during the drought

Michael Thompson, a young farmer in Kansas, is regenerating his soils with no-till, cover-crops practices coupled with Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing - giving his farm resilience during the severe 2011 and 2012 droughts. While his neighbors’ soils are washing down gullies and blowing away towards the east, Michael is building a farm he can leave to his children. His exemplary work was given the Kansas Farm Bureau Natural Resources Award.
Filmed in Norton, Kansas

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  • @jdeweyl
    @jdeweyl13 күн бұрын

    "I'm debt free." That's awesome!!!

  • @HDB1974
    @HDB19746 ай бұрын

    The old mindset is I'm a farmer, I grow crops. The mindset should be I plant water and grow soil. Crops are the side effects of healthy soil

  • @aptorres01

    @aptorres01

    4 ай бұрын

    Growing soil is the answer.

  • @Sourcedsecurity
    @Sourcedsecurity4 жыл бұрын

    Damb, these guys are such decent people...No higher calling than feeding civilization..bravo

  • @SimonZimmermann82
    @SimonZimmermann824 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to sound like an alien from outer space, but I like how humans are just smart

  • @99eewing

    @99eewing

    5 ай бұрын

    Humans are Jews... Well, they're the pushers of corporitization

  • @atangapaul1141

    @atangapaul1141

    5 ай бұрын

    You will be also surprised how 99.9% are stupid

  • @RandomsFandom

    @RandomsFandom

    26 күн бұрын

    The whole video is about how stupid we have been

  • @Joe_J-MT_Boy
    @Joe_J-MT_Boy5 ай бұрын

    This family is comprised of farmers who are good stewards of the land. They are working WITH Nature, not against her.

  • @user-ik4fd9ny4b
    @user-ik4fd9ny4b6 ай бұрын

    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it's the "illusion of knowledge". It's not that I don't know that keeps me from growing and learning. It's that we THINKING we do know, and that my friend, closes our minds to the possibility of what could be..

  • @downbntout
    @downbntout5 ай бұрын

    It is a miraculous thing when a farmer decides to learn and experiment

  • @lushlawns8904
    @lushlawns89044 жыл бұрын

    Its tough to change minds when that's the way they have always done it. These two are pretty smart.

  • @user-kv2pt4lu9y

    @user-kv2pt4lu9y

    5 ай бұрын

    And when universities, extension agents, and other farm advisors teach CAFO/industrial ag, because it lines their pockets.

  • @lolar6085
    @lolar60853 жыл бұрын

    "personal responsability" they said. Fullly agree. I hope this is the future

  • @robertcalamusso4218
    @robertcalamusso4218 Жыл бұрын

    Best of luck to you guys. You are the future. ☮️

  • @richardweidner1625
    @richardweidner16253 жыл бұрын

    these guys are the american heros of our life time

  • @downbntout
    @downbntout4 жыл бұрын

    Nice results for just daring to experiment a little.

  • @Lawnvolution
    @Lawnvolution4 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Learn through failures. Totally agree.😎👊

  • @entubaotraducciones272
    @entubaotraducciones2729 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing

  • @kevinmcgrath1052
    @kevinmcgrath1052 Жыл бұрын

    Inspiring presentation …

  • @lazarusgrey4866
    @lazarusgrey48664 жыл бұрын

    Great video! I’ve clearly got a lot to learn. Thank you

  • @carboncowboys

    @carboncowboys

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @Vlaid65
    @Vlaid654 ай бұрын

    Excellent.

  • @robertcalamusso4218
    @robertcalamusso4218 Жыл бұрын

    Great. No till. Cover crop. Build that soil. 🖐🏻 ☮️💰

  • @We_are_the_light
    @We_are_the_lightАй бұрын

    Success is going from failure to failure with great enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

  • @ntrope2090
    @ntrope20905 ай бұрын

    Good bye fertilizer. Good bye Round Up lawsuits. Hello Mother Nature 🌱

  • @WellGrazed
    @WellGrazed3 ай бұрын

    Incredible. Thank you for your continued documentaries on this and inspiration.

  • @lauraw.7008
    @lauraw.70083 ай бұрын

    ❤good for you taking the challenge.🎉

  • @ollievw3450
    @ollievw34503 жыл бұрын

    Diffusion of innovatrion theory at work: these guys are the innovators/early adopters and the neighbours they are talking about around 9:20 onwards are the other 84%

  • @ntrope2090
    @ntrope20905 ай бұрын

    Get morning fog? You can build a DYI Home Depot Fog net for water.

  • @AlleyCat-1
    @AlleyCat-13 күн бұрын

    You can see the positive effects of what's being done in the field with the side by side comparison of the first yr & the 5 yr (I think). The longer one of no till has a darker crop, which means it's getting the micro & macro nutrients & minerals it needs. Another way to know the improvement that's been done, is to also test the soil both before the switch & after the first yr.

  • @kennethburger87
    @kennethburger87 Жыл бұрын

    Smart

  • @Mis-AdventureCH
    @Mis-AdventureCH Жыл бұрын

    Nice man, but reminds me of older leadership in the fire service...."They way we've always done it."

  • @cesarsantos5847
    @cesarsantos58474 жыл бұрын

    Grazing cattle is better than veganism

  • @andreafalconiero9089

    @andreafalconiero9089

    4 жыл бұрын

    Anything's better than veganism.

  • @cesarsantos5847

    @cesarsantos5847

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@andreafalconiero9089 the cattle build soil and grains drestroy the soil

  • @orangemoonglows2692

    @orangemoonglows2692

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cesarsantos5847 grains are a cover crop. does not destroy the soil.

  • @Hottiedonkey

    @Hottiedonkey

    11 ай бұрын

    Complete nonsense. Most food crops are grown to feed beef cattle and other livestock. Meat turns food into less food. The reasonable approach is to eat little or no meat. What we have here is people who make money from polluting the environment and exacerbating climate change telling fairytales to people who want to hear them.

  • @bradical2723
    @bradical272327 күн бұрын

    I dont think most of the old timers are too stubborn or closed-minded, i believe theyre scared that they will fail and have to sell.. they need to see the irrefutable evidence that they can succeed, THEY NEED TO SEE THESE VIDEOS!

  • @kennethburger87
    @kennethburger87 Жыл бұрын

    Heavenly Father bring more water from deep within the Earth to all the Farms that need it. In Jesus name

  • @jackinabox8497

    @jackinabox8497

    Ай бұрын

    AMEN. Bob. Australia.

  • @Ribberflavenous
    @Ribberflavenous13 күн бұрын

    Forgive my ignorance, but it seems the video is saying that the cows will continue to forage in the fields during the winter? As I was typing this I was realizing that the buffalo did that, the grass is still there, just sometimes under snow, and there are plants that grow very well (or perhaps better) in the cool weather of early spring and late fall. I guess we just need to look at how nature did it before people got here.

  • @barbaraforgoodness
    @barbaraforgoodness4 жыл бұрын

    This is critically important information. It seems that the prairies are in for a long period of drought and heat waves. The need for carbon sequestration has never been higher. Farmers and ranchers of the Great Plains, get with the program. Fast. It will pay you and we need you to be on the land not sitting in a rocking chair, finding ever more reasons why you are not doing agriculture any more.

  • @_sticks_
    @_sticks_23 күн бұрын

    Its easier to fool and mislead someone than to convince them that they have been fooled.

  • @echo_43
    @echo_4322 күн бұрын

    Is there any follow up to this? Im a native Kansan living in New Mexico, and my parents live in one of the towns east of Norton on Highway 36. Id never heard of this operation and am just curious as to how well its done since this being recorded?

  • @doncook3584
    @doncook35843 ай бұрын

    Look and listen to what Mother Nature is showing and telling you. Farmers are it’s called regenerative ag. They know tilling is killing. Monoculture is an expense requiring lots of expensive inputs that were never on the earth period.

  • @bradical2723
    @bradical272327 күн бұрын

    Can you till in a bunch of carbon and organic material each year or is it more beneficial for the prganic matter to be deposited on top?

  • @Faisal-sf1gh
    @Faisal-sf1gh4 жыл бұрын

    Throw some “milorganite” on it!!

  • @mckennahicks5259
    @mckennahicks52594 ай бұрын

    It’s from years of nothing but taking from the land

  • @ViralAwakening
    @ViralAwakening4 жыл бұрын

    The bank won't take it away if you didn't borrow money...

  • @localppc242

    @localppc242

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yep, I hope you watched the whole video because he did say he was debt free. But how else would you get thousands of acres of land and the equipment needed to farm it?

  • @downbntout

    @downbntout

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@localppc242 inherit

  • @renaissancestatesman

    @renaissancestatesman

    5 ай бұрын

    You've never signed the front of the check.

  • @tealpaddles8664
    @tealpaddles86645 ай бұрын

    When I see a bulldozer blade on a 4 wheell drive articulated tractor , its a sign of Deep rooted ignorance. So Glad to see the example you are setting ! FAIL - First Attempt In Learning

  • @renaissancestatesman
    @renaissancestatesman5 ай бұрын

    The neighbors are failing. They are getting subsidies or tax write offs or something. You have too many years of data. Are they still failing and passing it off on the tax payer/consumer?

  • @user-kv2pt4lu9y

    @user-kv2pt4lu9y

    5 ай бұрын

    Elected officials want to keep farmers under govt thumb, they get $ from BIG businesses.