Pasture Cropping - Profitable Regenerative Agriculture

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Published 2013-08-18

Guest speaker and farmer Colin Seis, shares his story of profitable pasture cropping. An extraordinary tale of starting from scratch after a bush fire devoured everything he and his predecessors had worked for, and how using minimal to no input of fertilisers and chemicals he has created a profitable farming enterprise.

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@Jefferdaughter 10 years ago

Thank you for making this material available! (Note to people videoing presentations: please spend more time on the slides and less focused on the person.) A few things stood out: - Australia once had exceptionally fertile soils! - The high relative cost of 'the best' farm equipment today compared to the 1930s-1950s. - Superphosphate was only cheap because of government subsidy. - The 'old timers' were right: in the long run, the superphosphate DID ruin the land. - Industrial agriculture is crashing all over the WORLD - but is still being promoted by governments and agri-industry companies as 'the only way to feed the world'. Sigh. By working WITH the natural world, the crash can not only be halted, but reversed! It is simply logical (eco-logical!). A brilliant man. Thank you, Colin Seis.
@Jefferdaughter 10 years ago

Quotable quote: "We try to grow things that want to die, and kill things that want to live. That is pretty much how (industrial) agriculture functions." Colin Seis Well said!
@redddbaron 9 years ago

The Moron (More on) principle! :D I laughed so hard!
@Jefferdaughter 10 years ago

Some people in the USA are planting cash crops (small grains, primarily) into cover crops with good success, but instead of grazing them down - and getting the benefits of another income source via the livestock, plus the biological stimulation from the saliva, grazing action, hoof action, urine and manure - they are using machinery to crimp and lay down the cover crop. Better than plowing or dosing everything with poison herbicides, but... a long way down in efficiency and benefits from what Colin Seis does.
@gregorymayo3465 1 year ago

We have to put carbin into the ground! I will try it in ever piece of ground I own,!
@1voluntaryist 6 years ago

For the whole picture read: "The Natural Way of Farming: The theory and practice of green philosophy" by Masanobu Fukuoka
@JardinsMariza 4 years ago

The pasture cropping part starts at 28 minutes....
@itsmeagain7246 8 years ago

is there any way to do that in europe? you apparantly need dry summers for that.
@rickywilliams3675 4 years ago

The material is good,but poor videoing. Please ,next time ,focus on the slides and not the presenter.