Demonstration: How Ruminants Improve Water Retention | Allan Savory 

And let's see that third one with eight years of successive grass trampling. It'll be inches of compost that rarely dries out.

Elegant demonstration. Except that the hoofed animals would not only flatten grasses, they would also fertilize

The true science. That’s real life science! 👏

I love you so much Sir Allon Savory. Father of All Humanitiy !

I run a road grader and my goal is to create compaction and shed water. We have been road building through overgrazing and heavy tillage crop production on the wrong areas

Brilliant, but simple!👍

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Very interesting and intelligent demonstration. Where were you when I needed a Smart teacher 🤪

You should also have a plot that has only mulch and no “animal action”.

Anything is better than bare soil, and cattle (including bison and other hooved animals) need to be managed by using a grazing rotation plan. You don’t leave cattle in a field/plot too long in one place otherwise they’ll be nothing for them to graze, leaving the vegetation is stripped. That’s the tipping point and where farmers often get it wrong. You let them graze (hints in the word), not destroy the grassland by over grazing and don’t use the same tracks to move cattle, as the tracks will get bogy. Why do people who have no knowledge of cattle come up with strange figures and scenarios about what’s best. Mr Savoury appears to have been doing this a lot longer than some people have been on this Earth. He uses his time to do these experiments and try and make a better for those living in arid and desert plains, yet the armchair Karens seem to know so much. If you’re so sure your processes are the perfect solution, post your own videos and get your voice heard. All we want is people who can help us get this awful degradation of our beautiful planet back to what it was meant to be like so our children, grandchildren and future humans don’t have to live in squalled and unhealthy condition’s. Don’t forget not every scientist is in this for the best of humanity, a lot are sponsored by chemical companies, who are in fear that these management practices may threaten their lavish lifestyles and ability to make trillions for their shareholders. Figures on paper are good, but the everyday person wants to see these ideas in action. Fragments of information are sometimes more dangerous than the whole picture, educate yourselves, trial these ideas and innovations and then come back with the results, I’m sure Mr Savoury will be only to happy to hear your findings, as I’m sure we all would. Thank you Mr Savoury for taking your precious time to help the world with your knowledge, it worth so much to have committed people trying to help us all.

Aren't you worried about Hook Worm?

Why didnt he make a fourth one with out breaking the ground but with litter, that could have showed if breaking the ground did any good. I miss a conclusion it does any good to break the surface and why.

I don’t see how you can trample grass that was not there? Unless you introduce mulch to a bare area, where does it come from?

All that this proves is that mulching helps with water retention. It's a really big stretch to extrapolate these findings to actual cattle. Like Gustav said below, you need another plot with mulch and without trampling to tease out the impact of cattle. Anything else is disingenuous and an example of confirmation bias. All the peer-reviewed science I've seen says the opposite of what Savory is claiming - cattle compact the ground, reduce vegetation cover, and decrease water retention.