Beef cattle’s role in the sustainability story was the focus of a program Friday in Sioux Falls. AgSpire Vice President of Business Development Jared Knock said agriculture can look back on thousands of years of history, but only looks ahead for a short amount of time. Knock, who also has a diversified crop and livestock operation in eastern South Dakota, said it is important to look at the big issues. “It was really the environmental concern about the cattle production, in particular, that I thought was probably the biggest risk factor to there being people on the acres that I’m on today, a hundred years from now or beyond that.” Brady Wulf is part of Clear Springs Cattle Company at Starbuck, Minnesota and said regenerative agriculture is an opportunity to reach consumers. “There’s also a lot of immeasurables like plant diversity, water infiltration, controlling runoff, controlling wind erosion; all things that are a lot harder to measure but things that I can take you out and show you. I think that’s our huge opportunity getting that to a larger audience.”
