better soil can also be cash cropped more often.

[@Yermanvillalrey]

Amazing! 📚🧠🙏💚

[@lancerbiker5263]

Please share and like this video ! ❤

[@rorydeanschneider586]

NORTH DAKOTA WASSUP 😎

[@anonymdovvalross1336]

nice

[@Clark16000]

Most importany things inscects

[@AngelPrissy]

Very important indeed. Insects are animals

[@UC2NFuRqg8HJi167gBxIwdQw]

Make America Healthy Again!

[@aimless9187]

5:18

[@soakingbook]

Need to invite Joel Salatin.

[@wpoitras]

He's given TEDx talks before.

[@Clark16000]

Always have to think about family..

[@skullandbones1832]

💚

[@Clark16000]

I have been on a few farms...

[@Clark16000]

The one more yellow are not good for a few reasons...

[@AngelPrissy]

Such as what?

[@beatejakesch2955]

UCH schicke dir Liebe Kraft für die Heilung❤❤❤❤❤

[@ADobbin1]

Too bad its too expensive for young people to buy land and start farming.

[@jtylermcclendon]

Regenerative ag is BS. Would love for someone to name one profitable regenerative farm in the US. Im glad people like Gabe bring awareness to systemic issues, but currently regenerative ag is popular becuase it sounds warm and fuzzy but the only way to believe in it is to ignore facts. The only way to make this work is to make food 2-3x more expensive, because thats the cost to implement regenerative ag.

[@JGDT5559]

Bro what😂 are you saying all these things just to be a troll or are you serious? I’m a South African farmer and it even works here, not saying it’s without challenge but farming closer to natures way works, and we learned from many a successful farmer from the US, Canada, Australia and all over the world.. minimal inputs and not taking a yield loss contradicts your statement of food needing to be 2-3x more expensive…

[@jtylermcclendon]

@@JGDT5559 I'm very serious. I'm a full time farmer in the US growing cotton, corn, soy, rice, and wheat and have worked throughout South America and Africa. What is defined as regenerative farming in the US is not simply things like no till and using less inputs or chemicals /fertilizers that are less bad for the soil. One of the key principles is lack of monoculture and mixed animals and plants which is not efficient. An example of what is meant when people from the US talk about regenerative farming is taking land and planting mixed crops for forage, then grazing it, then coming back and strip planting a monoculture for harvest and continuously rotating through a system like that where on your land you only harvest a plant crop once every 2 years roughly. Simply planting corn, harvesting it, then grazing your livestock on the fodder does not come anywhere close to the definition of regenerative farming in the US. It takes 2-3x the amount of land to produce the same amount of plant or animal output. It's further complicated because of regional differences in the US like how some areas effectively cannot be no tilled because of weather and soil or certain areas where animal production is inefficient due to weather, disease, or insects. US agriculture over time is regionally specialized to maximize efficiency in production of certain crops and animals. You can't start producing chickens or corn in a region that is not optimal for it without loss in efficiency. Some of the specific techniques used in regenerative farming have become widely adopted, such as cover crops, and no till / minimum till where it is possible. However, I have looked extensively and as far as I know there are zero farms that meet the definition of regenerative and also turn a profit. I'd love to be proved wrong on that so I can learn how to do it, but I've looked at around 2 dozen regenerative farms and none of them are income positive.

[@jtylermcclendon]

@@JGDT5559 also should mention that I was in Kwazulu Natal first time last year. Beautiful place. Crop production is largely the same as the US but a huge difference about profits is that in the US productive corn land is generating $800-1500 USD per acre in sales per year, $200-400 rent per acre, and land value is $5000-15,000 per acre. If a regenerative model cannot reach similar numbers then it is not financially competitive long term.

[@adamhulu6171]

​@@jtylermcclendonI visited a farm using regenerative techniques nearly exclusively. As in NO fertilizer inputs in years, and peanuts in chemicals. Rotational grazing, cover crops, no till, pastured poultry following the cows etc. they were very profitable, the catch is mostly direct to consumer. That last piece is in Gabe's book, that farmers would do well to cut out the middle man and keep more profit

[@jtylermcclendon]

@@adamhulu6171 thanks for the feedback. I would genuinely like to find a profitable regenerative farm. "the catch is mostly direct to consumer" This is exactly what I mean. They aren't just farming/ranching. They are selling direct to consumer which is a different market segment than agricultural production. They vertically integrated to include another piece of the chain. For meat I guarantee they are selling at 2-3x the price of something at a chain grocery. That's what it takes to make it profitable, and that's why I say that the general public will have to pay 2-3x to make that business profitable. Is it a higher quality product? Yes, that's the point. But the general public is not willing to pay 2-3x for that. Having a profitable regenerative farm would mean selling a product through same normal, existing chains as conventional agriculture such as selling grain to a grain elevator who resells to an end user like a chicken grower, selling produce to a chain of groceries or distributor, or selling animals to a packing plant. When you look at farms like this or basically every "family farm" that sells at the farmers market they all have something in their financials they are not accounting for such as free land they don't pay rent on because their family owns it or claiming the business makes $50k a year while two people work full time and they don't account the cost of their labor. None of that is scalable on an economic level and in the US certainly not on a people level because we already have fewer farmers every year and even at 2-3x cost we would need to 5-10x the number of farmers to produce the same amount.

[@prophecyrat2965]

Stop beating around the bush and saying “conventional farming”. Its using Industrial Machines: call it for what it is. Its a Machine.

[@gfgf2417]

Think he’s referring to the chemicals that are sprayed on the crops/food/soil

[@the-beggar]

This is an ideal solution but difficult to implement, especially for struggling 3rd world countries that heavily rely on agriculture and cannot afford the unoptimized usage of their very limited land

[@Picci25021973]

You're wrong. The Rodale Institute is performing trials between conventional ag and regenerative techniques since the early eighties. Regenerative performed as well as the conventional in regular years, outperformed conventional during dry or very wet years, as far as 20% more product for less inputs. Data are out there, check them.

[@doctordelatierra]

The answer to struggling 3rd world problems agriculturally is not chemical based industrialized agriculture. There is a wonderful woman named Vandana Shiva who has documented how the “agricultural revolution” has decimated Indian’s farmers. Watch the documentary “The Seeds of Vandana Shiva” if you want to see how modern industrial agriculture gets farmers in perpetual cycles of debt while simultaneously destroying top soil, which then leads to an over-reliance on the same chemical inputs that degraded the soil in the first place leading to more debt. That is the degenerative cycle in a nut shell. It is one of the reasons why farmers have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession. The answer for third world countries, and any country for that matter is to return to the land, run small family owned farms at a human scale - meaning all of the work can be done by hand and not huge million dollar tractors - and implement soil fertility plans through the use of compost, cover crops, animal rotations, etc. Finally, to refute your last point about the unoptimized usage of land - modern agriculture is the definition of unoptimized usage of land. To feed the average American it takes roughly three acres of conventionally managed farmland to grow that amount of food - and that’s if they’re not eating meat. To grow that same amount of food in an intensively managed human-scale backyard garden would take 1,200 square feet. There is an entire book definition to this subject titled Just Grow it Yourself by Dr David Fisher. I studied regenerative agriculture in college. I graduate in December. I would be happy to answer any questions you have.

[@doctordelatierra]

This solution is not difficult to implement. We simply need to return to living in harmony with the land. Whats difficult is mining elements from the earth, create chemical fertilizers in a factory, ship those across the world, spray them on fields which will kill all forms of life in the soil, take out a loan to buy those chemicals and the GMO seeds which can survive the chemical assault, and attempt to feed a population that way. It is much easier to implement regenerative solutions and allow the earth to heal herself and then share the abundance that comes from clean water, healthy soils, healthy native pollinator populations. The path of industrial agriculture only leads to death. The path of regeneration, the path of life, only leads to life. The answer is regeneration. Any other view point is either mis-informed or uninformed or being intentionally deceptive for the purpose of making money and increased power and control. I studied regenerative agriculture in college. I would be happy to provide resources for anyone who is interested in this topic.

[@wpoitras]

Its not difficult to implement. There are many examples of 3rd world countries being able to use regenerative practices to combine livestock and crops to regenerate desert land and give the locals the ability to once again to feed themselves.

[@denniskemnitz1381]

​@@Picci25021973I have not checked this to date however Rodale has been very informative in the past. Dennis

[@Muljinn]

Oh brother, what a steaming pile of woo. Say three “Hale Gaia’s and sin no more.” I sympathize with his illness, but his understanding of things is so flawed it boggles the mind. Avoiding monoculture is all to the good but cover crops have been a thing for centuries.

[@mikemyers2228]

As long as animal agriculture exists we may as well cover our eyes and pretend were human

[@AngelPrissy]

There are billions of humans

[@MarginalFarming]

Soil need animals.

[@joranmerlte]

The speaker doesn't talk about his yields. I bet these are substantially lower than the conventional system. And so, there is no economical business model in it other than the consumers spending more. But when food prices will increase, the people will get angry. So only the rich can eat this. Also, if everything was farmed this way, I doubt the production would be high enough to sustain the current worlds population. How are we going to fix that?

[@barbaravanerp4598]

I’d look deeper. He spends less per acre so a little lower yield is still a profit

[@wpoitras]

You are correct. His yields/acre for crop fields is lower. But because of much reduced input costs (fertilizer, herbicide, pesticide and fungicide) his profit per acre is higher. Without government subsidies or crop insurance payouts. And often can support multiple products on the same land. So a single yield is lower, but total yield might be higher. Also, regenerative ranchers have higher cattle stocking rates, so they can raise more cows on the same amount of pasture. And they tend to stay on the pasture longer, and need much less feed. Sure, grass-fed beef currently commands a higher premium, but if everyone did it, and there was a robust system of processing plants (which doesn't care what kind of ranch it comes from) it wouldn't need to be more expensive. Plus more of the money would go towards the farmer, and less towards the chemical companies (because much less chemical inputs would be needed) and CAFOs (since cows could be sent directly from a ranch to the meat packing plant instead of being sent to a feed lot) The reason this type of agriculture would be able to feed the world is because it not only doesn't degrade the land (like current systems do) it rehabilitates previously degraded land. So there is more land available for food.

[@shanestorm8805]

He wrote a book that discusses this. It isn’t the “top” but it’s by no means below the average for the county

[@darty788]

We waste a lot of food we produce, at least in the western world. Yield is important but food waste is oftentimes left out of the conversation. How much of the yield is tossed into the trash farther down the supply chain? How much do farmers throw away because they can’t sell it?

[@leelindsay5618]

Actually, if you are only comparing apples to apples, his yields for say corn and soy are about average, the main difference is those same acres produce cover crop seeds which are for sale and they use those cover crops or cover crop seeds to feed the chickens, pigs and graze the cattle on the covers, and they also have beehives on the farm producing honey in cooperation with local bee keepers..... they don't JUST produce A crop of corn on the field once a year. How many corn-soy rotation folks ALSO produce beef, pork, chicken, eggs, honey, cover crop seed, and more PER YEAR?

[@AmilaIndika-yh1wx]

👌👌👌👌👌

[@Dingusdongus257]

The government would have to intervene to break up these massive mono-crops. I'll take a plot if they start handing out grants and eminent domain that land near military bases that china owns. 🤚Two birds, one stone.

[@Scott2510A]

The prediction is uncontrolled migration is going to cause an incredible amount of urban sprawl in the most harming ways possible. Consider the need for new schools buildings, public safety buildings, prisons, hospitals, waste water treatment facilities, many more cars on the road, more fossil fuel use, more landfills etc...Millions and millions of acres and animal habitats are going to be destroyed. I am a former democrat and environmental minded person. People need to wake up before millions and millions of acres will be destroyed. And once those acres are destroyed they are gone forever.

[@maxblair1083]

"Regenerative" livestock farming is not a climate solution. The presence of ruminants on the land does not cause the soil to sequester enough carbon to make up for the emissions from the animals themselves. We should transition to plant-based food systems, freeing up 75% of farmland (Poore and Nemecek, 2018), and return as much land as possible to nature to be rewilded. Natural ecosystems always sequester more carbon than the best managed grazing systems.

[@gernf.2019]

I think the idea is to stop growing all that corn and beans to feed cows in barns and feed lots. The vast percentage of the methane released by ruminates is caused by feeding them this feed vs grasses that they are naturally meant to eat. If we simply put the animals back on that land and manage their grazing we get back the largest percentage of land for food production and at the same time reacquire the bio diversity we are looking for. This with well managed forests and simply rotating in vegetable and grain production eliminates the greater amount of inputs. Almost removing inputs, increasing bio diversity and production of all food types. The key sentence to his idea was; if you don’t want to eat the animals you don’t have to but by using them we create the system that allows the other foods to be grown while sequestering carbon. Something we can’t really do on mass without inputs and mass transportation from different areas of the continents.

[@666bruv]

Nah, cultivation and the moron approach is the most destructive activity. It's as destructive as de-forestation as it continues to denude the soil carbon.

[@maxblair1083]

@@gernf.2019 I agree that growing the corn and soy to feed animals is a big part of the problem. The issue that still remains is that regeneratively managed grazing systems use much more land, so meat consumption per capita would have to go down a lot if we want to avoid chopping down all of our remaining forests to make room for grazing. Also, when animals are taken off the land to be used for meat, it disrupts the natural nutrient cycling process which holistic management says it's trying to mimic. To your other point- transportation accounts for only a small percentage of a food's ghg footprint; it matters much more the kind of food you're eating rather than where it's coming from. So even if a plant based food system did require a global shipping system (which already exists) it would still be better for the environment.

[@denniskemnitz1381]

I have been searching for definition of sequestration (since the word recently surfaced) within plants or soils or nutrients or id of specific chemicals. Have not found it..... What is your definition? Dennis

[@MarginalFarming]

termites produce the most emissions. what you gonna do now?

[@davidboone9380]

Permaculture

[@spinachtriangle]

So my second comment for this. 1. If this was a farmer making non-animal produce for direct human consumption all the fawning folk in the comments section would be frothing in the mouth shouting vegan and 'how will you feed the world' 2. There will be a limit when you have the leave the land alone for a very long time, like a looooong time given the amount of animal waste that would have collected on a parcel of land. There is no way land can sustain that much waste to sustain the profits of farmers and to pay for their loads (even though they get subsidies because it is such a wasteful approach to feeding the world). So what this means is that animal agriculture through regenerative farming would need to double it's land footprint. 3. Of course biodiversity would increase, because you have left nature do it's thing. You cannot be so big headed that you think you need a human with all their animals to do this. Nature will rewild itself. 4. Animals are needed, however, to keep farmer families profitable and to pay for all the inputs they will keep increasing their herds, they would never keep their herds down, as that is not profitable. 5. The animal agro industry is on the decline (thank god) and they will keep coming up with new tricks and gimmicks 6. The good man who is so entrenched in animal agro (and for those who say he grows grains and cereals, he grows them to feed to animals) is never going to look for the real solutions that will work as he needs his animals, as he knows nothing else, so don't judge him. 7. Everyone cheering him obvs love their bacon and eggs too much and will never just ask, hold on the animals are the real issue here... There is not enough land on the Earth to grow all your beef, chicken, pigs, sheep and all their excretions that you consume in a regenerative fashion unfortunately. All it means is that more land is going to be locked in the animal agriculture hamster wheel of destruction.

[@myparceltape1169]

The old English system used to be 1 year fallow, 1 year animal and 2 years crop as far as I remember. However attempts are still being made to turn petroleum into human food.

[@spinachtriangle]

@@myparceltape1169 1 year animal with a load of inputs my friend. Farmers everywhere forget to mention the additional cereal inputs, antibiotics, B12, Omega3 inputs they feed their animals to preserve their precious I am off the land BS image.

[@AngelPrissy]

Nature doesn't exist without animals.

[@spinachtriangle]

@@AngelPrissy and by animals you mean those profitable to farmers for their exploitation. So just cattle, sheep, dairy cows, pigs, farmed fish, dogs, cats etc. We have a such a biodiversity crisis as all our systems care about are the animals we consume or wear or entertain ourselves with.

[@AngelPrissy]

@@spinachtriangle animals include worms, bees, insects, reptiles, birds, pets, wildlife, pastured animals, and there are some even undiscovered. All sorts of living things can grow in, on, off of our souls that we don't even realize the value. Fungus are integral. Most living animals and organisms are invisible to the naked eye.

[@spinachtriangle]

Let me guess. The large chap is an animal farmer. Dont listen to their anecdotal nonsense. Read the Grazed & Confused report.

[@barbaravanerp4598]

Actually he’s an amazing farmer and teacher

[@wpoitras]

The large chap is a grain farmer and a rancher, as well as a farm consultant whose company Understanding Ag have worked with many farms. But you are right. We shouldn't just listen to the anecdotal evidence, no matter how large. Nor should we only need to read the Grazed & Confused report. We need peer reviewed, published and replicated research. Problem is, there has been so little support and money to study alternatives to industrial agriculture, its been slow going. But that's changing.

[@shanestorm8805]

Go read his book. He’s very experienced and knowledgeable

[@wexpmedia5889]

No one is going to stop eating meat because vegans on the internet are whining about it.

[@666bruv]

@@spinachtriangle did you read the whole publication? Alan Savory has some impressive research into this matter. The Ag sector is fucked, the food system is fucked. The human cosumer attitude is fucked up. This is a turning point. This will take a 100 years to undo

[@TimeWeWokeUp]

Forests have by far the most diverse, carbon-rich and water absorbant soil, NOT animal-grazed fields. Your land may be healthier than mono-crops, but it takes way more land to produce animal products this way, making it the least scalable food production system. If we all went vegan, we could re-forest enough land to cancel out all CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial revolution

[@orincroft5134]

if we all go vegan and have to grow more crops to feed everyone, since everyone is consuming more soy and plants, where are we going to plant them? We run into the exact same problem of over farming land, veganism unfortunately does not solve this problem

[@666bruv]

I doubt the extra forests would offset the increase in carbon based emmissions from the massive increase in cropping output.

[@adambarcikowski3728]

Going vegan across the globe is not possible without huge input on transport and processing. If you live in high latitudes like Gabe then you know the vegetation period. In northern Europe you can grow plant from May to September. You need to rely on animals which is what People always did the harsher the climate.

[@shanestorm8805]

Read his book, then come back and reassess the comment.

[@rixonsimmons2731]

Facts are facts and opinions are opinions...your opinion is wrong and that's a fact.

[@devinsullivan7233]

I hate to say it but Gabe needs to practice what you preach. He sure doesn’t look like he’s eating good regenerative food. Or getting any exercise.

[@Worldexplorer1498]

You struggle 💀