IMG breaks current stockmanship, cattle behavior, and grazing paradigms on at least half a dozen levels, allowing you to practice regenerative grazing without adding fences, installing complex water infrastructure or making daily moves.
When compared to conventional, or even "low stress" stockmanship, the stockmanship methods used in rebooting herd instinct are abstract. While the herd rebooting page contains videos and explanation of the stockmanship, it's difficult at best to learn without hands on supervision. Details for two day clinics focusing on stockmanship, or five day schools concentrating on teaching you the stockmanship, while rebooting your herd are over on the schools and services page.
As IMG works a bit different on every ranch. Rather than me trying to explain how it works, listen to this video from the Western Sustainability Exchange as you would a podcast. I'm mainly moderating while Fernando Falomir from Understanding Ag, Pedro Calderon, senior bison manager for the American Prairie Reserve, been and Riki Kremmers who has been running an IMG grazing program on the family ranch at Lance Creek, Wyoming describe how it works in their various environments while you peruse through the links in the header.
The following link is a recent Grazing Grass podcast, interviewing Riki Kremmers on how they've tripled their stocking rates implementing IMG on their ranch in Wyoming.
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Desertification of the Southwestern USA is easy to see. Below is an abandoned mower from when native grass hay was cut on this very spot less than 70 years ago.
Stocking rates in the region this picture was taken in has gone from 80 acres per cow to over 180 acres per cow in the last 20 years. It is possible to regenerate these grasslands through planned biological regenerative grazing using IMG. During the IMG schools, there is discussion on how to plan, and keep the plan flexible, as well as designing water plans at a minimal cost and keeping labor costs low.