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Making a Farm Financially Resilient
At Understanding Ag, we often talk about how focusing on the Six Soil Health Principles leads to resiliency of the Four Ecosystem Processes on our farms. That is extremely important and doing so certainly significantly lowers input costs, helping to make our farms more profitable, but if we genuinely want our farm to be financially […]
4 Ecosystem Processes: Nutrient Cycle (Part 1)
The nutrient cycle is one of the four foundational ecosystem processes, along with the energy cycle, water cycle, and cycle of life. It’s also one of the most overlooked drivers of farm profitability and long-term resilience. Just think about what you spend on ag inputs every year. Whether you’re a farmer, rancher, gardener or “yardener”, […]
Diversity. Life. Profit. Rediscovering Opportunity Through Crop Diversity
New Season Brings New Opportunities As we come into a new planting season, it’s easy to get excited about new opportunities. I’ll admit that for many years the idea of polycropping, intercropping-or whatever fancy term came along next-felt pretty intimidating to me. You’ve likely heard of The Three Sisters Method, but how do we apply […]
Virtual Fencing: Fad or Technological Breakthrough?
We live in The Digital Age, and for the first time in a long while it appears that a new technology is emerging that could truly revolutionize the way we graze livestock. But is our growing dependence on technology necessarily a good thing? Is this really what our industry needs? Virtual fencing is becoming commercially […]
Making Cover Crops Pay Double Dividends with Grazing
By Brian Dougherty
When the combine leaves the field in the fall, most farms enter a biological pause as plant life halts, soil life slows, and temperatures drop. Planting a fall cover crop changes that trajectory.
A Deeper Look at Winter Stockpile Grazing on Midwestern Cattle Operations
By John Hays, Understanding Ag, LLC Winter feed costs are typically a significant part of the annual cost to carry cattle, especially here in the Midwestern United States. There was a point in time that I believed that the only way to feed cattle during midwestern winters was to feed harvested forages. We would spend […]
Working With Nature, Not Against Her
By Gabe Brown, Understanding Ag, LLC I recently read an article in a regional magazine focusing on the importance of electricity for rural consumers. I certainly will not argue the need for farms to have a stable supply of reasonably priced electricity; however, one of the reasons stated caused me to pause. A farmer being […]
Beast of Burden- Finding Purpose in our Toiling
Beast of Burden By: Kyle Richardville Many years ago, I was lucky to be part of a bible study in college which investigated the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes. The lesser-known book of Ecclesiastes is part of the wisdom literature in the Old Testament, along with the book of Job, Proverbs and many Psalms. […]
Regeneration on the Rise
How a Manitoba farmer’s regenerative practices ‘superpower’ his flour with flavor and nutrients. By Ron Nichols In the heart of western Manitoba, Chris Raupers walks the land he and his family farm with quiet conviction. It’s the same land where wheat is grown, harvested, stone-milled, and packaged into bags of flour that bear the Engrained […]
Keys to Cattle Comfort in the Heat of the Summer
By: Allen R Williams, Ph.D. We live and farm in the Deep South. That means hot and humid conditions are the norm through our sultry summers and into the fall months. It also means we have an obligation to our livestock. What are some key factors we must consider to make sure our animals are […]
Heal The Soil, Heal Ourselves
From chronic disease to broken communities, regeneration offers a path to restore what matters most. By: Gabe Brown Here’s the plain truth: America’s in trouble because we’ve broken our relationship with land, food, and one another. We’ve traded nourishment for convenience, community for consolidation, and health for hollow calories. Regeneration is not just about farming—it’s […]
Regeneration begins not in the soil, but in the soul:
How ‘Belief’ Empowers Regenerative Success. By Clayton Handy, UA Consultant, Farmer What Rabbits, Placebos, and Regenerative Farming All Have in Common In the late 1970s, a team of scientists conducting a study on heart disease in rabbits made a startling discovery. They fed all the rabbits a high-fat diet to induce arterial plaque, expecting uniform […]