Reinventing farming and food post-globalisation | FT Film 

It's a 44 minute video that does not gloss over the cozy relationship between corporate American and it's government. I was rather impressed.

You can’t blame the USDA. You have to look at who was the Executive (aka President) in charge when these policies were implemented.

I’m a firm believer that the Great Depression was designed to bankrupt the family farmers. It’s been down hill since.

Check Ecosia videos as well on the topic

It is finally happening ✌️

Well thanks to the internet, youtube, people are finally getting "clued in", sure wasn't "public school" that got us here.

hundreds of millions around the world have been saying it since the rise of capitalism.

There's no going back to that without collapse.

@@theuglykwan why?

That just doesn't work. Climate and soil quality is king, and not even close to everyone even HAVE backyards. There's a reason why *Italy* has it. Everyone trying to provide for themselves also causes food insecurity when it disincentives larger scale production that can better cope with crises like natural disasters, bad crop yield years, and plant diseases.

@@Hjernespreng You totally don't get it. Italian back yard refers to Toronto. growing your own is to decentralize. same as Solar, wind, geo etc...

I"m one of the people that doesn't even HAVE a yard - like so many Canadian urban residents. The Government has systematically funnelled people into easily controllable and profitable (for the overlords) cities - and sytematically cut Canadians off from life in the hinterland. Almost everything outside the 'urban containment boundary' is either corporate controlled farmland or 'Crown Land' leased to forestry and mining corporations. A captive population makes a great 'market' - they have to pay, and pay more, or starve.

Joel and Greg are doing much to demonstrate grass-fed/finished meat sustainability but don't forget Gabe Brown in SD. He is demonstrating how no-till grain farming is possible and profitable.

Yes, yes. There are a host of regenerative farmers and ranchers who use little to no inputs outside the farm gate, do not till, have diverse cover crops, create highly organic & carbon rich soil, and include grass-fed livestock for best benefits to soil. They run profitable, resilient operations. Understanding Ag is one great resource for info on regenerative farming in N. America.

@@Lavasalsa1 I was going to say exactly that! Gabe is a great inspiration. But we must also include urban farming.

I was thinking the same thing. Not a mention of regenerative agriculture in this video.

This myth needs to end. The amount of meat they produce per acre is laughable. It's really not hard to figure out, how many calories does an acre of grass produce...how many calories does an acre of corn produce. It's not even close, corn is way ahead, meaning less land. I think I saw a calculation on how many planets we would need to consume the current amount of beef using only grass fed and it was something like 4.5 earths.. It's all fancy marketing to get you to pay more.

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Trying for the same and much respect for your commitment over time. Local food equals local culture which equals Place and intracultural diversity.

@@hhwippedcream thank you

Most folks have directives from their lifeline

Hope you reach out to films gardening in the are. Ask about needs and preclusions. You rock!

The HOA's in America are wild I hope you survived them 🤣

Nice story 👌 👏 👍 😅

@@combatmedic91-b76 True story, got about 50 pepper plants and 30 tomato plants as starts right now to go out in the garden in a couple more months

​@@eagledice2008not everyone lives in an HOA.. it's something like 30% that do. Not to mention, most people have backyards where they can grow in even in an HOA.

Trying to avoid use of gas and chemicals …..

Compost and water collection. And sinking water into the land with rain garden or swales.

@Tim's & Liam's~ Koi, Reptiles, Turtles & Fishies pneumonia?

Or as much of it as you can do - not everyone has a property big enough for it all. Even city people can grow a few boxes of salad.

I agree that the trick consists of people, more specifically consumer behavior. Where and how they spend their money is important to sustain healthy farms. As important as being politically engaged in politics at all levels. It’s amazing what happens at the local level.

The production of solar panels also uses a lot of resources that are harmful Adapting your gardens to your climate and conditions can help

There is a big disconnect if you can't grow simple stuff in your back yard and if local farmers can't go to local farmers markets and also sell their meats...

It isn't deregulation, it is big government regulation that makes it illegal or financially impossible to grow ones own food and sell the public.

@@CM-sy3to Dead wrong. Deregulation was the goal of globalization, i.e. if you can't deregulate your current environment, move it offshore. Unless you're talking about HOA not letting people grow a garden, there are very few US government regulations preventing people from growing a garden and selling it at farmers markets. I go to a farmers market evry weekend and see plenty of hard working small farmers, maybe put down the joint, turn off Joe Rogan, and get your hands dirty.

Great comment, thanks for the critiques. And yeah. Leaving the whole diversity of the ecosystem intact is the only way to sustain the ecosystem at the end of the day and technology should just support that, there isn't a substitute for that. Seems like that would be obvious. What are we trying to sustain other than the ecosystems themselves?

The problem is inevitable as long as capitalism is allowed to be our ideology. Many people have always understood this issue intuitively, the problem is the millions the billionaires spend trying to divert our attention. That's what MAGA, and all reactionary fascist movements are born from is the need for Capital to defend itself as the inevitable collapse and uprising forms from the nature of contradictions and exploitation in a capitalist system. Neo-liberals like to pretend there isn't a coherent definition of fascism, because it indicts capital, but the socialist movement has always known what it is. It consolidates power behind a strong man that serves corporate interest through the romanticizing of nationalism and cultural myths. It serves to shift the alienation and anger away from capital and corporations and onto internal and external scapegoats so they can consolidate power to "fight" the enemy and under that excuse they destroy and pillage wealth from one place or people to give it to the loyal and consolidate power. That destruction allows for a synthetic new opportunity for "growth" for the loyal to stave off the contradiction of infinite growth in a finite environment. That's why socialism and fascism are permanent and clear enemies. They are both reactions to the breakdown of capitalism at it's inevitable end. One indicts capitalism and advocates for evolving beyond commodified production owned by a few to community production owned by the workers and community. The other exists only to destroy that idea by any means and maintain control of the people through control of production and the extraction of wealth created by the workers. The problem we have in this country is they have succeeded in destroying the collective memory of our society for alternatives in socialist ideas, and completely indoctrinated every person and our media to assume capitalism as the norm and defend it without knowledge or critique. And they will kill as many of as as they need to to make sure it stays that way as they have in the past.

Stop selling the food to the large companies and only grow enough of certain foods to support the area you grow in. Choose of who you support with your produce Thank you for feeding our future 💖

Exactly. People are in for a shock when oil runs out and that leads to production costs increasing. The times we live in rely heavily on hydrocarbons being unlocked. I'm in the UK, some food is ridiculously cheap.

@@Youcanttouchmyhandle you think it’s that easy when it not . If a farmer sign a contract with corporate it’s usually a long term which those farmers grandfather sign . If they try to break that contract the corporation will take their land or freeze its money .

@@Youcanttouchmyhandle Did you even watch the video?

@@bigzclipz5104 thank you for sharing this information 💐

I was wondering that also. No mention of Regenerative agriculture either.

@New Tunes For Old Logos Mark Shepard has proven that scale works. Also, the Financial Times did a piece on the stupid vertical farming which doesn't come close to the output of New Forest Farm.

@New Tunes For Old Logos no problem!

@New Tunes For Old Logos in his book he outlines how he produces more calories per acre than conventional farming. He produces one tenth the output of any one crop but he's growing like 20 different crops at once.

@New Tunes For Old Logos the book is really good, especially if you do any sort of gardening pr farming on your own. It inspired me to buy some land and plant some tree

This. Spot on.

Agree…couldn’t have said it better.

I say cut off the rogue nations until they're ready to play nice, as it were.

look like some kind of systematic genocide of small farmers probably trying to put them into extinction. scary though.

Why would people work collectively together? We don't have a homogeneous or cohesive society anymore. 60 years of leftism and neoliberalism has destroyed that.

I can appreciate where your at, but a pure, clean farm is an ecosystem, and ecosystems are a combination of many species of plants, animals and insects, mostly kept in tact by ruminates.

@@LtColDaddy71 but don't forget that on a truly diverse farm there is way less need for ruminants. When the soil becomes healthy from years of regenerative ag techniques, and proper care is taken not to turn over the soil, keeping cover crops all year round in the soil, using a machine to cute the crops, using worms to increase the biodiversity of the soil, you don't need so many ruminants as we have today.

@@mayap6055 mechanically terminating / mowing when you can have animals do it for you, and fertilize by upping the value of the green manure in their rumens doesn’t seem right to me. One thing we need is diversity of ruminants. Super heavies in very small numbers, and many many lightweights that will marble up better on grass. Close the feedlots, keep them on grass. Also, why is the US rejecting sheep / lamb. Goat, it’s really good as well.

@@LtColDaddy71 Ruminants have nothing to do with the 'definition' of a clean farm or an ecosystem for that matter. That's just your own personal opinion, but it is not inherently true. Not by a long shot. Although such animals might serve a measure of usefulness, they are not intrinsic to a productive, sustainable food production system.

Agree

Ha right. We grow vegetables here in florida but pay the same price like someone in canada. 🤷🏻‍♀️ What gives? World trade agreements?

So, cause mass starvation in the developing world?

@@gregorymalchuk272 We don't cause starvation in other places, they cause their own due to bad farming methods or over grazing. We have been helping people around the world by giving them food. But To really help fix their problem is to help them farm, and regenerate their forest and irrigation systems. This is the real fix. So later, they provide their own food by farming on their own land.

I would blame myself if I heard of an opportunity like this and let it go to waste, please am interested how can I do business with him

It is possible that some of these points of yours will be addressed in the remaining episodes. I hope. BTW, your last point is true in nearly all aspect of business, not just agriculture.

Finally someone points it out.

There is definitely more potential for an immediate return on investment by utilizing all of the places a grass monoculture is considered mandatory and turning them into food-producing spaces.

“We the people” are divided and conquered

@@higherintellect Not yet👍

lol what? CAFO's just concentrate the living space of livestock, if you gave the animals more space, they would still need the same amount of food, so you wouldn't be taking any land out of production. The ONLY solution is to eat less meat and mostly beef. It's not palatable to the masses yet but that is the message. German people are starting to understand at least, meat consumption has fallen drastically.

@@jackson8085 I agree, eat less meat. The reason why western diet is so full of meat is because it's CHEAP, because governments subsidize it, and the CAFOs are supplying it. So run the program as I laid out - what happens when you remove CAFOs? You eat less meat, since it will be less affordable to eat pasture raised only.

If we redirected all agricultural subsidies away from corn and soy and into local food sheds, we would see a huge realignment of the American diet. We would produce and consume less meat (but not no meat), we would see the absolute collapse of CAFOs, increased soil health, water cycle revitalization, and more community cooperation. This is my someday dream.

@@cameronshaw599 It has to happen, we have to let the current system to collapse and offer solutions. It starts with growing your own food and saving seeds so we are less dependent on the system. Technology won't save us IMHO, so waiting for the Bill Gates' of the world is a dangerous game of chicken.