Reading the Land
Rancher, holistic management educator talks ecosystem processes and why they’re important to cattle producers.
Archive Tag: ecosystem processes
3 Ways Ranchers Can Optimize the Water Cycle
Drill down into how to help your soils use and hold onto precious precipitation.
How Can I Tell if the Water Cycle is Broken (and What Can I Do to Fix It?)
Learn to spot the tell-tale signs on your ranch. And the No. 1 solution? Managing for healthier soils.
How Can I Tell if Community Dynamics Are Impaired (and What Can Fix Them?)
In “How to Keep Community Dynamics Healthy on the Ranch,” Noble consultant Will Moseley describes how the health and resilience of natural ecosystems are, in part, a result of diverse plants, soils, animals and disturbances. In regenerative ranching, we try to mimic natural ecosystems so that our soils, plants, animals and businesses are healthy and resilient as well.
How to Keep Community Dynamics Healthy on the Ranch
Biodiversity, a variety of plant functions and healthy plant succession work together to make good community dynamics.
What’s Good for Community Dynamics is Good For Our Ranches
Community dynamics help give us a snapshot of our ranch management. They also inform how we can make Noble’s ranch land healthier and more profitable.
5 Ways Noble Ranches Work with the Nutrient Cycle in Their Regenerative Operations
Nature leads the way in the quest for healthier soils and bottom lines.
How Can I Tell if the Energy Flow is Broken (And How Can I Fix it)?
In nature and in regenerative ranching, there are four ecosystem processes at work – the energy flow, water cycle, nutrient cycle and community dynamics. In an effective ecosystem, all four ecosystem processes are simultaneously highly functional. If any one of the four is disrupted or impaired in any way, the ecosystem itself is not highly functional.
Want to Optimize the Energy Flow on Your Ranch? Maintain Abundant Plant Leaves
The leaf is the primary part of a plant that captures sunlight for photosynthesis. For an optimum energy flow, we want abundant leaves.
How To Help – and Not Hurt – Nature’s Recycling System: The Nutrient Cycle
If we mimic how nutrients are cycled in natural grasslands, we’re off to a good start.