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Holistic Management Decision Making in
Diverse Environments
Resource Management Services LLCKirk L. Gadzia
Phone 505-263-8677 Email: [email protected]: www.rmsgadzia.com
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Holistic Management
Holistic Management® is a whole farm and ranch planning system designed to:
• Help land stewards better manage agricultural resources
• Obtain sustainable economic, environmental, and social benefits
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Holistic Management Practices
1. Define what you manage
2. State what you want
3. Aim for healthy soil
4. Consider all tools
5. Test your decisions
6. Monitor your results
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Practice One:Define What You Manage
(your inventory)
Defining your unique management boundaries means you are better able to manage your
inventory.
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CIRCLE OF CONCERN
Reactive
Adapted From: The 7 Habits ofHighly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey 1989.
Practice One:Define What You Manage
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Adapted From: The 7 Habits ofHighly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey 1989.
Practice One:Define What You Manage
CIRCLE OF CONCERN
CIRCLE
INFLUENCE
OF
Reactive
Proactive
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Practice One: Define What You Manage
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Define The Asset Base Being Managed
Management Team -People:
•Decision Makers: Tamara and Kirk•Todd and Kathy GGVLLC•Children, Relatives and Extended Family•Friends, Neighbors and Community•HM Network, Quivira Network, Regenag Network,Permaculture Network, Clients, +++ •Bankers, Advisors, Mentors
Assets: •Home and Land•Rental Properties •Current and Potential Clients•Friends and Bartering Network•Client Properties and Goodwill
Financial
Assets:
•Savings, Retirement, Investments, SS?,•RMSLLC Income •Home, Land, Vehicles, etc.•Rental Properties Income - Debt on properties•Good Credit
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Current Concerns and ProblemsWith The Asset Base Being Managed
•Time to visit family, friends•Travel time away from home•Health issues with family members –estate plan•Time to build connections and networks with our neighbors and local community
Asset Base:•Pasture, orchard and garden diversity and productivity•Rental property mortgage balances •Independence from the grid and town water –•Security of irrigation rights and water
Financial:•Adequate savings for “retirement” income •Health Insurance, long-term care, •Economic downturn effect on property values
People:
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Holistic Management Practices
1. Define what you manage
2. State what you want
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Practice Two:State What You Want
Elements of the Holistic Goal
1. Quality of Life and Values
2. Behaviors and Systems
3. Visions
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State What You Want
The real power of the Holistic Management framework is found in creating and using your holistic goal
• Progress not Perfection
• Create common ground and move toward it
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Mission Statement for the James Ranch
The integrity and distinction of the James Ranch is to be preserved for future generations by developing financially viable agricultural and related enterprises that sustain a profitable livelihood for the families directly involved, while improving the land and encouraging the use of all resources, natural and human, to their highest and best potential.
Practice Two: State What You Want
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Holistic Goals are Unique
• Perspective: Immediate needs AND long term vision
• Holistic View – triple bottom line
- people (social)
- profit (economic)
- planet (environment)
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Elements of the Holistic Goal
Start with Quality of Life (values)
What do you want in life?
Behaviors and Systems (forms of production)
What do you have to do?
Vision (a picture of your world – LONG TERM future)
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Quality Of LifeWHY?
STATEMENT OF OUR VALUES
HOLISTIC GOAL / CONTEXTINTERACTING ELEMENTS CONTAINED WITHIN A
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WHAT?
HOW?
HOW THE FUTURE MUST LOOK TO SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN BEHAVIORS AND SYSTEMS
WHAT IS PRODUCED
TO SUPPORT EACH VALUE
Quality Of Life
Behaviors and Systems
ECOSYSTEM SUPPORT FOUNDATION
WHY?
STATEMENT OF OUR VALUES
HOLISTIC GOAL / CONTEXTINTERACTING ELEMENTS CONTAINED WITHIN A
Visions
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WHAT?
HOW?
HOW THE FUTURE MUST LOOK TO SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN BEHAVIORS AND SYSTEMS
WHAT IS PRODUCED
TO SUPPORT EACH VALUE
Quality Of Life
Behaviors and Systems
ECOSYSTEM SUPPORT FOUNDATION
WHY?
STATEMENT OF OUR VALUES
HOLISTIC GOAL / CONTEXTINTERACTING ELEMENTS CONTAINED WITHIN A
Future Vision
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Kirk and Tamara Holistic Goal / Context
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Values: (Why)
• Healthy lifestyle
• Work that helps improve our planet and peoples lives
• Balance of work, play and responsibilities
• Security – Relationships, Financial, Personal
• Time for family, friends, and those less fortunate
• Enjoyment of different places, cultures, and the natural world
• Honesty and forthrightness in dealings with others
• Freedom of choice in what we can control
• Increased role in community
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Behaviors and Systems (What)
• Plan for eating nutritious food and regular exercise.
• Manage stress by effective time management and imposing limits on work.
• Create a yearly financial plan that is monitored and controlled.
• Do good work and enjoy it. Every client is important.
• Test potential work, activities and expenditures towards the values we want.
• Strive for increasing self-sufficiency in our life style and home based living.
• Celebrate our accomplishments and progress.
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Future Vision(How to sustain behaviors and strategies)
• Lifelong learning in matters of health, work, relationships, and finances.
• The basis of future work is satisfied customers.
• Our work increases the health and productivity of the land.
• Create a plan to meet our goals, and review it often.
• Save and share (time & money) with others.
• Invest wisely and monitor investments closely.
• Minimize “inescapable” expenses
• Seek the advice of others with experience and wisdom.
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Practice Three:Aim for Healthy Soil
The Four Ecosystem Processes
Water Cycle
Mineral Cycle
Community Dynamics
Energy Flow
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A Paradigm: University of Wyoming, Engineering Building
Most Ranchers and Farmers Fight Nature
Nature Always Wins
For Long Term Success, Understand, Work With, and Mimic Natural Systems
Ecological Rules Will Not Change
Water Cycle
Mineral Cycle
Community Dynamics
Energy Flow
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Sustainable Agriculture, A Definition:
“A sustainable agriculture doesnot deplete soils or people.”
Wendell Berry
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Water Cycle
Effective Water Cycle Requires:
• Soil covered with plants or litter
• Soil surface permeable to water
• Soil well aerated with high organic matter content
• Runoff and evaporation losses are minimal
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Mineral Cycle
Effective Mineral Cycle Requires:
• Soil covered with plants or litter
• Biological breakdown of old material
•Diversity of soil organisms and roots
• Minimal erosion by wind or water
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Community Dynamics or Succession
Sustainable Communities Are Characterized By :
• Many species of plants and living organisms
• Complex interactions between organisms in the community
• Stable soils and low frequency of drought, flood, or outbreaks
• Diversity of annual, perennial, herbaceous, and woody plants.
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Energy FlowHigh Energy Flow to Create New Wealth is Characterized By :
• Wide leaf area of plants and diversity of species
• Deep root systems of varying types
• High plant density and high % soil cover
• Diversity of soil, plant and animal communities –cool and warm season, annuals and perrennials
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Tools for Managing the Ecosystem
Grazing & Animal Impact
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Livestock Can Improve Land Health
Grazing“Nature Never Tries to Farm Without Animals” Sir Albert Howard 1943 An Agricultural Testament
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Major Advances in Understanding Grazing Management
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Grazing Can Have a Positive or Negative Effect on Land Health. This Depends on the Timing, Intensity and Frequency of the
Grazing.
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Increased Need to Control Livestock Placement, Timing,
Density and Duration
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The Predator/Prey Behavior Connection
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Time Not Numbers
Overgrazing of plants and damage from trampling has less to do with the number of animals on the
land, and more to do with amount of time the plants and soils are exposed to animals.
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Time Is More Important Than Numbers
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Time Is More Important Than Numbers
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Control overgrazing by controlling time.
1 Cow for 100 days
=100 Cows for 1 day
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Grazing in Natures’ Image• Control overgrazing by controlling time.
1 Cow for 100 days
=100 Cows for 1 day
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Practice Five:Testing Your Decisions
Holistic Management Decision Testing Matrix
Proposed
Action:
Pass Fail Doesn’t
Apply
Don’t
KnowNotes / Red Flags
Root Cause
Weak Link – Social
Weak Link –
Biological
Weak Link – Financial
Comparing Options
Gross Profit Analysis
Input Analysis
Vision Analysis
Decision:
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1. Root Cause
Does this action
address the root cause
of the problem?
Forces you to identify the underlying issue
Avoids addressing only symptoms.
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2. Weak Link
Three types
• Social
• Biological
• Financial
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Social Weak Link
Are there any socialconcerns regarding this action?
Avoids misunderstandings
or personal obstacles
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Biological Weak Link
Does this action address the weakest point in the life cycle of this organism?
By identifying an organism’s point of greatest vulnerability, you are better able to address it.
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Financial Weak Link
In my enterprise, what single thing will have the greatest impact on my ability to generate income?
By investing funds to give the greatest return, maximize ROI
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3. Comparing OptionsHolistic Goal
Where is the biggest bang for your buck?
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4. Gross Profit Analysis
Which enterprise(s) contribute the most to overhead costs?
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5. Input Analysis
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6. Vision Analysis
Are you headed toward or away from your future vision in your holistic
goal?
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7. Gut Check
Does the decision feelright?
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8. Suggested Justification Test
Can I honestly say I looked at these tests objectively?
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Decision Testing example
• Should Kirk and Tamara buy grassfed beef from their client or raise it themselves on their pasture?
• Problem: Time to manage livestock is limited, and they love the product they have been buying for over 10 years.
• They also barter grazing on their pasture to friends who bring in at least 4 X the number of animals for a much shorter period of time = high impact / low frequency. This would have to stop.
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Holistic Management Decision Testing Matrix
Proposed Action: Pass Fail Doesn’t
Apply
Don’t
Know
Notes / Red Flags
Root Cause
Weak Link – Social
Weak Link – Biological
Weak Link – Financial
Comparing Options
Gross Profit Analysis
Input Analysis
Vision Analysis
Decision:
DECISION TESTING MATRIX Possible Tool or Action
Gross Profit Analysis
Weak Link
3- Social2- Biological1- Financial
Vision AnalysisLand Health
Root Cause
Input Analysis
Comparing Options
Testing Guidelines
Justification
Buy and Raise Calves for Food on Our Pasture
Provide Grazing for Neighbors Cows, Buy
Grassfed Beef
Pass - makes money
cyclical, non addictive
Pass - tax savings, cyclical,
relationships, non addictive
Fail: no real $ income
Fail: rest is main tool, little impact on
pasture health
Pass: manage grazing and impact,
pasture health
Fail: maintains isolation, and
increases time commitmentPass: builds relationships and
manages time
Fail: not leading to social aspects of
our goal
Pass: leading to social aspects of our
goal
Pass: not MY initial choicePass: we thought it would go
2 Fail: low animal impact
3 Fail: Lose on relationships
2 Pass: high animal impact
3 Pass: Gain on relationships
Fail: high labor ad time Pass: choice of labor/ time
1 N/A Not weak link 1 N/A Not weak link
Pass: makes / saves money if
costs controlled
Social Health
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We Love Our Ranney Ranch Grassfed Beef!!
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We and Our Neighbors Love Having the Scottish Highlanders Improve Our Pasture!!
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Our Pasture Diversity gets better every year –over 125 species recorded to date!!
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The Bees Approve of the Pasture Diversity!!
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Garden Harvest and Making Salsa!!Note: Pasture Between Garden Beds –Grazed in Video –Clover Dominate
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Monitoring Your Decision
Lets you quickly know if your plan goes off
track.
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Holistic Management Framework
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