The farmer using cows as a way to reverse climate change

Here's one farmer's way of reducing carbon in the air and combating climate change, and he's doing it using two simple resources — cattle and soil.

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00:00Industrial agriculture breaks the cycles of nature, and what we do reinvigorates those

00:15cycles of nature.

00:30We take large herds of ruminants, we move them every day through the landscape, a lot

00:38of urine, a lot of feces, a lot of hooves pushing into the ground.

00:43Animal impact is essential to restarting the cycles of nature.

01:00We are really, really good at pulling carbon out of the air where it's harmful, and put

01:21it in the earth with beneficial.

01:36They're at the gate.

01:38They're pretty trained.

01:39It's like a dog.

01:40Once they know they're going to get a reward for moving, which is new grass, fresh grass,

01:44they're ready to move.

01:51The land just does a lot better when you've got birds in the mix.

02:19When the consumer buys our products, they are getting the food, obviously.

02:29They're also supporting a system that provides a lot of eco-services.

02:38You can bet, in 1995, a 40-year-old Will Harris did not walk outside and say, you know, I

02:47believe our climate is changing, and I think I can probably help mitigate it by sequestering

02:51carbon in the soil.

02:52That's not the way it happened.

02:53I was very focused on industrial production, agriculture, on how to squeeze the most pounds

03:02of beef out of this farm at the lowest cost, and I simply became less and less pleased

03:11with that model, and the land got better and better.

03:27Growing up, all I ever wanted to do was run this farm.

03:30I've got two daughters here helping run the farm, and between the two of them, they've

03:36got three of my grandbabies who are the sixth generation on the farm.

03:41It's the epitome of all the eggs in one basket, but it's a mighty nice basket.