A Message from Cory
Our customers have supported us for more than a century, knowing they’re investing in soil health and benefiting from the nutrition of the animals raised on the forage grown in that soil.
We started Carman Ranch with a focus on raising cattle that spend their entire lives on forage, and don’t go to a feedlot, and our regenerative ranching practices honor that commitment by creating more water-holding capacity, using cattle to add fertility to crop rotations, reducing and eliminating tillage, and intensifying our grazing rotations to promote longer rest periods.
Our livestock are critical to improving soil health. Their grazing connects us all. Over the past decade, we’ve worked to grow and learn while adopting distinct practices. We’ve made the extra investment in building the health of our land because we recognize the value of continual learning and improvement, and a sense of accountability to the eaters who buy our beef. And we’re just getting started.
We're continually learning and searching for the things we can keep doing to make our land more resilient and diverse, and our beef more flavorful and healthful. It inspires us to take our efforts to the next level.
As we are increasingly impacted by the climate crisis, we’ve come to recognize the role of agriculture in causing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as land degradation, loss of biodiversity, overuse of water, and the loss of nutrient density in our food. With everything at stake, we have an imperative not to just to stop degradation, but to reverse it. That’s what regenerative agriculture is all about—managing the land in such a way that we can grow food and improve soil health.
By incorporating basic principles of soil health — like minimizing disturbance — in our management practices, and integrating livestock, we can create measurable improvements around soil health, water and biodiversity.
This work on the land has been the focus of Carman Ranch for decades. Our commitment to the health of the land is as clear and strong as our dedication to improvements. We believe that amazing things can happen when we make the health of the land the focus of our business: productive pastures filled with diverse plant species, healthy and happy cattle grazing forage, and delicious beef raised for eaters who value personal health and the vitality of their region.
Thanks for joining us.