It’s helpful to think of soil as a bank account:
1. Crops withdraw nutrients from the soil as they grow.
2. Nutrients need to be deposited back into the soil in order to keep the soil from being depleted.
3. On the process goes.
It’s a neat cycle of the cows and soil working together: The soil grows the fields that feed the cows. Meanwhile, manure from cows is recycled to replenish the soil nutrients to optimize the soil’s health.
To put it all together:
Healthy soils grow healthy plants at higher nutrient levels to feed healthy cows…who can replenish healthy soils. Cows are imperative in keeping soil healthy so we as farmers don’t have to rely on mined minerals—which are finite—and chemicals.