Regenerative Agriculture

[melted welly]

A combine in Europe could start harvest in Spain and work its way north. Eventually ending up in Shetland
@scholland s.

@melted welly s grandfather ran combines from South of England north to maximise workload.

Yes! started in Dorset finished up near Inverness. Don’t think they worried too much about blackgrass back then either.

 

[hendrebc]

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/what-lies-beneath-bangor-university-15939629
Interesting

 

[jonnyjon]

Yes - I believed it happened around 1965 in other parts of the world the realisation that the new methods were completely unsustainable and causing massive degradation and loss of the topsoil resource.

I think in our parts of the world, where you don't "see the dust" it is easier to pretend that it isn't being lost?
(We are pretty "green" here but the water leaving the farm is cleaner than the water flowing in from the neighbours - it really isn't difficult at all.)

In the next few years you will observe a massive massive change to agriculture, in a rush to make up for lost time... exciting times for some, but many will go down with the ship.

Agree, those that refuse to change, and there are many, will crash and burn

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Agree, those that refuse to change, and there are many, will crash and burn

Paying too much for stuff to produce too much stuff that isn't worth much - it will end

As the saying goes people think of all that they'll lose, but if you don't spend money then you don't have to make it back

I just like making lots of money, hence we don't have much kit and what we do have is going.

We're putting in a technograzing system because I believe it'll be an awesome tool for us, and mean more profit for less work.

 

[Simon C]

I'm pretty sure he is on here but I can't remember his name to tag him in if anyone wanted to ask some questions

Thought I could feel my ears burning

 

[hendrebc]

Thought I could feel my ears burning

I could have guessed that name
Yave you got any plans to reintroduce livestock? What about roundup? Any ways around relying on that?

 

[Simon C]

I could have guessed that name
Yave you got any plans to reintroduce livestock? What about roundup? Any ways around relying on that?

My mission is to do it without livestock, simply because I am a one man band and don't want the extra work at my age; and I am not on a big enough scale to create enough income to pay someone else to help. I do use someone else's livestock, I suppose in the form of imported horse muck, but it is quite low volume and I see it as just a food source for biological multiplication.

Can't see any way of reliably doing it without glyphosate, but I would only ever use it outside of growing crops and am trialing ways to get it broken down quickly so it doesn't end up back in my crops and surface water. I have tests to show glyphosate in field drain water 6 months after application, so it is not being neutralised like they claim, if it is in the soil water then it is getting back into crop plants, which is not good. I want to be able to guarantee to my customers that there are no glyphosate residues in the food I produce and so they should be happy for me to carry on using it.

 

[Sheila Cooke]

Here's a 13-minute ABC news video that just came out from the Savory Network hub in Australia.

https://www.abc.net.au/landline/back-to-nature:-making-money-while-restoring-the/11126866

Tony Hill talks about Ecological Outcome Verification and how we can use it to assess our land.

I would like to invite you to a webinar coming up on the 28th of May on the topic of Ecological Outcome Verification. Please attend and invite your friends. We have two Land to Market partners in the UK who will be with us on the webinar, one for meat, the other for wool.

https://www.3lm.network/store/WEBINAR-Be-in-Demand-From-Brands-That-Care-p138166971

 

[Sheila Cooke]

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Live Demo: Designing Trees to Fit the Landscape with Darren Doherty
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