Month: November 2025
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System and Energy
What is “Available Energy” and Why Does it Matter More Than Protein or Gross Energy?
In the field, there's a lot of talk about protein, minerals, NDF (Total Digestible Nutrients), and gross energy. But we almost never discuss the element…
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System and Energy
The Farm as a Single Organism (Animal + Soil + Flow)
For a long time, we viewed the farm as a collection of parts: livestock on one side, pasture on the other, soil as support,...
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System and Energy
Noise vs. Coherence
Every productive system — human, biological, or environmental — operates based on flow. Flow of energy, of nutrients, of information,…
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Behavior and Metabolism
The Dynamics of the Life Cycle
In agriculture, nothing happens in isolation. Every choice, even the smallest, creates ripples that travel throughout the entire production system—from metabolism…
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System and Energy
Where the Invisible Value of Regenerative Livestock Farming is Born
Most of the value generated in livestock farming doesn't appear in the short term or in the numbers we traditionally monitor. There is a…
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Behavior and Metabolism
Why Behavior is the New Farm Spreadsheet
For decades, livestock farming has been guided by numbers: weight gain, consumption, conversion, stocking rate, production per hectare. None of that ceases to be true…
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Behavior and Metabolism
How Minerals "Talk" to Metabolism
In rural areas, many people still see minerals as simply a "supplement" to the diet. Something to fill out spreadsheets, correct deficiencies, and avoid…
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System and Energy
Positive Net Energy
Productivity is an old metric. It only looks at what came off the farm—arrobas, liters, tons. But there is a metric…
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Behavior and Metabolism
The Soil as an Extension of Herd Metabolism
There is a silent truth in the field that is almost never explicitly stated: the soil is an extension of…
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System and Energy
Consistency as an Indicator of System Health
In the field, there is a more sensitive and precise indicator than any number on a spreadsheet: consistency. Consistency in consumption…
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