My COWS aren't KILLING the PLANET, here is WHY!... we also do some farming and build electronics!
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
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100% spot on what you’re saying here, as a dairy farmer in Wales I couldn’t agree more, I had my dairy review last week and so much importance is being put on hedge sizes, lengths, amount of full trees in the hedge etc when all the grass carbon sequestration is being ignored is comical…. You’re very quickly building a very good platform from where you can shout the truth and make it be listened too. The channel is only going to get bigger and bigger, well done, keep it up…. Ps the tech side of things is brilliant..
Also have you done a full video on shed lighting? I’d be very interested in your control system, I’ve only seen a clip of where you were correcting a problem.
Thank you very much! Describing it all as comical is very accurate. I am certain the public would back farmers if they knew the truth. I have new lights to install so will do a video on it for sure!
Hi Andrew. Im a Dairy farmer from New Zealand. We learned the exact same thing about carbon and methane cycles in my University science classes 20 years ago. I have been talking with people from within the NZ dairy industry about everything you have explained in this video for the last 4 years all of which falls on deaf ears. No one wants to listen. Nice to hear that other people are aware of the relative neutrality of emissions from cows. We are not alone and I do hope more will make their voices heard. Keep up the good fight.
The entire "professional" dairy industry is pushing the false narrative. I have concluded they either don't understand what they are talking about or they have realised climate "science" is a lie but pride and career keep them from arguing for change.
The reason these style of videos work is that this is one of the only channels that had no bias in any sector of farming and only facts are said no twisting with the rules of science just the truth
Thanks! I make 100% sure anything I say in a video is true, credibility is very important. If I ever make a mistake (at some point it will) I will correct it!
We have found the leader of the new ni agri party👍. Another fantastic video keep them comin
Thanks! 😅
Good video. When any farmer starts to believe a cow grazing in the field is doing harm even when conditions are good, he’s at the wrong job . In fairness I think most of us are catching on no thanks to daera.
Andrew, i knew the cow methane thing was dreamed up by the anti farming lobby but the way you explained it so well proves the nonsense of it all, i just wish it could get through to those who want to impose these restrictions on us farmers and use us as scapegoats. Keep up the fight everyone and thanks Andrew for another excellent vid
Thanks! Every climate "scientist" knows this, they just don't want farmers knowing it.
Thanks so much for this video Andrew! This has been bothering me a lot for over a year and I've tried to discuss it with some people I thought might get it to no avail. The carbon capture from grass is never mentioned from what I've seen. Also the fact that on a good dairy farm grass goes through it's growing cycle and carbon capture more frequently than farms that are less productive. The burning timber cycle example is good and personally I think cows are less harmful than that cycle. Letting the timber decay naturally is more beneficial.
We need to harness other energy and be more efficient. You are always moving towards efficiencies and better ways. Thanks for sharing and helping all of us
Hi Andrew, I'm a little late to this video, but wanted to say thank you nonetheless.
Also, to add the climate part of your video, it could be worth mentioning (not yourself) that not so long ago America (and the world?) had a much higher number of Bison (and Buffalo etc?) than today, which have been reduced by around 600> million.
Although a dairy cow will ruminate much more than a wild Bison (I'd have thought) and as a result, one can't be directly compared to another, It's worth noting the change in numbers isn't as great as some may think, ie more farmed cattle, less wild 'cattle'.
Thanks,
Christopher.
Fantastic video Andrew, very well explained.
Fabulous ❤. I knew this, I do not know how I knew it, butI did!. Whether it is my experience or Learning....who knows!. I absolutely loved this....we need to share this with the loonies in Government.
IMO what we need to do is refused to take part in the rigged climate game and when asked why we are refusing we can point to things like this!
Very informative, keep it up.
Totally agree regarding methane from cows
We as dairy farmers are being conned into believing our cows are the problem. They are not
We need farmers now than ever. Sod lab grown bollocks! Which is exactly what it is. Gates is trying to grow fruit. I thought trees were good for taking on co2! Why would anyone want it grown in a lab where it'll take more electricity and buildings? Makes no sense or nonsense!
Everyone is engaged in the giant lie and I don't get why no one challenges it?!
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Morning.
There's a channel called. Larry Alex Taunton, and a video entitled I went to the wef..... wef in its long name.
Larry talks to a Scot named Jim Ferguson. Very interesting. Jim is a farmer, of what, I don't know.
May be worth trying to track him down for a chat at least?
All the best.
Great video. Opened my eyes! Keep it up
Great. It's never too late to learn.
Thanks!
Great explanation
This is brilliant Andrew. Clear and concise reasoning. Too many people are following the anti-livestock agenda. Keep up the good work. The more people realise these things the better.
Thanks, will do!
Great video keep up the good work
Good man, keep it up.
You are the second youtube farming channel that I watch, that went over the carbon cycle, and how absolutely ridiculous it is to consider cows (farmers by proxy) the main culprits of global emissions.
I wish more and more farmers (and non-farmers as well) would continue to hit on this topic. It is absurd that such a clear fact is being completely left out of the discussion.
You are going to love next week's video. 😅 Im doing a "real" carbon audit.
@FarmTheoryNI I will absolutely watch it.
I just came across a video from "Farm Stock" a guy from Scotland touching on that subject as well.
@@kleberalmeida Yeah, the topic has really "taken off" on social media. Defending our industry has been left to farmers on social media since our industry and unions seem to have no interest in fighting back... to many interests and relationships to protect so they don't have the freedom we do.
Glad someone else thinks like we do 😎, you have a head on you to explain it well , keep up the good work on the videos !
Thanks, will do!
Thanks for the information
It works, keep it up. Love the detail, carbon accounting from cows is ridiculous. Not to mention that a highly valuable food is produced full of carbon in the form of carbs, fats and protein. Keep up the good work.
Great video lad, thanks for the continued education on the farming world. I find it mind boggling how poorly farmers and the farming community are treated in Ireland by the powers at be, they have no idea what they are talking about, not sure if it’s the same story in the North but thanks again for educating content.
Thanks! It defiantly is, politicians are the worse!
The dominant environmental factor which is leading to the presure from our government to impose restrictions on the dairy industry is nitrates in our waterways soley. As of yet gaseous emissions have not impacted production.
I agree with what you are saying regarding methane, politicians do not understand science so should not make decisions based on what they understand.
I listened to a professor in California on this problem with politicians doing this and it really taught it sumised the issuee clearly i can forward to you if interested.
Sure, send it my way.
I have poultry houses, ammonia levels is a big thing coming too poultry farms, I know your a dairy farmers , would like your opinion on ammonia levels, keep up the great work, 🤙🤙🤙
I have quite the story on that one! Leave it with me!
Thank you. Clearly well qualified to speak on the topic and put in a way a lot of people can understand.
It’s as if the calculation are assuming cows energy requirements are fulfilled by burning/eating fossil fuels?!! 🤯
Our milk buyer has just started a greenhouse gas audit/data collection to happen quarterly. And just don’t get the value/ benefit for anyone for doing it. Some basic kpis affect it like age at first calving but we all try to perform well on these kpis for our business sake anyway.
I will be encouraging people to make up data in protest for their carbon audits. Make it worse to begin with so you can reduce it by doing nothing.
👌👌 very thought provoking on emissions. Sounds about right.
Thanks!
You are 100% correct Andrew about this carbon nonsense. Brilliant video again hi . Hope you are telling Dale farm dairies the same for looks like they are pushing down this carbon audit crap and all diaries will probably follow with red tractor then duplicate . Why are Dale farm members agreeing to this even starting just to please surfer markets again . Keep up the good work
oh they defiantly know my opinion!
Great video nice to have a solid answer to throw back at the 'environmentalists'
My only question is how do we account for the use of artificial fertiliser when carbon auditing? Its obviously an artificial input but increases yeilds, photosynthesis etc
Thanks
We are still left with ~30% of our emissions. However Sequestration removes a further 10-15% of that.
Very good video. I listened to Joel Satatin on ted talks, speaking about reversing climate change by a factor of 10 using regenative agriculture practices.
Note the "reversing" climate change. Cutting methane does that... hence the "cows are killing the planet narrative"... the bit they don't want to be known is how unfair it is on farmers!
Perhaps you could ask yt farmers to add this segment to their channels as the word needs to get out?
I can point you to several that i follow in England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland? Many are not dairy but it all follows a narrative.
Climate really gets me and on main stream there's never a balance.
The only way to get the other side of a story is non ms and of course that's their Achilles heel as they don't get the recognition.
They are free to watch my video and do their own research and then decide what is best for them. Its a controversial topic so best they make the decisions themselves without any pressure imo.
Brilliant video. Did you ever try work out your cost of production per cow? I think a lot of farms tell you about there litres and solids but nobody ever tells you there cost of production. You have a very similar set up to me as in grazing 6 months of the year and only feed silage and meal.
I have done in great detail. Definitely doing a video of farm financials.
Nice video
Good video! The whole thing on carbon doesn’t account for the carbon capture that all farmers as doing across the board whatever they’re farming! Looking at ad if all the fuel used to grow crops and ensile them and load them into the ad plant was used to just generate electricity I don’t think there would be any difference!
Great video 👍
Thanks 👍
Another great video
thanks!
Very interesting! Complex topic simplified really needs fixing how i have no idea.
Mass non compliance!
@@roberthiggins6401 We have science and common sense on our side. My main goal is to make farmers realise they are being lied to.
@FarmTheoryNI
NFU talk and talks to young farmers etc. That's my suggestion.
Invite local farmers and hopefully they will do talks to spread the word.
Many things are a trade off but if you can get people on board, hopefully they can travel to events too?
Make sure it's all recorded because as you know that can be uploaded and passed on to other channels to do with climate etc.
I'm sure you realise all this goes way deeper than just climate.
@@FarmTheoryNI we've known that for a long time.
Have found a lot of people scared about doing dry cow therapy. We made the jump and have never looked back. Aslong as you do antibiotic tube the quarters that have issues you will be fine.
It's the gap from milk recording to drying which worries me. We lost a cow because of it.
@@FarmTheoryNI Providing you don't have housing hygiene issues in the transition period, i really wouldnt worry. We-ve been doing it for 10 years now, very succesfully. Although i wont pretend along the way we have had cows loose quarters or get ecoli. But weve also had cows that got 4 tubes of antibiotics do that too. Always worst Early autumn/late summer, when very humid and warm/ fly weather. Out of curiosity what are mast cases in herd? And or Dry cow performace? New infections / chronics / cure rate?
CMT 👍🏼
I've seen a figure of 21 for methane converted to CO2 equivalence. Also I've seen this "Each person in the US on average puts about 20 metric tons (20,000 kg or 44,000 pounds) of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels each year, compared to 100 kg of methane, 2 kg of nitrous oxide, and 2 kg of CFCs. Multiplying the CFC emission rate by 12,000 gives a CFC greenhouse impact comparable to that for carbon dioxide." CFC's are going to be more lethal and hang around for many hundreds of years. Also humans are producing as much methane as cows.
Comment for the algorithm to help the channel 👍.
Thanks for that!
I think your argumentation is mostly correct, and generally I agree with your conclusions. However, to complete the discussion you should also take into account that the number of cows has increased a lot in the last 100 years, which means that the steady-state level of methane in the atmosphere has increased a lot due the increase in amount of cows.
I'm not certain if that is actually the case, even if it is, remember NET Zero is no FURTHER warming by 2050, not rolling back historical warming.
Loved the video.
So typical. Make it sound as bad as possible. Methane makes up 1.7 ppm, or 0.00017% of the atmosphere. Similar as carbon is such a touch point too. It’s currently 421 ppm, or 0.0421% of the atmosphere. The alarmists want to drive it down. If it drops below 200 ppm, plant life dies. Carbon is totally necessary for the cycle of life. Also, if were in a period of global warming, why was the warmest year on record back in the mid 30’s, not now.
Why were we told in a big panic in the mid 80’s we’d be in the midst of a global crisis ice age by the year 2000. It never happened. Temperatures have always fluctuated. Get over it. Stop letting alarmist drive the money machine for all their backers.
Well said! Many temp readings are compromised.
Look at the difference in track to air temp at an f1 meeting for instance.
Many reading points have now been built around so don't get a normal reading or we get a reading from an airport, now that's compromised.
@@roberthiggins6401 I agreed with this also, the reality is climate science is not a science
I agree also if we had to little carbon everything would die . Planet earth evolution is it not . What about all the carbon produced from the bombs and fires in man made wars throughout the world no auditing there
Andrew, you really need a feeder wagon
I'm not convinced. I maybe will end up with one, just not any time soon.
I’m mad but your certainly not. excellent
Can you explain Ammonia and its effect on the atmosphere
I will, maybe in a tiktok. I will try and get some data from NIEA, they have monitored levels for years.
Fantaatic video the methane / carbon dioxide cycle in farming is not known by wider public.
Andrew i,ve noticed a lot electricty infrastructure round your farm? Have you any renewable generation on the farm to offset your electricity bill? Seems like your well placed for grid connection. Might be worth a video?
We are right beside a major substation. Was approached for battery storage but to many unknowns at the moment around that. On farm renewable if you are using the energy yourself don't make any sense imo. The return on capital is pretty bad.
andrew , very well said as usual the powers that be use the farmer as an easy target, on another note do you use slurry gold to break down the slurry in return burn less diesel and takes less time when mixing , whats your thoughts on it....... thanks malcolm.......
Slurry bugs are a waste of money, must do a tiktok on it!
Love this type of video .would love to see urself and eamonn Ryan our green party leader in the South have a debate on this.i bet u would tie him up in knots. Best of luck Andrew. Greetings from wicklow
Thanks! I would love to have a chat with the people who think animal agriculture is killing the planet. They would never agree as they don't want to humanise farming, esp when its family farms here in the u.k and ireland.
You should lock the locking barriers so the cows can't stick there head out of the barriers when your pushing away the old feed
I suppose Andrew you are not going to take part in Dale Farms Sustainability Programme?.
Its a £7500 fine if I don't! Made a tiktok about it and then decided to remove it.
Hi Andrew
Really interesting video, is there a ratio of livestock unis to meters squared of Grassland which would make it carbon neutral?
Back of the napkin calculation would be 4ha per cow. So my farm of 180 cows could have 32 cows.
I will have to show the next person on farm doing an audit your video and say put Nil/void for my calculation. ha!
Ps any updates on your home made GPS /rtk auto steer?
Yes! I will get back to the GPS soon!
@@FarmTheoryNI awesome. are you on the farming forum? As there is a thread about building your own on there. I’m not very electronic/tech savvy with the nitty gritty bits all goes over my head!
Intensive dairy farming using N derived from oil -resultant Co2 output, cows housed 24/7 and fed using oil burning machines-methane and ammonia and slurry produced from animals is massive-Result Lough Neagh is now a slurry lagoon-no wild life
Let's set all your comments to one side and you can reply to what I said in the video, is it fair or accurate how methane from livestock is accounted for?
@@FarmTheoryNI Cows produce methane-factory farming needs to be screwed back-be honest.
That comment about lough neagh is as scientifically correct as the methane scam being peddled at the minute
There is a lot of land is set aside for tree planting under a environment scheme (and a lot of forest land ) which usually means it will be untouched for that duration of time , fallen trees and branches decay and produce carbon dioxide and methane gas. Is this factor taken in to their calculations or is that something they conveniently over look?
Over look... It's all about how you can fudge the numbers in your favour, unless your a farmer, then you are not even allowed to use facts.
Well done .we need more information out in public
Great way of explaining it. But how much carbon is locked up by the soil.
A lot! Intensive grassland with high manure application rates locks down more carbon, grass doesn't pull carbon from the soil, it does the opposite.
Afbi have trial work going back 50yrs, give it a Google.
@FarmTheoryNI I am quite interested in the science of carbon capture of soil as I think it is a lot. The old saying, "Black soil is old land." Meaning it has been farmed for a long time and captured a lot of carbon. Thanks for the reply
So , the question is , how much carbon (methene etc)is omitted by the ruminant verses the carbon capture of various grasses, clovers, chicory etc.
By the cow itself, it is balanced, so zero. Cows arnt using fossil fuels for food. Modern Farming does have emissions as we use fossil fuels.
Fantastic video hope this just proves government wrong I have never herd anything so ridiculous in my life that a cow gives off massive global warming 😂 just shows how ridiculous government are brilliant video again
I agree totally with what you are saying. There is always an agenda.
What is your opinion on Lesse slurry systems we are being forced into.
I make a fair bit of money from dribble bars so no comment. 🤣🤣
@@FarmTheoryNI surely you wouldn't be part of something you don't believe in.
Great vid but what about fertiliser in all this ,it deemed the evil water killer,What's ur theory on the tow an fert way of spreading fertiliser, do u grow maze
In Northern Ireland the issue is Phosphorus, from which 80% is imported in animal feed, for which the increase in P into N.I is due to the increased numbers of Pigs and Poultry since they have no way to recycle the P like livestock farmers do to grow grass.
Love the insight into carbon cycle with agriculture ...there is acceptance internationally about global warming, the net increase in CO2 due to human activity, however the point re agriculture being a cycle is on the face of it valid, however there is a huge increase in intensity of agriculture , probably to feed all the extra people in the world..and we have to accept people need to eat..the world's population is stabilising and according to some will flatten in next 30 years due to lower birth rates in asia
Livestock numbers have been stable in the U.K. Since carbon is inventories at a national level the current calc system still makes no sense.
Where I live beef is raised on pasture and hay that require ZERO crop inputs on land that can't grow other crops. It's some of the most sustainable food we produce. Ask a farmer what they need to do to grow soybeans,
makes sense!
Scientists put a cow in a repository chamber for a year to measure GHG emissions.
The cow died.
Scientists now think the grass input might be part of the equation!
Good video, without dairy farming there would be less cutting/grazing wich means less regrowth off young grass wich i think catches more carbon than grasland used extensive. And the argument that we could grow crops on grasland to produce there vegan proteins is also incorrect in my beliefe. Here in Germany only fields that are too wet, too dry, have too much rocks or are too steep are graslands.
Your exactly right. People don't get crops are region specific.
I've become so disillusioned with the powers that govern our farming practices that I'm getting out. I've stood up at meetings and pointed out points that you have and I've been told to just except it.... eh no, I won't, thank you very much.
EXACTLY my experience. No one wants the fight, they just want farmers to accept it. The hard path for industry leaders is to challenge this rubbish, so instead they take the easy path.
carbon cycle, correct.
What are the running costs on the Aga like Andrew??😂😂
Absolutely brutal... We have two of the flippin' things.
You also forgot to say that the by product of cows eating grass is food!
I know!! Its so funny how that is not even a consideration at this point. The climate "crisis" is going to seem pretty stupid when there is the first famine in 200 years!
Global warming is happening but farmers are not responsible for it. Farmers can however be part of the solution - wind energy, solar, forestry etc. Keep the videos coming Andrew. We need you 🌳
I done, you mean I did, I seen, I saw
I think global warming is in a cycle think of the movie day after tomorrow happened once it will have again it's a money racket and I love your channel big time
Another thing that rattles me is ploughing your fields.........i think they say ploughing pasture land reieases carbon is it into the atmosphere and of course those bloody farmers it's all there fault.........ha......well what about building sites where you got massive diggers and earth moving equipment disturbing the soil........if farmers pulling a plough through the soil 6 inches deep is releasing harmfull gasses into the atmosphere then surely these massive building sites where there shifting massive amounts of soil around would be doing far more damage........nobody ever talks about that all people keep saying is we need to build more houses.......we build more houses and it's still not enough another thing was HS 2 the big railway line that they have now abandoned halve way through........look at all the destruction that was causing but many many people wanted it to go ahead yet no real discusions about carbon being released by all the earth moving for that
Also the carbon released has been captured and stored by the crops... Its only a problem if you never account for where the carbon came from.
In other words, cows don't put carbon into the atmosphere that wasn't already there
Cows, no. They don't. Farming still does since we burn fuel etc but its REAL contribution is a fraction of what is calculated by international standards.
@@FarmTheoryNI The question then is why. This is a pretty simple mistake that a 10yr old could explain when they learned about photosynthesis. Why does the IPCC and a whole bunch of others keep pushing this narrative? If everyone in Ireland (and New Zealand) agrees with you from the prime minister down, I suspect they will still use GWP100 as the people pulling the strings lending the country or company money are the ones that need to be convinced, not us, and they have a hold over all of us already. I have had conversations here that pretty much agree but say we are being told we won't be able to borrow money unless we 'sing the song'.
So is the grass absorbing more carbon than cows produce .sick of carbon counting and how it's done in board bia
Unfortunately not quite. Between bio-methane being carbon from the atmosphere and sequestration a dairy cow produces ~80% less co2e that the calculations claim. (*I think)
Lmc crap on fqas inspections.shouldnt be allowed
I tried my absolute best to stop it. The UFU was determined to force it through, I still don't really understand why.
@FarmTheoryNI we need all stand together lobby farmers union push them work for membership fee and get to grips with defending us being a subsidiesed scape goat
YOU HAVEN'T LOOKED AT AGENDA 2030!!! THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
I haven't, I will check it out.
How would we as a group off farmers ie ni farmers stand against the lmc.fqas carbon audits
I will make a how to guide to manipulate the figures.