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DEVELOPMENT CORNER Greenacres Foundation—
A Tale of Two Farms and Investing in Regenerative Agriculture BY CARTER RANDOLPH
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Site and conducting research in house and with university partners. Our research investments include working with Dr. Pat Keyser of the University of Tennessee to see if we can find an economical way to introduce warm season grasses which generally require a few years to establish. We are planting nurse crops so we can graze the pastures while the warm seasons establish their root systems. This study is taking place on a new farm we bought in 2018 and has just begun. We are also working with Dr. Jason Rowntree of Michigan State to determine what grass finished beef is and what are the best practices to get a high-quality meat. The first study is complete and was published in Meat and Muscle Magazine. As you can see from the chart below not
n 1949 Louis Nippert acquired the Greenacres Farm which was a spent corn and bean farm. He wanted to improve the soil so he planted grasses and introduced Black Angus cattle to act as buffalo and build the soil in the way the prairies had been built. The anecdotal evidence is that this approach worked but little actual data was recorded. This was our first investment in regenerative agriculture and focused on health from the soil up. In 1990 we altered the grazing model from cattle only to multi-species adding sheep and poultry to our farm. In 1988 we added an education component and in 2018 we had over 30,000 school children visit for organized lessons in environment, Greenacres funded grass finished meat study shows wide range of Omega 6:Omega 3 ratio—as much as a regenerative agriculture 1300% difference indicating wide range of grass finished beef production practices with attendant nutritional and the arts. In 2019, we variation as well. furthered our investment in Regenerative Agriculture by CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 becoming an HMI Learning
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