REGENERATIVE ORGANIC Cattle Ranch: How to REGENERATE 46,000 Acres of Wild Range
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- Alderspring Ranch boasts the largest Certified Organic ranch in the United States. Their 550 cattle are 100% Grass-Fed and Finished on 46,000 acres of wild mountain rangeland and a 1,650 acre ranch. This video tells the story of just how they manage cattle on such a vast landscape and why they believe raising cattle in a regenerative manner matters to human and ecosystem health.
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Beautiful! A man of wisdom. Before the War Between the States, this was done by the Bent family in Colorado. It was called wolfing the herd, to wander with the herd as wolves did. They were Cheyenne Metis and while Pappy and their mother, a Cheyenne, took care of the trading post, the kids guarded the herd. They were the ones, the original one as far as I know, to crossbreed bison and Longhorn cattle. This was common with Kiowa, who kept tame cattle, managing trhem like they did horses.
I love this.
This is great to see. I'd imagine that with this management system the forested areas will also have a chance to slowly expand or at least maintain their area due to reduced pressure on the saplings. It seems to be a mixture of open range and Silvio pasture which has been proven to be great for sequestration of carbon. Keep up the good work, it's important!
Thanks for watching! Yes, there's so much more that grazing in this way has the potential to positively affect. I wish I could have covered it all.
Its funny I actually drove right next to this ranch last summer and didn't even notice it.
love that you're making videos again!
Thanks for the words of encouragement and for watching these videos! I'm slow but persistent. I hope to keep making them.
I've watched other video's that talked about the importance of letting the land rest, but this might be the first I've heard of letting it rest for 3 years. With that long between grazing I hope that herd is putting down ALOT of fertilizer. And by fertilizer I mean manure. The regenerative thing seems to be making a comeback and I think it's a good thing. I was just surprised at the 3 year thing. To me these type video's show that when done Right raising livestock actually improves the land.
The rest period is highly dependent on the particular characteristics of each ecosystem. While interviewing and spending time with Glenn I came to realize how in tune he was with the land and the cattle. He knew so much about all of the different plants and their growth cycles. He's been living amongst them for a very long time. Look up Alderspring Ranch on Instagram and their website. They share a lot about their techniques.
I enjoyed learning about Alderspring Ranch, great video! The world needs more ranchers like this. This reminds me that the state of Idaho has roughly 100 Years of history as very productive sheep ranching region as well! I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to more videos in the future
Thanks so much for the comment and for subscribing to the channel! Be sure to check out some of the other videos on the channel if you're interested in other ranching operations.
Should be able to like vids more than once.
Glad you liked the video so much!
I had some problems understanding the guy with the music, but beautiful topic!
Greetings from Germany :)
Thanks for the feedback! Getting the audio right has been a challenge for me. I need to do some research and sort this out. Thanks for watching!
This was a terrific episode. Subbed. More regenerative stuff, please.
Thanks for the sub and comment! More coming but not as fast as I'd like.
Great job
Great story! Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely amazing!!
Love your videos! Fantastic!!!
Thanks for the support! Happy you enjoy them.
Regen grazing makes sense on so many levels, one of which is carbon sequestration when the animals mash that beautiful natural fertilizer into the ground. I would like to think that more ranchers out here in the scorched West will do this. What is the downside, really. Isn't it more lucrative?
It is surprising that more ranchers aren't grazing in this way given the many benefits. I think the primary reason most don't graze this way is because it requires more management and they're used to the current methods of raising cattle in feedlots. And cheap grain prices incentivizes ranchers to feed their cattle grain in feedlots. If consumers demand regenerative grazing practices and if laws change to provide incentives for ranchers to graze regeneratively, then we'll see more ranchers change their practices.
Reminds me of Greg Judy
Hi cowboy
Hey theirs this channel Griggs farms LLC on UA-cam and they have implemented regenative ag on a large scale corn and cotton farm, they would be a great example for other farmers who want to get into Regen ag but feel it's only can work on small farms or that you more land to produce the same amount of crop. I think a video about them would be really sick.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll look into their farm and see where it goes.
I liked your video, is there a new one on the way? If you have heard about Alejandro Carrillo I think his story sounds great and would love to see it told by you :D
Thanks Gordon! Yes, more videos are on the way but not as quickly as you and I want 😉. Alejandro Carrillo sounds familiar but I can't say that I know of him. Can you send me info about him?
Thank you so much for this video. Can I reach out to you for a call.
Hi Gilberto. Yes, I'd be happy to jump on a call. Let's first get connected by email. You can find my email address in the About section of my channel. Looking forward to talking.
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Do you really need this many riders or could it be done with 1 or 2 riders
Good question. They've been experimenting with this method for about 7 years. My guess is that they've settled on a number that works best given the size of the herd and the terrain/environment in which they work. When filming this I saw first hand (while on horseback myself) how necessary it was to have that many people on horseback in order create a "fence"around the herd to contain them and move them across rough terrain and wide open areas.
@@RegenerativeJourney was thinking back to the days of the range riders the oldtimers talk about when I was growing up how a couple of guys took care of 1000 to 1200 head of cows year around. I'm sure this is a little more intense type of management than they where doing.
@Chuck That's a good point. I do wonder what the differences are between Alderspring Ranch's Inherding methods and the old herding methods you heard about. I think having a historical perspective on agriculture is important. There's a lot we can learn by looking back, both good and bad.
No, it can't be done with 1 or 2 rider's, not with 400 head, even if it's a calm herd or with several dog's. For safety of the rider, horse's & cow's, it's best to have several. What a fun job that would be out there, in some beautiful country. 😊
Which state is this?
Idaho
What is the name of the host?
David Collins
If you're referring to the man being interviewed throughout the video, his name is Glenn Elzinga.
Very well made video and a good story.
I would say in-herding is just achieving herd-effect through herding.
Also grazing systems dont work. This can be understood if one replaces the word grazing with business, a business is not run according to a system but a plan, and so should grazing. The Holistic Planned Grazing process is the best planning process out there. He talks about he uses management intensive grazing which I would have liked to have heard more about, it doesn't seem to have officially recognized rules to follow if its a system or a process to follow if it is a planning process, however I would just recommend using HPG.
All this is taught in Holistic Management and I think the gentle man here were inspired by it, but I dont understand why he seems to have created his our own version and deviated from the original which is such a well tested and thought out framework.
His system, evidently is working fine. So why not ?
@Gustav Great questions and observations! It's difficult to cover everything in these videos and so I didn't provide much detail about how Glenn (rancher) did borrow from various different management systems to settle on what he now calls "Inherding". An integral aspect of Inherding is that it is adaptive. That just means that the team will change, or adapt, the day-to-day management of the cattle based on many different variables on the ranch or rangeland. So it very much is designed to be a flexible system.
love Their Instagram account.❤
Yes, they're an amazing bunch of people and share so many great things on their Instagram account.