How microbes are the answer to healthy soil

i thought fungi is bad. Fortunately i haven't used any fungicide for my plants. Making soil healthy is not easy but it's possible. i'm so grateful to live in a town that the soil is fertile, weather is fine, the nature is great!

I moved to Idaho for 8 months i was across the street from a farm.
And wow the amount of water and pesticides used is insane.
My brand new paint job on my truck looked great for a bit ya now 8 months later my paint in spots are gone eaten away by the pesticides.
My I just say alfalfa isn't needed that bad corn and potatoes arnt needed that bad for God sakes grow native plants like not hard.
Oh ya none native worms are taking over the land we do have a native worm here but its critically endangered how why invasive worms native birds some are going endangered how worms eating all the leafs and ground nests so birds have nothing to use to make a home.

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Soil degraded? But the rich and big business have assured us for decades that we will starve if we don't pay them outrageous profits for so many chemicals they insist are necessary to prevent starvation in the USA. Now you say we were just paying to have our soil destroyed so most of us would starve? Maybe we have listened to the wrong people.

"insects... along with ... small animals". Because insects aren't small animals?

Unconditional right to stop our own life whenever we want for all adults, my body my choice.

It's not the devil that's in the details, it the mother.
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Im not gonna quote the bible but i do recall a part in the old testament of leaving the land fallow.

I know its not a money making idea. But crop rotating and leaving the land fallow can allow it to recharge the soil. Especially since silt flooding isn't something thats as commonplace as the olden days.

Super informative, thanks for this! I learned a lot

This video is great! I had no idea. Thank you for informing us!!

All awesome, but fungi are hardly microbes and fungi is the main factor here. Yes, bacteria also play their part. Calling fungi microbes is like calling a tractor an auto.

🦠🦠🦠❗ Best emoji ever! But as a microbiologist I'm a little bit biased!
Microbes! Running the planet 🌎 for 3.75 billion years at least! 🦠🦠🦠❗🥰👍❤️❗

We need to understand how delicate and useful these microbes are.

Ironically, BAYER as company is one of main reasons why soil and nutrition quality of plants is so low and other living animals is in this situation today.

If you tilt soil then you are a nub farmer. Even if you have been farming for 50 years - you know nothing at all... Like most farmers.

When I took over a garden that was neat and tidy and had been hit by chemicals for years I undertook a no chemical strategy. Yes, a few years later, there are more weeds and some areas look a little wild but the plants that were there and those we added are growing so much better. There are also worms in the soil again!

you fun fact seems really odd. I play volleyball on a Toronto beach, the soil... well it's pure sand. A few years in a row part of the beach was flooded, and now there's grass & young trees growing there. Maybe it's not a lot of topsoil, but there's definitely topsoil there, all in a matter of 3-4 years, so your 1000 year estimate seems waaaaaay off

Bayer created the problem and now they're selling the solution. Oh, the late capitalism...

Excellent reporting. Thank you so much for covering!

Natural farming the way Fukuoka approach is the way for all humanity..

Most importantly: Stop any conversion of natural landscapes into agricultural or urban areas.
Everything else is rather insignificant. If Bayer tells you they have some microbes you can spray on your field, this might be great for the farmer (at least it is great for Bayer, because they make money). It doesn't help the climate or anybody else, though. If anything, the farmer will harvest larger tomatoes. For the environment, soils should never ever be disturbed in the first place.
To claim soils could be restored and to offer some products that supposedly restore microbial communities is nothing but green washing. The soils that are most important to protect and that are most important for climate change are those which have not been ploughed within the last centuries. It's like when you say "save the bees". You're not talking about domestic honey bees. Reviving agricultural soils is nice when it comes to producing food but that's not to be confused with protecting or restoring natural ecosystems.

I'm surprised how you didn't talk about permaculture at all. 😕

Planting lots of trees will create fertile soil and microbes🌱
Planting trees 🌱🌳 . Save soil 🌱🌱🌱🌍🌱🌱🌱🌎🌱🌱🌱🌏🌱🌱🌱🌳🌳🌳

We need to care more about the soil

Save Soi. 👣 Jai Sadhguru 🙏

This is amazing! Let's Save Soil🌿🌍🌎🌏

"It takes a thousand years to create a few centimeters of topsoil." That's misleading because topsoil is created very quickly under trees and shrubs.

You have a great voice for narration, thanks for the info.

India already working on becoming organic farming country. Most of the bacteria culture fertilizers are being used.

Once you have heard "These are some of the only things on Earth that can do this" you know how low quality the film is - if the person had said "these are one of the few things" that would be vague but at least not meaningless.

And so what do pesticides do to all these wonderful organisms? They kill them. And you.

I recommend to you to have a look into palekar method of farming which has become very famous in India, many farmers say that soil quality has improved after using this method and uses everything natural. It is as effective as a chemical fertilizer.

BAYER is a company, like BASF Syngenta that poinsend the world and wants to have control of the our seeds, DW seems to support BAYER, bad thing

Start spraying with a compost tea and they will return to surface. Instead of spraying with round up.

We need more local small farms with a high diversity of plants, animals, and microbes.

complain about it. but there is absolutely no help for the farmer, how do i know this? because i am one, and NO one wants to help us, just complain about it more.

No need to add anything just don't till and neither leave the soil naked as nature intended. Fertilizers and chemicals are the primary culprit and the greatest hoax that was. Don't create another another new age hoax as if the forests required bayers, fertilizers and psuedo 'bio' products in the first place for million of years.

The reality is if the world goes organic today, there will be food shortage everywhere and the price will be skyrocketing. Until scientist find a way to farm organically on a large scale without rising the cost and achieve at least the same amount of productivity, we will have no choice but stuck with conventional farming. Farmer is not stupid, if going organic is profitable they would have done it long time ago. Going organic on large scale farm means more work and more cost. If other conventional farmer can produce with much lower price, where will organic farmer sell their much expensive produce?

Its amazing how we have to go backwards before we go forward....

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Multiple plant cover crops should be a start. Not having bare soil exposed to sunlight. Why are they infusing the seeds when the seeds have microorganisms in them. Go back to saving seeds that have imprinted with the native soils.

Must always mention dogma points global climate change..

Bayer is so evil I bet they paid to be featured in this video.
I can never trust Bayer

Bayer is the last company we need to research and manage a Big Agriculture solution. Large commercial farm monopolies need to be broken up, and the land back returned to the small farmers. Soil restoration methods already exist, so no "new" treatments (that most likely will involve corporations taking ownership of microbes) need to be employed.

The living soil concept, not news ... but unfortunately ... in 2024 ... it's still newsflash

Menjaga tanah supaya subur harus dengan menghidupi semua penghuni tanah itu sendiri yaitu mikroba dan keluarganya termasuk jamur, bakteri dan cacing. Sebagai makhluk hidup maka mereka perlu makanan. Makanan mereka bukan sampah tapi makanan yang biasa kita makan. Tanah subur tidak hanya untuk daerah pertanian tapi termasuk tanah disekitar rumah dan lingkungan. Rahasia menjaga keseimbangan kehidupan di dalam tanah bisa dipelajari dalam ritual "bhuta Yadnya" di Bali, Indonesia. Sejak 1000 tahun sampai sekarang masih dilakukan. Memberi makan "Bhuta Kala" dengan "caru". Dilakukan terus menerus setiap 15 hari, 6 bulan, 1 tahun hingga 100 tahun. Dilakukan pada tanah di laut, gunung, sungai, rumah, sawah dan semua tanah di sekitar lingkungan tempat tinggal.

This is their world. We are ONLY here to appreciate it and work for them. If they die, we die. If we die, they get more food and live more naturally for them. We have the ability of giving them a shortcut to a better life by caring for them. Then WE will be living the good life because they will care for us with thriving soil.

Anyone who finds this interesting needs to look up Dr Elaine Ingham and the Soil Food Web School.
Get your hands dirty. Pick up a microscope. We can fix this ourselves! 😆

Look up Carbon Cowboys! They're getting the word out to ranchers and helping them use their land differently, to mimic the grazing patterns on their land and it's making the microbes flourish and making the cows happier and healthier. There is no shortage of land that needs help. And no land that isn't already owned. We can make a business out of analyzing their soil. Making a custom compost tea for them. Fix whatever structures need changing in the landscape to promote the growth of the microbes in the soil.

I'm gonna buy cheap land that's deserted, bring the life back, then sell the land and repeat. I'm gonna MAKE the land valuable again.

Did you know how essential microbes are for us?