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It’s hard to find anyone more enthusiasticabout grazing than Neil Dennis. This is aman who has grasped the importance ofhigh stock density to such a degree that he

has created the necessary infrastructure andsupport systems to keep his herd density highand his time managing the cattle minimal.Where he once labored ten to twelve hours a daywith little time for management, he now spendsmore time managing than he spends laboring.That change leaves more time for coming upwith new inventions, taking pictures of his land,enjoying his increased profit, and talking aboutHolistic Management with others.

Neil and Barbara Dennis ranch on 1,200acres (480 ha) near Wawota, Saskatchewan,Canada. In 2005 Neil put 650 head of cattle on2.5 acres (1 ha) of land every six hoursachieving 80 ADA and allowing a minimum of a60-day recovery (with as much as 100 or morein some cases). He hits any given area no morethan twice a year. This is more than double hisinitial stocking rate of 30 ADA (the conventionalstocking rate is 20 ADA). With 13 inches (325mm) of rainfall coming mostly in the rainyseason between May and July, this land tendstoward the less brittle, but Neil’s management isstill necessary to move his land toward greaterbiological health. The change toward plannedgrazing has resulted in more biodiversity in hispaddocks with as many as 25 species of nativegrasses represented in one paddock, includingpurple prairie clover and little blue stem.

This shift in land health was so evident that

Keen on Grass and Dollarsby Ann Adams

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To Help the Girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14HMI Grapevine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17Certified Educators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18Marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

FEATURE STORIES

NEWS & NETWORK

Holistic Management in Canada . . . . . . . 2

Living Rural Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Melisa Yestrau

A Profitable Paradigm ShiftThe Campbell Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Ann Adams

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In this issue we feature some of theCanadian practitioners and educatorsworking to spread Holistic Managementin Canada. On page six read about theCampbell Family in Saskatchewan andhow they run as much as 200 pairs peracre to achieve high animal impact.

LAND & LIVESTOCK

Saving the Lung of Mexico––A Silviopastoral Collective . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Jim Howell

Holistic Globalization––Ponderings of a Global Cowpuncher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Jim Howell

Land Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Jody Butterfield, et al.

Ed Kennett, a past president of the SaskatchewanWildlife Federation noted, “After seeing firsthand the return of native grasses under plannedgrazing, I see it as a tool to bring back some ofour natural lands.”

And with the increased land health andimproved grazing management has comeimproved animal health. “I spend more moneyon my dog food bill than I do my vet bill now,”says Neil.

In 1983 Neil had begun rotational grazing.He would graze the plants to about 3-4 incheshigh and move the animals back on after a 14-21 day recovery. He found over time this methodwas slowly depleting the soils and reducing hisgrasses. Back then he got himself into somefinancial problems following the conventionalwisdom of the times (including his involvementin the purebred cattle business). “The harder Iworked, the deeper the hole,” says Neil. “That’swhy I finally went to my first HolisticManagement training in 1998 with Len Piggott.I had received the first notice for the training,and I threw it away. My wife pulled it out of thetrash and said we were going.

“At first I didn’t think much of what Lentaught that training, but a few things stuck. Hesuggested we go home and really look at theland, see what it was telling us. He alsosuggested we take pictures. I decided to go homeand prove that he was wrong. When I got homeI noticed how the AI paddock looked better thanthose around it because this was a paddock Iused for a limited time in the spring and only inthe spring which meant it had a long recoverytime. When I started taking pictures, I realizedthere was something to this HolisticManagement.”

In 2004 Neil took another HolisticManagement training with Don Campbell. Thistime, Neil was able to absorb more about thepeople and financial part of the training. Healso joined the SE Saskatchewan HolisticManagement Group. This club has six families

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When Don Campbell went to his firstHolistic Management training in1989 in Devon, Alberta, he didn’tknow anyone else in the class. Most

of the other participants were within 1/2 hourfrom each other. Don’s ranch was two hoursaway. But the Certified Educators for thattraining, Kirk Gadzia and Roland Kroos, built aclimate of trust among the participants andreinforced the importance of management clubsas a tool for support and ongoing learning. Thatgroup became the Devon Management club stillgoing strong 17 years later.

“We owe our success and the success ofHolistic Management in Canada to managementclubs,” says Don. “The management club offerssupport and motivation and acts as a soundingboard for each member. We meet once a monthand have eight families participating in our club.We start at 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. and will go until 9:00- 10:00 p.m. The host couple sends the agenda buteveryone has an opportunity to share.

“We have a ‘How Am I’ part of the meetingwhere everyone shares what they’ve been doingand any pressing needs. Each meeting has sometime for the men and women to spend time intheir separate circles, but when it comes time forthe main meeting to start, we are all together. It’sreally important that everyone participates in themeeting.”

Now when Don and his wife, Bev, run coursesin Canada, they insist that a local group cometogether first before they will teach in that area.When someone calls the Campbells asking fortraining, they tell them the price and timecommitment for training (they offer a six-daytraining in two three-day sessions). Whensomeone interested in training can convince 10-20 neighbors to make the commitment to thattraining, the Campbells follow up with trainingand more encouragement on how to set up theirmanagement club and keep it going. Like Kirkand Roland, Don and Bev explain the importanceof mutual trust and support in the group foreveryone’s success.

“We do a lot of circle work,” says Don. “Weuse a talking stick, passing it around so everyonehas uninterrupted time to talk. We create anatmosphere of comradery so people want toshare.”

Currently there are 20 active managementclubs in Western Canada each supportingapproximately eight to ten farm families. In turn,these clubs also provide outreach to theircommunities through field days and participatingin other agricultural learning opportunities.Working with provincial agricultural agencies andorganizations such as Ducks Unlimited, thesemanagement clubs have helped spread the wordabout Holistic Management.

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Holistic Management in Canada

CANADIAN GATHERINGFebruary 13-14, 2007

BRANDON, MANITOBAKeynote SpeakersAllan Savory–Founder, Holistic Management International; author, Holistic Management: ANew Framework for Decision Making; International Banksia Environmental Award recipient.

David Irvine–Internationally sought after speaker; author of three best-selling books; 25 yearsof experience as a family therapist, workshop facilitator, professional speaker and executive coach;developed a unique, personal and practical approach to transforming leadership at allorganizational levels.

Lots of Producer Panels and other speakersInformative and motivational workshops

Coordinated through the Manitoba Holistic Management ClubsFor more information, contact:

Larry Fischer 204/386-2491; [email protected] Iwanchysko 204/648-3965; [email protected]

Assessing Holistic ValueOnce the course was complete, I started a

Master’s degree researching the real and potentialvalue that Holistic Management holds forCanadian farmers, especially those with livestock.My first step was to register for a HolisticManagement course offered by Don and BevCampbell. The course took place in Gladstone,Manitoba (about a two hour drive fromWinnipeg) with fifteen of us in attendance.

I have to admit I was very nervous attendingthe first day of class. I was the city slicker fromWinnipeg with no cows and no farm. However, Iquickly realized that having cows or farm was nota requirement to manage holistically. The coursealso confirmed that Holistic Management is not agrazing method or a way of growing grass–what itreally comes down to is a way of making decisionsthat balance healthy land, people and profit.

On the last day of class, Don and Bevencouraged our group to form a managementclub. A month after the course was complete, theBig Grass Management Club held its first meeting,and still meets on a monthly basis. The meetingsI have attended with the management club havebeen vital for my own understanding of HolisticManagement, as well as developing my researchproject. Although the group has formerlyparticipated in the research through a group

interview, they have also been an equallyimportant support of my research as a whole. Oneclub member now sits on my graduate committee(the group that decides on the direction of theproject and whether I pass or fail).

I also consulted other holistic managers, aswell as conservation organizations and localagricultural offices while developing the research.With this information, we constructed a twelve-page survey in order to describe the benefits andchallenges experienced by Holistic Managementpractitioners across the Canadian Prairies. We arealso interested in how Holistic Managementaffects the risks and stress represented by BSE andother agricultural crises

Using mailing lists provided by CanadianHolistic Management educators, we sent out over800 hundred surveys. Mail surveys generally havea low rate of return, especially when sent to ruralcommunities. I had anticipated that holisticmanagers were a highly motivated group, and thiswas clearly demonstrated when over half of therecipients sent back their completed surveys

This past summer was spent entering in all theinformation from the surveys. I also had theopportunity to help teach the same universitycourse where I had been first introduced toHolistic Management. It was very interesting to seethe student’s reactions to the course, especially inregards to Holistic Management. Some came fromfarming backgrounds, while others were broughtup in the city. There were also students fromcountries as far away as China, Germany, andBangladesh.

One of the students, Shannon Baxter,commented that “before I took this course Inever knew such a (Holistic Management)theory/ system/ philosophy/ lifestyle existed. Theidea that decisions are made by both husbandand wife, and quite often children, is veryintriguing. The stress on farmers these days isastounding and the simple act of sharingdecision-making helps to ease that burden.Coming from a farming family I can see theunity that it can bring to a family, especially inchallenging times.”

From my personal experience and research, Ibelieve whether you’re an urban cowgirl orcowboy, a farmer or rancher, mother or father, abusiness leader, or a team player, I strongly believethat Holistic Management is useful for anyonewho is interested in promoting sustainable liveli-hoods, providing for the environment, and build-ing stronger rural and urban communities.

For more information about Melisa Yestrau’sresearch, visit http://www.harvestmoonsociety.org/educationandresearch or [email protected]. The research resultswill be available in Spring 2007.

One student in the Living Communites classnoted that it was “the tour of Don Guildford’sranch that maybe captured the spirit of HolisticManagement best for me when he said, ‘Caringfor the land is my number one priority and bydoing so, the land will be more productive andthe financial goals will take care of themselves.’”

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Iam a young woman from the city. I ownno land or cattle; I ride a bicycle, not ahorse. They call me the urban cowgirl. I’velearned that despite all these facts, Holistic

Management is still relevant to my life. Thisrealization did not come overnight, but hasdeveloped from interacting with various HolisticManagement clubs, attending conferences andfield days, and by focusing my Master’s researchon the benefits and challenges experienced byWestern Canadian Holistic Managementpractitioners.

Farm as ClassroomMy journey began as a child spending my

summers on my grandmother’s farm. I have fondmemories of riding in the cab of the combine,eating meals in the field during harvest, growingmy very own watermelons, and snatching eggsfrom the hens. As I started getting older andtaking on more responsibilities, I spent less of mytime on the farm. My first few years at universityleft me disconnected from the naturalenvironment and unsure of what direction I washeaded. When the opportunity came to take atravel course based in rural Manitoba to learnabout rural living and farming, I was eager toparticipate.

The course, Living Rural Communities andEnvironments, took place in August 2004 inClearwater, Manitoba. Since this was a travelcourse, the entire 10 days was spent camping inthis small community composed of 75 residents.The philosophy of course was based onexperiential learning–our classroom became thefarms and local businesses we visited, and theteachers were those local residents operatingthem.

We visited a number of diverse farm operationsthroughout the course, including three farmfamilies practicing Holistic Management. I hadlearnt about sustainable farming practices such asorganics and Permaculture, but this was the firsttime I had ever heard about Holistic Management.Although confused with what exactly HolisticManagement entailed, I was taken aback by theoptimism of the farm families we visited. Thiscourse had taken place amidst the BSE (MadCow) crisis, and an early August frost had ruinedmany crops in the area. However, despite theimpending realities of these outside forces, theHolistic Management practitioners were hopefuland energetic.

Living Rural Communities–A New Attitude In Canadaby Melisa Yestrau


all within a 60-mile (96-km) radius. They havemonthly meetings that often include field trips,pasture tours and social time. The fact that theclass participants and subsequent groupmembers had to wait over a year to take theHolistic Management class due to a Campbellfamily situation, created a much more dedicatedgroup before they started. Combine a dedicationto a wide age range (young family tograndparents, just getting started to establishedfarmers/ranchers) and a mutual desire to learna more sustainable way of life and livelihoodand the end result is a very cohesive groupworking together and forming a managementclub that is continuing to build and becomegreater than its individuals could be alone.

More ADA = More $As Neil’s land has improved productivity and

he has continued to explore how he canincrease stock density and improve land health,he has quadrupled his profit per acre.

He is increasing his ADA by skim grazing apaddock, taking 40 percent of the plant, thencoming back for a final graze after the plant hasrecovered, taking as much as Neil feels ishealthy for the land, leaving as much behind aspossible for litter. With this technique he hasachieved up to almost 120 ADA.

Snow FencesNeil also uses plants to his advantage to trap

snow on these windy plains. He has broadcast,crosswise to the prevailing winds, yellow cloverin established pastures, in strips 100-200 feetapart. On the first graze the clover is small andthe cattle have little effect on it; after thepaddock has a 60 + day recovery period, theclover is three to four feet tall and has set seed.Then, with high stock density, on the next grazethe cattle like the lush growth in the bottom andwill also strip some but not all of the clover. Theclover stems act as a snow fence, trapping thesnow on the high ground, and also keeping itout of the sloughs. The wind will broadcast theclover seed over the snow and thereby reseed itfor the next spring.

When there is limited snow cover, the frostline is deeper, resulting in slow green up in thespring. On Neil’s land, he had an average of 20inches of snow in 2004-05 across his land whichacted as insulation during the spring warm up.He has been able to increase the precipitation

YEAR ADA INCOME/ANIMAL TOTAL2000 28 ADA $1.75/day gain + $.40 $19.60/acre2004 107 ADA $1.75/day gain + $.40 $75.18/acre

his land receives by retaining snow equal to 6.5inches (163 mm) of rainfall, whereas theneighbor’s land was bare or only slightlycovered. Consequently when the snow did melt,he had more water infiltration and lessevaporation loss resulting in three to four inchesof green grass while his neighbor’s grass wasstill dormant.

Carbon Sequestration & Soil Recently, Dr. Alan Moulin, a soil scientist

from Brandon Research Centre of Agricultureand Agri-Food Canada performed an initialanalysis to determine organic carbon levels inNeil’s soil. According to Neil, Moulin found thatthe Dennis Farm had 1.4 more metric tons of

organic carbon than his neighbor’s land, whichwas grazed conventionally, and six tons morethan the Ducks Unlimited land that had beenidle for nine years.

With increased stock density has comeimproved soil health and microfauna activity.The dung beetles are very active as you can seefrom this aerated dung pile. The dung beetleswill bury the pie two feet (60 cm) down. Theyget some help from the cows who trample in thecow pies at this stock density. The end result isless flies on Neil’s land while the neighbors areplastered with them.

Strip GrazingCurrently, Neil custom grazes 650 yearlings

as well as running his own herd of 100 cow/calfpairs and yearlings. He continues to push forhigher stock density, moving the cattle as muchas every 2-3 hours. He watches for when theybegin to lay down and a strong smell ofammonia as clues that it is time to move (asmell that attracts dung beetles to the pasture).

The temporary electric fencing is held in placeby pigtail step in posts set as much as 40-50 feet(13-15 meters) apart.

In 2005 Neil used 1.8 acres/head. In 2006 heneeded only 1.35 acres/head compared to theneighbor’s 3.2 acres/head with conventionalgrazing–a 250% gain in forage utilization.Likewise, in 2006 Neil produced 152 pounds of

beef per acre running 801 head. A conventionalgrazing neighbor produced 68 pounds of beefper acre running 200 head. That difference of 84pounds per acre was in a year in which four outof five months had less than average rainfalland July was the second hottest July on record(usually it rain every 7 to 14 days). Neil hascalculated that it takes him 3.5 hours morework to move the cattle six times a day, but he isgetting paid $80/hr because of the higher ADAand, therefore, pounds per acre he achieves withthat stock density.

Working SmarterNeil is a strong believer in working smarter

not harder. He has outfitted his ATV to carry hisfencing supplies and move his stock tanks easilyto the water sources he has developed on hisland. His fencewinder, a battery powered electricdrill, can reel in 1/4 mile of fence in three

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Aerated dung

Neil Dennis

Fencewinder

minutes. He is careful to keep a constant supply of waterin his stock tanks; he has noticed the cattle panic if itgets half empty. Each water riser he has developed canserve four ten-acre paddocks as he shifts his stock tankfrom one water source to the next.

To move his cattle from one paddock to the next, hejust lifts the fence wire and the cattle walk underneath.He trains his animals at the beginning of the season withthe help of two resident donkeys and slipping a bungeewire behind them to crowd them forward toward thefresh grass on the other side of the lifted wire.

Meanwhile, Neil has outfitted his ATV with a bar thatsticks out from the ATV that catches the fence wire andbrings it down under the wheels (due to the metal framehe has attached to the undercarriage) so he and anyequipment he tows can easily “ride over” his temporaryelectric fencing.

Bale GrazingNeil used to feed bales five months of the year starting

a front end loader tractor every day. Now Neil only laysout his hay bales once a year, in the fall and withplanned grazing, and stockpiled grass has reduced theamount of time he winter feeds because the cattle grazefor a longer time in the fall and start earlier in thespring. It takes one hour of tractor time in the fall to feed80 head of cows for one month, instead of one hour aday in the winter time feeding conventionally. Neil gives

his herd enough bales for two days feed by using temporary electric fence thatis easily moved and rebuilt as needed. So in the winter, every two days he takes15 minutes to move the wire allowing the cattle access to more feed. He usesthe other bales outside the paddock to hold the fence using a 5/8” sucker rodor a fiberglass rod into the bale. The response from the land to this balegrazing has been amazing. Before, he had no native species, just crestedwheat, quack grass, and Kentucky blue grass. Now he has all kinds of vetchesand legumes. Neil feed tests the winter supply of bales and dependent upon theresult has offered protein pellet or grain to top off nutrition.

Portable stock tank

Fence lifter means no gates.

Summer growth covers Barbara’s head in an area where the cows bale grazed in the winter continued on page 16



In 1988, Don Campbell took anintroductory Holistic Management courseafter hearing long-time HMI member JerryHoltman talk about his experiences

managing holistically. Don was so excited aboutwhat he learned in that first training, he alsoattended a Holistic Management® FinancialPlanning course that same year. While hisinterest in grazing drew him to the first HolisticManagement course, his new understanding ofthe power of paradigm shifts to improve profitand quality of life has kept him excited aboutsharing Holistic Management with others allthese years.

The B-C RanchDon and Bev Campbell sell long yearlings

and run 650 cows on their 4,500-acre ranch(1,800 ha) near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan.On this grey-wooded soils, in the parklandenvironments of Western Canada, this landscapetends toward the non-brittle with an averagerainfall of 15-20 inches (375-500 mm) andadequate snowfall in the winter. Don’s fatherbought the ranch in 1948, and Don beganranching with him in 1972 before he bought theranch from his father in 1980. Since September2002 Don and Bev and their sons and their wiveshave been managing the ranch as a team of six.They have equal ownership and use consensusto make decisions that take them towards theirholisticgoal. Scott (32) and wife, Jenna, andMark (30) and wife, Bluesette, have divvied upall the management duties in such a mannerthat the ranch continues to grow more grassthan it was in 1989.

When Don walked away from his firstHolistic Management training course in 1988(see article on page 2), he understood for thefirst time how he could grow more grass. Likemany ranchers who have taken HolisticManagement training, Don was able to doublehis stocking rate. At the time, guidelines weresuggesting a 40-60 day recovery period forplants. After his Holistic Management training,Don decided to experiment with a 21-dayrecovery period. Luckily, he experimented ononly half the ranch because he ran out of grasson that part of the ranch. But the grass on therest of the ranch was sufficient to get themthrough that season. He later returned to a 60-day recovery period.

After that near miss train wreck, Don decidedhe’d error on the side of stocking light while

pushing his stock density numbers. For the nexttwo years after his training, Don went to workcreating more paddocks. Starting with only adozen paddocks, Don was able to create 50paddocks (approximately 80 acres/ha each),laying fence such that each paddock had accessto some natural water source–Don’s unfairadvantage.

In 1988 Don had bough enough yearlings tostock the ranch. He hadn’t hayed since 1985 anddidn’t want to get back into that enterprise. Withhis new grazing strategy, he had more than

doubled his summer capacity, but since hewasn’t raising his own hay, he had to dispersehis herd. But when he went to the HolisticManagement® Financial Planning coursetaught by Allan Savory and Roland Kroos, hesuddenly understood that his financial risk wastoo high with his current strategy. His wealthwas in his grass. If he got more profit from thegrass he did have, he could afford to buy hishay. He didn’t need to buy more land, he couldjust grow more cows on the land he had and pay

for the hay to keep them through the winter.That paradigm shift to harvesting grass

made him rethink his investment in theyearlings which had resulted in a million dollarloan and $50,000 in interest charges. But aftertaking the Holistic Management training, in1989 the Cambells ran the cows they couldafford to own and custom grazed to utilize thebalance of the grass. The results was a bankloan of zero and $10,000 income from interest.In getting rid of that high debt load Don wasable to stabilize his finances and grow his cowherd while improving the health andproductivity of his land.

“A major change like this is only possible byhaving a paradigm shift, by seeing thingsdifferently,” says Don. “In our case, it wasrealizing we didn’t have to own all the cattle–something we had done for 40 years. Thisparadigm shift was directly related to ourHolistic Management training. The ability tochange our paradigms and holistic financialplanning has allowed us to see debt as a tool. We can operate debt free or with a light or heavydebt load. In all three cases we are confident. We are in charge and we know we are movingtowards our holisticgoal.”

Improving the Water CycleWhile one of Don’s favorite methods of

monitoring improved land health is throughimproved profit, and increased carrying capacityhe is also quick to point out the indicators of theimproved ecosystem processes, particularly thewater cycle. In 2002 the Campbells had thelowest rainfall ever–4.4 inches (110 mm). Yet,they were able to support the highest stockingrate they had ever had on the ranch–800cow/calf pairs. They never ran out of grass untillate October when they started feeding hay.Meanwhile, the neighbors had to begin feedingin August.

The improved water cycle has also shown upin less bare ground. They have almost completeplant cover which has served them well instoring more water through the lean times. Thisyear they received only 3.7 inches (93 mm)from spring to July. When they received goodrainfall in August, Don knew that water couldhold them through to next spring because of thesoil’s ability to capture water. “We’re not asdependent on timely rains,” Don says. “We canwithstand more erratic rains.

“We continue to experiment with ways toimprove our grazing management. We’ve donefollowup grazing with the yearlings ahead of thecows. This year we are mixing our steers andheifers in with our breeding bulls. We keepstriving for grazing that requires less work andproduces more grass.”

A Profitable Paradigm Shift–The Campbell Familyby Ann Adams

These two pictures are taken on the same day.In the photo above Scott Campbell is standingin a pasture just 50 yards away from the photobelow it–an area where the Campbells did theirwinter feeding. These kinds of resultsdemonstrate to the Campbells the value offeeding on the land, putting the diamond pies(manure) where it will have the greatestimpact.

In fact, the Campbells set some objectiveslast year as part of their financial planning.Those objectives were simple and clear: improvethe land, grow more grass, feed more cattle, doless work, and make more profit. To that end,they are investing in permanent fencing thatwill divide their 50 paddocks into 100 paddocks.They had been experimenting withtemporary fencing for these paddockdivisions and have had as many as 120paddocks some years. They felt theinvestment in permanent fencing willhelp them keep to a higher stockdensity, allowing them to grow moregrass.

They have also settled on an 85-dayrecovery period. They feel this is thebest recovery period for them,balancing their needs for adequateanimal nutrition, increasing plantdiversity, addressing drought reserve,and capturing the maximum amountof solar energy. They average two tothree day grazing periods, but havebeen moving toward daily moves withtemporary fencing. They began usingthe Bud Williams’ style of low-stresslivestock handling in the mid-1990sand continue to improve their animal handlingskills. “We used to manage for cattle and grass,not the land,” says Don. “We’ve turned thataround. Now we’re managing for the landthrough our cattle and grass.”

Sharing the WealthIn 1990, Don and Bev began teaching

together, eager to share Holistic Managementwith others. From November to March, theyteach, consult, and speak, often running four tofive courses a year. “People come into thecourses concerned about their quality of life andtheir profit,” says Don. “We teach them the goalsetting, testing, and how to create a financialand grazing plan. We work through a samplefinancial plan with them so they can go homeand easily plug their own figures in and createtheir own financial plan. We do the same withtheir grazing plan. We also work to make surethey start a management club in their area tosupport each other. We find people respond wellto our courses because the concepts make sense.They pick up the ideas quickly and can usethem on their place.”

In 2001, Don and Bev talked to their sons,Scott and Mark, about their interest in takingover the management of the ranch. “A lot ofranchers wait until their children are 50 yearsold before they pass over the management of theranch,” says Don. “We wanted to give ourchildren time to manage the ranch while we

were still around to offer advise when theywanted it. We wanted them to have time to excelbefore we die. It’s critical to do that kind ofcross-training ahead of time. If people aren’tprepared to take on different roles and there’s asudden accident, it can profoundly affect thebusiness.”

The Campbells manage by consensus andhave a team meeting once a month to monitorthe financial plan. Every Monday they have theirweekly meeting to divvy up chores. Then, theyhave a quick meeting each morning to adjusttheir weekly plan to address the daily workload.This process has worked smoothly because theylaid the groundwork with reworking the ranch’sholisticgoal with the new decision makers beforeany of the children came back to the ranch.

When Don and Bev began having theconversation about bringing their sons back tomanage the ranch, they knew how theystructured this transition was critical to thesuccess of such a venture. They talked about thistransition with their sons on and off for 1 and1/2 years. When their sons were ready to moveback, the Campbells hired Certified EducatorKelly Sidoryk to facilitate two meetings, each 1and 1/2 days long. “I knew we needed anoutside facilitator,” says Don. “I couldn’t havebeen that facilitator as well as be involved in thediscussion. The people part is just too important.We had to make the investment in thosemeetings to rework our holisticgoal with Scottand Mark and their wives.”

The Campbells have divided the ranchmanagement into four areas: production,marketing, finance, and people. Scott or Mark isresponsible for each of these areas, while Don isan advisor. This structure allows foraccountability and the chance to build skills,

while also encouraging cross-training so there isless vulnerability to unforeseen circumstancesaffecting ranch effectiveness. This flexibility alsohelps the family meet quality of life goals.

When Scott was first hired to manage theranch in 1997, Don’s consulting work was not asufficient salary at the time. To solve that problem

and Scott’s need for hired help, Donbecame Scott’s employee. Now Don andBev are involved in the business in adifferent capacity. They continue to lookat these types of intergenerational issuesas they want to also support theirdaughters, Grace and Marie, who are notinvolved in the ranch management.Increasing the ranch’s profitability allowsDon and Bev to transfer some of thatprofit to their daughters to support themin their goals. Likewise, Grace and Mariewere involved in the holisticgoal settingfor the ranch in 2001, so they have aninvestment in the ranch on that level aswell.

This kind of cooperation andownership in the ranch’s holisticgoal iscritical, particularly for major financialdecisions. In 2002, due to the drought,the Campbells decided to send some

cows out, taking a $100,000 loss for that year.From their financial planning, they knew theycould recoup that loss the following year if theykept those animals, so they were comfortableplanning for that loss. Through their planning,they had the confidence to make that decision,and their holisticgoal helped them test thatdecision and realize why it was important tomaintain that cowherd.

Often people can’t make those kinds ofdecisions,” says Don. “Their margins are tooslim. That kind of situation would take themfive to ten years to make it up. We were able tomake it up in one year. We know a year ahead oftime what our finances will be and that gives uspeace of mind. People are too busy doing, sothey don’t take time to do the important things.Facing those challenges earlier is critical. Likethe situation with BSE (Bovine SpongiformEncephalopathy). Having to deal with that issuehas strengthened our team. We’ve learned howto cut costs together, and we’ve used BSE to helpus build a stronger team. We’re a stronger teambecause of that. It’s helped us grow. Sure wehave disagreements, but we work it out. Testingour decisions toward our holisticgoal has helpedus know we can handle those kinds ofchallenges together.”

Don Campbell is a Certified Educator inCanada and can be reached at:[email protected] or 403/236-6088.

Campbell family from left to right: Don, Bev, Cheyenne,John(nephew), Scott, Jenna, Shane, Mark, Bluesette, and Andrew.


The news today is filled with the consequences (both positive andnegative) of economic globalization. But even though the currenteconomy may be global in scale, I don’t believe local adaptationand integration are things of the past. Local initiatives, I would

argue, can be enriched by global connectivity, and vice-versa. I wouldfurther argue that locally based, holistically-grounded businesses areprimed to emerge as leaders in this global economy; they will lead whenthe world realizes that globalization centered on linear economics isn’tenough, and they will become the models that propel us forward. Irecently stumbled onto an example in southern Mexico–in the state ofChiapas.

My wife, Daniela, and I just spent a week in the tiny village of FronteraCorozal, on the banks of the giant Usumacinta River, which forms the borderwith Guatemala. This was the second of our two Mexico trips this summer.We were training a group of Holistic Management® Certified Educators aspart of HMI’s Certified Educator Training Program. This was the sixth andfinal session of instruction. During each session, we spend at least a full dayvisiting the operation of a local producer, and this time, in this hard-to-get-tolittle community, we found one of these globally connected, locally adaptedbusiness models.

The last leg of our journey to FronteraCorozal was a three-hour ride in a littletwelve-seater commuter bus. It was filledwith friendly locals, all speaking Spanish.But as we descended a long windingvalley to the banks of the Usumacinta, wesuddenly realized we couldn’t understandanybody. It was weird. These folks had lapsed into another language that wasabsolutely nothing like Spanish, and Daniela and I felt like we were enteringsome sort of twilight zone.

I asked the man in front of me what he was speaking. He told me thatthis corner of Mexico is home to a tiny, remnant, indigenous population ofnative Americans know as the Chol, the tribe to which our travelingcompanions all belonged. As they approach home, they tend to switch totheir native tongue. They are distant relatives of the Mayans, but theirlanguages diverged so long ago that they are mutually unintelligible.

Challenges in ChiapasIn its natural state, this end of Mexico is a non-brittle jungle, receiving up

to 120 inches (3,000 mm) ofannual precipitation. For manyhundreds of years, the Cholhave been cultivating corn andbeans and raising turkeys, and,since the arrival of Europeans,cattle, horses, and goats. As aresult, most of the old growth,original jungle is gone, andover the past 30 years, sinceMexico’s degree of connectivityto the world has escalated,much second growth jungle hasdisappeared as well. Corndominates the landscape,especially along flat valleybottoms, but many fields climb hills and mountains. Our group of studentsunanimously diagnosed eroding hillsides as the single most serious threat tothe Chol. Despite the erosion, it is a pretty and productive landscape, very

green and lush with enormous potential,but not exactly the setting from which Iexpected to come home newly inspired.

Then, the night before our day in thefield, our local host, Alejandro Zenon,explained that a trio of local producers(all Chol) was coming to address ourgroup. I was looking forward to the visit

the next day, but on this night I was ready to take a shower and hit the hay,exhausted from a full day of teaching in our un-air conditioned classroom inthe jungle. Then three dark, small, serious, unassuming men sat down in thebrightly lit room, obviously out of their element. I admired them for theircourage to offer to speak–to not only receive us the next day, but to make aspecial effort to come and give us an introductory talk the night before. WhenI saw the integrity in their eyes, I was glad I hadn’t gone to bed.

The oldest of the bunch began to talk, very humbly and veryarticulately, and first stated his honest amazement that a group ofagricultural engineers employed by the Mexican Ministry of Agriculturewas actually interested in visiting their project. My heart immediately wentout to the guy, and he had me on the edge of my seat. He explained that

&LIVESTOCK &Saving the Lung of Mexico–A Silvopastoral Collectiveby Jim Howell

These people do not have to migrate to the slums of Mexico City.

Sr. Virginio, one of the association’smembers, explaining his transitionfrom “destructor” (destroyer, his words)to jungle grazier.

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they were representing a group of producers who had formed a localcooperative they called Asociacion Ganadera Local General Silvopastoril,which means, roughly, the Local, General, Jungle Grazing CattleAssociation. The cooperative is formed by 120 members covering 15,000acres (6,000 ha), with an average property size of 125 acres (50 ha). Theyhad come together under common concern for their corner of Mexico.

Like our group of educated government guys, these practical, hands-onfarmers had collectively come to the conclusion that their standardpractice of year-in-and-year-out corn and beans was not sustainable. Theirsoil was washing away, the creeks and rivers flowed with mud, the workwas back-breaking and unappealing to the next generation, and theirprecious jungle was disappearing. They knew a change was due, but noone knew where to start, until a bunch of them happened across aworkshop on “jungle grazing.”

Jungle TransitionsWhat’s that? It’s a form of agro-forestry, tropical style. From

commercially grown monocultures of corn and beans, these families areattempting to return at least 80 percent of their blocks of land back tonative, biodiverse jungle. The balance is being converted to cattle-maintained, perennial pasture, with a healthy complement of native treesdispersed throughout the pasture. The forest will not be left alone, but willeventually provide a source of sustainably harvested timber. Many of thesevaluable tropical trees grow exceptionally fast, so this stream of income isnot far away, and is already happening on some blocks.

They recognize the need to manage their pastures with careful, time-controlled grazing, and aren’t getting carried away with attempts toestablish highly bred, super productive, new tropical grass cultivars. Theyare letting the native, locally adapted grasses, mostly paspalums, takehold, intuitively understanding that it makes no sense to grow masses ofgrass that can’t be utilized. They are establishing trees along theirfencelines, creating what they call “cercos vivos” or living fences. Withineach pasture, they are randomly establishing (as opposed to planting instraight rows) a mix of valuable native fodder trees. The green foliage ofthese trees is browsed directly, and during their brief “dry” season(actually a less rainy season), many of these trees shed the bulk of theirleaves, which are grazed once they’ve fallen to the ground. Most of themproduce masses of huge, protein-rich seed pods as well. They also provide

a much needed source of shade (for both cattle and humans)in this hot, steamy environment.

And, with their small herds of Bos indicus derived cattle(the average producer maintains 25-30 head), they areactually making a more lucrative living, and a much lessback-breaking living, than they did with corn and beans,which they still grow in small plots for family consumption.This is especially so now that they have the option ofmarketing their cattle in truckload lots. The cooperative has acentral shipping facility on the edge of Frontera Corozal, witha handful of adjacent pastures. The producers can organize atruckload among themselves, bring their cattle to the shippingyard, and end up receiving a healthy premium over selling anoccasional three or four head to the “coyote”–their name forthe local cattle trader who historically has taken advantage oftheir former lack of marketing clout.

A Leading ModelDuring our day in the field, we all stood out in the pasture,

listening to these guys, fairly dumbfounded that we’dhappened upon such a visionary project. They had received no

significant help from the government, had achieved an amazing amountof cooperation between lots of people, and were affecting a very sizeableextension of land. They had seen the need to change, and were actinglocally, but thinking globally, in their own enlightened self interest.

We asked them, “What was it, really, about you in particular, thatmotivated such a fundamental change?” Their response: “We’ve alwaysloved our jungle, and now we realize it is the lung of Mexico. Also, if thejungle is gone, the soil will wash away, and sooner or later the rivers willstop flowing, and when that happens, there will be no reason to be here. Ifwe want to stay here, we have to have the jungle. And, we realize that ourjungle isn’t just important for us, it is important for the world.”

It was a grounding moment, to say the least. It was articulated with adegree of humble conviction that simply left us all nodding, and I, atleast, was thinking, “If these ‘simple’ folks, in this isolated corner of theworld, can make this kind of progress and these sorts of fundamentalchanges, essentially on their own, with very limited resources, and withthis sort of far-reaching vision, then there is hope indeed. These people donot have to migrate to the slums of Mexico City.”

Will globalization swallow these people up? It sure doesn’t have to. Ifglobalization ends up working within the context of holistically-guideddecision making, it will be because thousands and thousands ofcommunities have rewritten their own rule sets and figured out how tokeep their people on the land, their biodiversity intact, and their soil out ofthe river and on the mountainside. And in fact, it was the flow ofinformation, in the form of that little conference on grazing in the jungle,based on research and experience gleaned from around the world, whichsparked this change among the Chol. They needed global connectivity, andglobalization needs them.

As these hopeful examples emerge around the world, our globalconnectivity can get the word out, and we can all help each other. It isonly stable rural cultures, creating goods that each is uniquely adapted toproduce, that will keep our globally connected civilizations safelyhumming. Because at the end of the day, no matter how technologicallysophisticated we become, we all have to eat, and the soil has to stay put.The Chol are honoring tradition and embracing change, and doing itwithin the context of global connectedness. Without their jungle and theproducts that flow from it, places like Mexico City, Cancun, and LosAngeles can’t exist.

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A typical small herd of Bos indicus cattle, “jungle grazing” near Frontera Corozal.

Ispend most of my time immersed in the splendor of our RockyMountain paradise, moving cows, fixing fence, and irrigating. That’sreally what I like doing, and when engaged in those tasks, day afterday, it’s easy to lose context and forget about the rest of the world. But

this summer has been a little different than most. During the course of this summer, Daniela (my wife) and I have made

two weeklong trips to very different regions of Mexico. Both of those tripswere sandwiched by short visits to Daniela’s sister’s family in Carlsbad,California, on the edge of San Diego. So, within 48 hours, I would go fromhorseback in a high mountain meadow, to the suburban sprawl of rich,orderly, well-manicured, but sterile San Diego County, to the relativelypoor and chaotic, but culturally rich and insatiably interesting, world ofold Mexico.

This summer’s experiences broke me out of my high country stuporand drove me to ponder the amazing range of conditions in which wehumans go about our daily dance. Here on the ranch, I spend most ofevery day looking down at the ground, fixated on how my actions areaffecting the health of our land. My Holistic Management training, afterall, has taught me that healthy land means healthy civilizations. Withsuch vast discrepancies in wealth and means, landscape and culture,possibilities and limitations, I began to wonder if this connection back tomy meadow really did exist. I’ve traveled a lot, seen all these things, andthought about these issues before, but for some reason, this 1-2-3 hit ofRocky Mountains–San Diego–old Mexico left me more dazed andconfused than normal. I felt I needed some new insights, some newperspectives, to help tie things back together, and so I began to readoutside–way outside–of my normal range of interest.

Out of BalanceNow, at the end of the day, I’m really only qualified to be a cowpuncher.

It’s a little dangerous for a guy like me to delve into topics such asglobalization, the abject poverty of the developing world, long-term U.S.military strategy, China, and the like, but here I go.

Once you get out of the “developed” world of the U.S., Canada, WesternEurope, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, the human landscape changesdramatically. The outskirts of Johannesburg, Harare, Lusaka, Nairobi, Dar esSalaam, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Mexico City, Lima, Porto Alegre–to namejust a few that I’ve seen with my own eyes–are dominated by a ring ofhuman suffering to which those of us in the developed world simply can’trelate.

In Buenos Aires, a shantytown is called a “villa miseria,” or miseryvillage. The dynamics which lead to this sort of concentrated hopelessness arecomplicated and far-reaching, but in a nutshell, most of these folks are“escaping” an agrarian life for the promise of opportunity in the big city. Theallure is what brings them, the hope for something different, but theshantytowns attest to the fleeting nature of this dream for millions ofmigrants. The rural to urban migration has accelerated as the world’s trendtoward globalization has continued to evolve.

I have a tendency to resist this march of globalization. I value traditionalagrarian communities and the unique, locally evolved idiosyncrasies whichhave enabled those groups to succeed in their respective landscapes. But inthe connected world we live in today, where essentially everyone is aware ofthe huge world outside their village, striking a balance between honoringtradition and embracing change is really, really hard.

A Case for ConnectednessOne of the books I just finished is very pro-globalization. It’s called The

Pentagon’s New Map by Thomas Barnett, a Department of Defense strategistand Naval War College professor. His underlying thesis is that theglobalization of the world’s economy, or economic “connectedness,” as hedubs it, is essential for a long-lasting, world peace. He reasons that if theeconomies of the world’s nations are intricately connected in a vast web ofcodependence, it’s far less likely that these connected nations will go to waragainst each other. There would be absolutely no incentive.

Barnett calls these currently connected nations the “Core,” whichincludes all the nations on the list of developed countries, plus a growing listof newer members–namely China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Russia,Mexico, South Korea and South Africa. These nations are all becomingdeeply integrated into the global economy, and none of them, includingChina, Russia, or any of the old Core members, poses any threat to thesecurity of the United States, or the world, for that matter.

But the majority of the flags (admirals and generals) at the Pentagon(most of whom cut their teeth in military strategy during the Cold Warstandoff with the Soviet Union), and the armed forces they oversee, arehugely vested in there being a Big One against whom the United States needsto prepare to wage war. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, China hasfilled this role, but Barnett argues that China has absolutely no incentive tofight with anybody, because they are so economically connected to everybody.It would be insanely irrational.

So, where do the security threats reside? In all those countries comprisingthe rest of the world, which Barnett calls the “Gap.” The countries of theMiddle East, south central Asia, Southeast Asia, much of Central and SouthAmerica, the Caribbean, North Korea, and all of Africa outside of SouthAfrica, constitute the Gap. The vast majority of the world’s suffering, andmuch of its most abject poverty, violence, and genocide, reside in thesecountries, as well as all threats of terrorism. And, on the whole, they aredisconnected from the burgeoning world economy, and are largely shut off,or censored, from much of the world’s flow of information. Barnett’s solutionis to create the conditions which will nurture their ability to becomeconnected.

These conditions can only evolve in an environment of security, and, asthe only genuinely big dog left on the block, according to Barnett, the role ofproviding this security must largely fall to the United States. However, the U.S.Departments of Defense and State are woefully unprepared to fill this role, asthe exceptionally difficult situation in Iraq testifies. Our military is notdesigned and has not been trained or prepared to occupy and rehabilitatedeveloping countries terrorized and dominated by extremists who desperatelydesire to maintain their disconnectedness.

According to Barnett, we need a thorough restructuring of our military,with the new armed forces not only remaining capable of getting the reallybad guys, but capable of facilitating the much more difficult task of helpingmerge the Gap into the Core. The evolution of this new structure will be longterm, messy, and unpredictable in its unfolding, but the primary role of theU.S. military will be peacekeeping and building, not warfare and destruction.

Can We do Better?Even though I resist globalization, I like to think that I’m also a realist.

Whether we like it or not, this is how the world works now, and each of us

Holistic Globalization–Ponderings of a Global Cowpuncherby Jim Howell


needs to find or create our own economic niche within this interconnectedweb. And, the fact that economically connected countries have a mutualincentive to maintain peaceful, civilized relationships is a good thing–areally good thing.

Still, I have some nagging problems. Take the global agriculturalcommodities markets. Let’s do soybeans. Currently, because of globalconnectivity, the internationally tradedprice of soybeans makes it moreeconomically interesting for cattleranchers in Argentina’s pampas orBrazil’s vast savannas to destroy theirperennial, highly diverse grasslandsand plant monocultures of soybeans. Intheir cases, the condition ofinternational connectedness, despite allthe good it nurtures and the wealth thatit generates, is also eroding long-standing cultural identities andtraditions of land stewardship.

Is this trend good or bad? From theland’s point of view (and since,ultimately, economic health is tied toecological health), I have a hard timeseeing how it can be good. TheArgentines and Brazilians can growsoybeans cheaper than Iowans, so whathappens to the Midwest? Maybe it willgo back to livestock-grazed, tallgrassprairie eventually, when the U.S.government, after spending hundredsof billions of dollars promoting globalconnectedness, might finally decide itcan’t afford to subsidize monoculturegrain cropping anymore. That wouldprobably be good, but that good, in myworldview, would be negated by the destroyed grasslands of South America. Tome, this is complicated, and certainty is evasive.

And what happens to the gaucho families that have been employed andbeen tending the cattle on those ranches for generations? They might join thecustom combine crews convoying across the Pampas. Or, just as likely, moveto a villa miseria in Buenos Aires, and maybe eventually get a job in a newsoybean-processing plant. If analyzed from the perspective of strict, lineareconomics, this rearrangement is probably good. Argentina’s and Brazil’sconnectivity to the global economy definitely creates new financialopportunities, but there are a lot of associated social and environmental costs.

I think Barnett would say that the positives outweigh the negatives. Theproof, he would argue, lies in the relative political and economic stability ofthese nations, especially if compared to the chaos of the Gap. These nations,though fraught with problems and challenges, are producing, contributing tothe world’s economic growth, and present no costly security risk.

But I’ve still got this nagging sensation that we can do better, and, asusual, this gets us back to holistic decision-making. If those ranchers on thepampas were making holistic decisions–that is, truly weighing their choicesagainst a triple bottom line–moving from perennial grazed pasture toperpetual soybeans probably wouldn’t pass. By sticking with cows, the gauchofamilies would retain their culture, identity, and self-respect, the soil wouldstay healthy, and a miraculous network of life would remain intact.

Does choosing this route preclude international connectivity? Of coursenot. Argentines and Brazilians that elect to stick with cows will, of course,

retain access to all the world’s information and technology. Their kids cansurf the internet, state-of-the-art fencing technology can be imported fromGermany, and Argentine beef can be exported to Switzerland.

In my situation I’m married to an Argentine woman that I met in NewZealand, where we both studied. In addition to picking up lots of livestockhusbandry how-tos from the Kiwis, we were coursed in international trade

and environmental issues, and livedwith students from all over the world.Daniela and all of the internationalstudents from the newer Core and Gapcountries were on full scholarship fromNew Zealand’s Ministry of ExternalRelations and Trade, the intentionbeing to connect up-and-comingleaders from these developing countries(i.e. future clients) with Kiwi ways ofdoing business.

Daniela and I got started on all thisholistic stuff because of a guy fromZimbabwe. Now we earn a significantchunk of our annual income from

leading agricultural toursto countries all over thesouthern hemisphere, aswell as teaching overseas.Our ranch is acompilation ofholistically-groundedinsights we’ve gleanedfrom each of thesecountries, and each ofthese insights has beenfiltered through our lensof local knowledge andlocal realities. Our livesand our business are adirect result of the globalconnections we’ve beenable to develop, and we,and our land–even ourcommunity–are no doubtthe richer for it.

So, based on my personal experience, I would say that not only canholistic decisions be made within the context of globalization, they can bemade much better within the context of globalization. As Barnettemphasizes, the world is still learning how to “do” globalization. Our newrule sets are still evolving. Eventually, these rule sets, or new cultures ofconducting business and providing security, will be rooted not just ineconomic connectivity, but in holistically-grounded connectivity. And, as thegreater globe becomes conscious of this need and demanding of this shift,those who have molded holistically sound models will be prepared to lead theway, and those circles of devastating poverty ringing the cities of thedeveloping world can disperse back onto the land.

Am I certain of this? Not hardly. Will it be easy? No way. Without a goodholistic grounding, it’s easy to get swept away by the price of soybeans. But, Ithink we all need optimistic scenarios to inspire daily persistence, and asecure, globally connected community of land stewards, all learning fromeach other while producing the products that each is most adapted toproduce, is a vision that works for me.


This is the type of marketabletropical hardwood that the Chol

in Mexico are already beginningto sustainably harvest. A returnof native jungle and perennialpasture is replacing decades ofcontinuous corn and beans—

less erosion, greater biodiversity,clean streams, and more profit

are the result —all the results ofholistic globalization.


Holistic Management® Land Planning–Designing the Ideal Layout of Your Infrastructureby Jody Butterfield, et al

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from The HolisticManagement Handbook: Healthy Land, Healthy Profits. For orderinginformation turn to page 20.

Holistic land planning and grazing planning developed in tandemas both grew out of our new understanding about the role oftime in grazing and trampling. To keep animals movingcontinually requires new thinking in the way fencing, water

points, roads and handling facilities are laid out, and even more so whenyou’re dealing with large tracts of land requiring a considerableinvestment in this sort of infrastructure. The procedure described belowfocuses on the latter, but can be readily adapted to smaller-scaleoperations. The steps remain the same, only the detail changes.

Many ranchers and farmers think Holistic Management cannot beginuntil they’ve fenced their land in some special way. In fact, whether or notyou ever invest anything in fencing, you must start managing the land asyou find it. A land plan is not a starting point. It is an end point towardwhich you build from your experience and success.

Conceiving the matter backwards often leads to quick disaster–yet no endof impatient people rush to borrow heavily for fences, pumps, cattle, orwhatever to create a structure that proves inconvenient and cannot supportitself until the whole operation matures (if ever). The social andenvironmental costs of an ill-wrought plan can be even worse.

A holistic land plan represents themarriage of step-by-step practice anda holisticgoal. Its implementationwill proceed, like biologicalsuccession, as one stage makes thenext one possible. Becauseinvestments in land represent long-term commitments, this landplanning procedure and its gradualimplementation acquires extremeimportance.

Alongside Holistic Management®

Financial Planning and GrazingPlanning, the Land Planning is a major aspect of management for therancher or farmer running livestock. It differs, however, in that it can involvevery long term and occasionally irreversible commitments. Success dependson exploring all the possibilities, and trying to avoid decisions thatpermanently eliminate large areas of choice.

The steps for developing a land plan outlined here emphasize broadnessof vision. The plan you create will map all future developments on your landand it will affect future generations as well. You want a land plan that goesbeyond maximizing yield from a particular kind of animal. In combinationwith the financial and grazing planning, the land planning should advanceall three parts of your holisticgoal and enhance as many aspects of the land’sfruitfulness as possible. Your land plan should also recognize the goals andaspirations of other people who may depend on, or be impacted by, the landin one way or another.

Anyone can whip out a “plan” without following the steps, but noabstract blueprint for a distant future will have as much immediate practical

use as the knowledge you’ll gain from completing the tasks involved in eachof the steps. In fact, your final plan will develop almost as a by-product of theprocess.

Land Planning Steps1. Gathering information2. Preparing maps and overlays

• Deciding on herd and cell sizes3. Creative Planning

• Brainstorming plans based on topography alone• Making one plan based on existing structures• Designing an ideal plan based on the best ideas

4. Developing the plan gradually through annual financial planning,using the financial weak link and marginal reaction tests in particular,to ensure that each investment makes rather than costs money. Insome years development will be rapid, in others the financial weak linktest might preclude any development at all because an investment inmarketing or increased livestock numbers will yield more income.

Deciding on Herd and Cell SizesOnce you have completed the first step of gathering information as

outlined in Land Planning Section of The Holistic ManagementHandbook, you’ll need a rough idea of how large the grazing cells will be

and how many animals you mightrun in them to help you makebetter decisions about landdivisions, water developments, andthe like. We use the term herdwhich refers to any group ofanimals run together, includingflocks of sheep, or mixed herds ofcattle, sheep, goats, and so on.Remember that a grazing cell isthe area planned on a singlegrazing chart and is not aparticular shape or fencing layout.

When deciding herd and cell sizes, the factors to consider are: • Stocking Rate: If you set up a cell big enough for your optimum herd

now, and better management and improving land doubles or treblescarrying capacity, you may have to run more animals at one time thanyou can gracefully manage just to make efficient use of forage.

• Herd Size: Cattle, sheep and goats can thrive in herds of any size. Nolimit has been found. Nevertheless, labor, handling facilities, water,and management factors, such as calving, lambing and kidding orweaning, will offer significant practical challenges, and herd size maybecome unwieldy after a certain point, which you must determine foryourself.

• Number of Herds: Although a single herd is ideal, there will likelybe times when two or more herds might be run.

• Paddocks per Herd: Ultimately you will generally want a greatmany paddocks per herd to enable you to achieve great versatility anda consistently high graze/trample-to-recovery ratio for best

A land plan is not a starting point. It is an end point toward which

you build from your experience and success.

performance of both land and livestock. So, in laying out probablecells, it is important to think of their size and shape so they can besubsequently divided into many paddocks without needingrealignment. For example, Holistic Management International’s WestRanch learning site in Texas was planned to have 50 paddocks feedinginto four main waterpoints. The layout uses radial fences, corridorsand unusual shapes because of the topography of the ranch. With thislayout, each of the paddocks can at some later date be strip-grazed,giving us anywhere from 50 to 200 “paddocks” on the grazing chart.Because permanent fencing did not pass the testing toward the WestRanch holisticgoal, these 50 paddocks only have fixed posts; twostrands of electric fence tape are constantly moved with the livestock.

• Water Supply: Although cattle in Hawaii can survive on dew and themoisture contained in the plants, water is frequently a limiting factorelsewhere–and 15 gallons per day per SAU (or 40-80 liters/large stockand 5-15 liters/small stock) is a common requirement. Given yourestimates of future herd size, stocking rate possibilities, and cell size,you can compute the bulk delivery of water required. At times a singlewell (or borehole) may not provide all you need, so plan for thepossibility that you may eventually have to pipe water from more thanonce source. Planning for thepossibility now can avoidheavy expenditures later.

• Distance to Water: Cellsize will also be limited byhow far your animals musttravel to reach water. This canvary greatly. In mountainouscountry, for instance, livestockdon’t necessarily come in todrink daily. In areas of Africaand inland Australia, it isroutine for animals to grazefive miles (8 km) and more toand from water. You will needto plan for what you feel isbest in your situation.

• Topography: Clearly,topography is an importantconsideration in planning thelayout of paddocks andcenters, even where nofencing is used. Anycombination of layouts can beconsidered, but if you opt fora radial layout, there is anadditional requirement. If theland slope is concave (mostcommon), the radials shouldconverge toward the bottom ofthe slope. If the slope isconvex, then radials need toconverge toward the top of theslope. In either case thisenables the animals to moveacross flatter ground as theyapproach water.

• Marginal Reaction: Ingeneral, development cost per

acre or hectare goes down as cell size increases–but figure thiscarefully. The same number of radial paddocks require less fencingwhen arranged around several centers than when extended longdistances from a single center. On the other hand, supplying eachcenter with water may cost a lot.

• Land Boundaries: Customs and prejudices surrounding landtenure often inhibit a flexible viewpoint, but both economics andecology frequently justify management units quite unrelated toownership units. If circumstances warrant and cooperation seemspossible, amalgamating properties for management (not ownership)may make a lot of sense. Keep an open mind.

A hundred times you’ve heard faded men in faded denim say “I don’tknow why I stay in this business”–though you know that leaving thebone-grinding labor on their land would kill them in no time at all.

Because you do know why, you’ll compose a land plan worthy of yourart that will sustain you and others who live from it. You will create itfrom a fresh map, unencumbered by the roads, fences, ditches, and otherclutter you inherited or built without forethought. Your land will becomewhat it ought to become.

A Land Plan for Ultra-High Density Grazing

In an attempt to reduce the high degree of partial rest on his ranch in Zimbabwe, JohanZietsman found a creative way to greatly increase animal impact through land planning. Hespent a little over a year creating a number of different land plans until he ended up with one thatenabled him to create an unlimited number of paddocks without having to develop any additional

water points, as shown below. Johan solved the water distribution challenge by turning existing roads on the ranch into temporary

corridors (see inset). For grazing planning purposes, the entire ranch was considered to be one cell. Some ofthe “paddocks” (A - H) were demarcated by permanent fence (which was being taken down) others weremerely imaginary lines. Each paddock was subdivided into strips (1, 2, 3), then each strip divided numeroustimes into temporary mini-paddocks–up to 1,500 in all, giving him tremendous flexibility. When he hit a

drought in the first year hehad more than enough

paddocks to ensureanimals could moveonto fresh foragethroughout the day

every day, withouthaving to return to a

paddock until the rainsfinally came many months later.

In the inset above, strip 1 has been grazed; the mainherd–545 cows, calves and bulls grazing at a density of 1,000to 3,000 animal units per hectare (400 to 1200 per acre)–ismoving through strip 2; 91 yearling heifers he’s planning tobreed preceded the main herd in strip 2 and have now movedon to strip 3.

The grazing chart only lists paddocks A - H, since thechart isn’t set up to plan or record 1,500 paddocks and movesthat occur every few hours. Many would argue that grazingplanning becomes unnecessary when you’re dealing withthis many paddocks. That would be the case if all you wereconcerned about was overgrazing but far more is involved increating the future landscape described in your holisticgoal.



Kenyan BeadworkHMI is selling some of the Naretu Ntoyie women’s

beadwork to support their efforts. You can viewthe beadwork on our online store at:www.holisticmanagement.org. Visit the HandmadeProducts from HMI Projects section of the onlinestore to see this incredible Maasai beadwork. Allproceeds go to support HMI’s work in Africa.

Editor’s Note: Holistic ManagementInternational is under contract with WorldVision-Kenya to teach the Maasai pastoralistsabout Holistic Management and help themachieve greater food security. Craig Leggett isHMI’s project lead. Among his many duties hehas worked with the Naretu Ntoyie (Maasaimeaning “To help girls”) Women Self HelpGroup, 30 women who joined forces inSeptember 2005 to support girls’ education inLoodoriak, Kenya. They had the time anddesire to help themselves, their families, andeducate their children, and they knew aboutbeadwork as it is a part of their culture. Theysaw the beadwork as a tool to empowerthemselves and their children. Craiginterviewed two of the women.

Margaret NkoyoMargaret Nkoyo, who was married at age 13

and has six children ranging from 18 to one yearsof age, is 31 years old.

How has the beadwork group helped yourchildren?

“I have two girls–one in Class Seven, one inClass Five. Tuition for the holidays when theschool is on break (250 Kenya shilling = $3.50)was paid by the sale of beadwork. Otherwise shewould not have been able to go.

“With the beadwork I have been able to buysome things [such as feminine pads] for mygirls that I would not have been able to.”

“My son is in Form Four, and we have beenable to pay school fees so that he can completesecondary. He had to come home from schoolfor a time because we did not have the money,but he is now back.

“The bead group has been a big support.Before we used to bead, but did it alone. Now we

come together and can talk about things. Ifsomeone new doesn’t see Female GenitalMutilation (FGM) negatively because it has beenso accepted in our community, then we candiscuss it together.

“The first time one of our members hadpeople coming to stop FGM, she was mad aboutit–it is our tradition and she would not havesomeone who is not a ‘woman’ in the house.But then she began to see that if her girls arenot circumcised they would not be ‘women’ andwould still respect her while they are still in thehome, and they are less likely to go out and getpregnant.

“I give my girls the choice if they want to becircumcised or not. There is peer pressure to doso. I try to talk kindly to them so that they willlisten to me and maybe go another way.”

What are your hopes if this group becomesprofitable?

I hope my children can get a goodeducation, maybe even university. But, money isalways a problem. Maybe my girls will be able toa job and have their own resources. Our housecould get a metal roof, and it would make iteasier for the kids to study at night or when it israining. Maybe someday we could get watercloser. (It is now a one hour round trip).

Mary SolioMary Solio, who married before she was

13 (maybe 11 or 12) was widowed early. She has five children–the youngest is 10 yearsold and the oldest is 22 years old–and is in herearly 30s. Her hope for Naretu Ntoyie is that allgirls get an education and to stop early forcedmarriages.

Has being part of the group helped you out?“The first thing is knowledge. When I came

here, I learned things. I was able to use themoney I got to buy food and pay some school fees.I was also able make some shukas and sell themto a bride.”

What have you learned from your HolisticManagement training?

“You [Craig] came here and told us to goslowly and proceed step by step. And, if anyonedoes better, don’t be jealous, but be happy.”

“Also, what you said about livestock and howto move them around so that they don’t eateverything at once, and you don’t need to migrateso far.”

What is the hardest part of raising livestock?(Mary has goats and sheep).

“When they are all birthing at the same time-some get kicked and die, others get left out. Theother is when there is drought and we have tomove out with them. Then there is no fresh milkfor the children. (She has 37.5 acres).

To Help Girls–HMI In Kenyaby Craig Leggett

Margaret Nkoyo

Mary Solio

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Ceremonial Club

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HMI International Gathering 2007

HMI is excited to announce the HolisticManagement International Gathering

2007 on November 1-4, 2007 at the HotelAlbuquerque in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Theconference will include keynote speakers,presenters, panels and workshops focused on thetheme, “Practical Solutions to ComplexProblems.” Holistic Management short courseswill be held before the conference. See the ad onpage 20 for more information and watch INPRACTICE and our website for updates onspeakers and registration information. We lookforward to seeing you then!

Horizon Organic Update

HMI’s work with Horizon OrganicDairies continues to be rewarding and

challenging. Under the steady direction andtraining by Certified Educators Byron Sheltonand Joel Benson, Horizon’s dairy in Idahohas made great strides in creating its firstholisticgoal, developing and implementing itsfirst grazing plan (open season), trainingherders and animals in low-stress movements,modifying pastures and facilities to meet thenew grazing schemes, and putting in the firstfew biological monitoring transects. The focus ofall this work is to assist Horizon in its quest to bethe leading edge company in managing large,grass-based dairies. In the coming year, HMI willalso be working with Horizon’s Maryland dairyand possible a dairy in our home state, NewMexico. Additionally, through its ongoingproducer education program (HOPE), Horizonwill make Holistic Management trainingavailable to its 350 existing family farmproducers and 200 family dairies that are intransition to organic and to becoming producersfor Horizon.

Heifer & HMI Collaboration

HMI continues to provide training to HeiferInternational in a number of areas of the

globe. During the past year, HMI has run a seriesof workshops at Dimbangombe for Heifer’s fieldstaff and senior managers–mostly from Africa.In the very near future, some of these Heifer staffwill be coming into HMI’s Certified Educatortraining program which will be launched in

October this year in Kenya. Heifer and HMI willthen partner over the next couple of years onsupporting these candidates in their pilot effortsto bring Holistic Management into Heifer’salready excellent tool bag of planning andmonitoring skills. Additionally, HMI will beproviding a first introductory workshop toHeifer’s Mexico and Latin America field staff andmanagers sometime early in 2007. Thefoundation of all of these efforts is to bring theplanning and monitoring tools in HolisticManagement together with the planning andmonitoring tools Heifer has developed so that wecan provide communities with a fuller suite ofskills to heal their land and manage theirresources wisely and efficiently.

Mexico CETP Update

The Mexico Certified Educator TrainingProgram met the end of August in Palenque,

Chiapas. This program will hold its graduationsession in November this year with 20 potentialgraduates attending. Ramon “Moncho”Villar, as chair of the Fundacion paraFomentar el Manejo Holistic de Recursos, A.C,.isresponsible for securing and maintaining therelationship with SEGARPA and the Mexicangovernment. Manuel Casas will overseequality of curriculum content and the finalevaluation of participants. Elco Blanco andDaniela and Jim Howell are coordinatingcommunications and providing the training andsupport for this program.

Our Annual Appeal

In just a few weeks you will receive in the mailthis year’s annual appeal for financial support

of our Global Growth Initiative. And global ithas been, indeed! We have made great strides inspreading Holistic Management at home andabroad, and we hope that you will join us againthis year with your financial contribution–ourcontinued success depends on each one of you!On behalf of all of us at HMI, a heartfelt thankyou for helping us make a difference–onefamily, one community at a time!

HMI In The News

HMI has launched an aggressive effort to letthe world know more about Holistic

Management and to establish HMI as a

recognized leader in the realm of improvingland health.

We have forged relationships with PRNewswire, and are distributing relevant newsstories to 4,200 media points and news outlets in135 countries. We have also signed on withPRWebDirect, which gives us access to the on-line YAHOO! News system, as well as a network ofjournalists who opt-in for information on theenvironment.

A regular stream of commentary, op-ed, andmedia updates will be released through thesechannels, as well as to local and regional newssources in New Mexico and throughout the RockyMountain region.

Our initial effort has including pieces onglobal warming; and flood/drought. Additionally,Executive Director Shannon Horst is beingfeatured in a series of radio interviews that are onair, streamed, and podcasted from Albuquerque,Santa Fe, and Seattle.

West Ranch Intern

Tarivona Asher Mutsengi is currentlyinterning at the David West Station for

Holistic Management. He is from Bulawayo,Zimbabwe and a recent graduate from SolusiUniversity, Zimbabwe, with a degree inAgribusiness. While interning at the West Ranch,he is studying with Dr. Dick Richardson,exploring Natural Resource Managementthrough Dick’s distance learning course at theUniversity of Texas. Asher also spent weeks atTillers International in Michigan learning thebasic fundamentals of making hay andhandling oxen.

Asher heard about the work of the AfricaCenter for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe andapplied for an internship there. Asher says,“Immediately I fell in love with HolisticManagement and developed a desire to explore it.My main area of interest was to find out if it canbe used to influence political decisions andeffectively communicate ideas. After my internship[at ACHM], I was hired by the same organization.

T h e

news from holistic management international � people, programs & projects

Allan Savory & Asher Mutsengi at the West Ranch.

Canada ThistleIn July 2000, Neil put 330 yearlings in

a 10-15 acre paddock with a slough ofalmost solid Canada thistle. (See photo atleft.) Two days later you can see how thecattle had consistently grazed the area.One year later he came back to graze thealready stressed thistles. A year after thathe took the bottom picture during the summer growth. You can see the treeline is lifted as wellas more grass up under the trees because the deadfall has been trampled and there is morefertilizer for the grass. Because of increased grasses, as well as vetches, and other legumesunder the trees during the winter the deer have come in to this improved habitat area. And thethistle? Only 10 percent remain.

Life after his Holistic Management training is very different for Neil Dennis. Before histraining he worked long hours, was in financial difficulties, and his land was deteriorating. Nowhe has time for many other activities because he works a lot smarter and his hours are not aslong. His profit per acre has quadrupled and his land health and productivity has improvedexponentially. With the ongoing support of his Holistic Management Group, Neil feels he’s onthe right track. “The coffee-shop was always so negative,”says Neil. “With our manage-ment club, the people areglad to be farming. They arenever negative. It’s a wholedifferent attitude. I saw thatfrom the beginning, and Irealized there is hope outthere after all.”

Neil Dennis can bereached at 306/739-2896or [email protected]

Keen on Grass continued from page five

Grapevine continued from page fifteen

This opened a number of possibilities for me.Having seen the effects of Holistic Management onthe land at Dimbangombe Ranch, I expressed aninterest in seeing it in action in a differentenvironment altogether. I got that opportunity.Here I am at the West Ranch in the United Statesof America, a country I have heard aboutcountless times during my childhood. From thisopportunity, I wish to learn, appreciate, andexplore!”

Changes of Note

As HMI works to develop the core curriculumfor teaching Holistic Management, there has

been an exhaustive effort to be more clear, moreconcise, and more accurate in our terminology.We are also working to keep every aspect assimple as possible. There are two new standardsthat will be recognized by the new curriculumand you will see those changes reflected in INPRACTICE.

1. We will no longer be referring to the decision-making process as a “model.” Now it will bereferred to as a “framework.”

2. HMI will now refer to the “holistic goal” as oneword–holisticgoal. We believe thatchanging our past terminology and practicaluse of these two words into this one willidentify the term as

• uniquely defined,

• specific to the Holistic Management®

decision making process

• we hope it will begin to eliminate peoplefrom referring to a “holisticgoal” as anordinary goal, which has been found toconfuse others both consciously andunconsciously.

Spanish Text

The long-awaited Spanish translation ofHolistic Management has arrived! Thanks to

a collaboration of Secretaria de Medio Ambiente yRecursos Naturales, Instituto Nacional deEcologia, Fondo Mexicano Para la Conservaciónde la Natureleza, and the Fundación paraFomentar el Manejo Holístic de Recursos (theHolistic Management Branch in Mexico), and incooperation with Island Press, Manejo Holístico isin print. To order, see the ad on page 23 or visitour website at www.holisticmanagement.org.

Correction

Due to a printer error, the last part of theBiological Monitoring article in the

September 2006 issue was omitted. To receive acopy of the end of the article, please contact HMIat 505/842-5252 or [email protected] and request a hard copy or electronicversion of the ending. You can also go onlineand download it at www.holisticmanagement.org/new_site_05/Info/109page17correction.pdf.We apologize for the inconvenience.

July 2000

Two days later 2002–little Canada Thistle remain.

Dead tree trampled by cattle.



Some months ago I stumbled onto aninternet discussion of David Allen’spersonal productivity methods, calledGetting Things Done (GTD). At first I

was skeptical. A neighbor was getting thingsdone–turning over his topsoil with a largetractor–but how do you make sure that thesewere the right things? Climbing the ladder isneeded, but the ladder surely must be placedagainst the right wall first.

Many of us are steeped in HolisticManagement and other strategies that emphasizemission and goals first, and management ofpersonal commitments and decisions based onthese. David Allen’s methods seemed at first glanceto be crosswise with all this, challenging some ofmy beliefs. Many of the people who seemed to bedevotees of his methods were freelance“knowledge workers” with multiple enterprises,like me. So, I read both books.

While David Allen recognizes that a top-downapproach is laudable, and makes senseintellectually, he says it often doesn’t work forpeople. Most of us, he says, are so enmeshed in theday to day, the stresses of keeping track of so manycommitments, that the higher priorities are not asufficient fulcrum for changing our habits untilwe are faced with drastic failure of some sort.Focusing on your values, he says, does notsimplify your life. It complicates it, and maycreate or increase paralyzing conflict and stress.

His GTD method starts at the bottom, withincreasing the effectiveness of the mentalprocessing we do around tasks and workflow,regardless of importance. He says this process ismore successful in creating the kind of resultspromised, but not delivered, by the various topdown methods, as it can empty one’s worryingmind, freeing it for more creative work and higherlevels of thinking. If you have not masteredworkflow, he says, you are tying up your mentallife with shoulds, ought tos, can’ts, and maybes,which leads to reactivity. You are thinking aboutthings either more or less than they deserve.

After three months of practice, I am findingthat these workflow methods benefit meconsiderably. The workflow processing skills I hadwere substandard: I either did things as they

Book Review by Peter Donovan

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen, Penguin, 2002

and

Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life by David Allen, Viking, 2003

The Problem

People keep stuff in their head. They don’t decide what they need to do about stuffthey know they need to do something about. They don’t organize action reminders

and support materials in functional categories. They don’t maintain and review acomplete and objective inventory of their commitments. Then they waste energy andburn out, allowing their busyness to be driven by what’s latest and loudest, hoping it’sthe right thing to do but never feeling the relief that it is.

—David Allen, Ready for Anything

the world by allowing lots of undecided things tomount up into a fortress around them.”

Even at a beginner level with this discipline, Iam finding that my thinking has become lessrepetitive, with increased self-awareness of mentalprocesses. It has improved my concentration, as Ihave confidence that I am keeping track of mycommitments. Even if I am not moving ahead onsome of them, I know what I’m not doing, sothese don’t cause as much stress as they used to.

In beginning a pasture-raised turkey enterprisethis summer, the workflow processing skills Ilearned from GTD were invaluable. I liken it tothe Holistic Management® Financial Planningprocess, where you plan your profit before youplan your expenses. For anything that comes up,either internal or external, you decide on youroutcomes and next actions first (even if the nextaction is thinking about it some more, orresearching it). Then you can choose whether toworry about it or not.

“Most people don’t need discipline, they need adisciplined way of working . . . working hard isnot really what they need. They need simply to bedoing, in a careful and concerned way, withoutcare or concern.” It sounds paradoxical, but itdoes work. It’s a discipline that synergizes wellwith Holistic Management, which tends to startfrom the top down (whole and holisticgoal). Inorder to manage and make decisions toward aholisticgoal, you must have confidence in theimplementation levels, and this is where GTDshines, lessening the resistance, friction, andundue stress that often accompanies putting plans into reality.

showed up, as they became urgent, or becausethey were based on my holisticgoal and testing.Even with the last category, my lists of things to dooften didn’t get done.

According to Allen, this is normal today, wherethe demands of knowledge work typicallyoverwhelm the reactive strategies that may haveworked reasonably well for the more routine workof the past. And as many readers realize,producing food and fiber and maintaininglandscapes is knowledge work–where the mostimportant task, according to management authorand consultant Peter Drucker, is to “define yourwork.”

The GTD methods of workflow processing area big step toward this. They give a clear focus tothinking about what you are doing, and doingsomething about what you are thinking. On thesurface GTD may appear to be an organizingsystem, but it is more a discipline for clearing thedecks of psychic rubble and repetitive loops suchas thinking about what we should be doing orthinking about, thus freeing mental energy andcreativity.

“Stuff is unactionable until we’ve decided theoutcome and the next actions required to do it.”The simple mental tasks of workflow processingare:

• Is it actionable? • What needs to be the outcome or result? • What is the next action that would move

this forward? Lists of unprocessed items tend to repel us

because they are undoable as well as incomplete.“People can dampen down their relationship to


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