From steved@ncatark.uark.edu Tue Feb 1 18:52:39 2000 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:03:53 -0600 From: Steve Diver To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu Subject: New: Holistic Management A Whole-Farm Decision Making Framework Announcing this new web item from ATTRA. Holistic Management A Whole-Farm Decision Making Framework http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/holistic.html Abstract This publication serves as an introduction to holistic management and provides resources for further information. Holistic Management is a decision making framework that assists farmers and others in establishing a long-term goal, a detailed financial plan, a biological plan for the landscape and a monitoring program to assess progress toward the goal. Holistic Management helps managers to ask the right questions and guides them in setting priorities. In holistic financial planning, profit is planned at the beginning of the year. This is in stark contrast to conventional financial planning where the net profit is often non-existent or a small amount left over once expenses are accounted for. The author is Preston Sullivan, agronomy specialist and Holistic Management teacher. Here's another sampler, from the Introduction. Sustainable agriculture seeks in principle to "sustain" economic viability, environmental stewardship, and social responsibility. These three tenets are to be embraced as one functional unit. Decisions concerning a sustainable agriculture should then enhance the environment and the farmer's economic situation and benefit the regional society. Holistic management gives us a way to move forward on these three tenets. It gives us a way to design agriculture to truly mimic nature's principles of sustainability. It gives us a way to make decisions that automatically take into account the society, the economics, and the environment before they are made. =============================================== From: Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas - ATTRA http://www.attra.org ================================================ To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg". If you receive the digest format, use the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg-digest". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". All messages to sanet-mg are archived at: http://www.sare.org/san/htdocs/hypermail