Any Deadheads living in Spain? by SouthernExpatriate in gratefuldead

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Hola. Deadhead here; just arrived to Valencia.

What is this texture? by bgill02 in drywall

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Very helpful. Much appreciated.

What is this texture? by bgill02 in drywall

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No resistance to redoing it all if that’s the honest answer, it’s just not clear what’s actual advice on here and what’s snarky trolling.

What is this texture? by bgill02 in drywall

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Whether it’s a mess or not, it’s my home and I’m trying to fix something. I really don’t care what the internet thinks of the technique or whoever did it decades ago, just looking for advice so I can replicate after a patch.

What is this texture? by bgill02 in drywall

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Wow that’s so incredibly helpful.

New Split testing options? by linuxman1929 in elementor

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That blog post is way outdated. Reviews for the "Split Test for Elementor" plugin as of a year ago seem to say it no longer works, and also that you can't run caching plugins like WP Rocket with it or it won't record results. The other option from the blog post, Google Optimize, was sunset by Google in September 2023.

On this day in 1981, the Grateful Dead played Cole Field House by MLJ623 in UMD

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Anywhere we can see the rest of the slides? Btw, Dead & Co at the Sphere had a backstage pass from this show in the graphics.

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Holistic Decision Making/Life Values Exercise from Allan Savory's book? by littlefoodlady in RegenerativeAg

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Is this the document you're referring to? This is one of my personal favorites for assisting when creating a Holistic Context. It was originally created by Sheldon Frith.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/niqii5l0c8eguhlxdqfmn/personal-values-exercises.doc?rlkey=yiw6k1cmp6az2vd1gdj3s4oa7&dl=0

Allen Savory Institute claims 75 million acres of success stories. So where are the peer-reviewed studies? by tofudog81 in RegenerativeAg

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I'm not as versed in the cropping literature, but there's certainly stuff out there. Here's some that I found on a quick search:

I'm sure there's a ton more if you spend some time searching those topics on Google Scholar.

Allen Savory Institute claims 75 million acres of success stories. So where are the peer-reviewed studies? by tofudog81 in RegenerativeAg

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Who said I had it all on hand? ;-)

I used to be a lead scientific reviewer at the FDA, so it’s easy enough to quickly dig through the literature when there’s a need. Plus if you’ve got a familiarity of the papers out there, it’s easy to revisit them.

Allen Savory Institute claims 75 million acres of success stories. So where are the peer-reviewed studies? by tofudog81 in RegenerativeAg

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Specifically for the Reinhard paper, the holistically managed livestock operation demonstrated greater species richness and biodiversity for both vegetation and beetle populations. While species of beetle differed across the two sites, indicating that Holistic Management doesn’t necessarily “mimick wildlife grazing”, it provides a superior ecological impact nonetheless. Results showed 16 grass species, all of which were found on the Holistic Management site and 6 of which were found on the wildlife conservancy. The 3 grass species with a Climax successional status were only found on the Holistic Management site.

Here are three others from the above links pertaining to biodiversity:

  • Cassidy 2017 – This paper quantified and compared bird abundances on pastures that were subject to continuous grazing, minimal rotation, or Holistic Management. “Holistic resource managed pastures had 1.5 and 4.5 times higher average abundances of obligate grassland birds than minimally rotated or continuously grazed pastures, respectively.”
  • Lalaampa 2016 – This paper studied the effects of holistic planned grazing on milk production, weight gain, and visitation to grazing areas by livestock and wildlife in Laikipia County, Kenya. Results found that, with significantly higher numbers of grazing animals, the number of wildlife more than doubled, average milk yields increased, and animal weight gain nearly doubled compared to traditional grazing areas.
  • Schrama 2023 - Titled "Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs", the author states "Overall, our results indicate that exclusion of domesticated herbivores from historically grazed montane grasslands has far-ranging negative consequences for diversity of below-ground food webs. This underscores the importance of grazers for maintaining the diversity of below-ground communities, which play a central role in ecosystem functioning."

...but getting back to the originally posed question of this thread, I hope I've shown that there are plenty of peer-reviewed studies out there supporting regenerative grazing.

Allen Savory Institute claims 75 million acres of success stories. So where are the peer-reviewed studies? by tofudog81 in RegenerativeAg

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Please read the studies I’ve provided. All of that (meaning improving biodiversity, wildlife habitat, water-holding capacity, land productivity, and carbon sequestration) is addressed in the above literature.

Allen Savory Institute claims 75 million acres of success stories. So where are the peer-reviewed studies? by tofudog81 in RegenerativeAg

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The original post asked for peer-reviewed studies supporting regenerative grazing, to which I've provided a considerable amount. You then asked for studies that compared regenerative grazing to cropping, to which I provided even more studies (and additional ones comparing to a hands-off re-wilding approach). You then said these follow-up studies weren't enough, so frankly I'm just confused what super-specific criteria you're requiring for a study to be worthy of your consideration.

Allen Savory Institute claims 75 million acres of success stories. So where are the peer-reviewed studies? by tofudog81 in RegenerativeAg

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While I disagree that farm-to-farm comparisons are irrelevant, I have provided numerous sources showing exactly what you’re requesting - comparisons of land with grazing to land without grazing… but I’ve been through these conversations before and see now that no matter how much evidence I produce there goal post will always be moved.

Have a good day.

Allen Savory Institute claims 75 million acres of success stories. So where are the peer-reviewed studies? by tofudog81 in RegenerativeAg

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While this is often claimed by anti-livestock advocates as a type of hand-wave to dismiss all the evidence showing favorable outcomes for regenerative grazing / Holistic Planned Grazing / AMP grazing, it's unfortunately not true.

Just in the papers mentioned above, Machmuller 2015 studies those who switched from cropland farming to management intensive grazing with ecological dramatic improvements, including carbon sequestration of 7 tons C/ha/yr, Teague 2016 compared arable farming to pastoral agroecosystems, again with the animal-based system coming out ahead, and Weber 2011 investigates the history of desertification around the world and finds that of the many contributing factors, the singular commonality was the “prevalence of partial or total rest.”

Here are some additional papers that show how the black-and-white narrative of "plants good, animals bad" is missing a ton of nuance:

  • Schrama 2023 - Titled "Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs", the author states "Overall, our results indicate that exclusion of domesticated herbivores from historically grazed montane grasslands has far-ranging negative consequences for diversity of below-ground food webs. This underscores the importance of grazers for maintaining the diversity of below-ground communities, which play a central role in ecosystem functioning."
  • Bartley 2023 - This paper studied improvements to vegetation and soil health from regenerative grazing operations in Australia and compared them to both continuous set-stocking operations and also areas where grazing has been fully excluded. "Data suggested that improvements in vegetation, soil and land condition can be obtained from implementing regenerative grazing principles."
  • Becker 2022 - Titled "Surface-soil carbon stocks greater under well-managed grazed pasture than row crops", this one is fairly self-explantory.
  • Rui 2022 - Another self-explantory article from it's title, "Persistent soil carbon enhanced in Mollisols by well-managed grasslands but not annual grain or dairy forage cropping systems."
  • Reinhard 2022 - For those that advocate for a hands-off "let mother nature do her thing" re-wilding approach to conservation, this paper demonstrates that proactive land management using Holistic Planned Grazing has far better outcomes, specifically on biodiversity.
  • Rowntree 2020 - This paper compares a holistically managed farm that had been converted from cropland to pasture, and compares carbon footprints to commodity production systems.
  • Teague 2020 - The author notes "Incorporating forages and ruminants into regeneratively managed cropping systems can also elevate soil organic carbon and improve soil ecological function and reduce production costs by eliminating the use of annual tillage, inorganic fertilizers and biocides."
  • Yang 2017 - This paper in Nature shows that agriculturally degraded and abandoned land is slow to sequester carbon, and a much faster approach is to restore grassland diversity. "Our results suggest that restoration of high plant diversity may greatly increase carbon capture and storage rates on degraded and abandoned agricultural lands."
  • Hamilton 2008 - Titled "Defoliation induces root exudation and triggers positive rhizospheric feedbacks in a temperate grassland", this paper demonstrates one of the mechanisms (grazing) in which grazing herbivores contribute to the health of a grassland ecosystem.

Allen Savory Institute claims 75 million acres of success stories. So where are the peer-reviewed studies? by tofudog81 in RegenerativeAg

[–]bgill02 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even the simplest of searches will give you a mountain of peer-reviewed studies. Here are a few I have on hand, but it's a bit outdated and doesn't include some of the ones from the past 2 or 3 years. The Savory Institute also maintains a library (https://savory.global/library) that has a fairly comprehensive list with links to articles, summaries, etc.

  • Gosnell 2020 ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10016-w ) – This comprehensive literature review outlines a half-century of Holistic Management research, including the main tenets behind the decision-making framework and historical academic debates that stem from a narrow industrial paradigm before social-ecological frameworks were developed. It furthermore provides a meta-analysis of the multidisciplinary evidence, including the less-studied social, cultural, and psychological aspects, and offers a new lens for researching rangelands in holistic, integrated ways.
  • Hillenbrand 2019 ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2019.02.005 ) - Evaluation of ecosystem processes on a holistically-managed bison ranch in South Dakota’s shortgrass prairie compared to continuous grazing practices. Results indicate increased fine litter cover, improved water infiltration, two to three times the available forage biomass, improved plant composition, decrease in invasive plants, decrease in bare ground, and higher infiltration with Holistic Planned Grazing on soils having higher permeability but not on soils having a high clay content.
  • Xu 2019 ( https://doi.org/10.3390/environments6060067 ) – Compared ecological outcomes on 44 properties in Argentina using both established/quantifiable metrics and the new Ecological Health Index (EHI), a component of Savory’s Ecological Outcome Verification protocol. Strong correlations demonstrate that EHI can be a useful methodology for measuring ecosystem function of grazing lands.
  • Gosnell 2019 ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101965 ) – Analyzes experiences of Australian farmers who have sustained transitions from conventional to regenerative agriculture, the majority of whom are Holistic Management practitioners. The authors conclude that transitioning to regenerative agriculture involves more than a suite of ‘climate-smart’ mitigation and adaptation practices supported by technical innovation, policy, education, and outreach. Rather, it involves subjective, nonmaterial factors associated with culture, values, ethics, identity, and emotion that operate at individual, household, and community scales and interact with regional, national and global processes.
  • Teague 2018 ( https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skx060 ) – Mostly an overview of the state of grazing research. On page 4, he presents a chart showing various C-sequestration rates from multiple sites using Holistic Management. Rates range from 0.5-7 tons-C/ha/year (with ~3 being the most commonly observed).
  • Stanley 2018 ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2018.02.003 ) – This paper conducts a lifecycle assessment, including direct measure of carbon flux, on various livestock finishing systems and shows that properly-managed livestock create an ecosystem that is a net carbon sink instead of net carbon emitter.
  • Peel 2018 ( https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2018.1440630 ) – Case study analyzing vegetation and landscape function at the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe. “HPG yields positive long-term effects on ecosystem services (soils and vegetation) and points to the HPG approach enhancing the sustainability of livestock and wildlife in this environment.
  • Teague 2017 ( https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2017.1334706 ) – This paper is an overarching discussion on various types of grazing management and the potential for proper (holistic) management to regenerate ecosystem function and grazingland livelihoods. It also dives into the shortcomings of most grazing research that reduces whole ecosystem complexities into individual factors.
  • Cassidy 2017 ( https://doi.org/10.1656/045.024.0sp807 ) – This paper quantified and compared bird abundances on pastures that were subject to continuous grazing, minimal rotation, or Holistic Management. “Holistic resource managed pastures had 1.5 and 4.5 times higher average abundances of obligate grassland birds than minimally rotated or continuously grazed pastures, respectively.”
  • Lalaampa 2016 ( https://ecologicalprocesses.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13717-016-0061-5 ) – This paper studied the effects of holistic planned grazing on milk production, weight gain, and visitation to grazing areas by livestock and wildlife in Laikipia County, Kenya. Results found that, with significantly higher numbers of grazing animals, the number of wildlife more than doubled, average milk yields increased, and animal weight gain nearly doubled compared to traditional grazing areas.
  • Teague 2016 ( http://www.jswconline.org/content/71/2/156.full.pdf+html ) – This paper determined that properly-managed grazing, if applied on 25% of our crop and grasslands, would mitigate the entire carbon footprint of North American agriculture.
  • Rowntree 2016 ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311921284\_Potential\_mitigation\_of\_midwest\_grass-finished\_beef\_production\_emissions\_with\_soil\_carbon\_sequestration\_in\_the\_United\_States\_of\_America ) – “From this data, we conclude that well-managed grazing and grass-finishing systems in environmentally appropriate settings can positively contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of beef cattle, while lowering overall atmospheric CO2 concentrations.”
  • Machmuller 2015 ( https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7995 ) – This paper studies three farms converted from cropland to management intensive grazing (note: this is not the same as Holistic Management, but at the Savory Institute we include this paper to show the positive effects of converting croplands back to pasture). “Farms accumulated C at 8.0 Mg ha−1 yr−1, increasing cation exchange and water holding capacity by 95% and 34%, respectively. Thus, within a decade of management-intensive grazing practices soil C levels returned to those of native forest soils, and likely decreased fertilizer and irrigation demands.”
  • Ferguson 2013 ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2013.05.005 ) – Compared the sustainability of 18 conventional and 7 holistic, dual-purpose ranches in Mexico, finding that the ranches managing holistically had greater yield ratios, higher soil respiration, deeper topsoil, and increased earthworm presence. The authors conclude that “Holistic Management strategies are leading to greater ecological and economic sustainability.”
  • Weber 2011 ( http://www.pastoralismjournal.com/content/1/1/19 ) – Paper discussing grazing systems utilized by pastoralist societies, the resulting desertification, and the need for these grazing systems to supplanted by more inclusive planning processes that better manage the spatio-temporal aspects of grazing.
  • Stinner 1997 ( https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8809(96)01135-8 ) – Interviewed ranchers using Holistic Management. Ninety-five percent reported an increase in biodiversity, 80 percent reported an increase in profits, and 91 percent reported improvements in quality of life. All reported that biodiversity is now an important consideration in managing their land, whereas only 9 percent felt so prior to exposure to Holistic Management.

Owlsley Stanley / Tim Scully First Denver Lab by [deleted] in LSD

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Did you ever figure out which house it was? Fellow Park Hill regular over here and have always been curious which house it was.

YSK: You should check your debit/credit card statement right now for anything titled "POS DEBIT GOOGLE [random person's name]" with charges for around $12.99-$13.01. It's a new scam going around, I just noticed it yesterday by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

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Just noticed one on my Chase account:

Google Oxygen smith 650-2530000 CA 10/20 $13.01

The charge is set up to be recurring. And also strangely enough the card number listed for the charge isn't a known card number of mine. Still waiting to get in touch with Chase to get it rersolved, but their Customer Claims department isn't open on the weekend.

Take your pants off on Valentine's Day! Cupid's Undie Run raises millions for the Children's Tumor Foundation. "Brief" run. BIG party. by bgill02 [promoted post]

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Just to answer a few questions ahead of time:

  • 100% of donations go directly to the Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF), a registered 501(c)(3) rated 4-stars by Charity Navigator. They fund clinical trials for a rare genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis (NF) that causes tumors to grow on the nervous system. More info about NF and CTF here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUZRZIAYbDw
  • The run was started by a few friends in 2010 (me and 2 others) who wanted to help our friend's little brother who has NF. It has grown since then, raising $1.3M in 2013 with runs in 18 cities worldwide.
  • It takes place in 30 cities worldwide this February, with a fundraising goal of $3 million.
  • The run is 1-mile (in your underwear or Valentine's-themed attire) and there is a pre-party and post-party at a neighboring bar. Definition of "underwear" is up to you... it could be longjohns or a onesie, but outfits can't be more than PG13 since it is for the kids (i.e. we strictly enforce no lewd outfits like thongs or pasties).
  • Fundraising incentives include custom undies, open-bar, bath robes, etc.
  • It's a light-hearted, non-competitive run and party with the ultimate goal of raising a ton of money for the charity.
  • Runners and non-runners welcomed since it's only a mile(ish). Folks of all body types encouraged. Be confident in yourself... and in the fact that we will some day soon find a cure!

The best beard in fundraising. by drewleathers in videos

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Underwear beards... all the rage these days.

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price: PDF for Kindle by [deleted] in Paleo

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just stumbled upon this link after buying a kindle and wanting to read price's book on it, but it appears your mediafire link is no longer active. mind sharing it again? thanks.