The reason I am in ranching is that I want to increase the amount of life in the world and, in my small way, ranching provides the best opportunity for me to do that. So with that being the goal, I need measures of how […]

I need to practice what I preach.     This week I am going to take a deeper dive into some of the themes discussed last week, “taller vegetation” and the biodiversity depression that goes along with it. I got some pushback on Facebook around […]

Savanna. It’s official.     Last episode, I left you with a real cliff-hanger. Is the water too high? With cattle coming in twelve hours, will Nate have a wreck? Sorry to have kept you in suspense for so long but here goes with the […]

You and I and every living organism on this planet possess an unbroken legacy that stretches back 3.9 Billion years. Not once during that entire period was our genetic chain broken. Never did our ancestors fail. Not once did they receive a bailout. Genes are […]

Both the left and the right get it wrong on this issue. No surprise there. The left thinks that a tax can fix this whole global warming thing. No problem. However, ninety-five percent of the people in the world are housed, fed, transported, etc., by […]

Hell yes! is the two-word answer. But the important thing is the question, which is what I will deal with most in this post. There have been many think pieces in the past few years about whether we should take tissue from extinct animals and […]

For some reason, Richard Coniff’s March 17 opinion in the New York Times made me think of a story my wife tells. She once put two goats in the back of her Subaru wagon to bring them to a friend in San Francisco who didn’t […]

The things that make technology great are the things that make human consciousness great. At the same time, the shortcomings of our consciousness are magnified by technology. Human consciousness and technology have long been one interacting system; you could call it techno-consciousness. If we are […]

The dogs in the picture above have been genetically altered (using Instagram’s algorithm) for maximum cuteness/social media impact. I am amazed at the amount of attention we give to GMOs. The left would have you believe that were it not for GMOs our agriculture would […]

The Bentgrass Blog articulates a worldview that threads the needle between the techno-fantasies of the futurists and the head-in-the-sand tactics of the luddites. So, I would be negligent if I didn’t take the opportunity to comment on CRISPR in real time. And make a pitch […]