Feeding The Ethanol Industry

43% of corn produced in the United States goes for ethanol production, and it takes a gallon of fossil fuel to make a gallon of ethanol. So if you do the math, ethanol is disastrous to the health of our planet.

Gabe Brown joins me on The Doctor’s Farmacy to talk about how industrial agriculture has become not only bad for the health of our soil and our planet, but also bad for our health, and so much more.

Our food supply depends on the state of our soils, and this is starting to get the attention of Big Food companies like General Mills. With an interest in pursuing sustainable agricultural methods based on business and economics, large-scale changes like this will have big payoffs for our environment, climate, and health as well.

Gabe Brown is one of the pioneers of the current soil health movement which focuses on the regeneration of our resources. Gabe and his family own and operate Brown's Ranch, a diversified 5,000-acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota. The ranch consists of several thousand acres of native perennial rangeland along with perennial pastureland and cropland. Their ranch focuses on farming and ranching in nature's image.

Gabe and Brown's Ranch have received many forms of recognition for their work, including a Growing Green Award from the Natural Resource Defense Council, an Environmental Stewardship Award from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and a Zero-Till Producer of the Year Award, to name a few. Gabe has also been named one of the twenty-five most influential agricultural leaders in the United States. Gabe recently authored the book Dirt to Soil, One Family’s Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture, and stars in the newly released Netflix movie, Kiss The Ground, which is about a revolutionary group of activists, scientists, farmers, and politicians who band together in a global movement of regenerative agriculture that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.