Farmers have the ability to create carbon sinks with livestock by employing a system known as Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing according to research that features in a documentary released today (Wednesday, June 26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ‘Roots So Deep’ documentary, followed the lives of farmers on 10 farms across\u00a0Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and saw a team of 20 scientists from seven universities compare the impact of AMP with conventional style grazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The docu-series examined if different types of grazing methods could help \u201cdepleted\u201d soils, rebuild wildlife habitat, remove carbon from the atmosphere and help farmers get out of debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The researchers also measured what was happening on all the farms to see if AMP grazing could possibly slow down climate change,<\/a> by reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The director of \u2018Roots so Deep\u2019 Peter Byck, professor of Practice at the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, wanted to primarily find out if AMP grazing is better for the land and if \u201cold school\u201d farmers could change their ways?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It took the team five years to design and fundraise for the research project, and they took to the fields in spring 2018, according to director of the documentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n