Hi Drushella. Thanks for your interest. I think, that system is easy to adapt on a mass scale. Marc Shepard from Wisconsin was a great inspiration for our project. He's book "Water on any farm" is very helpful. Success with your project!

hey Richard, thanks for your reply, this is really nice from you, I really appreciate to have an argumented comment on KZfaq (this is rare) :) I must state that I am not an expert on farming (my work is in engineering), you probably know much more than I do :) however I am highly interested in planetery boundaries, the perturbations of natural cycles (water, nitrate, phosphare, carbon, etc) and this is in this context that I was commenting your video. You have many good points on the benefits/inconvenient of organic farming. I agree indeed that organic farming isn't necessarily the most efficient and really depends on people's value and also how it is done. However, I didn't really oppose your farming system to an "organic" farm, or perhaps we didn't mean the same thing by "organic". I feel that organic can have the exact same inconvenient/risk as your farming system if done the same way: rely on import of chemical inputs, mono-crop, not necessarily aligned with biodiversity, with less yield, etc. I think these inconvenients will become more and more severe this century. We already broke many natural cycles these last decades. What I rather meant by "changing the farming method" is what is experimented in some farms and that I would called in French "sol vivant", or "living / full-of-life soil" (for example "La Ferme de Cagnolle", but in French sorry). The idea is to trap the carbon and increase the % of organic matter in the soil, as the field is not ploughed and always stays covered by vegetation, in order to avoid chemical fertilizers. In opposition to traditional farming that requires chemical input, which is "extractive", this method is rather "regenative" (carbon is trapped). I am thinking some people are experimenting that system, even for cow-milking (I heard of a farmer in Alsace) but I do not have references. I suspect it is small scale, requires more manual work and doesn't lead to the same yield, but it is more "balanced" with the earth system. That's why I was suggesting to eat less meat, drink less meat and eat plant-based products (to reduce the pressure on the earth system and to adapt to lower yields) and socialy valorise farm workers (as it requires more people to work in the field). The reason I am trying to find alternatives is that I read report of the Stockholm Resilience Centers, and there are "sombre". We alredy broke many limits which lead to local and global pollution, and disasters... For example, the system in Bretagne (France) or New Zealand leads to green algae and/or water hasards because of heavy nitrate and phosphate inputs. I feel that your robotised farming system tends more to push harder on the current farming system, which is unsustainable. Note that I understand the points I am rising here are complex social and systemic changes.

@@GC-uq2pd Thanks for your interesting thoughts. Here are links to the other farm visits, Richard and his team organized for this so called Cross Visit: Regenerative Mob-Grazing Farm in Oxfordshire kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hZ5jiMqCpt6seKs.html Dairy Farm with Agroforestry kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q8mie9uIqtaviYU.html and because all this needs Education, also a visit to FarmED kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtt8dLOI1rrMgKc.html So you see Richard and his colleagues provided an excellent overview on the different farming systems. And last but not least and as a Bonus the link to an extensive dairy farm en Bretagne 🙂kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ma5iarKVr9O4cqM.html Avec mes meilleures salutations, Thomas

@@GC-uq2pd thanks GC - as Thomas posted we are working in the UK at promoting regenerative farming - essentially farming the soil and promoting biodiversity, and carbon sequestration. Livestock integration is a key part regenerative farming. For clarification Organic farming does not allow chemical input - i.e no chemical fertilizer, pesticides etc.

Answer from Richard Lloyd: II was really interested to see GC's comments. This video was taken on a day that compared and contrasted this system with an equally well run organic dairy farm, and there was divergent opinion on which approach the attendees preferred. As far as environmental issues are concerned the picture is more complex: - Higher yielding cows will have a lower carbon footprint per litre of milk, automation was increasing feed efficiency. - Higher production means less imports and feeds more people. - Automation is often driven by the lack of available labour, rather than the cause of labour loss - The welfare of the cows was very good - the issue of carbon sequestration and biodiversity of the land is important, but this is independent from the milk production system, albeit that it would be inherent in an organic dairy system

​@@FarmDemo thanks for the head-up, I will reply under Richat Lloyd comment, thanks :)

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@@FarmDemo merci pour les infos

j ai lu qu'en monotraite les cellules retombent a un taux normal avec le temps, si le troupeau est sain en bi traite Normalement la monotraite provoque pas plus de mammites mais elles sont plus difficiles a soigner qu'en bi traite

Ce sont pourtant des pratiques présentes dans de nombreux pays. Faut aussi savoir prendre ce qui est bon ailleurs et remettre en question ses usages Le croisement des races se fait aussi beaucoup en porcin, c'est assez étrange que ca a autant de mal a percer dans le secteur bovin

racisme ... @@unhommequicourt

Hello The robot was developed and manufactured by the company "Farmdroid". Link to the webside: farmdroid.dk/en/welcome/ Kind regards

Merci bien!