Healthy Land, Happy Families and Profitable Businesses: Essays to Improve Your Land, Your Life and Your Bottom Line - Paperback

by David W. Pratt (Author)

Through The Ranching For Profit School, Dave Pratt has helped thousands of families on millions of acres improve their land, their lives and the profitability of their ranches. In Healthy Land, Happy Families and Profitable Businesses, Dave shares insights and experiences from the school and his clients that can improve the health of your land, the happiness of your family and the profitability of your business."A master storyteller, Dave Pratt explains, applies, and sticks the reader with the most profound insights you'll find in any farming business book. To have this much uncommon good sense packed into such a readable format is unprecedented. Because it condenses decades of experience into one volume, this book delivers more meaningful advice in a small space than I've ever seen. I'd want this one on my shelf even if I didn't have any others. What a delightful, wisdom-dense read." - Joel Salatin, Poly Face Farm

Author Biography

Dave Pratt is one of the world's most respected authorities on sustainable ranching. He has taught the Ranching for Profit School in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia and Africa. Dave grew up on a small ranch and worked for cattle and sheep ranchers in Northern California. In addition to his practical roots, Dave holds BS and MS degrees from the University of California and Washington State University. A Range and Livestock Advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension Service for 14 years, Dave researched management intensive grazing and strategic issues impacting the sustainability of ranches. While with the University, he earned a reputation for innovative teaching with a practical edge. Dave was instrumental in developing the Sustainable Ranching Research & Education Project, a large-scale, long-term effort to develop, research and demonstrate economic, environmental and socially sustainable ranching practices. In 1991 Dave started working with Stan Parsons, who created the Ranching for Profit School and founded Ranch Management Consultants. In 1999 Dave became CEO of Ranch Management Consultants, Inc.