A lot of you don't know this, but you need to spread the word.
The new health guy in the Trump administration, RFK Jr knows this, and he wants to push this, so really it's up to us if we want to push this over the finish line.
We were lied to about the chemical products we used on our farms for the past century, or more like 80 years.
This includes fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, fungicides, vaccines, antibiotics, etc...
We were told that these things would make more healthy farm products and make farmers more productive.
It was all a lie. A big fat stinking honking lie. None of these things were ever necessary. Our ancestors knew a hell of a lot about how to actually farm without any of these chemicals and the food they made was objectively better for us.
The "new system", or rather, the "old system we are rediscovering" is called "Regenerative Agriculture". The key element of the system is to regenerate the SOIL by making it healthy again, full of life including bacteria, fungi, and insects.
Healthy soil isn't the "most productive" soil. You will grow taller stalks and fatter ears of corn on ground you poisoned with "fertilizer".
However, healthy soil liberates ALL of the essential nutrients a plant needs to grow, and does so in a way that the plant itself becomes incredibly healthy.
Healthy plants are immune to disease and insects.
Healthy plants mean healthy humans, as the plants have more of the nutrients we need and not so much of the nutrients we don't need (like sugars.)
Healthy forage makes healthy animals that don't need antibiotics and dewormer and such.
Healthy animals make healthy meat, again, food that makes us healthy.
We are starting to develop the hard evidence that all of this is true. There is already a significant body of evidence that this stuff actually works. People have been doing this for nearly 60 years now, with proven repeatable results. They can take literal DESERT and turn it into grasslands using regenerative techniques. People are recording INCREASED RAINFALL over their regenerative farmlands! It literally is making it rain!
Bonus points: The secret is CATTLE and SHEEP. We need to be raising far more meat and far less corn and soy in this country to obtain the healthy balance. You diet should be mostly meat, not grains anyway.
Bonus bonus points: The literal "inputs" to the meat is sunshine and raindrops. Of course the farmer has to put in intelligent labor. But meat produced regeneratively is as cheap as meat can possibly be. So not only will you be "forced" to eat more meat, but the meat will be much cheaper.
Bonus bonus bonus points: This technique does not work at an industrial scale. You cannot buy a million acres and hire a few interns and make this work. It requires INTELLIGENT farming. That means lots and lots of farmers learning and developing their skills on smaller, family-owned farms. It requires farmers pay close attention to THEIR land and THEIR situation and study it. So family farms is the only way to make it scale. That means we need to send more FAMILIES to farm, break up the big chunks of land owned by big ag tech, and make it available for young farmers (who can do this better than old guys can anyway.)
Bonus bonus bonus bonus points: And to make things even more amazing, this technique literally creates soil. Inches and even feet of it every year. Hearty, healthy, beautiful soil. Meaning, guys who know what they are doing can go to "useless" acreage and convert it into productive pasture in a matter of years. If that pasture is managed right, in a few more years you can plant corn or whatever grains. Meaning, "useless" land can be made into productive farmland.
I've been doing this stuff for 5 years now. I cannot tell you the miraculous change that has happened to my pasture, even though 4 of those 5 years were drought, one of them being the worst drought our area has seen in recorded history (150 years). Regenerative soil captures rainfall and makes it available during drought. I had grass growing when everyone else was dead. I went from knowing next to nothing about agriculture to growing way more grass than my neighbors, and they've been following the lies the industry has told them about chemicals!
The new health guy in the Trump administration, RFK Jr knows this, and he wants to push this, so really it's up to us if we want to push this over the finish line.
We were lied to about the chemical products we used on our farms for the past century, or more like 80 years.
This includes fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, fungicides, vaccines, antibiotics, etc...
We were told that these things would make more healthy farm products and make farmers more productive.
It was all a lie. A big fat stinking honking lie. None of these things were ever necessary. Our ancestors knew a hell of a lot about how to actually farm without any of these chemicals and the food they made was objectively better for us.
The "new system", or rather, the "old system we are rediscovering" is called "Regenerative Agriculture". The key element of the system is to regenerate the SOIL by making it healthy again, full of life including bacteria, fungi, and insects.
Healthy soil isn't the "most productive" soil. You will grow taller stalks and fatter ears of corn on ground you poisoned with "fertilizer".
However, healthy soil liberates ALL of the essential nutrients a plant needs to grow, and does so in a way that the plant itself becomes incredibly healthy.
Healthy plants are immune to disease and insects.
Healthy plants mean healthy humans, as the plants have more of the nutrients we need and not so much of the nutrients we don't need (like sugars.)
Healthy forage makes healthy animals that don't need antibiotics and dewormer and such.
Healthy animals make healthy meat, again, food that makes us healthy.
We are starting to develop the hard evidence that all of this is true. There is already a significant body of evidence that this stuff actually works. People have been doing this for nearly 60 years now, with proven repeatable results. They can take literal DESERT and turn it into grasslands using regenerative techniques. People are recording INCREASED RAINFALL over their regenerative farmlands! It literally is making it rain!
Bonus points: The secret is CATTLE and SHEEP. We need to be raising far more meat and far less corn and soy in this country to obtain the healthy balance. You diet should be mostly meat, not grains anyway.
Bonus bonus points: The literal "inputs" to the meat is sunshine and raindrops. Of course the farmer has to put in intelligent labor. But meat produced regeneratively is as cheap as meat can possibly be. So not only will you be "forced" to eat more meat, but the meat will be much cheaper.
Bonus bonus bonus points: This technique does not work at an industrial scale. You cannot buy a million acres and hire a few interns and make this work. It requires INTELLIGENT farming. That means lots and lots of farmers learning and developing their skills on smaller, family-owned farms. It requires farmers pay close attention to THEIR land and THEIR situation and study it. So family farms is the only way to make it scale. That means we need to send more FAMILIES to farm, break up the big chunks of land owned by big ag tech, and make it available for young farmers (who can do this better than old guys can anyway.)
Bonus bonus bonus bonus points: And to make things even more amazing, this technique literally creates soil. Inches and even feet of it every year. Hearty, healthy, beautiful soil. Meaning, guys who know what they are doing can go to "useless" acreage and convert it into productive pasture in a matter of years. If that pasture is managed right, in a few more years you can plant corn or whatever grains. Meaning, "useless" land can be made into productive farmland.
I've been doing this stuff for 5 years now. I cannot tell you the miraculous change that has happened to my pasture, even though 4 of those 5 years were drought, one of them being the worst drought our area has seen in recorded history (150 years). Regenerative soil captures rainfall and makes it available during drought. I had grass growing when everyone else was dead. I went from knowing next to nothing about agriculture to growing way more grass than my neighbors, and they've been following the lies the industry has told them about chemicals!