Winter terminated garden!? My goal is green plants 365. I actually use a greens mix as a cover crop. Take many pounds to my food bank in March. I am milder than y’all, only go sub zero half the winters.
Getting more carbon in the ground will produce better food, improve water absorption and quality, and improve the farmer profits by reducing excessive costs. If cattle can heal the land and graze nearly 365 days per year or have some hay as insurance and less than 3 months of feeding hay per year, food can be affordable and farmers can make a profit. In the 1970s people were worried about air quality in cities, green cities and cleaner cars came about. In the 1980s, people were concerned about the Ozone layer, and spray chemicals changed. In the 1990s, people were concerned about smoking indoors and indoor air quality, and Tobacco companies got sued and it was shown in court that the tobacco companies were well aware that their products were addictive and caused cancer and still they engaged chemical labs to make cigarettes more addictive. In the early 2000, people were concerned about the middleeast and gas prices, and it was proven that Exxon and Chevron and all of them knew in the 1970s that the burning of fossil fuels would cause global warming, but they engaged in the exact same tactics that tobacco companies did and the same kinds of stubborn people who insisted on smoking, are the same kinds of people insisting that climate change isn't happening. Basically, gullible people who aren't well informed believe nonsense put out with no scientific proof that climate change isn't a thing. The best part is when people are taking care of soil health, they are automatically doing better no matter what other nonsense they believe. I'll take good actions and no beliefs every day of the week over belief and no action or bad actions.
What mostly native to upper Midwest forbes can handle a higher phosphorus “waste water plant” forced discharge irrigated situation & do well to make a hay crop off of? Any other minerals that might need to be supplemented to help out, in which forms, & best ways to apply them?
Truly hope this is the future. It has to be. Conventional farming is unconventional in regards to sound science. My plow-pan neighbors disagree with me.
Interesting presentation. I think regenerative agriculture can play an important part in climate mitigation. I would like to better understand Mr. Hjertass’s opinion regarding the limited role of methane from livestock in climate change. Sources (Our world in data) indicate that there has been a cattle population increase of over 60%, to 1.5 billion, since 1961. By comparison the peak buffalo population in the 1850’s is estimated at 60 million. Difficult to comprehend how domestic livestock, no matter how important their role in regenerative agriculture, do not have a profound impact on GHG emissions. Thank you.
Good stewardship does not need the excuse of "climate change". If climate change can not be stopped, which it can't, will you give up on good stewardship of the land? We are presently in an ice age, non glaciation. Ice ages come to an end as the one we are in now will. An ice age is over when the ice in Greenland and Antarctica is gone and some day it will be.
THE COST......of Putting CO2.... BACK INTO THE SOIL where IT'S DESPERATELY NEEDED....is NOT HIGH. The Extra CO2 in the Atmisphere now GIVES US A GREAT OPPORTUNITY ... It raises Photosynthesis 30% on its own. Photosynthesis FEEDS THE SOI and that FEEDS everything on our Earth..... NOTHING ELSE DOES.
More carbon dioxide leaches out of the planet every day, than the entire legacy load. The key is to allow the miracle of photosynthesis to balance things out.
