Did I tell you I love complex subjects? I really enjoy building new businesses and projects and regenerating ranches or farms with livestock which requires complex and in-depth knowledge for it to work properly.

To be able to give such advice, it is essential that one has the experience and success record in these matters to show and to give confidence to oneself and to others. We need to have integrity and a passion to help others.

Today, I will speak of the importance of explaining complex subjects in a digestible way.

If you are thinking about your future plans, maybe it is time to start making them reality. 

I usually start by changing my management to the way I would manage when I accomplish or reach my goals. 

It is important to plan ahead and consider alternatives so that when the time comes we already have the answer and the experience to make it achievable.

Today, I am going to talk about the unintended consequences of our actions and decisions. 

Every action we make has a reaction, and every decision we take has a consequence. The same happens when we do not act or we choose not to make a decision. Not taking a decision or not acting is in itself of our choosing. 

What does this have to do with raising livestock and managing our grasses?

Do your livestock come to you when they see you? Or do they try to get away? Or even worse, do they attack you? 

Today, I will talk about low-stress stockmanship 

Low-stress stockmanship means that your livestock is handled and managed by you, in such a way, that they feel confident and trust you. Their cortisol levels which are called stress hormones are low and their oxytocin levels which are called content hormones should be high or level. 

Did you know that when we manage or handle our livestock in a stressful manner they will lose, at least that day’s gain? Their health will also suffer and if managed badly they can lose the whole week of gain or performance. 

Anybody can complicate something to make it appear sophisticated or to them look like they know a lot. What not everybody can do is, make a complex matter simple to learn and implement.

We have been clobbered into believing a grazing business is very complicated and that only very special people can master it or that it will take many, many years to become proficient in it. Nothing could be further from the truth!

We need to make the complicated easy. Easy to understand, easy to implement, easy to monitor, and easy to teach.

Anything can be made complicated and anything can be made easy to implement. The difference is in the motives of the teacher or adviser.

He explicado por qué el monitoreo es tan importante y que se obtiene lo que se inspecciona, no lo que se espera.

Sabemos que si fallamos en planificar, estamos planificando el fallar, pero debemos inspeccionar o monitorear para asegurarnos de que estamos obteniendo los resultados que esperábamos cuando planificamos.

Si no monitoreamos, podemos cometer grandes errores, especialmente cuando se usan métodos que contradicen a la naturaleza.

Hoy, hablaremos sobre el monitoreo de tu suelo, tu suelo debería mejorar bajo el programa de pastoreo total, si no es así, necesitamos saber por qué, y  también saber que es lo que necesitamos monitorear.

I have explained why monitoring is so important and that you get what you inspect, not what you expect. 

We know that if we fail to plan, we are planning to fail, but then we need to inspect or monitor to make sure we are getting the results we expected when we planned.

If we do not monitor, we may make huge mistakes, especially when we use methods that contradict nature.

Today, we will talk about monitoring your soil. Your soil should improve under the total grazing program, if it does not, we need to know why, and know what we need to monitor. 

¿Qué tan importante puede ser monitorear tu pasto para tener éxito en una operación de pastoreo?

Sabemos que la tasa de crecimiento del pasto cambia continuamente en respuesta a las condiciones de crecimiento.

También necesitamos saber cuánto pasto tenemos a mano y no sabemos cuánto crecerá en un año determinado, ya que cada año es diferente.

Sabemos que debemos observar, planificar, monitorear, ajustar y volver a planificar, ¿verdad? ¡Pues sí, pero hay que hacerlo y no sólo hablar o escribir sobre ello!

Hoy vamos a considerar las plantas deseables por metro cuadrado, la proporción de hojas verdes a tallos, el suelo desnudo como porcentaje, el tamaño y el vigor de las hojas verdes, la profundidad y el vigor de las raíces, ¿las raíces de tus pastos son gordas y profundas o delgadas y cortas?