Ray Archuleta
Ray Archuleta is a Certified Professional Soil Scientist with the Soil Science Society of America and has 30+ years experience as a Soil Conservationist, Water Quality Specialist and Conservation Agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Price range
- $11,000 - $15,000
Expert
- Agriculture
- Profitability
- Soil Health
Experience
- Agriculture
- Consulting
Career
- 35 Years
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About
Ray received his AS degree in Livestock Science from Northern New Mexico College and a BS degree in Agricultural Biology plus 30 hours of graduate work in soil related courses from New Mexico State University. He served in the Peace Corps for two years in Guatemala as a Livestock Specialist.
After his retirement from the NRCS in 2017, Ray founded Understanding Ag, LLC, and Soil Health Academy, LLC, to teach Biomimicry strategies and Agroecology principles for improving soil function on a national scale. Ray also owns and operates a 150-acre farm near Seymour, Missouri that he operates along with his wife and family.
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Video Clips
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Topics
Increase Profitability Thorough Soil Regeneration
Ray Archuleta will be presenting a real-life case study demonstrating the efficacy of regenerative farming. Learn how farmers have successfully transitioned to regenerative agriculture, and increased profitability!!
Soil Health Principles
This session covered basic soil health principles necessary to build soil health, such as minimizing soil disturbance, keeping the soil covered at all times, growing a living root year round, and using plant diversity above ground to increase diversity below. It also reviewed soil health testing procedures.
Regenerative Agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture is a new framework of thinking (mindset) that builds a nurturing relationship with the natural system. It imitates nature’s beauty, principles, patterns, and intelligent design and facilitates the healing of human and biological communities.
Environmental talks:
Regenerative Agriculture improves soil health, which will clean nutrients and pesticides from rivers, lakes, and oceans, reducing cancer and other sickness.
Water Quality Groups
The healing of the water cycle with Regenerative Agriculture. Healthy soils will increase water efficiency and storage.
The future crisis is the birth gap Populations worldwide are dropping at high rates, threatening the future support of civilizations. The overpopulation narrative is one of the most destructive paradigms ever promoted. Regenerative Agriculture can feed the world and heal the planet simultaneously, while the conventional agriculture model is diminishing the earth. The future is not the quantity of food but its quality.
Nutrient and Medical Audience: Let food be thy medicine: Healthy living soils improve nutrient density for plants, animals, and humans. Healthy soils-healthy humans.
Climate Talks: Regenerative agriculture restoring grasslands and croplands that occupy the large land mass. The vegetative land cover of this large land mass can heal the planet’s water cycle, impacting the climate.
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Testimonials
2 people have recommended this speaker
“He exceeded our expectations and did such a good job. All of the surveys we received gave him and his presentation tremendous praise.”
“Everyone enjoyed Ray’s program, as it was interactive and energetic and provided sound and practical advice.”