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A Rancher-Led Program Champions Regenerative Ranching - Roundhouse Foundation Featured Grant Stories • Grant News A Rancher-Led Program Champions Regenerative Ranching Sustainable Northwest’s Regenerative Ranching program got its start when a group of Oregon ranchers approached the nonprofit, hoping for support creating an organization that would champion this land-first ranching method.
Regenerative ranching is a holistic approach to land and livestock management where ranchers produce livestock while focusing on soil health, biodiversity, and the environment. Sustainable Northwest has a history of helping local industries. “We find so much value in being able to find and keep working lands working and working well,” said Dallas Hall Defrees, director of the Regenerative Ranching Program.
The program officially launched in 2022 and today it’s the largest in the West, representing over 120 ranchers on 7 million acres of land across 13 Western states. Oregon has the biggest representation in the program thanks to a partnership with Country Natural Beef’s ranching cooperative. The program is entirely grant-funded by organizations including the Roundhouse Foundation.
Ranchers interested in joining the program are provided with free consulting and technical assistance to identify specific objectives for their ranch. One person’s land might have a greater focus on riparian health or juniper encroachment, while another wants to find a better way to suppress invasive annual grasses.
Most regenerative ranching involves a greater focus on grazing practices, Defrees explained, “where you’re thinking critically about what the ground is showing you and moving your cows accordingly. ” Healthy soil doesn’t just grow better grass for cattle feed, it can also store and filter water—important when producers are increasingly experiencing drought or, alternatively, flooding on their lands.
Regenerative ranchers believe working with the land shouldn’t be extractive but additive. “Their cows are healthy. The land is healthy,” said Defrees.
“We always want to focus on making sure ranchers are financially healthy too. ” In addition to the positives for the land’s health and resiliency to major weather events, regeneratively farmed beef can command higher prices at market. The program has also become an important point for community engagement.
The peer-to-peer learning network is a vital piece of the program, with thirteen small, regional groups led by ranchers. Each one has quarterly get-togethers where ranchers gather to share knowledge and resources for best practices. “Ranchers don’t have office spaces to bounce ideas off each other.
They’re not going to the feed store like they used to for a cup of coffee either,” Defrees explained. She recently expounded on this topic as a guest on the Funding Rural podcast. These groups provide space for real connection, especially needed in rural communities.
“We are all really proud of where we live,” said Defrees, who is a fifth-generation rancher from Baker City, Oregon. “But our infrastructure and a lot of things are being extracted out of rural communities right now.
” Ranching has always been hard work but the Regenerative Ranching program has given participants a way to keep their land healthy for the next generation and maybe make this way of life a little more financially viable too. “We need to look at taking care of our land and animals so we can sustain our rural economies,” Defrees said. “Regenerative agriculture is one tool in the toolbox to help us get there.
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