The American Family Farmer Show is the weekly voice for small, independent farm owners, as well hobby farmers and all of those interested in eating natural foods that make as few stops as possible from the farm to the table.
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12/03/20 - How To Get Started on Regenerative Ag
American Family Farmer and Host, Doug Stephan www.eastleighfarm.com begins with news that 1% of America's farmers own 70% of America's Farmland. Then, are robots taking over? 30% of America's dairy cows are milked by robots. Next, we meet Adam Chappell. His family has tended their 8,000 acre farm for four generations, but Adam was the first one to face the real possibility that his could be the last. Most parents yearn for their children to come back home, but when Adam and his brother Seth went off to college, his father told them to not come back. But despite his dad’s advice, after studying botany and entomology at Arkansas State and University of Arkansas, Adam felt called to come back and quickly realized the farm was in trouble. Chemical input costs were drowning out the value of countless hours of work. Today he grows non-GMO corn and soybeans because the seed cost is 50 percent less than genetically modified seed. Adam says, “The obstacle is Big Ag. They don’t want you to believe in other solutions that don’t require purchasing their chemical inputs." Their success story is right here.
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