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If I spend many hours reading on the web, my eyes need a break so I watch videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHzA9w0b7io

Grasslands, Livestock & Hope with Allan Savory (1:49 long)

Allan Savory is from South Africa and has a different theory about climate change. Basically that for thousands of years, bad agricultural practices have caused desertification and as he put it, he walks barefoot on his property but can’t walk in the desert part of it without burning his feet but as soon as he walks into a shaded area or where there’s something growing, he can feel the coolness under his feet. Deserts are hot, plain and simple and growing in size all over the world.

The middle east was lush thousands of years ago. Beijing gets dumped with tons of sand every day due to them having created deserts with bad ag practices. Mr Savory has turned desert back to grasslands in Africa and tutored others to do the same in other places. His method? Animals, lots of them and the bigger the better. There is a seed bank even in desert sands and the animals stir them up, plus add manure.

The video is long but worth watching imho. It gave me some ideas that will save me a lot more time than that on my property and allow me to build soil instead of losing soil.

Here’s a little shorter video from Greg Judy of Missouri on how he became more profitable while working less using some of Allan’s techniques. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPmYlRMuXo8

Never mow and never burn. He quit using Ivermec years ago. He doesn’t plant seed. He doesn’t use hay rings. He always unrolls round bales. Instead of the cattle standing in one spot in their own manure, they keep moving. A large area will get seeded by unrolling. A layer of biomass is added and the ground or soil is covered.

The only thing he uses a tractor for now is to plow the snow off to unroll round bales of hay in winter. They use 4 wheelers for everything else and since they’re lighter, there’s less soil compaction Many years, the cows can still eat what’s growing out of the ground and he mostly uses hay for seeding and increasing the variety of grasses, forbes etc.