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northerngrazer
Posted 1/30/2023 11:38 (#10068338 - in reply to #10068287)
Subject: RE: Our start to bale grazing


MB, Canada
dieselfume1 - 1/29/2023 23:13

I am not taking issue with any of your input advice to soil, health or bale grazing, I think you have a lot of good points. My issue is basically you feel that many in regenerative agriculture are basically a bunch of vultures that take nutrients from their poor neighbors ground and putting it on theirs. , You feel sorry for the rancher or farmer who won’t go out of his own way to improve his life and educate himself on what he could be doing better, and put the blame on those who know exactly what they want and go out and get it. I know of people who went out and sold two or three cows just so they could have enough money to go to the school, slept in their car all week and ate at McDonald’s because that’s all they could afford. In my mind, there is no excuse not to get the schooling, and it is definitely not the fault of those who have taken the initiative to already do so .

Some people have to be completely bankrupt before they are willing to be open to change. That is not the fault of those who are willing to open their eyes before the trainwreck and change course.


I think you're still missing my point. What I'm saying is that it's short-sighted to put your neighbour out of business by undervaluing their hay because very soon they will no longer be able to sell you hay. And you'd better hope you can find someone else, and I don't think running a business that's profit model is based on a subsidy of others' stupidity is a good model. It's certainly not a regenerative model. Rebuilding our soils and communities is not a zero-sum game, and until we get on board with that idea regenerative ag isn't going to have much meaningful impact. The 'I want everything right now' approach to capitalism is what got us in this mess, and I'm pretty sure it's not going to get us out. That's not to say we shouldn't be profit-driven, as we need to be profitable to stay in this game long enough to have an impact, but I'm saying that, just as we have to play the long game with our soils, let's look at how we can be most profitable over 20 years, not 2.
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