A Regenerative Secret
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- This short documentary video, "A Regenerative Secret" pulls back the curtain on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and the detrimental effects they have on our ecosystem. More importantly, the film features Dr. Allen Williams, Chief Ranching Officer for Joyce Farms, who offers a powerful alternative -- regenerative agriculture.
Presented by Kiss the Ground
Produced and created by Finian Makepeace
A film by Ben Cowan & Taliesin Black-Brown, Zephyr Visuals
Starring Dr. Allen Williams and Finian Makepeace
Made possible by Joyce Farms, Savory Institute, and Belcampo Meat Co. - Věda a technologie
This is consistent with individuals’ efforts to regenerate and rehydrate hardened, dried-out land in Siberia, Zimbabwe, Australia, China, and I think in other countries.
With people like this man, the local small farm will never die off.
Thank you for the amazing work on this film. It's incredibly important information.
Outstanding video!
Thanks Allen and Joyce Farms for leading by example. You all are true pioneers and the world is watching.
Long live the Soil!
Yes, Allan Savory is the precursor of this practice, having observed large animals in the savannah. People are now going beyond that and the rotation is optimized with planting more diverse forage including leguminous (Non toxic if maintained at 10/20 % of the grazing biomass) and some trees to provide with shadow when necessary and capability to sustain biodiversity (Habitat for insect predators) and soil regeneration having permanent symbols with fungus. Did nobody heard about permaculture? These are some basic concepts.
@Marc T thanks a lot Marc, do you have some links about these plants , I do tropical Permaculture and focus on chicken food sustainability. Best
Actually Andre Voisin, whom Allan credits in his speeches and printed work.
I find the term ‘degenerative agriculture’ very meaningful.
Great video! All I can say is that we need to start this world wide NOW!!!!!!
Share, share, share this information
This is standard on most farms in New Zealand for example and many other areas. The problem is the Agro-Chemical companies, and the credit traps used for farm machinery. They don't give a damn about anything other than selling more seed, pesticide and fertilizer.
Amen to that!
Its not regenerative if you pour on Super phosphate and urea as we do in NZ. Regen ag is a lot more than rotational grazing. Length of rotation is specific, leaving significant grass uneaten and preferably trampled, all farm practices keeping microbes/soil life in mind. Ie pesticide and fertiliser use.
@@flyerjohn702 It is not a lot different from rotational. It is just rotational grazing with smaller areas, moving the herd after each milking and like you say most importantly leaving significant grass uneaten.
why there isnt 7 billion views on this video yet? shame on us
Seeing people doing amazing things like this gives me hope that one day everything will be the way its supposed to be. Nature will overcome
Allan SAVORY need to get the credit.
Pieter Van Heerden read the credits, Savory institute is credited along with others.....
The point is, this is Savory's movement. Give credit where credit is due. The man defied logic, achieved the essential break thru, against all odds. That's genius.
Jim Griffiths my point is that he did! you didn't read the description to this video, which was my point. Do you spend time building carbon in soil, or just waste time on pendantics?
Using Savory's concepts, he is preceded by Will Harris of White Oak Pastures of Bluffton GA and Gabe Brown of Brown's Ranch in Bismarck ND. Lately, Greg Judy of Missouri has been the most prolific regenerative rancher on CZcams.
@Klaa2 To know and not to do is not yet to know.
This takes time, but it works. It's the right way.
Salatin? Savory? Peter Andrews? Look them up. They too are into this and it works! It works even in the greatest deserts and greatest drought country of then all...Australia.
True. And Ray Archuletta and Gabe Brown are others playing their part as much as Richard Perkins or Sepp Holzer in Europe. It's not important whom this originates from, but that it will spread further.
Bravo!! NIcely done. As the soil is healed it will heal the earth and those who live on it. Thanks.
CONGRATULATIONS VALLEY FORD, CALIFORNIA FOR HAVING SOME OF HUMANITIES BRIGHTEST FOR CITIZENS !!
I love this! Please support regenerative agriculture ❤️🐄
Great job Joyce Farms and Dr. Williams! Thanks for the important info, nice to know what I choose to eat can actually make a difference.
This is wonderful but Allan Savory is the man behind this type of intensive grazing. Please credit him!
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Or was it Joel Salatin. I think we need to stop worrying about who started it and who to get credit and start getting more cattle on pasture and support farmers who finish on pasture.
@@petramacdougall A lot of people have been doing this type of rotational grazing for many years. It's admittedly distasteful when anyone from a living generation claims to be The Originator. Today, we're all standing on the shoulders of giants.
@@petramacdougall It was Savory but gotta credit Joel and all the rest of them as well.
You guy from the city?.... I grew up on a farm..this (this is common knowledge among farmers way before Allan Savory was born) It has been done since fence building came popular in the mid 1800...If you don't..your farm dies..( this very video shows that to be true) ... simple as that.. so what all farms failed before Allan Savory came up with this "revolutionary idea" ...You read or hear story's in the 1800's about people getting a bunch of money buying a farm and it failing "due to drought"..but the 2 farms next to it did fine..why because..Because one was a banker and the other 2 where farmers...2 of them knew the importance of live stalk circulation 1 did not...my grandfather died in 1955.. Allen Savory was 20 years old in 1955..so where did my grandpa learn intensive grazing from?????
Dr. Williams is ONE OF the pioneers of regenerative ranching. Others are ranching cattle AND raising crops to sell, on the same ground, AND running the soil organic matter up as high as 8%. Name one? Gabe Brown in North Dakota
Gabe Brown and Dr. Allen Williams have worked collaboratively for 10+ years, and are both partners in Understanding Ag, LLC.
CO2 in the atmosphere is NOT a problem our planet faces.
The feedlot pictures are enough to make you weep. Regen is so simple. Ignorance and greed are why everyone is not adopting this. Once you you start its a no brainer. Just do it, Your animals will be happier.
I would submit that generally ranchers don't use the method because they don't want to. Its work. They don't want to move their cattle around like this. They want to turn them out and come back a few months later and gather to sell.
Which continues to show ranchers make plenty of money doing it the degenerative way, otherwise they would take their 1.5-3x profits and do the extra work.
Yes, there are no fences left in the whole country. To build and maintain all the fencing required is a huge task, more than a single operator can handle. Remember that the average age of landowners in this country is around 60. Labor is expensive, and the argument is that few young guys are willing to work as hard as the old guys even, so this is a hard sell.
Allen Williams needs at least 30 minutes on RFD TV to reach more farmers and ranchers.
This is a revelation before the revolution. First class film and subject. Dr Allen is a legend. More more more!!!! :)
Amazing. Your cows look so happy!
Joyce Farms offers a quality product. To know that you are doing it while also being concerned with the future of the soil food web will inspire me to buy even more of your products and promote your company more. Thank you for what you are doing!!
beautiful beautiful beautiful...
Nice work! Great movie!
I've been watching more and more movies of this kind and it makes me happy to see this happening!
It gives hope.
And it also make me wanna do this myself some day!
Can we please make this dude the head of the USDA!?...?
Too late! joey picked the old head of monsanto, "CANT WE JUST ALL GET ALONG MAAYYN?" 😂
Time for the majority of us to put our money where our mouth is.
@@Jj-gi2uv Well said, not to mention most of our flags made overseas at well 😂
Thanks for the video. Regenerative agriculture is not a secret. Numerous scientists, botanists, agronomists, farmers, etc have practiced and promulgated regenerative practices for decades, if not hundreds of years. The problem is that industrial agriculture corporations and capitalistic fanatisicm have such a tight grip on the minds of consumers [and farmers]. We need a cultural change, a change in our priorities.
There are changes happening now as more information is being shared by various new "homesteading" farmers and ranchers all over the country. Recent breakthroughs in nutrition, soil science, silage crops and grazing are becoming an important segment of the new, proven methods being used.
Please stop worrying about who invented what and when. We all need to help change the SOP's in food production asap. Dr. Williams is not a braggadocio, just a man who loves his science.
My hubby is an agronomist. We lived in North Dakota nearly 40 years ago where he walked fields, sometimes 80/week, while I worked in the soil lab. Even back then, my husband and his colleagues were very frustrated by the brainwashing the chemical companies, the co-ops, the government know-nothings, and the big food companies interjected into the farming and ranching businesses, though our understanding of soil:food:life has grown much deeper in recent years. Sadly, the nonsense still exists today, though I'm pretty sure it will die out. It just can't come soon enough.
Having said that, somebody please inform AOC about reality. My head nearly explodes when people like her, (a bartender), talk about cow flatulence. Omg! Then we have the hard-core vegetarians and vegans for whom their diet is their religion (and, of course, the ONLY right religion), who insist that the entire population of Earth MUST adopt the same "religion", and so on, and so on. People who don't know squat, but think they know everything need to be shut down... quickly. In a John's Hopkins lecture/question & answer session I attended some years ago, Jane Goodall said that she chooses to be vegetarian, but recommended to people who choose to eat another animal's flesh offer up a "thank you" before partaking. She didn't judge - just a mindful suggestion. After all, her forte is chimpanzee behavior and biology.
In my mind, farmers, ranchers, and police are the most underrated, underappreciated professionals in our country. Pity, isn't it? They're probably the most important. In "The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire", author Edward Gibbon recognized that agriculture is the foundation of all successful societies. It only makes sense. Food, and law & order.
Long live cows!
Interest rates are too low, it is very profitable to be marginally profitable if you are big enough.
@@karenf9137 Don't worry about people who make ignorant statements and outrageous demands: there is a greater power keeping everything in balance.
I knew I'd find a comment like this, blaming Capitalism. I think for the most part it is well known and even stated very early in this video that this type of industrial farming is only possible through massive government subsidies which of course is not Capitalism at all. Not to mention the regenerative farmer claims to make much higher profits than the public subsidized farms.
This is amazing! thanks so much for making this! I'm using it as reference in my research on Climate change searching for sustainable options from both an animal and plant based perspective on food!
Thank you so much for this!
Thank you so much for this video!
This needs to be seen by every person in America and beyond.
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What a great video. When I opened it I was disappointed it was not an hour and a half but the info in this 8 minutes says way more. I believe farmers will be the ones to save us from climate change.
Fascinating. Great Video
Now this is something i can get behind. Dr. Allen, if you see this and are hiring, please hot me up. Great little video.
Excellent video.
Can't smash that like button fast enough
I've been thinking about how to breed large horses like this! This is awesome!
This is really great & inspiring. Wish you success
Top knoch video!
Allen is the 1st regenerative farmer I have seen that also takes care of his own microbiome and isn't fat. Outstanding video I'm sharing. It baffles me how I see over and over again the neighbors farms around these successful farms doing the same old destructive stuff. So no it's not lack of info it's stupid people which unfortunately is the majority. Just look at politics and the absurd and illogical things people believe.
Allen Savory. Ray Archuleta and the many others in the movement. Respect due
Greg Judy is another one. 👍👍
fantastic !
beautiful!
Thank you for sharing this! I support Andrew Yang for President in 2020. His climate and energy policies should help Regenerative along by removing fossil fuel subsidies. This is an alternative that will solve climate, health and economic problems all at once!!
Great stuff and thank you! Here's for more jobs working with animals :)
It’s a little more complicated than “people don’t know.” You have a Ag industrial/financial complex built (with government incentives) to support more traditional systems. It’s harder to finance, ensure, lease, etc. for an op like this (for instance many pasture leases include maximum heads per acre, etc.). You also have long standing culture and ag education supporting the other side. It’s no small battle and the ag companies, Including some pretty scary business owners (think Wild West turned corporate), lobbyists, and politicians will continue to fight and vilify efforts like this.
Yes!
This sort of inspiration should be taught to those other farmers to educate them
It's not just that they don't know it could be potentially be more profitable, they don't realise how best to do things as a result of the simplicity and convenience of the systems they already use. It's not necessarily the profitability or efficiency even as long as its '' relatively'' profitable, simple and convenient to quantify for financial speculation. Seems like laziness basically, the less effort the more ''efficient''. Its selling short the potential economic growth, true profit and people's work hours.
Good!
Look up "Thousand hills grass fed " in Minnesota
If you see a bunch of pretty girls involved in it, you know it's taking off as a movement.
Nonya Damnbusiness thats the truth. Also, I love your username
Yes, that is exactly what must be done when you see a piece of land where only stones are growing. Stones are not growing, this is the wind and reain that removes everything else. Only roots and plants can keep all together, along with drinking the water, reducing evaporation, and putting the soil under shade that prevents most of the radiative forcing ( prevent the IR emission that is cought above by CO2 in the air ). The ground can be cooled from 60°C to 20°C, the greenhouse effect then is reduced to the 4th power of this delta of initial radiative forcing avoided. Then we just have to reduce CO2 on top of that and it would be done.
some people discuss about who is the PIOONER.. no sr...this is about spreading this wonderful idea!..get profitable, get soil keeper, be HAPPY!
Greg Judy and Joel Salatin also know a thing or two about grass-fed beef.
Great video, showing the path to a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future. But angers me so when I see the " green new deal" demanding removal of all cattle from landscape and bill Gates promoting lab grown or plant based meat which has higher carbon footprint with less full cycle environmental improvements. Shows me that unfortunately people in high places do not really have our or mother nature best interests in mind.
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What grass are they useing
Farmers in monocrop ag have to put more pesticides, fungicides, insecticides and fertilizers all the time. That's why it's called 'more-on' farming
wonderful stuff you must talk to greg judy
Love the story. Though I still have unanswered questions. How do the regenerative farming deal with the methane gas from the cows? Is it reduced? Do the cows burp less? Where can I learn more about this?
Savory Institute. Gabe Brown, johathan Lungren. Ray Artulata.they can fill you in on alot
The methane is a hoax.
Regenerated soil oxidizes methane.
1% seaweed to diet is supposed to virtually eliminate cow farts. The more natural diet probably has already reduced emissions from the back end. I know when I went Keto, my emissions virtually disappeared, therefore I think a diet that suits will reduce farts. Would like to see research into gut bacteria, as that also has potential for reducing emissions.
I want to see the results in a northern arid climate such as Montana, North Dakota, southern Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming .
Look up Gabe Brown. Ranching in N Dakota.
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Why dont you plant napier grasses?
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One problem you need one massive tract of land all connected so you don’t have to haul livestock via trailers... I’d say that doesn’t fit 99% of the farms in my area...
We are learning , however painfully slowly that nature had it right and we hot it wrong.
Do not forget that Alan Savory's so called genius breakthrough came at the cost of the lives of tens of thousands of wild elephants.
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I love these muppet shows whereby Murkins invent everything... Ignoring the lights of Mollison, Savory etc.... from 2 dry continents.... Cheers
Dave Judy...Gabe Brown...
This is great. But will commercial operations want to do this type of agriculture if it reduces their profits?
That's a great question. In the short term, almost certainly not! Big Agriculture will probably ignore and then resist the Regenerative Ag movement, mainly for the simple reason is that well-raised meat is more expensive and BigAg is based on lowering costs to maximise profits. It will require a big enough change among consumers who switch away from factory-farmed meat and insist on all their meat being grass-fed. There's no fundamental reason why Regenerative Ranching cannot scale up, but it will always require more manpower than CAFOs.
no way in hell. You just can't go back in time like the vid suggests.
Farmers will save soooo much money on fertilizers and pesticides that they’ll surely turn a profit.
@@Henrydingus01123 this is correct. Ultimately it is much more profitable for the farmers. The small farmers we work with have seen unbelievable returns!
@@garionporter5961 Ranchers make more money this way. By regenerating land and increasing biomass production they can increase the number of animals their land can hold. This means more $. Also, it means being able to get cows to great weight without giving them additional feed. Why feedlots work is because grassfed animals from degraded pastures are skinny and need to be fattened up. If their cows were healthy and eating a diverse plant diet, like Allen's cows, they would not need to go to feedlots to be fattened up.
Every government should ensure that every potential farm switch to regenerative farming NOW. BigAg simply relies on expensive chemical fertilisers and pesticides so entrenched interests involved / www.rainwaterrunoff.
If you like this you’ll like Greg Judy
Viktor Schauberger and Sepp Holzer wrote books about restoring nature decades ago. But everybody continues inventing his own wheel.
am lads hold up with the who started it in ireland and the uk weve been grazing padocks for years
Errrr.... So what's the technique?
Lol love how everyone is fighting to credit people they learnt from for this method of farming but fact is i am in south africa and my community, their fathers and great grand fathers have been grazing this way long before anyone "discovered" this mobile grazing. didnt even know people farmed livestock differently til i came to university
I find it interesting that your society has done this for many lifetimes. Question : out of necessity because of limited availability of pasture land?
The western civilization has had the area to feed livestock and especially in the New World, but it is coming back to bite us. I am glad that we are learning to
do it much more like your family !!
We Indians have been doing this since Millenniums, this is the very reason we consider cows to be sacred. But alas the world can't see the reality and often make fun of us for it.
So how much land would we need to do this type of farming?
How much land depends upon how many stock. Many smaller scale farmers are running chickens, turkeys etc behind their stock to spread the manure and clean up the insect larvae in said manure, whilst getting an etc income either from meat birds or eggs. We are starting to see small scale farmers using Permaculture principles, incorporating trees & shrubs, thereby providing the livestock with shelter, forage, together with providing additional crop of fruit and berries, hence another income stream from the same piece of land. The trick to regenerative farming is to have multiple income streams and diversity. Mono cultures do not exist naturally in nature.
The move is back to smaller scale farming supplying the local communities. Joel Salatin is a good example of what can be achieved on a much smaller scale.
Not knowing isn't the same thing as willful ignorance.
and also the only way to make earth great again ...
Who cares who did it first... it works! Tag a farmer.
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This is old old old information to the farmers and ranchers who feed the USA and quite a bit of the rest of the world
Would it be possible to do something similar without having the farm benefit the pharmaceutical producers most of all?
Sponsored by the Cattle Association.
Yeah. He didn't invent this like hes touting eh? Its been a thing overseas forever and Joel salatin at polyface has been doing it as well. James Anderson made up rotational grazing on the 1700's in Scotland. Thanks google.
Let’s be clear: Alan Savory initiated and proved intensive grazing practices a half century ago - based on observing wildlife. ANYONE advocating mig this century without crediting Savory is, mostly a thief. Read Savory then listen to Joel Salatin. Holistic management isn’t revolutionary; rotational grazing is the rule not the exception with the large herds in the Sandhills.
Btw, did you notice all the crop residue on top of the ground in the “offending bean field.” That field didn’t fit the dishonest narrative.
It was destructive as it was an example of tilling, disturbing the micro organisms in the soil and leaving the soil mostly bare, which nature abhors. Whilst there was some crop residue, there was insufficient to protect the soil and the soil life. Nature is a modest lady who prefers to keep covered. Also note they were cropping, not raising stock, so two different types of farming. Mixing no till cropping with stock rotation is also beneficial.
I was with you up until your statement regarding "all the crop residue" in the "offending bean field". That's when you revealed that you're a bullshit artist.
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This is great news lets allow the poor cows to fart, have you ever tried to hold a fart in, like they say better out than in.
we have a diary industry here in New Zealand that is killing our waters ways , the use of nitrogen fertilizers etc for the tall grass in days is leaching into our rivers aqua's etc an industry to big and powerful , even the the national government under John Key lowered the water standards of our rivers to accommodate the diary industry , they wanted to lower the levels to wade-able considering I used to be able to drink from many of the rivers not any more , New Zealand is NOT clean and green that is a FACT
Still all about money. We have a moral responsibility money shouldn’t come into it
Duh
But they destroy the forest. Forest catch more carbon.
no they don't, go check out how much carbon grass stores over forests. also remember that trees have a live span, when they die and rot all the carbon they have stored is realest back into the atmosphere.
Not true that forests are destroyed. With this kind of agriculture we should reach a point needing less land and making arears available for aforestation.
PROBLEM!! He who owns the land is a farmer not a grazier. They farm for profit/money.. change is hard because every farmers situation is different.. debt etc. It won’t happen without government policy/strategy and time is running out fast. Sorry to be pessimistic, but that’s the reality. Education (I guess it’s what you’re doing) is the key but it’s gotta happen fast.. permaculture design principles are powerful when applied correctly.
Are you aware of the grain subsidies $$$??? Have you seen the documentary King Corn?
I can't share your pesimissm hope and inspiration will allways find a way, dispair won't. Henry Ford once said that he has to agree with both man one saying he can and the other he can't achieve certain things. Education is one part and networking from a bottom movement the other. This won't be pushed forward by governements they are too much in bed with the big corporations who actually fight this, this will be pushed forward by individuals as it's allways been.