Oh, boy. We could sit down over coffee and never run out of things to talk about Cory. I have so many theories and ideas tumbling around in my addled brain, to try and put it out on the web is a challenge.
It was a very good video. I agree with most of what was covered.
My hesitation is that there is too much us vs them in this movement. We get an idea that there is only one "right" solution. Feedlots are evil, large scale farming is evil, grocery stores are evil....on and on. The advertising I see from the Organic industry is the same as from the conventional industry. A lot of it is blue sky.
Having said that, I am fully on board with the movement!
The perennial cereal grains is not a new idea. A variety was developed years and years ago, and it worked. That variety was bought, and destroyed. It did not fit the "model" of expensive inputs. At the end of the day, no one is lower on the food chain than the producer. It is an upside down pyramid.
The buffalo thing is contentious with me as well. Comparing range buffalo with feed lot beef is not a direct comparison. apples to oranges. Beef, chickens, pork, lamb, nearly every protein can be raised like the buffalo in the film.
There is no difference between grass fat cattle and grass fat buffalo. Gabe Brown has proven this. His cattle dont get babied in the winter, but by the same token, buffalo were not year round residents in Norther ND and Northern MT.
To maintain a sustainable model, there needs to be some input in the winter time. Thats what we are trying to accomplish with cover crops. We will produce crops and protein on the same land.
Nothing wrong at all with buffalo, but cattle operations can use the same techniques and still be "one with Nature".
I really like the fishing deal. In fact, I believe that there need to be more people involved in food. Where one boat can do the work of the entire fleet of the other guy's operation, well, I dont like that. Bigger and bigger farms, bigger and bigger operations.
We need more jobs, more labor, more profit and less enviromental impact.
Keep the torch burning Cory, as producers we cant make these changes without the consumer. If you wont pay for it, wont buy it, and wont support the changes that need to be made, we cant survive.
I could go on and on.....
