I was curious about that, too. Especially why they house their cows inside during the winter.
Here are similar videos regarding cows and farming. One guy, Joel Salatin, has a farm in Virginia. I think he probably leaves his cows outside...and doesn't use woodchips. He rotates his cows daily. The other guy, Bobby Gill, is from somew…
I was curious about that, too. Especially why they house their cows inside during the winter.
Here are similar videos regarding cows and farming. One guy, Joel Salatin, has a farm in Virginia. I think he probably leaves his cows outside...and doesn't use woodchips. He rotates his cows daily. The other guy, Bobby Gill, is from somewhere in the States. Each video is only 17 minutes long. TEDx Talks is the name of the website that has several of Joel's videos about what he does. The idea, Judith, is to get livestock off of feedlots and in a more natural setting.
Watched Salatin's talk - and that type of farming works great in the East or would work BETTER in the East. The second video is the Savory method - which was attempted years ago in, I believe, Africa & wasnt all that successful - they now call it regeneration, so maybe its been improved upon. Right now in the arid drought-filled West? The insistence of the livestock lobby of turning out cattle & sheep in areas that no longer can accommodate them - killing off the natural predators that exist in nature for a reason. The Western states only produce 3% of the beef consumed here. Three percent - but to hear the livestock lobby - you would assume that to stop using our public lands & forests AND National Parks AND Wildlife Refuges for grazing livestock - it would just be the ruination of millions! Not so.
OK, Lynell - done "ranting"!!
I do think the more people, the more research, the more experimenting as to what works? This is a good thing.
Forgot something! I hope there is interest here & elsewhere in the Point Reyes National Seashore issue. Another example of putting livestock operator's interests above native wildlife at a National Seashore!
I was curious about that, too. Especially why they house their cows inside during the winter.
Here are similar videos regarding cows and farming. One guy, Joel Salatin, has a farm in Virginia. I think he probably leaves his cows outside...and doesn't use woodchips. He rotates his cows daily. The other guy, Bobby Gill, is from somewhere in the States. Each video is only 17 minutes long. TEDx Talks is the name of the website that has several of Joel's videos about what he does. The idea, Judith, is to get livestock off of feedlots and in a more natural setting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z75A_JMBx4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKXgVK0TQ1A
Watched Salatin's talk - and that type of farming works great in the East or would work BETTER in the East. The second video is the Savory method - which was attempted years ago in, I believe, Africa & wasnt all that successful - they now call it regeneration, so maybe its been improved upon. Right now in the arid drought-filled West? The insistence of the livestock lobby of turning out cattle & sheep in areas that no longer can accommodate them - killing off the natural predators that exist in nature for a reason. The Western states only produce 3% of the beef consumed here. Three percent - but to hear the livestock lobby - you would assume that to stop using our public lands & forests AND National Parks AND Wildlife Refuges for grazing livestock - it would just be the ruination of millions! Not so.
OK, Lynell - done "ranting"!!
I do think the more people, the more research, the more experimenting as to what works? This is a good thing.
Forgot something! I hope there is interest here & elsewhere in the Point Reyes National Seashore issue. Another example of putting livestock operator's interests above native wildlife at a National Seashore!
Thanks, Maggie, for your expertise. I'm still hopeful that things can be changed for the better in regards to our food supply!