CORRAL DESIGNS

Pasture Scene Investigation

How can RMS, LLC help you?

On-Site Consulting: All aspects of holistic management, including financial, ecological and human resources.

Training Events: Regularly scheduled and customized training sessions provided in a variety of locations.

Ongoing Support: Follow-up training sessions and access to continued learning opportunities and developments.

Land Health Monitoring: Biological monitoring of rangeland and riparian ecosystem health.

Property Assessment: Land health and productivity assessment with recommended solutions.

World Famous Dr. Grandin

By World Famous Dr. Grandin Originator of Curved Ranch Corrals

The wide curved Lane makes filling the crowding tub easy. Includes detailed drawings for loading ramp, V chute, round crowd pen, dip vat, gates and hinges. Plus cell center layouts and layouts compatible with electronic sorting systems. Articles on cattle behavior. 27 corral layouts. $55. Low Stress Cattle Handling Video $59. Send checks/money order to:

Grandin Livestock Systems

2918 Silver Plume Dr., Unit C-3 Fort Collins, CO 80526 970/229-0703 www.grandin.com

“Bud Williams” Livestock Marketing & Proper Stockmanship

with Richard McConnell & Tina Williams

Learn how good stockmanship can make your livestock handling experiences how livestock marketing based on today’s price (no crystal ball) can help you realize

May 25-26 — 2 Day Stockmanship only, Dickinson, ND

May 30-June 1 — 3 Day Marketing/ Stockmanship, Wawota, SK www.handnhandlivestocksolutions.com info@handnhandlivestocksolutions.com 417-327-6500

Coming also to Alberta, Wyoming, and Iowa!

Become an HMI Certified Educator

Have you had Holistic Management® training?

Are you already consulting or providing training?

If you have written documentation of your Holistic Management practice and of the work you have done with others, we would like to help you get to the next level by becoming an HMI Certified Educator.

For more information: Ann Adams anna@holisticmanagement.org www.holisticmanagement.org/ ce-training-program/

Software

• User-friendly excel-based interface

• Let the computer do the math while you plan

• Easy SAU and ADA calculations

• Account for multiple herds

• Grazing Manual hyperlinks

• Livestock and Land Performance Worksheet

• And many more features

Next Step

Holistic Management®

Comprehensive Training

One-on-one learning all at a fraction of the cost of a consultant!

Introduction to Holistic Management®

Financial Planning

Grazing Planning

Cropping Planning

Marketing/Business Planning

Biological Monitoring

Land Planning

$700 per module or 5 for $3150 scholarships available bonus materials

— Arnold Mattson, Agri-Environment Services Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

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Rangeland can provide an abundance of plant varieties for livestock nutrition. But what about the more “developed” pastures and hay meadows? Soils tests from all types of livestock producers show 95+% of all such soils do not have the correct nutrient levels to provide the best nutrition for livestock.

You can change that! Choose an area, split it and soil test both sides separately. Test your hay or forage from both sides too. Treat one side as normal. On the other side, correct the fertility based on soil tests using the Kinsey/Albrecht fertility program.

Test feed quality from both sides again next year. Take soil tests again and treat accordingly. Depending on nutrients requirements it may take two or three years to prove most profitable. Test each year and, as fertility needs are met, feed value and yield tend to increase for all three years.

Increased yields will more than pay for the investment with increased feed quality as a bonus. Prove it for yourself!

Development Corner

Greenacres Scholarships Deliver Impact

In 2018, the Greenacres Foundation funded $20,000 worth of scholarships for HMI’s Regenerative Agriculture Scholarship Fund. To date those scholarships were used to train 60 people and support them in improving their business and land management practices through our online classes and distance learning in on-farm/ ranch decision-making and goal setting, cropping planning, grazing planning, and financial planning as well as providing additional training to help those interested in educating others develop their skills in HMI’s train the trainer program.

using sheep as a tool to heal the land. This is a huge achievement for me, because I want to improve the overall ecosystem health of Carabane. The agroforestry approach I used so far is weak in impact and high in cost and labor. The HMI approach seems to be a better option.”

Gena Pinheiro—Getting Started Introduction to Holistic Management Whole Farm/Ranch Planning

“One of the biggest things we gained was a paradigm shift. We no longer see ourselves as farmers, but rather stewards of the resources that have been put into our care – resource managers. The course gave us an introduction to understanding how nature functions and how we could harness that understanding to better care for our resources. Before this course, we didn’t always take the big picture into account before making decisions and now, it’s always center stage. Our hope is that we can continue building on the plethora of tools we’ve acquired through this course, to not only improve our personal and farm life, but also help others do the same.”

HMI is grateful to the Greenacres Foundation for their gift of these scholarship funds and to our many donors who also contribute to HMI’s Regenerative Agriculture Scholarship Fund.

Greenacres Scholarship Recipient Reflections

Below are a few reflections that some of HMI’s scholarship recipients have shared about their HMI training and how these scholarships have made a difference in their lives and their community:

Mika Diop—Holistic Grazing Planning

“I learned/ I am learning how to get the animals to the right place at the right time for the right reasons. So I do actually know how to start

Rianda

Brooks—Getting Started Introduction to Holistic Management Whole Farm/Ranch Planning

“The introductory course provided by HMI provided me with the rubric I needed to determine and articulate my needs, goals and vision. This course brought me a sense of clarity and gave me powerful tools for processing and assessment. I am now equipped with the knowledge and tools required to confidently develop a comprehensive plan for problem-solving and meeting goals whether regarding agriculture, or my work to advocate for environmental justice at the intersections of equity, health and climate resilience. I made a life-changing decision when I applied for the Holistic Management cohort, the effects of which will be felt by future generations of farmers in my family and in my community.”

Our Training Impact

HMI has measured post-program results achieved by our program participants and are pleased to report the following results as a reflection of the impact our training has provided to these participants:

• 54% trainees experienced increased net profit on an average of 39%

• 59% had increased forage and 47% had reduced feed costs

• 71% had improved herd health

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employee, producing 200 to 250 broilers per week, all year round. As well as running all the marketing and online orders, he spends many hours a week driving his van in and out of Madrid city to deliver his chickens to his clients at a very affordable price. Hopefully he will soon be able to delegate that chore, to spend more time with his family and provide more training.

The Association of Regenerative Agriculture organizes trainings at local level by demand (for farming schools and cooperatives, groups of farmers, local authorities...), putting together programs with local trainers wherever possible, and promotes these visions and practices in different media, online and offline. We generate freelyaccessible content and participate in all sorts of speaking events, meetings, congresses and wherever growing interest takes us. Our biggest dates in 2020 will be the 4th Regenerative Grazing Gathering to be held on September 23–26 in Zamora.

Celebrating Life and Hope

The day after my inspiring visit to Sandaraca in 2018 that confirmed so many things was International Woman’s Day. José Luis threw a party for the 15 employees on the farm, with cakes and a celebratory sign on the wall: “Thank you all for participating together in the regeneration of our Mother Earth.”

I sit here writing these words, exactly two years later, full of gratitude in my heart for farmers like José Luis and for all the women who support and encourage their men, often bringing in a salary that allows them to “explore this craziness”, as well as caring for the family and homes. Families like José Luis and Isabel, with their drive and passion, and their charming two daughters who already know how to move an electric fence and love to sit amongst the chickens, are the ones who ignite and keep alive the hope that we can change the world, in so many ways, one farm at a time, at an increasing pace, as the planet now needs urgently. We can do it, and we can show how. As the Poultree website states so clearly: “Welcome to the farming of the future.”

Ana Digon is the President of the Spanish Association of Regenerative Agriculture and can be reached at: coordinacion@agriculturaregenerativa.es

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the end of May through September there was a processing day scheduled for every two-three weeks and Sage and Kirk taught the volunteers how to participate and contribute to the processing.

Sage and Kirk built four chicken tractors together which they plan to use on neighboring pasture land in the future. There raised and sold a total of 180 birds on the 2.5 acres of pasture. They engaged numerous neighbors in the pastured poultry processing, but they still need to refine this system so that they can sustain the workload and be able to make it a profitable enough enterprise when they have to trade birds for processing help. HMI will be offering more Holistic Management training to Sage and Andrea and through our online training as well as using our online training of new farmers located in urban areas to be

Next year Sage & Andrea are planning to continue working with Kirk & Tamara and plan to begin to engage more of their neighbors, perhaps finding a young intern from the neighborhood to assist them. They are not only planning to produce pasture raised poultry again with the chicken tractors on their property and the Gadzia’s property, but will put energy towards working with neighboring landowners to incorporate other potential enterprises. They are also planning to dive deeper into biological monitoring and baseline monitoring of the soil health on all properties managed by the team.

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• 59% had a longer grazing season

Scholarships Provide a Lasting Impact

At HMI we believe that scholarships provide a lasting impact as these producers continue to improve land health and the profitability of their businesses. In doing so, they provide attendant ecosystem benefits to their community while staying in business and keeping working lands work.

If you would like to give to HMI’s scholarship fund, go to: https:// bit.ly/HMIscholarship