Understanding Regenerative Farming Principles

with me as I build this small farm this cattle operation which will soon expand to Pork which will soon expand to lamb which will soon expand to many other things eggs meat bird chickens all sorts of stuff guys there's a lot of work to get done here on the farm always today's video is all about cattle and profit so a couple weeks back I did a little bit of a video about running out of hay and we're here in March in 2024 and I was running low on Hay I have about 85 Acres fenced here I've got about 150 total acres here on the farm and 85 Acres fenced with not so good of grass we have very poor grass we have very poor soil but all of that is improving it's improving year after year after year this is a regenerative Farm meaning we think regeneratively we think holistically we think about soil versus green grass in other words we're not spraying chemicals out on our land that are not natural we aren't putting unnatural fertilizers out here on the land meaning petroleum based chemical regular fertilizers like 101010 or triple 17 or whatever it is that most Farmers or ranchers are putting out on their land so that their grass greens up and Pops what we're doing is thinking in a 100-year plan here on the Stony Ridge Farm and a 100-year plan and I'll be long gone trust me is to grow soil soil is the basis for everything in a country in other words soil is the basis for Success soil is the basis for life soil is the basis for every single thing that makes a country whole that makes a country a successful place to live look at places like the deserts in Ethiopia where people are starving to death quote unquote what's wrong the soil is bad what's wrong why is the soil bad has it been overfarmed is it desertification what is it that's what we're avoiding here on the Stony Ridge Farm low input when it comes to chemicals when it comes to fertilizers high input when it comes to carbon and microbes and growing our soil so I want to start this conversation by talking to you about that because I get picked on a lot why aren't you cutting your own hay I'm not cutting my own hay because I don't want to have $120,000 worth of infrastructure out here in order to buy $88,000 worth of hay every year it just doesn't seem to make any sense when I can bring carbon to the land instead of putting chemical fertilizer out here watching the grass turn green and March April and May and by July it's back to a desert again that's not what we're about we're about holistic land care and the…