Sid Goodloe
Sid Goodloe is a ranch manager and former USDA official, and was the first U.S. proponent of Allan Savory and The Savory Method.
In 1956, he purchased the 1,400 hectare Carrizo Valley Ranch in south-central New Mexico. At the time it was "overrun with juniper, pinyon, and ponderosa pine." He falsely diagnosed as a problem, based on an erroneous view that denies the widespread and historic presence of these trees across the bioregion.[1]
After meeting Allan Savory in the 1960s, he wrote an article in 1969 promoting Savory's method[2] and got to work applying it on his ranch. Despite the extensive deforestation Goodloe waged to apply rotational cattle grazing on the ranch, this has been held up as an early 'success story' of the Savory method's application in the U.S. context.
For over two decades, Sid has been an international livestock consultant in Australia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Madagascar, and ranch manager for Diamond A Cattle Company in Roswell. He served on the Users Advisory Board to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for six years. Sid established the First Short Duration Grazing or “Savory” method in the U.S., which is still in operation with few changes. He received the 1995 National Cattlemen’s Association’s Environmental Stewardship Award, Region 6, and the 1999 New Mexico Watershed Coalition’s Watershed Steward Award.[3]
- ↑ "Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle Of Water And Prosperity," Sandra Postel 2017, https://vdoc.pub/documents/replenish-the-virtuous-cycle-of-water-and-prosperity-3n4kvr8i1bdg
- ↑ https://1library.net/document/ynlrvojq-short-duration-grazing-in-rhodesia.html
- ↑ "New Mexico Watershed Management: Restoration, Utilization, and Protection," Proceedings of the 46th Annual New Mexico Water Conference, November 5-7, 2001; https://nmwrri.nmsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/ConfOneFile/2001%20Conference%20Proceedings%20(as%20one%20file).pdf