herd impact
Husband and wife ranchers Emry Birdwell and Deborah Clark have been going against the grain of North Texas ranching for decades - hiding their ability to raise many, many more cattle per acre than any of their neighbors. They are a fiery couple, prone to snips as they get their field work done - they are in their 60s, and run the 14,000 acre place on their own, sometimes with one extra hand.
Filmed in Henrietta, Texas
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ReGen grazing aside, that was a phenomenal human documentary. Coupleship, family, work ethic, all of it. Bravo!
@tammyhavlik1015
5 ай бұрын
ReGen Ag is a much better marketing moniker. Very cool.
@Mis-AdventureCH
5 ай бұрын
@@tammyhavlik1015 'Regenerative" is a mouthful. people like catchy nicknames. I usually capitalize the AG too.
@tammyhavlik1015
5 ай бұрын
@@Mis-AdventureCH And saying 'Regenerative Agriculture' is even worse. As far as marketing, 'Big Ag' is outta the gate and halfway around the track before anyone can say that.
@Mis-AdventureCH
5 ай бұрын
@@tammyhavlik1015 Short and sweet. Everything gets condensed. Bohemian > Boho (which I hate, but there it is). Numerous examples.
All of the Regenerative Farming videos by Roots So Deep that I've watched so far have left me feeling better than I did at the start. If you ask me, that's a hell of a good thing.
@atangapaul1141
5 ай бұрын
It's therapeutic
@jensjesfjeld6238
14 күн бұрын
What, me worry? 😉
This should be substituted for the evening news. Great job and hope the best for the two of them.
@atangapaul1141
5 ай бұрын
This doesn't get politicians votes 😢
@EastGateTentRevival
Ай бұрын
Agreed #NaturalGramma
There better be a follow up with the new family taking the reins!!! I wanna see how that works out and where they go with it. What an amazing opportunity! Inspiring story ❤
They should offer workshops! It would definitely be an experience! I admire this couple!
I know nothing about farming. This makes me so excited for our country! This is where our higher education needs to be focused on, how to improve this LAND WE LOVE!!!! What a wonderful story about a fantastic couple.
I love this series .. so much knowledge. Thank you ❤❤
@carboncowboys
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for helping spread the word!
Those two changed my view of ranchers, thanks.
This was absolutely incredible, and I'm really glad you filmed this, and really glad I watched it. Everything about this was beautiful.
Hell yeah. This was awesome… I don’t get how you can literally SEE the change for the better, and they don’t have other ranchers beating on their door… thank you for this.
@jensjesfjeld6238
14 күн бұрын
Because the others refuse to admit what their eyes see. They can't admit the traditional ways aren't as effective, they have bankers and gov't workers demeaning refusing to support change.
Beautiful couple . It takes a very STRONG relationship to work together as you do. My Hubby & I want to be just like you both. We run a very small cattle ranch in Florida together and each day grow to love each other more(of course we have our moments too) ! SO INSPIRATIONAL!!
What a great couple, their relationship is truly wholesome with so much love and mutual respect. Really inspiring video.
Love what you do on your ranch vision, spirit and hard work. Regards from Ireland
I just learned more about teamwork and a healthy and beautiful marriage as about holistic management
I thank YHWH for people like them,,, great job folks!
What an awesome story and an awesome way of working with the land and showing how productive doing things the right way can be.
Oh wow. That emotion caught me off guard. How touching. I love the ranching community. I was very moved by the appreciation and love these folks have for their friend, and for their farm. I am a new widow as of 2022. We only have 27 acres in Northeast Oklahoma, but I have been purposefully allowing the land to rest since I don't understand regenerative farming, but want to. I loved watching the gentleman walk through the pasture and identify the diversity. I understand that I need to have some animals on my land to promote the diversity, and am hoping to learn more from your videos.
Wonderful little doc, thank you for making it.
What a magnificent operation. The size of this business is staggering. And it's all done with deep and growing respect for how Nature operations. Listen up, dear Vegans. To raise all that grain and legumes affects the land as well. Look into it.
@regiodeurse6513
3 жыл бұрын
Indeed vegans need to understand how nature works. And that plant agriculture is the biggest detriment to the landscape. And the only reason that they think meat or animals products are a bigger impact, is because they live in confinement away from healthy pasture and their feed has to be produced in giant monocultures, that decimate all other species. their manarue, unhealthy and gassy and not icorparate back in to nature in a helathy way, like it would be on pasture. An untilled permanent pasture is a living ecosystem giving life to so much more then just the herd or a single specie of hybrid grass. This is the most important argument against these people. People that claim to love animals and nature should understand it first..
@barbaraforgoodness
3 жыл бұрын
@@regiodeurse6513 I've heard it said that God never tried to farm without animals. Animals are present in all thriving natural environments that I know of. Only man would have it otherwise.
@regiodeurse6513
3 жыл бұрын
@@barbaraforgoodness I agree. animals, herds belong on our landscape
@regiodeurse6513
3 жыл бұрын
@@barbaraforgoodness story of kain and abel also comes to mind. Wasn't it kain who tended vegetables and abel who herded animals?
@marlan5470
2 жыл бұрын
@@regiodeurse6513 And they were both wrong. One was tilling the land to death to grow plants, and the other was overgrazing with the sheep.
Desperately want to see a revisit with the new family. This was amazing
Absolute wonderful video Can’t help but think that the title might scare people off with all the negativity surrounding the the carbon footprint and how cows are the enemy. When, unless you’re blind you can see that cows are the unsung hero’s here! God bless that couple for standing the test of time!! Real Americans WORK!! Whether they feel like it or not!
@howardchambers9679
5 ай бұрын
Real PEOPLE work.
Amazing couple and story
My dream work, I have been trying to teach ranchers and ejidatarios in the North-East of México the Holostic way to work cattle, it is hard. People doesnt care or doesnt want to change. Keep doing what you are doing over there its look just great.
@tanyasteers4802
7 ай бұрын
Stubborn, poor education there's many factors education is the biggest and every single red state has been shitting on education for years and it shows they are the bottom in education tops in poverty and crime
These 2 people are awesome. I really enjoyed this video.
I love this couple. What an inspiration.
I think these guys are having FUN moving cattle around 😊😊😊😊
The definition of great Americans.
OMG! I laughed, I cried. If I had seen this when I was 40 yrs younger, I would have called immediately to begin interning with intent to take over when they retire. Wishing them the best of luck to find who they're looking for.
Id love to let this man know its ok to feel those emotions and express them. So glad you were able to capture such a great moment. Glad these two found one another! Id move my family down there yesterday!
This is awesome. Hopefully folks can see the benefits of soil and wildlife ecosystems and make changes that benefit everyone. There are problem areas all over the earth. Look at America. Overgrazing, cheat grass problems, flooding, not allowing a natural burn cycle to exist out west. All these challenges can be approached with mindsets of innovators like these👌
AUSTRALIA desperately needs this message to spread to all of the few farmers that are still around. May the LORD bless you all. EDIT...I had a great laugh at the end when he said "it will go away." You are a beautiful couple and team. If i wasn't 60 myself, i would visit a help you with the work until i kicked the bucket. Bob. Australia.
I absolutely love the value of the friendship of their neighbor, that just shows the impact that you can have by being a good neighbor, as the Lord asks of us.
"That'd be Austin people." That earned a click on the "like" button.
Ma'am you don't have to look NO FURTHER!!! YOU GOT ME!!! I WOULD LIVE THIS DREAM IN A HEART BEAT!!!! & LOVE IT ❤️ 😍 💖
Thanks for putting those videos together
They are great, thank you.
Love the story.That's the way I was taught cattle.
this is the essence of what a couple should be
Humour OMG I love IT, pure Gold 🥇 💯 great folk's Much Respect from Matt Australia 🌏🦘.
What a fabulous job these wonderful herdsmen doing in land repair. And it is so generous they share their learning and humbly admitting the hard knocks it takes to change sometimes... but I was so sad seeing the wear and tear on the husband from his 'attack the job' way of working then add the price and miserably slow healing of "standard of care". Do you see the connection and failure in the nutrient levels of American foods and modern healthcare "industry" making human care similar to CAFOs?seriously! I am trying to wake up farmers, ranchers and RVers to Homeopathic medicine and proper hydration with good amounts of mineralized sea salt (even ancient bed mined sea salt). Weston -Price food practices and "Practical Homeopathy" would bring quality of life and endurance folks wish for. I just turned 70 and feel better than I did in my 40's! Suddenly getting older was not fearful! No meds and DR visits for us retirees! Well if you get hit by a bus you will still hope for great hospitals... lol
One of my favorite videos. These folks are awesome.
Thank you for great video
Deborah is awesome!
Just a brilliant presentation ... priceless !!!
What a power couple. It’s as if they’re a marriage was a product of good holistic management. Takes a good man to keep the love and respect of a woman like that.
I love this.watched it like 5 times
Love sweet love ❤️ Thanks for sharing your regenerative farming journey!
Wonderfully done .
Thank you for sharing your story!
As a consumer, I draw the line at grass raised and grass finished and don't consider grain finish to be fit for human consumption. I don't feel that people should continue to prop up failing industries when there are alternatives that are environmentally friendly. I don't believe in tossing people over, but change should be supportive.
@hvp685
4 ай бұрын
It's about the grassland.. not your considerations..
@livingonlovehomestead
20 күн бұрын
“Wheat finished” is also cattle that’s grazing in wheat fields. They’ll grow a field and then put a herd in it to graze. I’ve seen that practice in the panhandle area.
Wonderful people, great ideas, great story.....true Americans, that is what makes me love America....the "real people" and not those city rats.
@quetzalcoatlz
5 ай бұрын
Im hoping you're simply being hyperbolic to make a joke. I cant imagine it to be healthy carrying around the weight of that much hatred daily. None of us had a choice on where we're born or who we're born too. I grew up in a tiny town with a graduating class a little over 100 and still witnessed shitty people. Its all about perspective
Well done, amazing from the topic to the storytelling in general, this is all dependent on human health. If you want to make any more of these films I can take you to my county towns in Australia with some similar great stories, our very own little food bowl of the world, and culture.
Marvelous stuff! I love these crusty, salt-of-the-earth people who actually know what they are doing, and the provide the quality output that the world needs. There is nothing fake here. And the filmmaker deserves credit for putting together this short documentary. This can be inspiring to all sorts of people, hopefully even some ranchers.
This is beautiful
I find this way of ranching amazing. This is for our children and the future. Thank you.
Excellent!
As a rancher I would love to try this
Great work guys !
Love this!
So cool!
Damn, their kids about to turn all that hard work into subdivisions as soon as they pass.
Amazing.
@beccagee5905
6 ай бұрын
I guess I will comment here, since I can't see an option to make a new comment. I can't believe that it's been three years and the are only over 30,000 views. This is important information, that is vital to our environment, as well as for humans. Allowing no new comments by this platform, tells me there is a concerted effort to hide this information.
American heroes, straight up.
I just love these two. I wish I could com work for y'all and take over this farm.💘
I wish I could go back to Texas and learn from this couple. I would do it in a heartbeat.
When she said she was looking for a young couple to take over I raised my had quick, looked at my hubby and said, "lets go baby!" 😂
Wonderful
That was great
What herd impact is, (also described as "animal impact" in the Holistic Management Framework) is a new tool to mankind, we have 4 tools to manage ecosystems with: 1) technology 2) fire 3) rest and 4) living organisms and this now includes animal impact which is a recent idea to us. What animal impact achieves is disturbance of the soil and plants, which is vital element to have a regenerating ecosystem in brittle environments. We have the ability to manipulate the environment we manage, but in order to do so there are some essential principles we need to understand. Allan Savory has thought us this and has been very good at thoroughly describing this simple but fundamental knowledge in his book from 2016.
She’s a good cook too.
Where are the main streaming channels? Let's make a huge change by getting this type of ranching better known..
@beccagee5905
6 ай бұрын
I can't even make a new comment, unless I make a comment to someone who already has. Seems this information is being shadow banned. That's just wrong.
@quetzalcoatlz
5 ай бұрын
@@beccagee5905becca sounds like you've got a case of IBM. Comments are working fine
@AB-ol5uz
5 ай бұрын
Abundance + is a streaming platform that specifically focuses on permaculture, rotational grazing, homesteading, etc.
Peter is a good filmmaker
@carboncowboys
11 ай бұрын
We'd have to agree... but maybe we're biased ;)
@beccagee5905
6 ай бұрын
@@carboncowboysDo you know why there is no option to make a new comment, only to make a comment under someone else's comment? Also after being posted for three years only to have 36,000 views seems strange to me. I have heard that some companies are gatekeepers, and don't want helpful information out, a global effort to end good ways to grow meat and help the environment. Hard to believe, but facts don't lie. Only 36,000 views in three years, and no new comments. I even opted in to read the community guidelines posted above the comments, still no go. You are being throttled.
Love it all, I wish I could help in any in any capacity.
I’d really love to see how they sort there cattle, vac them, denut them. And I’d love to farm that land and learn from them
It would be nice to wake up on that ranch everyday.
You're wrong on the taste. Cattle grazed or raised out west on misc food, taste is much different then beef raised in the Midwest or corn
@barbaraforgoodness
3 жыл бұрын
True. When I was a kid that's all we ate - range raised and finished. CAFOs only came along in the 50's to soak up the grain surpluses that the rich prairie land, curated by millions of bison, provided. Then there was the public relations campaigns, getting people to believe that grain-finished "Kansas City 'beef" with its white fat marbling was better than the rich yellow fat of range-finished meat.
“Austin people”… haha I love this guy !!
What you are doing and have done is awesome. It's a shame your family has no interest but I can get that ranching and farming is hard .
Yeah I take a lot of positives from the videos I’ve watched so far and I’ve never been on a farm never mind a ranch but man these guys are incredible people they are in their mid sixties and they are running five thousand cattle 🐄 wow 🤩 so proud of you guys you are definitely 💯 in love with each other and I’m so happy you share that with us ❤hope you find the right people to share your workload and eventually hand over so you can enjoy your twilight years with some well earned rest time good to know there’s good people out there ❤
I wanna get on my horse (that I don’t have yet) and move them cattle !
@raybankes7668
3 жыл бұрын
those cattle move themselves when they remove the electric wire to the next paddock.
🔥🔥🔥
I am interested in learning! I don’t know anything about farming but I’ve been called and I want to learn. I am willing to travel, work hard, not looking for comfort or handouts just want to learn.
Awesome….
how are these lovely champions doing in 2024?
Make America Graze Again ! Let’s go.
Love this type of farming. I hope future generations can learn and we can heal the earth.
I’m not sure how a New Yorker like me got into Roots Deep videos. This is the closest we’ve seen to an actual plan of grazing. 3 year old video. Need an update
"lf you wanna see how true love can be just look at us." love for each other love for their cattle love of their land .AWESOME.
paisa Omar
Where do I sign up?
We have family that used to farm and now they ranch. They use this process to graze their 3-400 acres. One family member said corporate America has been hassling them about their process. At first they offered them money and stock. Now they make threats. It’s insane how convinced big business is they are right. In this case they are wrong. Roots so deep will change the world for the best.
I enjoyed that video. We've got about 300 acres east of Abilene. Not the same type of land as these folks, but the animal impact process is intriguing and should work out there. This comment is for @beccagee5905 who doesn't think she can make a new comment.
Can you follow this grazing technique on 10 acres? Where do i start?
@carboncowboys
8 ай бұрын
We'd start by reaching out to these folks about grazing questions. They're the masters! soilhealthacademy.org/contact-us/
I find it interesting that Will Harris talked about not being able to feed enough people with this method on the previous "paddock" but the numbers per acre quoted in this "paddock" are double. Double the pounds per acre means more food not less.
My dad is wanting to add lime to the ground. I’m wanting to get our ground started with herd impact. Is lime a bad idea?
@tickcreekranch
5 ай бұрын
Correcting your soil ph is paramount. Yes lime and or liquid calcium (if the ph low) and get grazing 👍
this shoujd be happening in KANSAS where I live
#NaturalGramma
“Austin people “ you mean people who moved here from out of state.
True stewards of the land
I do it.