A recent article in the Washington Post highlighted the shocking statistic that 7% of Americans thought that chocolate milk came from brown cows. Unless you think this is a bunch of second graders responding to this question, the statistic comes from an online survey of adults conducted by the ... Read More
5 Is the Magic Cover Number
In an article titled "Soil Carbon is King " published in the Western Star, Graeme Sait focuses on how more people need to understand how soil carbon is critical to reducing the excess carbon in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all emissions, there is still too much carbon in the atmosphere for the ... Read More
Holistic Management Can Make It Rain?
For so long, agricultural producers have been trained to believe they have no control over the weather. But new satellite data reported in The Beef Producer shows that good plant cover means that more water remains in the soil which results in more rain. And the more effective the water cycle is ... Read More
Soil Carbon Increases by over 130%
A recent blog on the Beef Magazine website highlights the research by Dr. Richard Teague of Texas A&M Agrilife and Dr. Allen Williams. Teague's research in Texas compares the soil health and function of heavily conventionally grazed, lightly conventionally grazed, and adaptive multi-paddock ... Read More
Healthy Environments and Economics
A recent article on the Phys Org website notes that managing an ecosystem as a whole will improve the environment and the economy of whatever natural resource is being managed. When scientist Robert Paine first examined the ecosystem of a tidal pool in the 1970s and brought to light the concept ... Read More
Sickness from the Soil
Dr. Christine Jones (aka. The Carbon Goddess) provides a compelling case for why our healthcare system is collapsing--our agricultural soils are no longer providing the trace minerals we need to keep our immune systems functioning properly. In this short video, Dr. Jones, who was one of the first ... Read More
U.S. Receives “D” for Food System
The NRDC website posted an article noting that the U.S.wastes 40% of the food grown in the country. Given that we are using precious resources (80% of freshwater is used for growing food) and struggling to make sure all are fed, that's a lot of waste. In fact, that's a D grade if we look at the ... Read More
The Top 10 Traits of a Successful Agriculturalist
As always the concerns of acres of farm/ranch land per the minute are on many people's minds, as well as the rather "senior" age of the average farmer or rancher. Then there is the matter of decreased number of agriculture producers in the country. All of these statistics are being influenced by the ... Read More
