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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"I'm debt free." That's awesome!!!
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
4 ай бұрын
Growing soil is the answer.
Damb, these guys are such decent people...No higher calling than feeding civilization..bravo
I'm going to sound like an alien from outer space, but I like how humans are just smart
@99eewing
5 ай бұрын
Humans are Jews... Well, they're the pushers of corporitization
@atangapaul1141
5 ай бұрын
You will be also surprised how 99.9% are stupid
@RandomsFandom
26 күн бұрын
The whole video is about how stupid we have been
This family is comprised of farmers who are good stewards of the land. They are working WITH Nature, not against her.
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..
It is a miraculous thing when a farmer decides to learn and experiment
Its tough to change minds when that's the way they have always done it. These two are pretty smart.
@user-kv2pt4lu9y
5 ай бұрын
And when universities, extension agents, and other farm advisors teach CAFO/industrial ag, because it lines their pockets.
"personal responsability" they said. Fullly agree. I hope this is the future
Best of luck to you guys. You are the future. ☮️
these guys are the american heros of our life time
Nice results for just daring to experiment a little.
Great video! Learn through failures. Totally agree.😎👊
Thanks for sharing
Inspiring presentation …
Great video! I’ve clearly got a lot to learn. Thank you
@carboncowboys
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Excellent.
Great. No till. Cover crop. Build that soil. 🖐🏻 ☮️💰
Success is going from failure to failure with great enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
Good bye fertilizer. Good bye Round Up lawsuits. Hello Mother Nature 🌱
Incredible. Thank you for your continued documentaries on this and inspiration.
❤good for you taking the challenge.🎉
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%
Get morning fog? You can build a DYI Home Depot Fog net for water.
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.
Smart
Nice man, but reminds me of older leadership in the fire service...."They way we've always done it."
Grazing cattle is better than veganism
@andreafalconiero9089
4 жыл бұрын
Anything's better than veganism.
@cesarsantos5847
4 жыл бұрын
@@andreafalconiero9089 the cattle build soil and grains drestroy the soil
@orangemoonglows2692
3 жыл бұрын
@@cesarsantos5847 grains are a cover crop. does not destroy the soil.
@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.
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!
Heavenly Father bring more water from deep within the Earth to all the Farms that need it. In Jesus name
@jackinabox8497
Ай бұрын
AMEN. Bob. Australia.
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.
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.
Its easier to fool and mislead someone than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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?
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.
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?
Throw some “milorganite” on it!!
It’s from years of nothing but taking from the land
The bank won't take it away if you didn't borrow money...
@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
4 жыл бұрын
@@localppc242 inherit
@renaissancestatesman
5 ай бұрын
You've never signed the front of the check.
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
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
5 ай бұрын
Elected officials want to keep farmers under govt thumb, they get $ from BIG businesses.