Grass Roots Up Co-Operative Limited

2019 AGM - Come if you can - if not perhaps you can bellor about it any way. https://www.facebook.com/events/2290066707906458/

All that is needed is the stable investment on the farms.

https://chriskresser.com/why-you-should-think-twice-about-/

Ok, I just have to get something off my chest. Everytme we post on here about how integral livestock are to the worlds carbon building process in soils, we STIL...L have to hear from all the people saying that "we need to eat less meat, because we just cant produce enough food for the worlds population from pastured livestock" and repeat the same old tired BS arguments about plant based diets are the only way to feed humanity and how livestock production is eliminating wildlife habitat. Let me point out a few FACTS: 1. the worlds rangelands comprise an area approximately 4 times that of the worlds cropland (18 billion acres versus 4.6 billion acres). These areas are in rangeland because they cannot grow crops. believe me, if they could they would. with status quo management, crops make more money per acre than grazing, but only on highly productive soil. These areas can NOT be used to grow crops. 2. Status quo methods of raising crops (using tillage, as roughly 70% of the worlds cropland is tilled) deplete soil carbon. In my area, which has been tilled for only 130 years, we have already depleted two thirds of our original soil carbon. The number one reason for soil degradation is soil erosion caused by tillage for annual crops. 3. Perennial grasslands are the fastest way to build soil carbon. 4. Perennial grasslands produce plant materials that are inedible to humans. They can however, be harvested by ruminants and converted into highly nutritious meat or milk. The grazing process also converts the above ground forage into manure, the decay of which produces more to soil carbon than the original plant material from which it came. 5. Growing crops is relatively simple, and most farmers do a fairly good job of maximizing their yield potential for their climatic conditions. The average US corn yield, for example, is about one third of the record US corn yield. However, growing crops in the status quo method involves the application of large amounts of fertilizers and either tillage or herbicides for weed control. On very few crop farms can I walk onto a farm and tell them of one or two simple management changes that can double, triple, or quadruple their yield. 6. Most grazing operations are operating at a mere fraction of what they could produce with better grazing management. Managing grazing for optimum livestock yield from pasture is mentally complex, but the fossil fuel inputs (fertilizer, fuel, etc) are quite minimal. I can walk onto almost every pastured livestock operation and make a few suggestions that IF ADOPTED will double, triple, or quadruple their per acre meat production. People who merely observe the per acre meat yields of status quo pasture and compare them to yields of food per acre from cropland are comparing the yield from poor land that cannot grow crops with a normal management that is poor, to crops grown on much better land (often with irrigation) under a system of management that is near optimum. We are barely scratching the production potential of most rangelands to produce meat. 7. Because both soil carbon sequestration and meat production are directly correlated to the same underlying process that fuels them both (photosynthesis) maximizing meat production also increases soil carbon sequestration. 8. When pastured livestock are produced under optimum management (adaptive multipaddock grazing of diverse pastures) and on good soil typically reserved for crops, the production can be quite astounding. On my own farm, which was seasonally irrigated cropland that was converted to pasture, I produced about 300 cow-calf grazing days per acre. COmpare this to the status quo on unplowed native rangeland (the rocky soil that could not be plowed, and with unmanaged continuous season long rgrazing) of 25 cow-calf grazing days per acre. This is a twelve fold increase in production. It is easy to see what is; it can be difficult to see what could be. 9. The carbon balance of cropland can be greatly improved by inserting cover crops in between cash crops. Many farmers do not do this because of the cost of the cover crop seed, and the negative effect on short term cash flow. Cover crops can quickly pay their way int he short term if they are grazed by livestock. Since most cover crops produce high quality pasture at times of the year when perennial pasture grasses are either low in quality or not productive, this is a win-win for both the livestock producer and the soil in the crop field. The livestock pay for the cover crop, and paying for the practice is crucial for adoption. 10. Land used to grow crops displaces wildlife habitat; land used for grazing IS wildlife habitat.

About time https://annals.org//2/meat-consumption-health-food-thought

Thank you for all the new likes. We started in 2012 in hopes of forming a structure similar to this so those who wanted good grass fed beef for their health could get it. More later but enjoy. https://youtu.be/SCbXthSh7-c

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Worth watching, especially charts towards end showing grass fed meat and milk fats of the land and their role in human health. It is our reason for being. :)

Please share away. To give credit where it is due: Thank you Deb and Thor for embracing this/ these important issues and congratulations on the release of this fantastic film.

Community can benefit...if community shares in the financial risk needed to sustain the herd.

Wondering about how what you eat affects human health? Join us on Wednesday evening for talk by a human health professional to learn some answers.

AGM update. Plans are for 7pm in Brookdale (Amherst) on April 18th. Stay posted for details. In the meantime...grazed beef and butter ...good for your health, good for the cattle and good for the planet... Please read the article linked below.

Hard to believe it has been 5 years since we founded Grass Roots Up so that the community that benefits from Grazing livestock, the farm (grass roots) up to the table and all secondary industries relying on the farm for product and the consumer for income could work together to improve the vitality of all.

Why are we a cooperative? This helps a little. Grass Roots Up Co-Operative Limited is a hybrid of Farmer, Consumer and worker

We hope you can join us for our speaker Av Singh and then stay to learn more about Grass Roots Up at our 5th Annual General Meeting. More details now available on our website: http://grassrootsupcoop.ca/event/2017-agm/

From several years ago but relevant to day more than ever. Changing your body's ability to heal can happen quickly by changing diet. Come to our AGM on Tuesday evening to find out more.

Two of our directors attended a three day conference organized by Dr. Kaayla Daniel in the fall of 2015. Home made & home grown grass fed bone broth will be available at this years agm to try. In her talk Dr. Daniels tells that industrial broths and soups are not what they used to be. You will learn one of the reasons why at out pre AGM talk on April 25th by Dr. Av Singh : "This ain't your mama's kitchen- GMOs, Irradiation, and Glyphosate " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZrgETZzb0A

This link may help explain why our mandate is so important. It is no accident that the US Constitution protects a right to property...Did not Benjamin Franklin spent time with Quesnay in France. For society to thrive there needs to be stable long term investment in sustainable agriculture...http://www.encyclopedia.com//economics-bi/francois-quesnay

For those who do not believe grass fattened beef can be marbled at 16 to 28 months fattened right off grass.

Does he follow Quesnay? His country has a positive economy, social programs & cattle are plenty and he shuns frivolity.

Beef raised to have "smart" fats is also good for the environment...see other posts on this page

This foundation is a good source of information for those who wish to read more.

A not so evident benefit of grazing cattle...serenity...even in video they have a calming effect.

Agriculture and farms, and cooperatives, banking and solutions to unemployment...all by society investing in farms...go to the last page where there is a call to shame government into harnessing "organic power" to revitalize the economy..........a much better means to revitalization than the war that brought employment instead.

Please check out Susan Beaton's commentary on save our nova Scotia (SONS) page...

All humanity, atheists and those who claim a faith, governments, consumers, must work together to help farmers fight climate change if creation is to continue to be home to mankind.