This interview is with Holistic Management practitioner and Oklahoma farmer and rancher Walt Davis. Walt joins Frank to discuss his book “How Not to Go Broke Ranching”. Walt starts with a brief history of ranching in the United States, moving on to how agriculture functions in today’s industrial economy, and then outlines why an industrial view of ranching is both damaging to the environment and not-profitable for the rancher. Recorded in 2011, part one of two.

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Walt Davis: How Not to Go Broke Ranching
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And I asked myself, who was Pollyanna? Actually, quite an inspiring story, and seems like she was a grizzled cowboy herself after it was all said and done.

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