by Kathy Harris In early February, 15 ranchers gathered at JE Canyon Ranch in southeastern Colorado for a three day class on Holistic Management. The class was facilitated by HMI Certified Educator Kirk Gadzia, who has over 25 years’ experience teaching the concepts of natural resource management ... Read More
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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
How’s Your Erosion Score?
There was a recent article by Tom Buman at On Pasture that honed in a one question in the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll: “compared to other farm operations in your area, how well do you think your farm operation is performing in controlling soil erosion?” The response was: 17% rated themselves ... Read More
Meateaters, Environmentalists and Health Enthusiasts – Unite!
Has the anti-livestock message frustrated you, or at minimum, intrigued you? With Hollywood documentaries on water usage and methane/carbon emissions, it's a growing concept that beef production in particular is leading to the destruction of the world. Are vegetables and "meatlike" products the ... Read More
Grassfed Meat to Prevent Alzheimer’s
An article on Beef Magazine's website discusses a recent study about Alzheimer's, a disease that affects 5 million Americans and that is growing at an 89% increase. According to the study noted from Psychology Today, the best way to combat Alzheimer's is to reduce carbohydrate intake. Whether that ... Read More
Cutting Edge Regenerative Agriculture Events
I had the privilege of attending the Regenerative Agriculture Field Day at the holistically-managed 7,600- acre Paicines Ranch that was a pre-conference event for the 2018 Ecofarm Conference held in Pacific Grove, California. This day-long event featured Holistic Management practitioners Gabe Brown ... Read More
