Livestock Inefficencies Are A Boon for Soil Health
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Both the pasture and the animals are visibly thriving 👍🏻
thanks. they are.
There is a theory that the most fertile soils in the world were built by even-toed ungulates. An example of this is the English lawn, which was probably originally created by sheep (fertilizing, grazing and trampling at the same time). There is currently a discussion about how agriculture can store CO2 in the soil, I think that pasture farming is a promising option for this. And at the same time, the fertility of the soil is optimized.
Soils can store tons of carbon per acre (not CO2) in organic matter. Losing the organic matter brings about desertification and many other problems.
Yes! But I need to mention that this has also destroyed ecosystems such as dry grasslands that would have been found all over Europe until major agricultural development in the 50s.
It wasnt grazing ungulates that caused it directly tough, it was spreading manure to build up humus.... to then let cattle graze.
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The topic is much more complex than can be presented in a single comment. The same thing can also be right or wrong, depending on what goals are being pursued. Extensive grazing on dry areas (e.g. juniper heather) promotes biodiversity but offers little yield and stores little carbon in the soil, paddock farming combined with appropriate fertilization brings higher yields, stores more carbon in the soil (which also improves fertility) but displaces the species need open bush landscapes or nutrient-poor soils. If you want to polarize now, you could ask whether climate protection or nature conservation is more important. Just by living, we influence our environment; we can certainly influence, within certain limits, in which direction we have an influence. My opinion is that both climate protection and biodiversity are important, but we can never achieve both goals at the same time. Understanding and openness to different approaches and opinions ultimately brings more than just insisting on a certain point of view.
Inefficiencies are only inefficient if they are in the wrong context, its actually the least efficient and most nutrient starved ecosystems that are the most biodiverse. In any given ecosystem its the variation and inefficiencies that allow for another species to slot in and take up residence.
Certain plants and animals can be too efficient and actually cause massive ecological disarray and loss of biodiversity. Kudzu vine and silver carp are arguably mare more efficient at utilizing the resources in their environment then the native plants and animals but in the process they competitively exclude them and create a homogenous ecosystem with little biodiversity.
It is actually efficient species that often have the most capacity for ecological destruction.
Cows and pigs love kudzu though!
@@DowdleFamilyFarms At least something does because all the plants that are competitively excluded by it and all the insects that require those plants to survive certainly dont.
Plus some of the places hit hardest by it almost look barren despite the greenery, a wall of green with only one kind of leaf is a sad sight for people like me. Its why I hate lawns and monocultures more then anyone!
Would rather a biodiverse desert then an expanse of kudzu myself.
Old school farming is always way better than High efficiecy mega agriculture
Agreed
Happy micro organisms
yes, for sure
A cows stomach is so efficient at pulling nutrients out of food they can eat cardboard and pull nutrients from it. Not recommended but IFAS did a study on it.
neat
And some creatures (like desert turtles) consume cow manure. The turtles can't eat the desert plants but the cows can. Just one link in God's amazing circle of life.
interesting
Do you or have you used rotational grazing for you cattle? A few farms I’ve visited say they both sequester CO2 and feed more efficiently
Yes, but it all depends on how the rotational grazing is done. I'm not sure that feed efficiency is any better though. It depends on whether we define feed efficiency as the percentage of feed in a paddock used or whether we mean the percentage of forage that cows eat turn into meat, i.e. weight gain.
Thanks! I am a talentless hobby farmer with a background in finance and stealing, looking to be a ' native' and 'local'. Hopefully this knowledge will allow me to act as a ' farmer' . Love the accent! Sounds cuntree
good luck!
Someone is a hater lol
I really feed efficient grazers are best American Bison, beltex sheep, etc maybe Roos 👍👍👍🤫🤫🤫😳💪🏼☝️❕❕❕BELTEX sheep are 90% feed efficient, have a great growth rate
thanks for watching.
Waste equals food!
yes.
Even if you pasture feed on corn? Not the ears, but the stalks...Honest question here.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you are asking. Can you clarify the question?
@@DowdleFamilyFarms I'm sorry, I forgot where I was going with this question! 😂🥴
Makes me wonder if God designed it this way.
i suspect so.
Video is too bright and needs to be fixed
Then turn your brightness down
Outside is bright dude, have you forgotten?😂
i don't know what you're talking about.
This is an HDR video. Either the device you are using doesn’t recognize HDR content or the settings are set not to recognize it.
I have my Google pixel 7 at 50% brightness. The brightness of the video changes between fullscreen brightness and minimized when going to the comments list. When minimized it's normal level brightness ie 50% I have settings at, just not when the video is fullscreen and the video controls aren't white they become grey instead too.