Cattle Ranchers and Earth Day
Welcome to Open Range, I’m Susan Allen. Stay tuned because after the break I’ll check in with our field reporter, Greg Martin for the AgriBeef Minute.
I’m Greg Martin with the Open Range AgriBeef Minute. When you live and work off the land Earth Day can mean something a whole lot different to you. Kim Brackett is a cow/calf producer in southern Idaho.
BRACKETT: First and foremost Earth Day is the day we celebrate what we do to help our environment and I think that ties in with the cattle industry in the fact that that is something we do every day. Every day we’re out there trying to be a good steward of the land and taking care of what we have.
Brackett talks about one way they work with the earth.
BRACKETT: On average each cattleman has 13 different practices in place to accomplish different environmental goals. I can think of several that we have here on our ranch. We run on arid high desert country and we pipe in water so we have live water through all that country with water troughs that provide water for all the wildlife in the area in addition to our livestock of course.
And finally she says they are actually using a part of land that otherwise is not usable.
BRACKETT: The fact that our cattle are out there eating grasses and other forbs that are not consumable in the human diet. It’s not tillable land, it can’t be farmed for crops for humans so when cattle are out there grazing those grasses and those forbs we’re able to convert that into beef and that beef is used to feed the global global population.
I’m Greg Martin and that’s today’s AgriBeef Minute.
Thanks Greg. Don’t forget Greg will be back each Wednesday with the AgriBeef Minute. Agri Beef Co - Real Families, Great People, Exceptional Beef. I’m Susan Allen.
