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FOREST INK: Making a case for converting crop land to pastureland

An advocate for grasslands hopes for improved grazing practices to support healthier and more sustainable agricultural practices and grasslands in the west
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Jim Hilton is a retired forester.

Author Richard Manning, in an article entitled Graze Anatomy, introduces two ranchers who have a mission. Will Winter and Todd Churchill have a plan to shrink our carbon foot print, expand biodiversity and wildlife habitat, promote human health, humanize farming, control rampant flooding, radically reduce our use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers and produce  a guilt free steak. What is their plan?

“Let cows eat grass.

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