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Regenerative farming for livestock farmers

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who lived in the first century BCE, was quoted as saying: “Change is the only constant in life.” Normally, people react to change by expecting it to end soon, whereafter things will return to normal. Disruptive change, however, happens when an event or chain of events require a fundamental and permanent change of existing business models.

Climate change and global warming are exactly such a disruptive force; they have a profound and permanent effect on livestock farming globally. Extreme weather events, failure to respond to climate change, and biodiversity loss are now rated amongst the greatest dangers to the health of life and humanity on the planet.

There is sufficient scientific evidence that climate change and global warming have changed the production environment and production base )in the atmosphere. The effects of these are:

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