German farmers plant new crops to meet new climate challenges | Focus on Europe
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- čas přidán 3. 09. 2022
- In Germany, farmers are struggling with the impact of heatwaves and drought. Jonas Schulze Niehoff in eastern Germany is no exception. Alongside the traditional grains and potatoes, he's now testing out drought-resistant quinoa and chickpeas.
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why not. If he finds something that works for his land and has the selling options, I wish him all the best.
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Agreed. Come on American cattle farmers, think outside the box and farm something else.
@@helenpauls1496 Murican? This is about German farmers and their crops.
@@peabase Changes like that will be necessary in all sorts of regions across the world. This German farmer is only one among many across the world who's trying to adapt to climate change.
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How refreshing to hear of farmers that are changing with the times. Too many are doing what they have always done and are shocked when that doesn't work.
Why don't you go ahead and explain exactly what you mean by that, because it seems like you are just putting words together without anything to back up that claim.
@@hime273 Found the farmer stuck in the old ways.
@@GordonSeal i know right? Anything that lets us feel superior to the people in our rampant climate destruction!
@@hime273 Catttle farmers rings a bell..
Farmers operate on incredibly tight margains because of the price gouging and imports from cheaper places. They dont really have the actual means by which to change their methods completely.
Quinoa was introduced as a crop to North America around 1986 by a Bolivian agronomist (still living in New Mexico). He brought literally hundreds of varieties, sourced from isolated Altiplano villages, to Colorado for grow-out trials.
He passed along dozens of varieties to me and I trialed them in Washington State. Some were successful right from the outset, and I was able to increase and distribute those seeds to many small farmers.
Thus the North American heritage with quinoa is now nearly 40 years. I suggest readers get a copy of "Quinoa, the Supergrain" (1989) to learn what we were up to during that decade--laying a foundation for the increasing success of producing this vital food product beyond the Andean region.
Pig weed amaranth was the first domesticated crop ever (a very close relative to quinoa.) It rewilded itself after other grains came into play such as Manoomin, teosinte, and maize and people stopped breeding it. I keep saying we need to redomesticate it. We would have a basically never ending supply of grains from something people deem as a noxious weed today.
There are a lot of "wild" crops that people have forgotten about, but are great alternatives as they can handle drought and heat much better. They are not so great to make profits for the agricultural big business with their seed industry though, hence why there is a lot of marketing to "forget" about these wild crops.
If there is a plant with never ending grain supply. Then Monsanto will secure the rights to it. And then even the poorest farmer who supports his family with it is forbidden to grow it if he doesn't have the necessary money.
Wonderful world we live in.
We've been growing it here in the UK for the last several years. Took the farmer several years to perfect a variety to grow in UK climate. I always buy local Quinoa.
Have you tried popping Quinoa ? ...useful in all kinds of recipes
I'd rather eat cardboard.
@@julianshepherd2038 ~lol, you must have watched this video so i can suggest this recipe {read all directions first} Toast a tablespoon of Quinoa in a small pot til it all pops...then add a tablespoon of butter. Turn heat off, then drop in a chopped up chocolate bar...put the lid on ...stir...cool
Quinoa is amazing! So is amaranth and many ancient grains and seeds ❤️🙌🏼
Much more nutrients. The soil needs to be priority! Education on how to keep the soil truly healthy
I wish farmers here in the US were as open to adapting as this German farmer seems to be. We're still growing water-intensive crops in the desert, essentially emptying our great rivers of necessary water. Big agriculture is slow, dumb and is enabled by cheap water rates given to them by the water districts because they think they're "too big to fail" . We see where that mindset gets us.
Monsanto own American crop output.
Actually, the funny thing is to produce 1 kg of dry matter, corn requires less water than wheat for instance. And increadibly less than......rice. It's awkward, when it comes to water resource, nobody talks about rice. Corn uses C4 carbon fixation pathway, which is the most efficient photosynthetic process of carbon fixation in plants.
This is all for show my friend. You still trust what media says?
You don't understand a thing about commercial farming, don't worry for the Americans if it makes money they will come around, like every intensive farm in the world
@@luckyluke1503 Nope, still trust my eyes.
Farmers around the world are moving away from mono-cropping, which means a diversity of income and plants. There are farmers in Germany using agro-forestry to gain more moisture, animal feed and nuts, berries, and fruits for further diversity of plants and income sources.
People living in cities can do much the same, remove lawns and grow edible flowers, fruits and nut trees. City governments should encourage planting large areas on rooftops, boulevards and open spaces with productive plants instead of "decorative" trees.
Less space dedicated to things like car parking would help lots too!
Smart man. We still have folks in the US that are denying there's even anything happening.
This farmer is a legend!!! 🐐 . I'm gonna buy his quinoa one day
Millet, lentils and now quinoa. German farmers try to grow food with less water/fertilizer usage. Very important step to prepare for the climate changes.
Need more practical farmers like this.
This farmer is a visionary!
as someone who can't eat wheat some of the best gluten-free products I've found come from Germany, but one of the ones that doesn't is a pasta that is made from corn and quinua-- I very much look forward to seeing what Deutchland can do with it!
Might be worth the farmer trying lupins as a crop - very deep tap roots, relatively drought tolerant, is a legume that fixes good amounts of its own nitrogen, stems remaining after harvest can be used as animal feed etc. Would just need to check markets for the seed product, cost/benefit and try different lupin species (Lupinus angustifolius and L. albus).
i'd eat more quinoa and less of what it replaced. thanks farmers!
60% and probably more of America's food is grown in a desert of some type witch is why where running out of water in the west.
Only 1% and probably less of desert crops are grown for food in America.
We have hundreds of edible desert native fruit trees and vegetables but we don't grow any why.
America has plenty of suitable arable land, like in the argentinian pampas or the brazilian southwest regions.
I agree that arid regions in northamerica, specially in those in the USA need an agricultural reengineiring and adecuate crops.
@@XxLIVRAxX yes it makes so sense to grow cotton in arizona when it just grows freely in the south
MEANWHILE, government paying farmers not to farm arable land, AND taking the produce and making ethanol and biodiesel to use as vehicle fuel. Worldwide food shortage coming? Don't believe it.
Good to see DW talking about possible solutions instead of the usual doom. Just remember change is to be encouraged not forced, looking at you WEF politicians.
German farmers have a great idea. Every country needs to plant as much as they can to survive the solar minimum. Some crops will be destroyed and other crops will survive, but keep planting every inch of field because it will be needed.
A few farmers are now trying ou sorghum and millet. You would usually see in the middle east but they had been used even in the antik in western Europe and in part even in 19th century
What a smart man.
Informative video thanks for sharing
"no it's not a weed..."
Actually most things considered weeds are edible. But you can't sell things that grow practically everywhere can you 😂🤣😂
Of course you can. What a weird thing to say.
If it's edible who cares. One can make bread out of it.
You can because most people don't have their own garden or don't want to spend the time gardening.
A gift from Peru to the World!!
Some farmers in France are planting sorgum, aloe vera, barbary fig instead of wheat and grapes.
That’s awesome 😎
No. It belong to Bolivia
@@abelsietecuatro9249 hahaha no it's not
@@mihiec the audacity
@@nntflow7058 EU.... Entitled Union
Ummm what? 😆
Good for him! Even better would be polycultures, agroforestry or perennial crops.
Another ways to increase fertility, besides introducing aqueducts and biolife, perhaps create screenshadows for the soil. There are some roofracks that help by only letting few sunshine inside the crops. Could be seen as a greenhouse hybrid farm.
In Namibia we are able to grow maize , sorghum, beans and much more with a severely more arid climate. Collaboration will be beneficial for both parties. It would be a shame to have a experimental outpost for over 200 years and not use it.
What are those who used to plant chick peas and quinoa planting instead?
Grow Millets brother.
Hooray to "It's the time for an action!"
BRAVO!!!! Finally someone trying to adapt to change and evolve systems that will die if otherwise
As a consumer I love quinoa, it makes a great dish. But its always so expensive, because its still a niche product. I hope it works out and becomes more popular. This would be a win win for everyone, farmers can get a decent price for an in demand product, we can conserve much needed water, and quinoa would be more readily available at the store.
Instead of rice use quinoa. High protein grain.
Are they putting fertilizer on it? Cuz you know how the WEF feels about that.
I think for the lost city dwellers don’t get, is that farmers specialise in certain crops because they become very talented in growing does crops. There’s a lot of small intricacies that people just don’t get. That’s why many of them don’t want to change and learn new things because it means there chances of crop failure increase dramatically due to lack of knowledge.
Надо выращивать что то с большой ботвой, чтобы потом зимой этим топить можно было, может тупинамбур?
Didn't you laugh of people who eats it, now you are planting it to survive...it's amazing how things comes around....!!??
Quinoabrot when?
Smart man👍
There is the global shortage of foods and meat, while the price inflation of meat and other foods is serious. Usually, the Dutch government should support the industry of agriculture and animal husbandry to increase the production of these natural foods, slow down the inflation of food price and reduce the global shortage of food and meat. Why did the Dutch government do the opposite? If all governments in the world implement similar policies, is the current severe inflation of food price deliberately caused by these governments? Are they deliberately causing the global shortages of food and meat and the inflation of food price to make huge profits from investment in artificial foods and artificial meat? Obviously, the price inflation of meat and other foods is urgent rather than the green environmental policy.
Prickly Pears? Nutritious and delicious
Install a pivot
I hope it doesn't damage the ecosystem. You know... A foreign crop at a large scale...
As oppose to maiz or potatos?
Most crops are foreign.
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Or, dig a lake that fills in winter and allows you to irrigate... Germany gets plenty of precipitation, just not always when you want it.
Grow millets. Healthy, Organic and Smart. Time to GROW UP ALL OVER WORLD
Time to wear sombrero hat amigo
French revolution - France had no food because they didn't switch to potatoes.
- people - perma scape - or the way field looked 100y ago.
Can you make beer with it ?
Makes me wander about the wheat belt in the US. The US congress knew this was coming over thirty years ago.
Thank you.
Try cotton from 🇮🇳. I think your soil is good 👍
what happens in czech now?
January 6th riots in capital. Not enough Chicpeas.
@@stapleman007 lets call it peaceful protest like the one in hongkong
The West's Najib-esque obsession with imported quinoa has, unfortunately, made the West an ideal area to grow said quinoa and other foreign grains on its own 😑
Palm trees 🌴
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Kvinoa ;)
Cause we all see how well Germany has done so well with their renewable energy ideas making Germany Ethiopia again!
We need more people thinking forward. Climate change won't wait for stubborn farmers.
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You cannot just up and change crop or practice overnight it takes time. We must stand with family owned farms, if they are pushed out by green extremism only the mega corporations will be left and they are a law unto themselves.
I can't keep up. Climate change is supposed to take effect in 100 years. But apparently it is here now, and only causing bad things to happen.
@@stapleman007 Its what ever they need it to be to manipulate people. I am not going to say there is no human made climate change but their data is not reliable in my opinion.
@@raclark2730 well, of course this transition needs to be subsidized by the government, but the fact that that guy is still a lone exceptions shows that there is a real problem of lacking forsight from the side of the farmers as well. At least it seems like that to me. One can't just be suprised by stuff getting dryer and hotter *now,* that was obvious years ago and that comes from me an absolute lay-person.
The western obsession with quinoa has driven up prices and made most indigenous people in South America unable to afford their historic food.
They should talk to the members of their community selling it to outsiders? I am assuming indigenous people still grow their own food and do not just live off of government subsidies.
Boo hoo 😂
A call to increase production, thats it.
Now farmers can sell it to much better prices.
Food affordability is a question of weak demand and less pay for the farmers in many areas that really on subsistence farming . Those are people most impacted by food insecurity.
Oh, that old tune. The indigenous people finally started making money from farming Quinoa and they _chose_ to eat other foods. You people with your noble savage myths.
He's brave - it's good to take risks, as long as the crop doesn't effect the soil negatively in the long term. Corn for instance ruins the earth.
Corn does not "ruin the earth", we use it to rebuild our soil organic matter with tons of roots & stalks, more than any other crop... It's the tillage systems & crop rotation that preserves or destroys. There's no bad crop, just bad ways of farming.
Only if you monoculture the same crop year on year
As long as you change it up and farm different typs of crops on one field it should be fine.
Crop rotation should solve this issue
I love quinoa. Its better than RICE in many dishes. Its wonderful stuff.
Great. Now health weirdos will stop calling it a "Superfood" bcoz of mass production and find the next "Superfood" like Pomegranate or maybe Papaya.
Crickets are the superfood you do not know about.
The most funny is that we are starting cold years!.
Are the German farmers still protesting and blocking roads......
You missed that part out 😂😂😂
@Null Pointer And so they should be.
Goes to show that public schools are important for all jobs, especially farming!
Hear me out: Meat and bread are going to become a luxury in the next 50 years
Too dry... it would be nice to see more no till farming in Europe. I don't know why Europeans are so obsessed with plowing.
Hamp
What can they plant? Cactus?
I have a homemade version of quinoa. You take old, clear plastic Tupperware and add it to a blender. Just pulse it until it is in small chunks. Same taste and texture as quinoa, you can't tell the difference.
to little, too late. nonetheless nice try
California needs to take a page from this guy's book, too many people in denial.
what happens in czech now? 150000 people on street and DW report a farmer
Weapons supplied by the USA government to Ukraine emit more carbon pollution and are more harmful than those from farmers. Farmers have gone bankrupt, agriculture has shrunk, there are fewer taxpayers, and more people are receiving welfare. Is it necessary to raise taxes again? The decline in grain output is one of the most important reasons for inflation. Should the government allocate funds to subsidize farmers, support agriculture, reduce grain prices, and control inflation? Is inflation the most urgent issue now related to people's lives?
You'll eat tze bugs, brought to you by Klaus and friends
Please help the Chinese people. They can't live in china. My father's farm is taken by the government. We can't plant anything. Plants. We are almost dying of the hungry. Please help me please help Chinese human. Please save Human rights of China.
Kazakhstan and Russia take in lots of Chinese farmers
@Steven Why its a lie ? The world know about their government cruelty..in China all are possible with that communist Government either
Good Morning to switch to Rice and some Paddy
Helps to Bring Seasons back
I thought that was naruguana XD wtf Germans went bannanas... 😂😂😂
organic farmer but still using diesel tractor dumping pollutants on the crops :/
'Organic' is such a joke.
ahh yes the healthy food that sound like Chinese... quinoa
Quinoa bug bowls. Yummy
bla bla more climate bs
Growers Association needs to take a good look at itself...(ignorance is blissful) small-scale, devastating on a global development...
Farmers do the work 👍
But where are the scientists ?
They should be able to provide the knowledge, but they don’t.
Btw. Sudan grass is supposed to grow fairly in drought too.
Bro… Scientists are providing a lot of knowledge..
@@MissBella69 It hard to see.
I’m an old engineer, and have been working with agricultural machinery most my life.
I don’t see a lot off development and support from science, and I have never meet anyone who I can ask.
All I know I had to find myself or develop from scratch.
Just like in this vlog, where farmers has to do the development themselves.
Ohhh.. I do know about a scientist in a university. Working on goat farming in Africa.
Well first and foremost goats are known to destroy agriculture, and I live in a Nordic country.
Most science ends up, as a piece of paper. Useless.
And yes, I know the actual science is there, but still useless.
Just watch the video they were showing and agricultural Expert on Quinoa farming.
Good luck. It will not taste "European". I am an American and never eat it.
No problem. We Europeans have acquired a taste for the other American crops potato and maize, too. Quinoa will be well liked. And chickpeas had already eaten by Romans.
Focus on Europe? Wasn't there some rally in your neighbouring Czechia?
Yes, I read about it.
Next!
Idk why europe will have concern for food
Massive brain drain n cash outflow will make u need less for essential stock
I’m actually seeing neither brain drain nor cash outflow.
@@taminy2051
Lets wait til next spring
@@drivex6761 What exactly will happen when exactly? What you wrote is about as accurate as saying the sun will come up tomorrow. No way, it won’t come true.
@@taminy2051
How my word is related to earth revolution?
If u think europe economy fundamental can last without russia resource
Than my speak just empty word
@@drivex6761 What is „earth revolution“?
Russia really only has two goods to export: oil and gas. Russia is not the only country exporting these goods but it is the country with the highest costs for exploration. Should the cost of a barrel oil fall under $ 30 (which it has been in the past), Russia would lose money.
Russia is so inept in exploring its own resources that for everything else than sticking a straw in a deposit and let it run, it need foreign experts and machinery, both of which it will not get in the foreseeable future.
The gas Russia is not to delivering to Germany at the moment, Russia is burning, because once they close a deposit, Russia cannot start it again without the help of foreign experts and machinery due to permafrost.
Russia really is not in a good position.
As a peruvian: NO 🤬🤬🤬🤬
why??
Oh yes, time for Perú to industrialize its agricultural for export markets.
@@XxLIVRAxX I don't think that is the right thing to do
Germany joining flouting WTO norms by growing Quinoa which is not local to Europe and thus destroying native farmers in Latin America. Europe continues to exert its racial hagemony over the rest of the world.
As oppose to growing potatos or maiz?
Also, what does this have to do with race?
Quinoa is a growing market the can't be covered by south america alone.
Biologically, there are no races in humans. We are one human race. Our differences are culturally.
@@XxLIVRAxX It has got everything to do with the racist policies of the white western countries made under the guise of WTO to strangulate developing countries while at the same time they flout all the norms.
Another comment under this video complained that native south americans can't afford buying Quinoa any more, because the export demand has driven up the prices. Some Germans growing it would bring the prices down again, so it would be more affordable again. But it would ofc also lower the profit margins.
in other words you're using a "Organic" farmer to advertise for GMO seeds. .. interesting!
i wonder who produces and ultimately "owns" these seeds.
and i also wonder why germany keeps moving backwards.
There's no indication in the story that they are GMO. You're created "facts" out of your ideology, not data and reason.
'Organic" is just a marketing ploy to sell your crops for more at market.
GMO crops are not allowed in Germany.
It's not very good. Does anybody actually like this stuff? Buckwheat groats are better, at least with slow cooked onions, olive oil, and sausage.
Is this story a joke?
You are showing a video about how farmers are happily embracing these new FORCED working practices.
When in reality the German farmers have untied are are out protesting and blocking roads.
Just like in the Netherlands 😉
This is a garbage oil... and terrible for human health.
RIP Europe's future