Pasture Cropping with Colin Seis: One of the only sustainable ways to grow grains

Colin Seis shares with us the history of pasture cropping, a method for growing grains in pastures and integrate them with sheep grazing and grass seed production.

[MistressOP]

farming isn't a meritocracy but damn I wish it was. I've run into so many super-smart farm managers and farm directors who didn't come from money or land. But they are smart and not able to try things like this or anything sometimes except doing it the same way the landowner wants. so much under farmed land.

[Faithfulsheperd]

Applying this knowledge to my homestead its 2 acres
I understand the principles
I'm in similar climat in arizona
I'm curious about the machine needed to seed and harvest

[MistressOP]

native Americans and natives in his country were pasture cropping. they took the tops of selective seed plants. planted them as well. they weren't soil turners. they used fire yes but mostly they were planting in a no-till style system. the original three sisters had nothing to do with plowing.

[theonlyjamiebourgeois]

43:12 is it a machine that separates the grains? I assume they're harvested together, then something separates them? Is he saying it's possible to grow different grains intermixed, harvest it all at once, and then have a machine easily and effective separate them?

[theonlyjamiebourgeois]

40:05 is that machine (it's attachment) in the background what so is the seeds into the soil? If not, what is it, and what is it used for?

[naseboeg]

i cant find the source to the elise wendel paper about insect population

[smartsoil]

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[Nightowl]

Dave Brandt's farm is in Ohio, not Iowa.

[theonlyjamiebourgeois]

42:35 do humans eat any of what is grown?