Nature's Gold: The Fascinating Story of Fertilizer | Modern Marvels (S13, E23) | Full Episode

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Think tumbleweed prestologs. Think tumbleweed ply-weed. Think tumbleweed fire starters. Think tumbleweed insulation. Think tumbleweed furniture. Think tumbleweed paper. Think tumbleweed money 🤑💰. They use to make most everything they used from hemp until the government made hemp illegal. Maybe people need to start smoking tumbleweeds so that the government can make that illegal too, or else tax it.

good Job .
Thank you.

I really hope that you continue this. Great information and presentation.

yeah...Gold is natural

Biosolids would be great if we didn't use so many persistent antibiotics that kill soil biology.

yeah you have to manually replace the nutrient cycle

Maybe don't watch this while eating......?

Biosolds safe? They must have not heard of heavy metals and PFAS.

We would have enough food if the government would butt out of farmers lives. Instead of paying farmers NOT to grow, we should be paying them TO grow food. Farming has become too political and controlled by the stock market.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act

The Conservation Reserve Program

The Slanted Door in San Francisco is closed. I wonder why?

Can you say rabies

"Consumed nearly 500 tons of mosquitos"

Doing gods work.

There is thousands of pounds per acre of P in the top foot of soil in most areas and 34,000 tons of N above every acre. It requires vigorous healthy biology to unlock and fix into plant available form. Soluble N and P are some of the fastest ways to destroy that soil. “Nutrients should be available, not soluble.” William Albrecht

Aka poison

"we have to replenish them or the soil becomes depleted" - no you deplete the soil by turning it over and only planting one crop for millions of acres, destroying all life you dont feel you can immediately sell. You have to farm the soil and the soil will provide the sustenance. If you're not getting the crops from the soil you're doing it wrong. and no "modern" fertilizer will fix the human made disasters caused.

Nature was feeding us just fine! Then ppl with unnecessary fear did unnecessary thing's and now man's tilling the ground, creating all these machines, breaking the earth, and now we use all these things we don't even need that have only a decent short term benefit but in the long term, not so much

i dare you to watch the entire video and not laugh.

The way the world does nutrients currently is unsustainable and kills our water ways in the Midwest. It’s also the reason our cancer rates in Iowa are so high. I have no choice but to have these chemicals rain over me and my family when the planes spray the fields around home.

Its great companies compost. I just dont buy it anymore. Too much plastic even in the sorted stuff. Just gets ground up so it looks like less. Im not looking to be dumping more micro plastic into my yard and garden. I make my own.

hi osrr6422

What did I learn new today, another fungus that have more functions than most of us understand. Bio solids is old news for me

Grossest part is 25.40

Without fertilizer 2 billion people would starve. Well, now it makes total sense why the WEF is always trying to stop fertilizer usage. Also, when they talk about reducing carbon, you’re the carbon they’re talking about.

JADAM is the way.

Regenerative agriculture negates the need for synthetic fertilizer.

The cow dung here is too watery. Something they are eating is not compatible with their digestive system. This is a problem with corporate farming, An overpopulation in a confined space for mass production leads to sicknesses. These cows are sick, and we are eating them or drinking the milk? Disgusting.

Use to haul biosolid from Quincy ship yard to turf farms in RI. and farms in CT . I'd get a bucket of it to put on my flowers and roses at home ! They really liked it ! Yup it was made from Boston's finest !

Go to Joel salatin at polyface farm. Google either one and he will tell you how he makes fertilizer with carbon and manure and also what an earthworm can do take in pour soil and excrete a balanced formula of topsoil so he has many cattle and many chickens and other animals and in fertilizer went four times the price. It didn't even bother his operation

PFAS?

It’s pretty fascinating how much food can be grown with so few people because technology bridges the gap so much. My first job was at a nursery farm and I remember that job fondly, between cloning plants, feeding them and watching them grow, they’ve always fascinated me ever since. It’s funny because I work in finance now so when I talk to country folks they’re kind of surprised someone in that line of work understands what they do and can talk about it intelligently with them. Just knowing that NPK stands for Nitrogen, Phosporus and Potassium gets you 99% ahead of the rest of folks.

You should compost without worms.

Never inorganic!

I think organic compost can be used to fill up pots.

6.5 billion people back then. Thanks a lot, Africa and Asia

Experts predict the World's Population will swell to 8 billion by 2030...think those experts need to go back to prediction school.🙃

Fun fact; most modern sewage treatment plants can't remove medication, caffeine and other chemicals we digest. So, does the process used to make the finished product remove those things???😮

Kazakhstan number 1 exporter of potassium. All other countries have it inferior potassium

But when compisiting in plastic doesnt the plastic let out into the compost therefore not greear fornhealth?????

The "every day around the world six and a half billion of us need to eat" hit really, really hard.

If you live in New Mexico get your fertilizer from Rio Grande compost it's 1/3 sewer from Albuquerque 1/3 waste from the parks like leaves and cut grass and 1/3 from whatever people bring over there and you could take your branches your grass all over there if you're doing yard work and it's free the compost is not free but the drop-off is they are on the west side of Albuquerque on Atrisco Vista right before the Southside of the airport

Good video