Yeah, it's a life long endeavor for ranchers to figure out how to gain full soil functionality and have enough land to support the appropriate amount of ruminants to remain healthy (not exaggerated) profitability. After reading Holistic Management (Alan Savory) and a ton of books from Gabe Brown, John Kempf, Frank Pons, Paul Stamets etc. it seems clear that the damage we have done to soil seems overwhelming. So many farmers/ranchers are simply too old and too locked in to move away from the way that has worked for them for decades. Will Harris (White Oak Pastures) is still knee-deep in revamping his soils and it's an ongoing practice for Joel Salatin and has been for decades. Still, so many more ag people are taking on this work. I'm bullish on the whole space.

Sounds like our personal libraries have the same books lol

I know you are, but the problem here is people watch something like cowspiracy and think it applies to here because we speak the same language. Thankfully standards here are pretty good because the farms are much smaller and there are not so many large feedlot operations.

Savory explained this all so well. He was able to speak effectively to broad audiences. Every time I think about savory. I recall how sad that his first organization HRM switched focus from grazing to more social issues. Did he get subverted by his NGO board in the early 2000s? The core mission got diluted by wokish tangetiles (chasing donors?) and probably set back broader US grazing adoption by at least 20 years He left his own organization to start over again. I never heard the official story why. Fix the foundations first (logjams). money and land. Other things will become easier to address.