Filling the sustainability gap: what beef industry stakeholders can learn from ranchers on new practice adoption, grazing management plans, and sustainability.

ABSTRACT: Livestock's environmental footprint has become a pivotal concern for consumers and food corporations alike. To stay competitive in the sustainable foods movement and reduce Scope 3 emissions, the beef industry has sought to improve sustainability within their own value chains. However, before system sustainability can be achieved, sustainability practices must be adopted and implemented by the foundation of the beef system, cow-calf operations. Therefore, to gain insight into ranchers' motivations for adopting new sustainable practices we administered an online multi-state survey to cattle ranchers in collaboration with state cattlemen's associations. The survey objectives were to: 1) identify where ranchers obtain educational information, 2) identify ranching priorities and reasons for ne

SUBMITTER: Klopatek SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12199235 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature