Thomas Dollahite and his wife, Amanda Duran, have been finishing cattle on 60 acres of irrigated perennial pastures at Peculiar Farms in Los Lunas, New Mexico since 2011. During that time they have developed their finishing enterprise so they can finish approximately 100-120 animals per year. They ... Read More
NM Ranch Study Shows Improved Grazing Strategy Increases Forage Production
The following is an excerpt from an article by Rick Danvir, Gregg Simonds, and Eric Sant in the journal IN PRACTICE titled “Using Remote Sensing to Compare Ground Cover—Comparing the Effectiveness of Grazing Strategies.” The authors investigated the effects of grazing management practices, at a ... Read More
Colorado Coalition to Enhance Working Lands
In an effort to increase the adoption of regenerative/conservation land management practices in Colorado, HMI has been collaborating with over 40 organizations that support, educate or work with agricultural producers in Colorado. This collaboration began with a Colorado Working Lands Summit held in ... Read More
Make $50/hour In the Cattle Business
A recent case study about the Johnson family, who own and manage the 25,000-acre Flying Diamond Ranch near Kit Carson, Colorado, shows that good land stewardship pays financial dividends. This case study was written by Kevin Alexander Watt for the TomKat Ranch website. TomKat Ranch is an 1,800 acre ... Read More
HMI 2017 Annual Report
Dear HMI Community, 2017 was another busy year for HMI as we collaborated with over 100 organizations around the globe to deliver 105 days of programming in 13 countries. To provide in-depth training in Holistic Management, we held 13 Open Gates and six Whole Farm/Ranch Business Planning or Land ... Read More
A Conservation Ranching Perspective for Birds and Beef
Guest Blog By Nancy Ranney Land health has been my foremost interest from a childhood on a horse to work in environmental planning to assuming the management of our family ranch in New Mexico in 2002. I was initially intrigued by the Audubon Conservation Ranching Program for its dual potential to ... Read More
Kansas Rancher uses Holistic Management for Fire Recovery
Our friends at PastureMap, recently shared an interview with Brian Alexander. Brian manages the 7,000 acre Alexander Ranch in South Central Kansas, using holistic planned grazing. In 2016, their operation was completely burned in the Anderson Creek Wildfires. Brian had almost 4,000 pounds of ... Read More
HMI Collaborates on $5 Million Conservation Initiative
The Hill Country Conservancy (HCC) and 18 of its partners, including a new collaborative group called the Texas Hill Country Conservation Network (the Network), recently received a $5.15 million pledge from the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), part of the USDA’s Natural Resources ... Read More
