Increased Profits Through Stacked Enterprises & Direct Marketing – Bismarck, ND

Gabe Brown is one of the partners in Understanding Ag and an instructor for the Soil Health Academy. This is the opportunity to see a ranch that has been applying the six principles of soil health for over 25 years.

Gabe, along with his wife Shelly, and son Paul, own and operate Brown’s Ranch, a diversified 6,000 acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota. The ranch consists of several thousand acres of native perennial rangeland along with perennial pastureland and cropland. Their ranch focuses on farming and ranching in nature’s image.

The Browns holistically integrate their grazing and no-till cropping systems, which include a wide variety of cash crops and multi-species cover crops. This diversity and integration has regenerated the natural resources on the ranch without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides.

Paul Brown, owns and operates Nourished by Nature which directly markets Brown’s Ranch production. These include all natural grass-finished beef and lamb. They also raise pastured laying hens, broilers, and swine. They believe that healthy soil leads to clean air, clean water, healthy plants, animals, and people.

Over 2,000 people visit the Brown’s Ranch annually to see this unique operation. They have had visitors from all fifty states and twenty-seven foreign countries. Gabe and Brown’s Ranch have received many forms of recognition for their work, including a Heinz Award for the Environment, a Growing Green award from the Natural Resource Defense Council, an Environmental Stewardship Award from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and a Zero-Till Producer of the Year Award, to name a few. Gabe has also been named one of the twenty-five most influential agricultural leaders in the United States. Gabe authored the book, “Dirt to Soil, One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture.