A recent US study found that “adaptive multi-paddock grazing” sequesters so much carbon that “emissions… were completely offset".
NSW practitioner Martin Royds says this not only benefits the environment but can increase profits by 230 per cent.
Plus, you get the odd hamburger.
Grazing doesn’t require treelessness.
Indeed, pastoral ruminants delight in paddock trees for shade and fodder.
Compare your average paddock of chickpeas or soy, a clear-felled monoculture that requires annual ploughing (denaturing the soil and killing its microbial culture) and broadscale poisoning of “weeds” before planting, not to mention petroleum-based fertilisers.
Fifty years of this and what soil remains is thoroughly dead.
Regenerative grazing, by contrast, can produce beef that is carbon-neutral or even carbon-negative.
Managed into intensive but fast-moving grazing, cattle eat grasses without killing them, trample nitrogen and fibrous dung into the soil, then move on.
Because the grasses are perennial, this deepens soil instead of destroying it, from 300mm to 1500mm in a few years, multiplying water-holding capacity by eight and sustaining the complex microbial ecosystems that release soil nutrients and exchange them with plants for sugars.
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