035. AgEmerge 2020 Livestock Integration with Bottens Family Farm Livestock Team

On today’s episode, the livestock team from Bottens Family Farms, joins us to talk about livestock integration and what that diversity means for the farm and the soil. You’ve heard us talk so much about the soil health principles and today we’re going to focus on the last of those principles, livestock integration. This fifth principle describes the synergistic role between plants, animals and soil. Livestock are an important part of soil health and today we’ll explore the journey Bottens Family Farm and their livestock team has taken to integrate livestock in a regenerative system. This is a learning experience and it’s not sugar coated. It’s a real discussion of the challenges and opportunities presented when integrating livestock back onto the land. The key words today are management and training, with those two operative words, this team has done a lot of discovery to make this system work.