This guest blog is written by long-time Holistic Management educator and practitioner, Tony Malmberg and was originally published at Holistic Management.guide. Prejudice pervades every pore of our existence. We have prejudice concerning race, sex, social status, culture, experience, inheritance, ... Read More
Scaling Grassfed Beef by Allen Williams
This guest blog written by Allen Williams can be found on the Standard Soil website. In the article, Allen notes that the argument about grassfed beef not being able to scale is completely false. Follow his math below to find out that we have more than enough land to raise more beef cattle on the ... Read More
Grassfed Beef Offer Climate Solution
A research paper was recently published in Agricultural Systems by Paige Stanley, Jason Rowntree, David Beede, Marcia DeLonge and Michael Hamm. It was titled: Impacts of soil carbon sequestration on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in Midwestern USA beef finishing systems. The focus of this ... Read More
Paying Farmers for Carbon Sequestration
This winter HMI Certified Educator Blain Hjertaas participated in a panel presentation with Darrin Qualmin on "The End of High Input, High Cost, High Emission Agriculture (?)" at the Prairie Organics Conference in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. In his portion of the presentation, Blain shared the ... Read More
Regenerative Agriculture Offers 78% More Profit
Recent research by Claire LaCanne and Dr. Jonathan Lundgren notes that while regenerative agriculture may have lower yields (29% on average), the profitability is consistently higher--with an average of 78% greater profit. Of particular interest, regenerative agriculture also provides greater ... Read More
New HMI Certified Educator in Finland
HMI is excited to announce that Tuomas Mattila from Pusula, Finland just successfully completed his Holistic Management Certified Educator Training. Tuomas is a farmer, scientist and consultant. He has a Masters of Science in Agriculture and Forestry, a Masters in Science in Chemical Engineering, ... Read More
Shade Improves Sustainability of Ohio Farm
Holistic Management practitioner, Drausin Wulsin completed his first season with a Shade Haven mobile shade structure on his farm, Red Stone Farm, in Cynthiana, Ohio in 2017. He’s already purchased another for the 2018 grazing season. “This is one of the tools that can lead to sustainability on a ... Read More
Grass Genetics Selection 101
Guest blog by Allen Williams, HMI Advisory Council member, and Soil Health Consultant. To read more of Allen's work, visit his website. To most people genetic selection can be a complicated task. There is so much data out there that many folks get lost in the translation. What to use and how much ... Read More
