Financial Success, Productive Soils and Happier Homes
with Gabe Brown and Ray Archuleta
Friday, March 2, 2018, 8:30am – 4pm
Deaf Smith County Extension Office
903 14th Street, Hereford, TX 79045
What’s Covered:
- Managing your land for financial profitability
- How to build the productivity of your soils
- Cropping strategies that yield results
- Understanding soil biology and ecosystem process effectiveness
- The value of biodiversity
- How to capture water on your land and build drought-resistant soil
- Integrating livestock to improve your soil health AND your bottom line
- Real-life success stories backed by scientific data
Registration
Registration is $50 per person (includes lunch), only $20 for Texas Panhandle residents. Online registration closes February 23, 2018.
Register soon, as space is limited and accurate headcounts are needed for lunch and refreshments. Walk-ins will be accommodated only if space is available. Sorry, registration fees are non-refundable.
If you are unable to register online, please call Rick Auckerman at 806-364-3573 or JD Ragland at 806-468-5543.
Agenda
| Friday | March 2, 2018 |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Registration, Coffee and Donuts |
| 9:00 AM | Ray Archuleta – Principles of Building Soil Health Discussion and Demos |
| 10:20 AM | Break |
| 10:40 AM | Gabe Brown – How to Apply Soil-Building Principles on your Land |
| Noon | Catered Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | Gabe Brown & Ray Archuleta – Use of Cover Crops; Integrating Livestock, Specifics of Farming in the Texas Panhandle, Converting Cover Crops into Cash; Financial Planning to Improve your Economics |
| 3:00 PM | Concurrent Sessions: 1. Panhandle Producer Panel - Roy, Brent, & Michael Carlson Share Experiences with No-Till and Cover Cropping: What Works, What Doesn't 2. Market Farmers Special Session with Gabe Brown, Stacked Enterprises & Direct Marketing |
| 4:00 PM | Evaluations & Close |
Speakers
Gabe Brown
Gabe Brown is one of the pioneers of the current soil health movement which focuses on the regeneration of our resources. Gabe, along with his wife Shelly, and son Paul, own and operate Brown’s Ranch, a diversified 5,000 acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota. Their ranch focuses on farming and ranching in nature’s image. They believe that healthy soil leads to clean air, clean water, healthy plants, animals and people.
The Browns holistically integrate their no-till cropping systems, which include a wide variety of cash crops, multi-species cover crops along with all natural grass finished beef and lamb. They also raise pastured laying hens, broilers and swine. This diversity and integration has regenerated the natural resources on the ranch without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides. Over 2,000 people visit the Brown’s Ranch annually to see this unique operation. They have had visitors from all fifty states and twenty-one foreign countries.
Gabe and Brown’s Ranch have received many forms of recognition for their work, including a Growing Green award from the Natural Resource Defense Council, an Environmental Stewardship Award from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and a Zero-Till Producer of the Year Award, to name a few. Gabe has also been named one of the twenty-five most influential agricultural leaders in the United States. Gabe is a partner along with Ray Archuleta, David Brandt and Dr. Allen Williams in Soil Health Consulting, LLC and Soil Health Academy.org.
Ray Archuleta
Ray Archuleta is a farmer from Seymour, MO. He teaches Biomimicry Strategies and Agroecology principles on a national scale for improving soil function. He has over 30 years of work experience has a Soil Conservationist, Water Quality Specialist, and Conservation Agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service and is a Certified Professional Soil Scientist with Soil Science Society of America. He has worked in the following states: New Mexico, Missouri, Oregon, and North Carolina, serving two years in Guatemala as a Livestock Specialist in the Peace Corps. Ray received A.S. in Livestock Science from Northern New Mexico College and a B.S. in Agricultural Biology plus 30 hours of graduate school in soil related classes from New Mexico State University.
Thank You
This program is made possible thanks to the generous funding from The Tecovas Foundation.
Thanks to Rick Auckerman of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Deaf Smith County for hosting this event, and JD Ragland, of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Randall County for assisting.
Thank you to our outreach partners.
Sponsor This Series
Our workshops offers organizations, agencies and businesses a great opportunity to network with farmers, ranchers and consumers interested in sustainable agricultural ideas, products and services. We offer a variety of affordable Sponsorship Opportunities to connect you with our community. Please email Stephanie von Ancken at [email protected] for more information.
Adelene is a resident of Arkansas and loves exploring the state’s natural trails. Her passion for education and technology led her to earn a master’s in learning systems technology from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. With her professional experience managing student/client databases and instructional design, Adelene will bring skill and understanding to her role as Office Manager & Instructional Designer at HMI. Her focus on making education more accessible to diverse communities is evident through her volunteer work as an board member for a scholarship program. Adelene is devoted to creating educational opportunities that align with HMI’s mission to promote healthy, resilient lands and thriving communities.
Seth Wilner has been a Holistic Management International Certified Educator since 2005. For 22 years he has worked as an agent educator with University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension where he specializes in farm business management with an emphasis on whole farm planning.
Dana was first introduced to Holistic Management in the 1990s while working in the Texas Hill Country. She strongly believes that Holistic Management can positively impact families that are on the land, the communities they are a part of, and larger landscape resource regeneration efforts.
Sarah Robertson grew up in Taos, New Mexico and has always been passionate about land stewardship, growing things, and nurturing others. After completing a BA in Communication from the University of New Mexico and working with local non-profits, she started her journey as a first-generation farmer. Since 2015, she has been learning and growing alongside her husband on various leased properties in Albuquerque, NM and running a small market farm with goats, chickens, and a CSA. In her role as Programs Assistant at HMI, Sarah brings her enthusiasm for regenerative agriculture, devotion to supporting others, and drive for lifelong learning and growing.
Jozua Lambrecht is from South Africa and divides his time between their home in Somerset West and their family farm in Sutherland, one of the coldest places in South Africa, where they farm with sheep. He is married to his wife Therese and they have two daughters.
Alejandro Carrillo is a fourth-generation rancher, and he is quite familiar with the challenges of running a profitable cattle ranch in the Chihuahuan desert. Because annual precipitation seldom exceeds nine inches, every drop counts when it comes to growing more grasses. Grazing year-round with only sea salt as an input, he is not willing to waste any water in such a brittle environment.
Jared L Talley was born and raised in Southwestern Idaho and now seeks to help rural communities adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Service at Boise State University, earning his PhD in Philosophy from Michigan State University and his MPA in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management from Boise State University. An environmental philosopher by training and an interdisciplinary scholar in practice, he seeks to better understand how communities relate to the land and how this relationship poses obstacles and opportunities for collaboration and governance. In doing so, he studies the role of science in collaborative policy, the role of place in environmental identity, and the role of the imagination in mediating both. Specifically, he studies grazing management and public land permitting, community-led conservation programs, rural education and entrepreneurship, place-based environmental governance, and the imaginative experience of our natural and built environments — all in the contexts of the intermountain American West.
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