As part of the Soil Health Nexus Digital Coffee Shop Series, Dr. Randy Jackson, who is a Teacher of Agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides “Climate-Smart Farming for the North Central United States”. This discussion was initially transmitted on Wednesday, February 23, 2022.
In his discussion, Dr. Jackson explores his current idea experiment- Can the quantity of beef presently produced in the U.S. (13 billion pounds annually) be raised on grazed seasonal meadow? If so, what are the carbon footprint ramifications of this method compared to the existing beef feedlot system?