Working Cows - Regenerative Ranching to Maximize Profitability and Soil Health Gabe Brown and Dr. Temple Grandin Discuss Building a More Resilient Food System (WCP 459)
Richard Tufton and Claire Mackenzie of the Six Inches of Soil Podcast generously shared with me a conversation they hosted between Gabe Brown and Dr. Temple Grandin. This is a fascinating conversation that covers Dr. Temple Grandin's perspective on regenerative agriculture and some of her solutions to the fragility in our food system. We get some great back and forth between Gabe and Dr. Grandin. Thanks again to Richard and Claire for sharing this conversation!
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Gabe Brown's Previous Episodes:
Ep. 404 Gabe Brown and Dr. Allen Williams on Fixing America’s Broken Rural Economies
Ep. 402 Gabe Brown and Dr. Allen Williams – Fixing America’s Broken Water Cycle
Ep. 380 Gabe Brown, Dr. Allen Williams, and Fernando Falomir – Soil Health Academy Q and A
Ep. 388 Gabe Brown and Luke Jones – Making the Regenerative Shift
Ep. 361 Gabe Brown and Allen Williams – 2024 State of Agriculture
Ep. 305 Gabe Brown and Dr. Allen Williams – Matching Management to Context
Ep. 293 Gabe Brown and Matt McGinn – Transitioning to More Adaptive Stewardship
Ep. 290 Gabe Brown and Dr. Allen Williams – Three Rules of Adaptive Stewardship
Ep. 288 Gabe Brown and Shane New – Managing the Nutrient Cyle
Ep. 283 Gabe Brown and Dr. Allen Williams – The 6-3-4
Ep. 281 Gabe Brown and Dr. Allen Williams – The State of Agriculture in North America
Ep. 277 Gabe Brown – The State of the American Food System
Ep. 121 Gabe Brown – Heifer Development in Sync with Nature
Ep. 067 Gabe Brown – Dirt to Soil
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Host, producer: Richard Tufton
Co-host, producer: Claire Mackenzie
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Introduction:
Dr Grandin and Gabe explore how uniting animal welfare with regenerative agriculture and combining soil practices with Temple’s farming solutions, you have nature and nurture working together as one big metaphorical “hug machine”. This offers a communal hug, if you will, by enveloping the animal’s life with a safe, healthy, happy and tranquil environment, which we know will undoubtedly provide a better life for them.
Their conversations weave between regenerative agriculture, animal welfare, and consumer demand. The speakers discuss the importance of integrating livestock with crops, the challenges faced in modern agriculture, and the role of youth in shaping the future of farming. They emphasize the need for visual thinking and innovation in agricultural practices, as well as the impact of climate change on food production.
Featuring:
Dr Temple Grandin is an American scientist and industrial designer whose own experience with autism funded her professional work in creating systems to counter stress in certain human and animal populations.
Dr. Grandin did not talk until she was three and a half years old. She was fortunate to get early speech therapy. Her teachers also taught her how to wait and take turns when playing board games. She was mainstreamed into a normal kindergarten at age five.
Dr. Grandin became a prominent author and speaker on both autism and animal behavior. Today she is a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She also has a successful career consulting on both livestock handling equipment design and animal welfare. She has been featured on NPR (National Public Radio) and a BBC Special – "The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow". HBO made an Emmy Award winning movie about her life and she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
Gabe Brown
Gabe Brown is one of the pioneers of the current soil health movement which focuses on the regeneration of our resources. Gabe, along with his wife Shelly, and son Paul, ran Brown's Ranch, a diversified 5,000 acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota. Their ranch focuses on farming and ranching in nature's image.They have now transitioned ownership of the ranch over to their son, Paul and his wife, Jazmin.
Gabe authored the bestselling book, “Dirt to Soil, One Family’s Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture.”
Gabe is a partner and Board Member at Regenified and serves as the public face of the company. He is a founding partner in Understanding Ag, LLC.
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