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Investing in Generational Stewardship
Building Resilient Futures Through Carbon Markets and Regenerative Ranching
Climate change affects us all. Farmers and ranchers are on the front line of climate change and hold a massive nature-based solution. Our future requires developing landscape scale resilient regenerative ranch systems, which produce food, sequester carbon and promote water security and enhanced biodiversity.
Our background is in regenerative ranching and agriculture.
Our future is in ranchers’ and farmers’ hands.
Interconnected Problems
Climate Change - Is real and accelerating making food production more challenging.
Land Degradation - Resulting from continuous grazing on ranches, heavy tillage and chemical fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides.
Low Productivity - In poorer soils productivity can only be maintained with increased artificial inputs.
Low Profitability - Farm and ranch profitability is decreasing as margin are squeezed with expensive artificial inputs.
Succession & Legacy - Passing on the farm and ranch legacy to following generations is now uncertain.
New Revenue & Partnerships
The Perfect Storm
- 40% of America’s Farm and Ranch Land is owned by Retiring Landowners.
- Retiring Landowners need help with succession.
- Access to Land is a major problem.
- No Easy Way to connect landowners to new opportunities and partners.
Total Farm and Ranch land in US: 911 million acres
Retiring Owners 65+: 371 million acres or 40%
Have Succession Plans: Only 29%
Options for Landowners:
- Pass to Heirs
- Sell or Lease
- Partnerships Explore
- New Revenue Streams
Investing in Generational Stewardship
"With all this work and with the great people working by my side, hopefully I can pass this on to my girls or even maybe my grandkids someday." – Clay Burtrum of Oklahoma's Burtrum Cattle LLC
Farmers and ranchers hold a deep emotional attachment to their land, seeing it not just as a source of livelihood but as a legacy to be cherished and preserved for future generations.
The commitment to good stewardship, sustainable practices, and the aspiration to leave a thriving environment for their children and grandchildren drives their everyday efforts.
This dedication aligns perfectly with our goal to foster landscapes that are resilient, sustainable, and capable of sequestering carbon, thus providing an opportunity for carbon investors to support a future where farming and ranching communities thrive alongside the environment
Market & Trends
Carbon Credits
Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) is vibrant and a commercial vehicle to address climate change.
Offset & Inset Buyers
Zero emission pledges and legally binding targets by 2030 are driving demand. Using carbon credits is the only way the majority of companies can reduce their Scope 3 emissions.
Carbon Credit Trends
The market is growing in volume and the price is increasing for high-integrity certified credits.
Biomass & Bi-products
In addition to biomass for carbon credits (50% of new plantings), RegenFARM projects are designed to produce large amounts of additional biomass (the other 50%), demanded by the growing bio-energy market.
Joint Game Plan
Long-Term Thinking: “The ranch is an unbreakable bond that binds the legacy of our family from the past to the endless possibilities of the future of our family that is yet to come.” - Liana Lucas Vogel, Birk-Sommerfeld Heritage Ranch.
Short-Term Planning: “In the face of worsening climate change and growing financial pressures, we have to adapt the ranch or loose it!” – Sentiments at the recent Ranch Estate Planning Workshop, San Antonio, TX, August 2024.
Joint Principles:
- Raising cattle remains the core activity but must be done in a sustainable way.
- Provide alternative revenue streams which also help to regenerate the land.
- Preserve grassland habitats and add biodiversity to the landscape to create long-term resilience.
Joint Planning: (ranch by ranch customization)
- Regeneration plan
- Conservation plan
- Hunting plan
- Business plan
Leaving Room for Nature
We don’t know what we don’t know!
We can’t presume we know better than nature.
A joint game plan, including regeneration plans, must leave room for the landscape to respond in its own way and in its own time.
Regenerating the landscape, by increasing water availability and replenishing soil health will allow native plant seeds which have been dormant for years to germinate and grow.
In a ranching context all plant life is useful for cattle, some used for good live weight gain, some browsed selectively by cattle for medicinal purposes.
All plant growth contributes to carbon sequestration, and a biodiverse pasture contributes to ranch resilience.
Results on the Ranch
Financial Benefits
- Increase in productivity and profitability
Environmental Benefits
- Soil health
- Soil water
- Biodiversity
Social & Legacy Benefits
- Resilience for future generations, protecting legacy
Complimentary Revenue Streams
- Carbon
- Biomass
- Biochar
- Biofuel
- Timber
- Payments for Ecosystem Services
Conclusion
Large scale nature-based solutions
Right Location & Landowners
Right Team & Partners
Right Technologies & Methodologies
Right Time & Markets
Impressive IRR
Opportunities to Scale Quickly
transformational & sustainable change
