Collaboration
education and outreach
G Bar C ranch has partnered with countless entities over the years to fundamentally improve the beef industry as a climate solution and important resource for habitat preservation and species conservation. The ranch takes pride in the many opportunities it has had to teach and learn from people of all different backgrounds, specialties, & experiences. Below are a list of most recent collaborative efforts. Several links can be found under the “In the News” tab.
Outreach/Membership/Collaborations:
Member TSCRA
Member USRSB
Member/board member Integrity Beef Alliance (spearheaded new integrity beef legacy program, the recent recipient of the USDA Climate smart commodities grant in the amount of $30M )
Member American Angus Association
Collaboration with Earth X (ongoing)
Collaboration with USRSB McDonald’s Sustainability Pilot Project
Collaboration with NRCS: hosting tours
Collaboration with TSSRM: hosting a tour
Collaboration with TSSRM YRW2: Hosting a tour and helping at camp
Collaboration with Skidmore College Giving keynote to student body at the university. Hosting 3 Environmental Science students for a 6 week internship.
Collaboration with The Soil Inventory Project (TSIP): quantifying soil carbon.
Collaboration with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas: giving lecture at their headquarters. Hosting tours for BRIT researchers, participating in youth outreach day. BRIT has 2 specimens from the G Bar C Ranch: Blue funnel lily: first ever documented in cooke county, and Three Flower Melic Grass.
Collaboration with TAMU: Manure sampling, little bluestem/king ranch bluestem research.
Participated in the Noble Research Institute’s Land Stewardship Program piloting the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium quantifying and modeling soil carbon sequestration rate and water quality on the G Bar C Ranch.
Collaboration with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
Collaboration with Noble Research Institute Wildlife Researchers (bioacoustics monitors)
Past Steering Committee Member: Rural Investment to Protect the Environment (RIPE) Helping to develop the RIPE Roadmap, (also a recipient of the USDA CSC Grant)
Participant: Climate Underground
Speaker: Keynote National Grazing Lands Coalition annual meeting, Myrtle Beach
Speaker: AWESOME Women in Leadership convention at the McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago.
Speaker: The Foundation for Food and Ag Research in Washington DC
Speaker: Skidmore College student body, Saratoga Springs, NY
Speaker: Earth X. virtual
Speaker: Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth
Speaker: The OKA’ Institute, Ada, Oklahoma
Speaker (x2): Sustainable Ag Summit, Las Vegas, NV
Speaker: McDonald’s World Convention, Orlando, FL
Speaker: Texas Agricultural Land Trust Texas Working Lands Summit
Speaker: Soil and Water Conservation Society Blue-Ribbon Panel, virtual.
Speaker: Youth Society for Range Management Youth Range Workshop
Speaker: Noble Research Institute/Yale and Skidmore Colleges
Podcast: Texas Agricultural Land Trust Beyond the Fenceline
Podcast: Open Rivers
Webcast: Noble Research Institute
Films: Robinson Hope
Articles:
Noble Research Institute Annual Report
Texas Monthly
Arizona Cattle Growers
Civil Eats
Progressive Farmer
Botanical Research Institute of Texas
North Texas Farm and Ranch
VOA News
Successful Farming
AG Funder News
Dallas Observer
Dirt To Dinner
Livestock Weekly
Drovers
Integrity Beef
commercial calves
The ranch’s commercial calves are raised for quality nutritious beef and backed by the sterling reputation of the Integrity Beef Alliance. Through adherence to herd health protocols and gentle handling practices, the ranch is able to guarantee the health of their cattle and quality of beef. Follow us on Facebook to be the first to hear about the Integrity Beef Alliance LEGACY program intended to make available carbon neutral beef at a retailer near you.
Our Family
respect and gratitude
The joy in teaching the next generation how important the land and animals are is one the ranch takes great pride in. Understanding how mankind fits within a natural ecosystem doing the least harm and respecting the sacredness of all interconnected species that call this land home is a priority. Humility in the power of the lowly cow to instill vitality and resilience to both forest and grassland is a daily reminder of their important role within the ecosystem in which they have co-evolved for a millennia.