Why Big and Small Ag Need to Exist
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We talk a lot about growing your own food here on the Epic Gardening podcast, but the |
| 0:16.8 | truth is, a lot of our food is grown for us by large-scale agriculture, or as we talked |
| 0:22.7 | about yesterday, smaller-scale agriculture in these local farms. |
| 0:27.3 | But, Grant, I think what's interesting about having you on this show is that you kind of |
| 0:30.8 | grew up in a bigger ag world and are now working obviously in a smaller ag world, so you |
| 0:35.0 | have the benefit of seeing both of these methodologies, and I'm curious on your take of, you know, |
| 0:40.8 | these are sort of pitted against one another, obviously, and I'm curious if you think that's |
| 0:44.5 | fair or not. |
| 0:46.5 | I truly believe that big egg and small egg can and should coexist, and there's arguments |
| 0:56.4 | for both, but we have to have both, unless you're willing to pay $10 for a little for bread |
| 1:00.3 | and 20 bucks for a gallon of milk, we have to have big egg out there, and a lot of these |
| 1:06.7 | farms that I grew up with are generational, like four or five generations. |
| 1:11.2 | So they are, and my good friend has taken over his farm, he's changing some of the practices |
| 1:18.1 | going to, you know, I guess there's no such thing as no till, but you know, direct seed, |
| 1:22.5 | they call it now, you're not turning over the ground, you're using less intakes, and |
| 1:28.4 | how I kind of saw a big egg going for a while was, it's kind of like I got at the gym |
| 1:33.6 | that, you know, can bench press all that weight, he's huge up top and then he walks away |
| 1:37.1 | and he's got these little spin and legs, right? |
| 1:38.9 | So yeah, you're getting all these results, but then, you know, there's no foundation, and |
| 1:44.3 | a lot of them, a lot of the farmers are seeing that, you know, I can't speak for all over |
| 1:49.5 | the nation, but, you know, changing the way they do, they farm, and there's less inputs, |
| 1:56.7 | and maybe they're, you know, their, their bushels aren't as high, but they're making more |
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