Holistic planned grazing is a decision-making process based on charting grazing rotations that considers the time a plant is exposed to grazing animals in order to best plan the recovery of the plant. The core idea is to mimic the natural relationship between soil, plant, herbivores, and manage complexity while ensuring long-term land regeneration, animal health and welfare, and profitability.

Holistic Planned Grazing helps ensure that livestock are in the right place, at the right time, and with the right behaviour.

In order to assess the impacts of these practice changes, we monitor key indicators of ecosystem function such as soil health and biodiversity on these grasslands. We rely on the EOV protocol (ecological outcome verification) which allows to identify trends in the overall health of a landscape and provides essential information to the farmer as a steward and land manager.

While ecosystem impacts will be measured on the long run (5 to 10 years), we can already report clear improvements in livestock parameters such as stocking rate and weaning weight leading to a sustained increase of 20% in meat production (kg/ Ha), despite rainfall that was 30% lower than in previous years.