your life is still crazy I’m
able to face facing me face
to a stein bull of a ton
but there I find myself before you
today I am completely
paralyzed but hey I’ll try to
to do better than yesterday I did not know how to get out
a molière and yet there was
no one in the room
that’s it, but well, we laugh at it
my message is stronger than anything and
I really want to get there
and then in addition to their advance and I
suppose you start everything
gently to be hungry I know it’s a
little a cliché but we all
need to eat every day that this
either cheese butter bread from the
candy meat candy from the
beer all and this reality and this
need to consume 7.2 to eat at
daily brings us back to our
reality as a consumer to
the impact we have and to
consequences that this may have
and that sends us back to a
reality of a classical agriculture and
we advise consequences that
we can no longer deny today
right now there are 795 million
people in the world who suffer from
hunger there are 30 to 40 % of the
food that is wasted and that is going
in the trash and has the problems of the
Amazon deforestation and gas
greenhouse effect pollution due to
pesticides
antibiotic resistance and so on but
rest assured today I do not have you
talk about that and I’ll leave that to
experts what I want you
to speak today is the c2 of a
other agriculture the one I know
since I try to practice it with my
everyday family on our farm
domestic
and yes we are the fourth
henin generation rented the farm
from the castle of the keys when I
meet someone for the first
time and that I tell him that I am
farmer and in addition producers
dairy then there I see it directly
in his look of pity and the
compensate for
from the notice of pity in his look
but after I say that I
organic farming and savoy
a little glimmer of hope that appears
dude but concretely what is that
it is to be a farmer the basis of my
job
the b to ba is the land is to cultivate
this earth this earth to which to
today’s time we have given a
totally crazy value completely
insane is completely safe done
while his only true and unique
value is the capacity and body to a
farmer to master all
factors to know
to produce food to
destination of the human being
do you realize that in a gram of
cultivated land there are more than 1
billion living beings
it’s a billion living beings
represents more than one hundred thousand species
ah well that’s my job
my job at the base my job is
cultivate this microbial life
it is to maintain it and when
seeks to nurture this life
microbial
but the first thing we have to do
it’s feeding her and feeding that
microbial life
we must be able to understand
how does organic matter work
how to work it is the famous
make up which you hear about
often so this in agriculture it takes
to have one thing in mind is that nothing
do not get lost and nothing secret is like
in everything but it’s really still
more true in agriculture and when you
export something from your soil
you must be able to report this
that you wore then there you have
two possibilities be you choose
chemical inputs be you
choose the natural inputs and there
you have to be aware of something
is that in agriculture even if it’s going
take time
everything you’re going to do is going to have
consequences one day or the other and
its consequences should be
able to assume them here that’s it
the soil is basically how
works and after we have to do the
choice of a culture
once we have chosen a
culture must choose which species
choose to choose
you have to know what are your needs
what will be the diseases
which do they go from a venerable
how to protect him by
related to these diseases
what are the context
pedoclimatic and adapt and any
a series of other things that we
allow
arriving to produce either of
cereals vegetables from the erp to
animal destination etc
you’ll understand we’re in
balance in agriculture everything is a
balanced question
there were all there are so many
factors that come into consideration
and you have to be able to play in
take into account and so you will have it
including my first job to me in
as a farmer it is to be
equilibrists no I’m kidding it’s
to be in Grenoble but on time
current is very big name but it’s
not enough I must also win
my life of my profession
a single basic rule to arrive at
make a living and I reassure you she
is basic but it is very
hard to reach in my field
it is to sell more expensive your
production what did it cost us
to produce and it could happen
it’s a whole program
then we have two possibilities the
first chose to work with
the agri-food industry and then there
we hope they have the extreme
kindness to pay you worthily for
the work that you have provided and for
the quality of your products and me
been more than ten years that I am
farmer and I took a lot of
slaps and I learned that it does not
not work it does not work
like that there is another way that
that we chose to take with my
family is trying to take back our
out in hand so we decided to
set the price of our production we
same but for that before arriving
to that there are several steps to
to cross and other skills to
acquire
I first had to we first had to
transform our products before
commercialize you have to learn how to
to transform and that’s a whole
a series of steps to take
compo new skills to
acquire but we were lucky
is that TVs generations
who preceded us on the farm
gave us the pleasure of doing
good products of how to do them is
to know how to sell them because
if we can learn that on the benches
from school
we can not learn everything and
all there is a whole series of things
that we only learn by test
error
and then there you have to pay attention to
what mistakes do not ruin you
then once you are able
to transform you are trained but
there are still other skills
gain
we had to learn to be a mason
electrician carpenter because on time
etc.
well yeah like we did not have too much
means and that banks did not want
not follow us it was necessary
build our imagery ourselves and
that I can assure you that it was
a period it’s been months
loaded and that our back has taken a
blow but hey that’s the cheese is
built that’s it things
Serious can start
we had to learn to communicate
because it is also an art
we had to learn to communicate
to manage the logistics to manage the
consumers whether for good or
wrong
it was necessary to send the invoices to receive
the bills continue to transform
continues to improve at the level of
transformation to always try to
find the why commits them brief
a whole series of things but the most
important in our business is to
to make his accounts
and there you have to be a good accountant and
so you have to know and especially at the beginning
because the room for maneuver has been
very narrow and there it does not
missed it was in 2015 there is the crisis
milk that has settled and the
good drought it’s nice to all
the world
it was fine but for us this is
not very rejoicing lemoine d’avril
and may we just move you
ensures that it was not rosy for
we
finally good and there what has been
spent on that year we lost
between 70 and 80 thousand euros on our
turnover so this is a
another facet of the farming profession
but you have to have solid kidneys
a steel mind and a family and
close friends who can be counted on
in difficult times but good
it’s not all is not over yet
we are agronomist transformers
distributors but we also have a
another reality to our another
job and the room is more difficult
to explain and more difficult to
to share because it’s not something
palpable thing and besides our
modern society that adores everything
control everything master beautiful know
that we are something that is
difficult
so I’ll give you an example
of an experience I have lived
not catastrophic
it’s a nice Saturday afternoon
perfect day but my friend chose
to marry
that day , what did I do
I got up earlier at 5 o’clock
in the morning to milk my cows for
to get ahead and to be in
the temperature
awesome I was ready I had put my
beautiful costume but before leaving I
been seeing if everything was fine at the level
cows
alas it did not fail there is one
caf and his calf at that moment there he
took that I occupied I lost a
time is rather than being ahead
I arrived last here it is it
the reality of my job is
working with the living is full of
different factors and a whole series
factors that can not be controlled
and that at the time of today it’s
more difficult to accept is all
the constraints that go around the world
agricultural society and that society has more
poorly understand when all is well
go but when we are faced with this
factor that can not be controlled
we groan about the farmer but he is not
not always responsible for that and so
this is my reality is that we
works with living things
but whether we like it or not our
modern society
if it exists it is thanks to those
alive and this modern society if
it exists it is thanks to those living
hold for example on our farm at
we there are 75 hectares with its 75
hectares of land from me not to
to be not very good we
let’s get to feed 60 cows one
herd of 60 dairy cows with
care her 60 dairy cows
we come to produce 4000 liters of
milk and 5000 kg of meat
good ben I know four thousand 4000 liters
400 thousand liters of milk for you to
the year it does not represent big
thing to help you know
visualize what it represents
but know that 400 minutes from the east
it’s the daily needs of products
dairy of 5500 people or 10 times
the room here now presents all the
days my brothers my sister and me and my
father whose four jobs created on
can provide the needs in
dairy products 10 times the
number of people here
it’s still not bad and again
is a small farm
so, but that’s not all there is
also the future how to try to
prepare to think and predict the
future not in the future we will still have
more need than ever of farmers
to meet all the challenges that
are who presents themselves to us must
know that in 2050 we will be 10
billions of individuals
do we all dream is a
society much more just is
much more balanced but a
society much more just and
fair
it starts mostly with people who
are hungry for products from
quality and do all that in
preserving the environment
so here we ask ourselves a question
as a farmer but we want to
contribute to this change
we want to participate and what is
our role in the motion alas one on one
small farm of 75 hectares what
what can we do about it?
change we all agree who should
very soft global on the planet
but before being global the change
must occur in each note each
firm and that ‘s what I can
do as a farmer these two
to try to change things at
level of a farm but imagine a little
little challenge that presents itself to us
we’re going to be there’s going to be more of
people to feed there will be less
arable land it will have to happen
chemicals to preserve
environment and human health and
in addition to that it will have to answer
new energy challenges
come to us
there is work alas the first
thing to do is how to use
much better space available
how to think much better and
I’ll remind you all
skills that had to be acquired
especially at the agronomic level
that’s where you have to be able to
use them at best but so how
use space much better
concreted for example at home in
our farm there are 75 hectares on these 75
ha I said they were not good
but in the end there are still five
which are of good quality
on its 5 hectares of land we would be
able to brother to produce
vegetables in vegetable production
we come to create five jobs
extra and in addition to that we
are able to produce the needs
in daily vegetables of 2000 people
then with the remaining 70 hectares
we would be able to put 15
ha
of cereals in rotation with 20
hectares of temporary meadows
to this is added 35 hectares of
permanent grasslands
you must know that the meadows
permanent is a paradise for
biodiversity and at the same time
allows to set quantities
astronomical carbon in the soil
so they will not be released anymore how
that goes directly several into the ground
in the air to be fixed with this bone
with all these meadows we are
able to feed more than 60 cows
but 40 dairy cows
food autonomy on the farm with
his 40 dairy cows
we will first and foremost produce
compost that allow us to produce
vegetables and cereals
but in addition to that we will be
able to produce 200 thousand liters of
milk and 7000 kg giant then on the
15 hectares of cereals but on the
15 hectares of seria we are
able to produce 20 tons of
breadmaking cereals then
breadmaking cereals are
cereals that the human being can
consume directly so we
could make bread and beer
for example directly with then
we also took 40 tons
cereals but who would not they
not bread – making so that is to say
that they could not be
used for human nutrition
so with its 40 hectares with its 40
tons of cereals
we will choose to raise chickens
layers so why always in
thinking about using space better
and resources why hens
laying
because laying hens are
it is the animal that she is capable of
produce the most food at
destination of the human being with the
fewer plants which through its
40 tons of cereals we would be
able to produce 700 where all
days all year but that’s not all
we must go much further
in the process of reflection
between each of my plots I have
spaces at the moment that we do not
not grow, we could put some
fruit trees and fruit trees
would allow us to produce several
tons of cherry pears apples from
nutshell plum finally, by the way
but only it’s not all about our
firm at the moment sources all
these spaces between the plots
there we have km of hedges and strips
wooded cwi km of wooded strips and
and goes off it’s a paradise for the
fauna and flora that’s a
first thing but secondly if
it is a resource a volume of wood
which is produced every year
this volume of wood also corresponds to
a calorific production that we
could use in the coupling go
in methane combat that would be produced
with the compost of our cows
we could produce to produce
heat energy and here we are
that’s it I’m in Grenoble
distributors transformers
I produce food for
inadequacy varied quality in addition to
that I preserve the environment and I
became an energy producer for
a new job still acquire you
do not think it’s a job
exciting with multiple implications
for the future of our society and we
never get bored the bag gap
know one thing is that I did
to touch the reality of my job
this is a diagram that represents
all the interactions going on
actually at the level of my job I
the masters not everything
but hey we do what we can and I dare
hope that the next time you
will come across a farmer you the
look with determination and
the desire to accompany him in
change we will all need
in our future
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