Regenerative Farming a Farming Revolution in Australia - Multi Species Roller Crimper.
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- čas přidán 2. 09. 2021
- This is s great conversation in the tractor as Russell roller crimps his multi species (MS). We covered as much information as we could during this half hour chat, but if you still have any questions then please comment below and I'm sure Russell will be able to help.
As you can hear we are literally in the tractor so there's nothing I can do with the audio. Please remember I am working 'on farm' with machines running so I will never be able to get studio quality audio. I am trying my best to give you quality without being a professional journalist.
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As you can hear we are literally in the tractor so there's nothing I can do with the audio. Please remember I am working 'on farm' with machines running so I will never be able to get studio quality audio. I am trying my best to give you quality without being a professional journalist. I am also completely on my own with filming and editing, Farming Revolution is just me 💚.
This is really great to see happening in Australia. Protecting and improving soils is really the key for greater health and biodiversity in the system. As a trades person in this field I would say that historically these practices have always been around. It is fantastic to see broad scale agriculture truly appreciating the value of these ideas and greater soil education to their farms. Best wishes for your continued success.
So nice to see Christine Jones' and Gabe Brown's message reaching people. Super great message about the small water cycle repairing with rains every friday.
I'm sitting here in Sydney absolutely loving this. I'm not a farmer but hope to do something small on my own rural property in the next few years. This a great interview and the work being done is inspirational. So bloody lush and you can just imagine the benefit to the soil from the process. Keep that ground covered!
What a beautiful piece of feedback. Thank you. These videos are for inspiration and knowledge. Stay in touch with your future plans on your land. I’m always interested in what regenerative people are up to. 💚 Productivity can be enormous with a small amount of space and passion.
Cover crops look nice! If I was a bee I would choose that place
Me too.
David Brandt from Ohio was the first to resurch multiple species cover crop close to 40 years ago. His videos inspired Gabe Brown and most universities interest.
This is amazing. I use to farm conventionally back in the day, and after seeing Kiss the ground reading the books of Gabe Brown, Charles Massy and Anika Molesworth, I can't wait to get back into agriculture and farm with nature. Great interview!
Thank you and I’m so happy that you have made this decision.
The next instalment to this series with Russell and his MS cash crop will be released soon.
What is the title of the book @Wil_Horstmann?
I am not working in agriculture, but got to know Syntropic Farrming and found Christine's lectures and other epic people growing in a regenerative fashion. Biodynamic, Permaculture etc.
It is so beautiful to see people living the change.
Also another question @FarmingRevolution, where is it possible to buy the produce you grow?
We live in Brisbane and usually go to the organic market on Sunday, but I am just curious where to find you all that are doing it the regenerative way and how to support.
@@sherinsavier5071 hi, Charles Massy's book is called 'Call of the Reed Warbler", Gabe Brown is "Dirt to Soil", Anika Molesworth is "Our sunburned Country. I've also read Sam Vincent's "My father and other animals", which is his journey on taking over the family farm near Canberra. It's funny and he explains a lot about the regen Ag way of how they do things. Alan Savoury is a holistic farmer from Zimbabwe who started the Savoury Institute and he has a great TED talk on CZcams, as does Gabe Brown. There are also a few videos of Charles Massy on CZcams like Australian Story and Changing the Paradigm.
There's a massive amount of organic matter in those radishes would make great compost/feed
Yes it certainly would. So many options when you delve into regeneration.
If you sold some of those turnips at the farm gate for $1 each you could easily cover the cost of your seed.
It's a better return letting the soil eat it
Really nice video :) What a great germination Russell got!
university of berkeley and cornell only uni that actually put in effort to step away from the agro chemical companies [at least for USA]. Been doing it for more than 25 years. Who ever edited this so it actually used color photoage instead of a 1 on 1 interview format should get a raise. I'd never thought of using turnips. I wonder how deep that tap root actually went down. If it was a market garden I'd have love to crimp then pop on some nice happy cardboard perforated, then followed by woodchips. Then the crops. Also shoutout to Gabe Brown
I chuckled at the “get a raise”. I don’t get paid for these videos, I film and edit because I truly believe in regenerative farming.
True courage by this Cocky here. Nice work Cobber
Really enjoyed this video. Multi-species planing for regenerative farming makes a lot of sense and the benefits are clear in the field and from the farmer's observations so far. One question I have: Russell mentions that he'd like to find a way to turn the MS planting into some kind of cash crop - has he considered the possibility of generating income from honey bees utilising the floral resource provided by his MS planting? It would seem to be a good pairing that might yield a decent crop of honey. I'm sure there are other ways to generate additional cash from MS planting also depending on species mix, season, and region of course.
Funny you should say that…. Russell did ask me if I knew of any beekeepers in his area, unfortunately it rained so much his paddocks are flooded so no bees this year.
Yes absolutely cracking idea though especially as there are absolutely no chemicals being sprayed. Thanks for great suggestion. Have you watched the planting video? We discuss cash crops during that video.
czcams.com/video/UALbXOfezTU/video.html
@@FarmingRevolution The 15ha test plot is probably not worthwhile for a large commercial beekeeper, but I'm sure there'd be sideliners who'd be interested. I'm just an amateur at the moment but eventually want to grow the number of hives I run, and partnering with farmers like Russell might be a viable option.
The flooding would make things difficult, but if there's higher ground within a couple of kilometers it could work.
Haven't watched the planting video, but I'll have a look for it.
@@FarmingRevolution Also - I'm taking notes to use if/when I find a suitable plot of land for my own. I'd definitely use MS plantings to support my apiary and the local biodiversity. Such a simple and natural fit for all round improvement to biodiversity.
Great interview, great channel too!
Thank you 💚
Soos die aarde warm raak en mis oeste gee so gaan hierdie bou van grond versprei. Ja Australiè is gelukkig om die persoon in die naam van Christine Jones te hê.
Let me make a suggestion for the soil building years.
Run cows fast across it, then sheep then poultry. Gut biome has its own diversity. What critters don't go to market go to your freezer!
Yes, thank you and I agree all farmers should have livestock, however, there are many broad acre farmers that don't want the headache of fences and animals.
In my mind there is a HUGE gaping chasm for a business opportunity where travelling agisted livestock "service" cropping land. Instead of paying for synthetic fertilisers, pay for cattle or sheep to graze in high densities before planting. The immediate impact would be mind blowing.
@@FarmingRevolution
Nothing like owning the asset that gets it before the roller! Start easy. Set up a small static pasture, under graze a bit so it will not take much time. When it's time turn them out, you might borrow a few from a neighbor and loan out yours if you have slightly staggered seasons. Old cattle trailers make dandy chicken coups and the birds don't mind the move. Worst case you'll have a freezer full and best case you'll have a fit wallet! Once it gets too much hire a hand to manage that aspect even if seasonal there are almost always some University goers looking for work.
I raised chickens as a kid 65 years ago. My Grandmother showed me a way to clean them. Peel the skin off like peeling a kid out of a onezyPajama. With the gut still attached to the skin, drop out the abdominal cavity contents. Pull the crop out the front pick out the liver, hart and crop if it so moves you. Seal it in a vacuum bag with a little water. Pop it in the freezer! Sunday dinner with s nice bacon wrap and a trip to the oven! And all from your own land! Need I say it? YUM! YUM!
cool. that 305 is a lot of tractor to pull the crimper 😁 .
Hehe gotta use what you have around here.
Cool bloke
Russell is very cool. There are more videos in his series if you fancy watching. On Farm with Russell Young.
Would really love to know the effectiveness of the crimper. I suppose it is pivotal to his success. It will help answer a few questions such as the turnip ‘ radish planting issue and also whether it might be worth laying down the crop with a hay cutter / haybine as an alternative
It will probably blow away
Very interesting video, thank you. Is there much of a difference with chop and drop versus crimp rolling? We plan to do similar but followed with cattle and pigs.
Hi there, great question: with any of these techniques you always need to ask yourself, "What's my end goal? What am I predominantly trying to achieve?" Russell is using the crimper because he hasn't got livestock and he wants to kill this crop before planting into it with a disc seeder.
Chop and drop keeps the plant alive while creating a layer of mulch.
Grazing livestock (depending on the density of your mob and time left on the paddock) can do all 3, chop (eat), drop (manure) and kill (grazing right down) so that you can plant into it with another crop.
If you have planted the crop to graze then there isn't any point in slashing the crop before allowing the livestock on, with timed rotational grazing you can achieve much better results just with livestock.
I hope that helps and please ask more questions if you need to 💚
@@FarmingRevolution thank you for such a detailed response that makes perfect sense! Will be following your videos with great interest. :)
@@PigCreekHomestead you should check out the videos on Unserstanding Ag too - there is a video talking about the meat nutrient quality with multi-species forage vs grain.
@@FarmingRevolution IS IT IMPRACTICABLE TO RAISE SOME GROUND ABOVE THE HIGH WATER MARK FOR ANIMALS ?
@@MrTopcat3333 from listening to my brother who worked over in Australia for a while, I'd say yes.
For someone with a couple of sheep in the back yard, maybe, but thousands of livestock over acres, no.
I hope and pray more and more South African farmers start doing this. Many still do conventional industrial farming, which is a pity.
How many kilos per hectare and what is the mix Russell uses.
Have a look at this video it has the list of MS.
Russell weighed the wet mass at 50t/Ha imagine if that had been converted to animal weight gain. The moving mulcher and fertilisers.
Win win win.
czcams.com/video/y1eGJkL2RM8/video.htmlsi=RYVh08Wlz61kVHEo
Very interested in the species mix ? Looks fabulous as we're wanting to do similar.
Have a look at the other video that has that information on it already czcams.com/video/y1eGJkL2RM8/video.html. It has the amount of each species and weight per hectare plus what Russell used when planting. It's a really great idea to plant these MS crops xx
What part of the world you live in?here in the southeast you need a large majority of some kind of grass.last year I had a diverse cover crop mix that broke down really fast and I didnt get some of the benefits I really needed
@@jimmydykes7961 We are in Australia (East Coast) Russell is located near Dalby, Queensland.
Yes with regenerative farming you have to play with your technique depending on where you are in the world. If your cover crop broke down fast then it sounds like you have a healthy soil and lots of hungry microbes. Trash on the surface of a paddock shouldn't stay there for too long because the nutrients need to keep cycling. If a soil is dead then the trash will stay on the surface and remember it's not what is happening on the surface, it's what we can't see below the surface so it sounds like you are doing a great job. Got to flip that mindset to understand there are never any failures. 💚 Only human perception that gets in the way.
@@jimmydykes7961 you fed and watered the micro herd. And that is a bonus that is hard to quantify
It’s always important to have your resource constraints in mind when building your mix. And also know where you soik health function is at and where you are wanting to take it. And hence we build them ideally individually with the paddock, soil, crop rotation and client in mind
Be great to get an update on this if you havent
Yes here is the past 2 years of being on-farm with Russell
czcams.com/play/PL4GiqkSZFMGpvdTk-I9Uh7VD74PSCP3NU.html&si=y3HGM0P_Wl2WnQxh
Great thank you@@FarmingRevolution
Hello Madam could you please tell me what biology added with Molasses
Only the manufacturer knows this but I’ll ask and see what his response is.
where is this farm please?
Near Dalby, Queensland, Australia.
Why doesn't the farmer count the spraying costs with planting costs you don't have one without the other when compared to planting the multiple spieces
We do discuss the fact that it costs approximately the same to plant monoculture compared to the price of the MS once the synthetic ferts have been accounted for.
@@FarmingRevolutionthanks for the reply 👍
What's crimping.
Why they do that?
Why multi crop?
Why so many cabbage moths?
Why don't they teach ag at school properly?
I've never heard of Christine Jones, I better start googling.
Crimping is a way of terminating a crop without using chemicals. To knock-down a crop farmers will spray with glyphosate.
A MS crop has been proven to increase soil health quicker than a monoculture. Just think if you have ever seen Mother Nature growing monoculture?
There were a lot of cabbage moth (or a pollinating butterfly) because the brassicas did exceptionally well in this MS. The general consensus was because the soil was predominantly bacterial and the ratio of fungi needed to be increased (that’s why adding oats and sunflowers in the mix is the best thing to sow)
This regenerative model is a complete head flip away from the normal way of industrial farming and it can take some people a long time to get their heads around it because it goes against everything that’s taught at Ag college.
The reason this isn’t taught in mainstream is because Big Ag won’t make any money. These corporations are focused on chemistry and never teach biology.