The RMAC meeting is about to end - so a few of us will be joining shortly

She's our reigning Wild Woman of Range

And only f she continues to misbehave for the next year

Hi Everyone! Looks like a great turn out!!

Love the wild women crown Lynn!

Happy BD Larry Ford

Hi Everyone. I am the General Manager of Panorama Organic Grass-fed Meats. I can be reached at kay.cornelius@panoramameats.com

Please remember, should you have comments or questions during the presentation, go ahead and write them in the chat and I’ll organize them for the Q&A portion of our time together.

Hi Byron, Do you have public agency leases able to support organic? Most need to spray some weeds. Do you have public leases willing to reduce your lease rate for stewardship? Thank you for your presentation

Excellent, Byron!

Thank you Byron

Do the organic label standards align well with sustainability? Could a different standard or translation of it better support animal welfare, rangeland management and greater participation while meeting consumer expectations of what organic means?

Not sure this is as informative a question as "How much more would you spend per pound of 'environmentally better' product."

she is referencing cost of production is far lower in those countries https://www.stonebarnscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Grassfed_Full_v2.pdf

Bryon touched on the paperwork aspect/PITA index, but how do we manage the time aspect to participate in these programs when 80% of cattle producers in CA rely on off farm income?

What are some of the practices that are incorporated into the Audubon certification? I know several birders who will be interested to hear about this certification.

In the surveys I used to do, ranchers consistently had a high interest in wildlife habitat improvement. Genius. And good for the birds.

Excellent set of talks! Thanks to all the speakers.

Exactly as I have ranchers with I work with that sell very expensive hunting priviliges for deer and elk.

Awesome Kay!

This included people who made no income from the wildlife.

Audubon emphasizes grazing management to create/maintain bird habitat but recommends other practices like riparian restoration and others. I can share a sample Habitat Management Plan

Thanks, Pelayo. That would be great.

Thank you, Pelayo. We'd all be grateful for that.

And congrats Pelayo on your new role at running Audubon's ranching program in CA!!!

There are cool efforts in South America that mirror (I think even predate) the audobon effort for certifying bird friendly beef. https://www.birdlife.org/grasslands-alliance/es

Feedback on EOV?

thank you. I am still learning.

Faculty Early Retirement Program, so will be teaching 1/2 time for the next 5 years. More time to be rascally.

Seems the (impossible?) trick is in developing a universal well-informed and meaningful certification that can be dumbed down for the good/bad decision-making processes of the typical consumer. Byron summarized Daniel Kahneman's fast/slow decision-making processes quite nicely. Wonderful to have that come up in a rangelands discussion! :)

Hey mark…..i had like 5 min I had to pull out of my presentation, that was all about that book ;).

Marc what if it were a CA certification? Just throwing out an idea... i want to keep this discussin going

Seems like there’s maybe not enough production that stays just in CA?

Where is that Kay?

Thanks Kay, we have family friends that farmed in the area of O'Neill, NE!

Wineries have done an excellent job at certification of origin. Would something like that work for CA livestock production systems?

I think a California certification might be worth trying. In LA, Silicon Valley, and SF we have a sufficient population of people who may have the means to make dietary decisions based on environmental quality - and are at least minimally educatable, to try that, Sasha.

And we have the CRCC organization, and others, to build Ag/Environmental collaborations from.

100% of Panorama's CA rancher's production stays in CA.

go RCDs!

Thanks all for the great discussion today!

https://www.audubon.org/conservation/ranching

thanks Sasha

Thank you for your presentations!

Nice work, everyone! This was very worthwhile.

Really wonderful and thought provoking!

Thanks, everyone! Great conversation.

Great to see you all!!!

Excellent meeting! Excellent discussions. Thank you to our speakers and Matthew for organizing!

Thank you so much very insightful

this was great. thank you!

Thank you all

Excellent session