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#117 Soil Long-Lived Organic Carbon
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Let me tell you that by grazing selectively you will fall into overgrazing, overgrazing which is grazing a plant when too young, another way to consume long-lived soil organic carbon is with the following: tilling the soil for conventional agriculture, using herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, fungicides and insecticides, people have been mining this long-lived carbon off their soils, long lived carbon that was created hundreds of years ago and gets eventually depleted.
I like to call our long-lived soil organic carbon capital, biological capital and the more we build up our biological capital the higher our productivity or interests we can withdraw from our capital account without digging into our capital. In fact, with the total grazing program, we are constantly saving and increasing our capital for higher future low-cost productivity.
We all know how to balance our checking account, we know we can get paid an interest rate on our balance, and we know that if we spend all of our initial capital we will stop getting the interest yearly payment. The same happens with our soil long-lived carbon which is the basis of our soil's real fertility
Okay, now we know how important long-lived soil organic carbon for us and for our livestock is, but did you know it also has to do with ecosystem health or environment?
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