Small business resilience during COVID-19

Mar 16, 2020 5:54:22 PM / by Christine Su posted in regeneration rising, ranchers, soil health, community

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As COVID-19 continues to develop, here at PastureMap we wanted to check in with a message of care for our community. Rest assured that all our operations will continue - we are fortunate to be a remote team that is already working from home in California and Texas. CK will be continue to be available for all PastureMap operations and support. 

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FastCompany Highlights Regenerative Ranching and Soil Health in Green New Deal Coverage

Jun 28, 2019 4:57:26 PM / by Christine Su posted in carbon sequestration, regeneration rising, regenerative agriculture, sustainable agriculture, grazing management, grazing planning, soil health

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We are very grateful that Ainsley Harris at FastCompany highlighted regenerative ranching in full long-form coverage today. This was a several month process of working with a thoughtful journalist on soil health, research studies, invitations to conferences, etc.. We learned a lot about how much it takes for a smart, engaged journalist to ramp up on an issue as complex and in-depth as regenerative agriculture.

Read FastCompany's full coverage here: The Green New Deal Wants Farmers to Restore the Land, Not Keep Wrecking It

Please share widely. Mainstream media and thoughtful journalists are beginning to take notice.

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PastureMap and Point Blue Conservation Science launch soil health mapping platform

Jun 12, 2019 2:25:53 PM / by PastureMap Team posted in carbon sequestration, future of tech, Industry News, regenerative agriculture, grazing management, soil health, soil data

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PastureMap and Point Blue Conservation Science have launched the first mapping platform that combines soil health and grazing records for ranchers in California. Point Blue monitors soil health on 90 ranches across California. Their research has shown exciting soil health results from adaptive grazing since 2015. PastureMap's ranch management software enables ranchers to see soil health improvements side by side with their grazing management records. As ranchers use PastureMap in the field to plan cattle grazing, they can now see and adjust grazing management decisions that affect long term soil health.

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Social Soil Building I: Reflections on Running a Regenerative Business

Mar 26, 2019 4:05:00 PM / by Christine Su posted in future of tech, new farmers and ranchers, PastureMap Journey, regeneration rising, soil health

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A version of this post first appeared July 2018. This March 2019 update precedes the Grassfed Exchange: Regeneration Rising 2019 conference.
 
Many of us in the soil health movement like to think of ourselves as regenerative businesses. But a regenerative mindset isn’t only about land, animals, and plants. Building a regenerative business means including ourselves. We need to invest in what Nikki Silvestri calls social soil building.

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Soil Carbon Curious Part III: How Can Farmers and Ranchers Get Paid for Sequestering Soil Carbon?

Mar 25, 2019 12:01:00 PM / by Christine Su posted in carbon sequestration, soil health, soil data

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This is part of a three-part blog Soil Carbon Curious series powered by our partners at Elemental Excelerator.

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Soil Carbon Curious Part II: Making Soil Carbon Data Useful

Mar 19, 2019 1:58:00 PM / by Christine Su posted in carbon sequestration, soil health, soil data

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This is part of a three-part blog Soil Carbon Curious series powered by our partners at Elemental Excelerator. Along with this educational series, PastureMap is working with Point Blue Conservation Science to integrate soil health data from California ranchers into the PastureMap platform.

If you haven't already, click here to read Part I: The Current State of Soil Health Technology.

So you’re soil carbon curious, and you’re committed to building soil carbon baseline data. One of the key questions our producers ask is - how can I make soil tests useful? You want your soil data to provide value to your management decisions. That means being able to track change over time and comparing soil data to each other over time.

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First Australian carbon credit units issued to a soil carbon grazing project

Mar 14, 2019 2:03:00 PM / by Christine Su posted in carbon sequestration, soil health, soil data

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Heartening news today in the soil carbon grazing world. Australia leads the way in a world-first in issuing soil carbon credits under the Emissions Reduction Fund. These are the first soil carbon credits to count towards Australia's national targets under Paris, and the first soil carbon credits worldwide be eligible under Paris agreement.

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Soil Carbon Curious Part I: The Current State of Soil Health Technology

Mar 13, 2019 3:05:08 PM / by Christine Su posted in carbon sequestration, soil health, soil data

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This is part of a three-part blog Soil Carbon Curious series powered by our partners at Elemental Excelerator. Along with this educational series, PastureMap is working with Point Blue Conservation Science to integrate soil health data from California ranchers into the PastureMap platform.

It’s no secret that we’re soil carbon curious at PastureMap. Soil carbon represents a massive opportunity to help farmers and ranchers improve the health of their grasslands and sequester carbon. According to Project Drawdown, managed grazing and silvopasture practices have the potential to sequester over 47 gigatons of carbon by 2050.

Better grazing management also makes farmers more profitable. Healthy soil improves water holding capacity, which helps your land make the most of rainfall. Healthy soil life increases the land’s natural productivity, reducing input costs, and improving profitability.

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