Overview of ILO issues in Manitoba
Alternatives
Holistic Management
Holistic management (HM) is an approach to decision-making on farms that takes the economics, ecosystem and social context into account and aims to continually fine-tune the inter-relationships among the parts in order to improve the overall health of the whole being managed. Holistic management was originally developed by Alan Savory to deal with the challenges of dry-land livestock production. Many holistic managers define themselves as "grass farmers" because the grass, which captures sunlight and turns it into food energy, is the source of the farm's wealth. HM may be combined with organic production. Often farmers who produce pastured pork, pastured poultry, and grassfed beef are holistic managers.