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
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Creating Profitable, Resilient Farms
A recent article published on the Union of Concerned Scientists website by Marcia Delonge, titled "Regenerative Farming Trailblazers: How Reintegrating Livestock and Restoring Soils Can Lead to More Resilient Farms," featured a lead photo of HMI Board member Jonathan Cobb as well as the stories of ... Read More
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
A Fresh Start
New Agrarian Program 2018 April 3 - October 9, 2018 New agrarian superheroes in the making, we’ve teamed up with Quivira Coalition’s New Agrarian Program to provide Holistic Management® training to apprentices, mentees, interns and new farmers and ranchers dedicated to making this world a ... Read More
Shade Improves Sustainability of Ohio Farm
Holistic Management practitioner, Drausin Wulsin completed his first season with a Shade Haven mobile shade structure on his farm, Red Stone Farm, in Cynthiana, Ohio in 2017. He’s already purchased another for the 2018 grazing season. “This is one of the tools that can lead to sustainability on a ... Read More
Get Paid To Sequester Carbon in Texas
Ranchers in Texas may be interested in this article that originally appeared in Forbes.com. Written by Jeff McMahon, the article talks with Jim Blackburn, an environmental attorney and land planner in Texas, and his proposal to compensate ranchers and land owners to sequester carbon in the ... Read More
