John Kamp is a diary farmer in Patoka.  In this 10 minute video John explains how his research into the causes of personal health issues led him to discover the similarities between the pharmaceutical industry and the agrichemical industry: 

“The more inputs you put into the system in order to get productivity, actually, the more it undermines the health of the total system – that includes the health of the pasture, the environment, the stock and the soil microbiology.  When we get out of the way and let nature do its thing, we suddenly discover there is a greater plan that we haven’t allowed to express itself”.  

 

This video explains how regenerative farming practices result in nitrogen being available to meet the needs of pasture growth, without the need for artificial nitrogen fertiliser, making for a low-cost, high-profit system.  Building healthy soils that store more water, cause less run-off, hold more nutrients, and potentially sequester carbon is unquestionably the way of future farming in Aoteroa New Zealand. (10.2)

 

Published on Future Farming HB website, 19 May, 2022