by Kathy Harris, HMI Director of Programs On May 15th and 16th, 96 people, who together report managing or influencing almost 255,000 acres, gathered at the Agrilife Extension building in Wheeler TX. The group included mostly ranchers or farm/ranch employees, along with some agency folks, and ... Read More
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HMI Beginning Farmer Program Makes a Difference— Guest Blog By C.D. Pounds The 2013-14 Beginning Women Farmer program in Texas was the beginning of an empowering journey for myself and my family. I was excited to find that HMI was a community of like-minded folks from all over the world. When ... Read More
Greenacres Regenerative Agriculture Scholarship Fund
HMI is excited to announce that we recently received funding from the Greenacres Foundation for the Greenacres Regenerative Agriculture Scholarship Fund. This fund provides scholarships to young and beginning farmers and ranchers or those producers transitioning to regenerative agricultural ... Read More
Can We Scale Holistic Grazing Practices?
A recent article on the GreenBiz website titled "Can McDonald's Solve Climate Change?" references the $4.5 million that McDonald's has provided for the research and education project developed by Peter Byck of "Carbon Cowboys" fame. In 2014 Byck created a short video focusing on the innovative ... Read More
U.S. Sustainable Beef Framework Built on Grazing Planning
On May 3, 2018, the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (USRSB) opened a 60-day public comment period on the group’s Sustainability Framework. The USRSB Sustainability Framework is a set of resources developed to assist ranchers, cattle auction markets, feedyards, packers, processors, and retail ... Read More
Healthy Watersheds through Planned Grazing
If you haven't seen the video of the Dixon Water Foundation's profile for winning the 2017 Leopold Award, you should check out the article about their award and their work. Recently On Pasture interviewed Robert Potts, CEO of the Dixon Water Foundation and board member for HMI about their focus on ... Read More
Success Story: Drought and Flood Proofing in California
This article by Dr. Ann Adams was originally published in IN PRACTICE, Issue #174. With all the rain that California experienced during the winter of 2017, the joy of rain that stopped the devastating years of drought turned to dread of the floods and erosion that occurred from landscapes devoid ... Read More
New Agrarian Training for the Next Generation
This spring HMI teamed up with the Quivira Coalition and their New Agrarian Training Program to bring Holistic Management to the apprentices in their program. As part of HMI's Hands On Learning we have partnered with a select number of organizations who provide residential production training and ... Read More
