Brad Goes Ranching in Texas It's Alive: Goin' Places
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Date: 2019-10-25
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Megan Haas
This has some good info and I am all for using pastureland to bring back prairie ecosystems There was some misinformation thoughFor example, grain and other concentrates don't kill the rumen microbes or make ruminants sick. I'm actually not sure where that idea even came from? Potentially they were thinking about the risk of rumen acidosis, but it's pretty easy to avoid that by introducing concentrates slowly. Actually if those bison are eating a lot of high protein forages (like legume hays such as alfalfa, concentrates can actually reduce the risk of ammonia toxicity. Likewise, feeding concentrates (along with forage of course) can actually be better for the environment It means more efficient growth (so less resources and land needed to devote to the same level of production) and also less methane production (as it causes the rumen microbes to make energy more efficiently too. And while I will agree that we need to reevaluate antimicrobial usage in agriculture - excessive antibiotic use has nothing to do with producers feeding their ruminants grains.
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This has some good info and I am all for using pastureland to bring back prairie ecosystems There was some misinformation thoughFor example, grain and other concentrates don't kill the rumen microbes or make ruminants sick. I'm actually not sure where that idea even came from? Potentially they were thinking about the risk of rumen acidosis, but it's pretty easy to avoid that by introducing concentrates slowly. Actually if those bison are eating a lot of high protein forages (like legume hays such as alfalfa, concentrates can actually reduce the risk of ammonia toxicity. Likewise, feeding concentrates (along with forage of course) can actually be better for the environment It means more efficient growth (so less resources and land needed to devote to the same level of production) and also less methane production (as it causes the rumen microbes to make energy more efficiently too. And while I will agree that we need to reevaluate antimicrobial usage in agriculture - excessive antibiotic use has nothing to do with producers feeding their ruminants grains.
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mrTabascohot
Humans needed to support it's growing population. So they did just that. It's easier to say things were better hundreds of years ago and you ignore the population growth. Now we know better but we can't keep up with the population growth. People complain about the USA and other countries but ignore the largest polluters. Like China, India and many South American countries like Brazil that dump trash into the ocean and pollute the air like it's fashionable.
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Humans needed to support it's growing population. So they did just that. It's easier to say things were better hundreds of years ago and you ignore the population growth. Now we know better but we can't keep up with the population growth. People complain about the USA and other countries but ignore the largest polluters. Like China, India and many South American countries like Brazil that dump trash into the ocean and pollute the air like it's fashionable.
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trijigon
The animals need antibiotics because of their living conditions. not diets. you have 1000 cows being locked up in a shack big enough for 50 cows and living in their own waste, dont be surprised they get sick. add to that treating all the cows preventively with antibiotics is cheaper than dealing with sick cows. Efficiency is not always moral.
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The animals need antibiotics because of their living conditions. not diets. you have 1000 cows being locked up in a shack big enough for 50 cows and living in their own waste, dont be surprised they get sick. add to that treating all the cows preventively with antibiotics is cheaper than dealing with sick cows. Efficiency is not always moral.
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Sounds
I understand the importance of regenerative land management and more ecological approaches to farming, but is it really possible for this kind of agriculture to overtake the commercial farming industry? I feel like our industry is too far gone and too commercialized to actually make the switch because it'll hurt company's bottom lines.
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I understand the importance of regenerative land management and more ecological approaches to farming, but is it really possible for this kind of agriculture to overtake the commercial farming industry? I feel like our industry is too far gone and too commercialized to actually make the switch because it'll hurt company's bottom lines.
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Johey Jonsson
Here in Sweden we're talking about the loss of traditional grace lands and how that impacts the eco systems. It's estimated that you can find 40 different species of insects, bees, butterflies, and plants for ever square meter of traditional grace lands, and all of those species are rapidly declining due to industrial farming.
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Here in Sweden we're talking about the loss of traditional grace lands and how that impacts the eco systems. It's estimated that you can find 40 different species of insects, bees, butterflies, and plants for ever square meter of traditional grace lands, and all of those species are rapidly declining due to industrial farming.
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Laura J.
Every time I see/hear examples of people changing how they do things in order for it to be healthier for humans, animals, and the environment, I feel my eyes begin to water and my heart swell (in a good loving way; ). Thank you to all who are making the world a better place. May the number of people like you on this planet climb.
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Every time I see/hear examples of people changing how they do things in order for it to be healthier for humans, animals, and the environment, I feel my eyes begin to water and my heart swell (in a good loving way; ). Thank you to all who are making the world a better place. May the number of people like you on this planet climb.
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Brett S
I can't speak to all the science behind the (at least somewhat) dubious claims that that rancher made, but saying that bringing the animals in to pull carbon out of the air and then put it in the soil is 100 % false. Animals aren't plants. We/they don't intake carbon from the air.
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I can't speak to all the science behind the (at least somewhat) dubious claims that that rancher made, but saying that bringing the animals in to pull carbon out of the air and then put it in the soil is 100 % false. Animals aren't plants. We/they don't intake carbon from the air.
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Andrea Mika De Ubago
Super appreciate how you guys shed light on important global matters that I think not a lot of people with your platform do. Thank you for this episode, you not only showed us that learning can be fun and quirky but also the respect for the whole process More power
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Super appreciate how you guys shed light on important global matters that I think not a lot of people with your platform do. Thank you for this episode, you not only showed us that learning can be fun and quirky but also the respect for the whole process More power
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D Joseph
Thank god we have ranchers like this. I sincerely hope the rest of the agricultural/livestock industry can follow suit. It's not an exaggeration to say that if we don't then we have no future on this planet. Or at least a very destitute one.
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Thank god we have ranchers like this. I sincerely hope the rest of the agricultural/livestock industry can follow suit. It's not an exaggeration to say that if we don't then we have no future on this planet. Or at least a very destitute one.
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Tim
I began my college career in environmental studies and these men are talking about the same concepts in terms of recovering nutrient rich soils and contributing to healthy ecosystems. My point is that this is a surprisingly informative series
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I began my college career in environmental studies and these men are talking about the same concepts in terms of recovering nutrient rich soils and contributing to healthy ecosystems. My point is that this is a surprisingly informative series
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