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
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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
96% Texas Farmer Participants Plan to Change Practices After Cropping Strategies Workshop
by Kathy Harris Texas panhandle farmers began filing in early for the March 2nd Crop and Soils workshop featuring Regenerative Ag’s ‘rock stars’ Gabe Brown and Ray Archuleta. Many of the 114 attendees lingered well past the last session, excited and involved in interesting discussions on how to ... Read More
Success Story: Housing Development Pressure, Consumer Tastes and Ranch Succession
Five Dot Ranch The Swickard family has been producing grain and livestock in California since 1852, and is now working into the 7th generation. Todd Swickard is 6th generation, raising natural beef and marketing a branded product, and some of his children help with the business. Silicon Valley ... 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
Beginning Texas Farmers & Ranchers Women’s Class
May 19 - August 12, 2018 Kerrville, TX $500 per student Two experienced facilitators and practitioners of the Holistic Management framework guide you towards the completion of your Management Plan for the Farm & Ranch of your dreams in an all women’s class. Topics Covered Define a ... Read More
