SECOND OPEN LETTER TO BEA ALONZO - THE RANCHARD SYSTEM WILL NOT SUCCEED WITHOUT ENOUGH GRASS

 

SECOND OPEN LETTER TO BEA ALONZO - THE RANCHARD SYSTEM WILL NOT SUCCEED WITHOUT ENOUGH GRASS


THE GRASS IS INDISPENSABLE (A MUST!) FOR THE RANCHARD TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE (CONTINUOUS, ENDLESS) PROSPERITY

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Bea, I would like to point to you a very important key to the sustainable success -- read: sustainable -- of your ranchard. This key is the grass. The grass is the first key.

I am devoting this space to raise our awareness how indispensable -- that is, you cannot operate without it -- the grass is... because in the Philippines, the grass has become a weed and a pest... that deserves nothing but to be burned or to be removed as much as possible.

So, we are adopting the use of herbicides to kill the "weeds; as much as possible.
And yet, the Lord mentioned the grass as one of the elements in His creation. In Genesis 1, where God described His Ecosystem, He said, The grass is for food of the animals.

That is very clear. When we realize how big is the population of the animals, we will realize that grass is as important as crops to us. Without the grass, a huge population of God's creation, namely: the animals would be wiped out off this planet.

How important and useful the grass is... this thing that Filipinos consider as non-important and desire to burn or to destroy?

My shortest answer is: NO TRUE SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE FREE GRASS!

Those who started operating their piggery, poultry, ranch, etc., without the grass end up being captured inside a net of deficits, loans, debts, increasing payables, and most often, bankruptcy.
Why? Because the alternative of free feed (grass) is the expensive commercial feeds that is the first factor of bankruptcy. Costly feed is the first factor of bankruptcy.

The second factor of bankruptcy is costly commercial fertilizer. And look, this is expenditure is also avoidable if we started with free grass because the grass could be turned into better replacement to expensive commercial fertilizer, the organic fertilizer. So you see, the value of grass does not end in its being used as feed to the livestock. It also become useful as manure or organic fertilizer.

So, up to this point, two expensive farm inputs (namely: feeds and fertilizer) are being taken care by the grasses!

And we know that feeds and fertilizers consist the two biggest expenses in livestock raising.

See?

See how important is for you to see to it that the ground in your farm shall thrive with very healthy and abundant grasses. Bea, your farm must come to the point when you stop buying or acquiring 'darak' (Visayan: tahop) (English: bran and germs of seeds separated from the grains during milling) and let grass be enough food for all animals, except if these tahop are freely produced by your farm.

The point is: The goal is to reduce all expenses up to zero if possible, while the sale or profits goes sky-high.

What are these expenses?
To an operating farm (that is, all start up expenses such as fence, facilities, water system, power system, etc.) have been already applied, the operational expenses are:
1) feeds
2) fertilizer
3) pesticides
4) seeds
5) breed (e.g., chicks for poultry, piglets for the piggery, etc.)
6) medicine
7) labor (wages)
8) food for the workers

HERE IS THE MAGIC AND AMAZING QUESTION: CAN THE GRASS WIPE ALL THESE EXPENSES, PUT THE FARM INTO A VIRTUALLY ZERO EXPENSES BUSINESS AND AT THE SAME TIME, CHURNING UNLIMITED PROFITS?

Sure, the question is very challenging: Is it possible to reduce all costs and expenses to almost zero while at the same time, increase the produce and profits without limit?

The answer is: it is possible and believe it or not, IT STARTS WITH MAKING GRASSES! ABUNDANT.

The key is: To love the grasses and make them very abundant.

Why?

Here is the magic which almost no nation except Switzerland has come to discover, realize and appreciate: THE GRASSES CAN HELP YOU DO AWAY WITHAL MOST ALL OF THE EXPENSES ( feeds, fertilizer, pesticides, seeds, breed e.g., chicks, piglets, etc.), medicine, labor (wages), food for the workers, etc).

How invaluable the grass is?

First, the grass replaces the commercial feeds, for your cows, goats, sheep, etc., [FIRST SAVING AND COST CUTTING]

Second, when the grass is converted into manure, by the cows, and then by the earthworms and microbes, the resulting excellent organic fertilizer will save you the next biggest expenses: fertilizer [SECOND SAVING AND COST CUTTING[

Third, when thanks to the grass, the organic fertilizer has become very abundant (make it your goal to have organic fertilizer flows like a river!), the next thing to happen is: unlimited produce in the form of animal products: eggs, meat, dairy products like cheese, yogurt, etc. and plant products: flowers, ornamental plants, grains, flour, nuts, fruits, wine, honey, etc. FOR AN UNLIMITED PROFIT.

So, the formula for SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY & WEALTH = going zero expenses + unlimited produce and profit

And that is only possible, tararanggggg.... with the free grasses! No free grasses, no such thing as sustainable prosperity and unli-wealth!

Do you now have come to see how precious the grass is?
We have cited the value of the grass in wealth-making.

Now, the second set of value of the grass is in health-making. The key to organic food, permanent healing and lasting health is the grass. No grass or leaf = no organic food.... because even the fruitrees and crops would not be organic if there is no grass that turns into organic fertilizer.

So the grass is the cannot-be-absent, indispensable first element of health-making.
Without the organic fertilizer made of grass, no organic fruit and organic crops would be possible.

So, you see the indispensability of the grass?

And yet in the Philippines, our attitude towards the grass/ leaf is that it is not important, and is a disturbance as a weed and deserve to be burned and removed forever from the components of the Ecosystem.

This negative attitude of the Filipinos towards the grass from indifference to hateful action such as to kill the grasses with the deadly herbicides, is the root cause of our curse called poverty and illnesses.

You will come to realize this if you go to Switzerland and see the resulting blessings of their unique love for the grass and love for the cow...In total contrast to the USA where the Americans persecute the grass with killer herbicide and see the cow as beef!

This bad attitude in America has resulted to the cow in its many by-products (e.g., red meatt, growth hormone, homogenized milk, etc.) becoming the biggest killer of the Americans via cardio-vascular diseases (CVDs) and cancers.

CVDs kill as many as 700,000 Americans every year... the No. 1 killer disease in the USA for decades.
Cancer (over 100 types) kill as many as 600,000 Americans every year... the No.2 killer disease in the USA and most probably in the nations of similar diet habits and lifestyle.

So, the curses mentioned in Deuteronomy 28 are upon the USA... partly because they hated the grass and the cow.

On the other hand, in the Switzerland, they love the cow and let him live as long as it can... and because of that, they give value the grass as precious resource.

Interestingly in Switzerland, they have almost no other plants and flowers save the grass. Plants, flowers and also the trees, especially the fruitrees are very scarce in Switzerland. As to the plants, they do not have a great variety of flower plants, crops plants and when it comes to the trees, they almost have only one tree, the pine tree... and as to frutirees, they also almost have no fruitrees... that is what I have said in comparing this sad scarcity in Switzerland compared to the super-abundance of plants, flowers, lumber trees and fruit trees in the Philippines... so abundant that they make our forest dense and farm congested!

And yet, we do not become prosperous by these abundance... we become poor... very poor instead!

What’s the matter?

Do you know that Switzerland has been always in the top 3 or top 5 richest countries in the world? And not by GDP, but per capita, that is, riches by household?!

So, in Switzerland, the families are rich... very rich... and what do you think is the cause? The gold deposit of Marcos and Dr. Jose Rizal and the Tallano clan? The banking industry in Switzerland? Other industries?

The blind economist consider these to be the major cause of the Swiss riches.

But to me, the real engine of sustainable prosperity of the Swiss people is mainly the milk, yogurt and chocolates and the super-health of body and mind of the Swiss people... therefore thanks for their by their love for the grass and the cow!

While the reason for the super-poverty and super-sickness of the Filipino people is.... our indifference and lack of appreciation towards the grass!

Think about it and be wise....

God bless...

P.S. To fully appreciate the Swiss love for the grass and the cow and to fully be convinced that generate them so much blessings, let me encourage you to view the YouTube videos on Switzerland’s grass industry (yes, they, only they, consider the grass as an industry!), equal to their cattle industry equal to their dairy industry.

Some of these videos you can view by typing at YouTube “Switzerland grass,” “Switzerland hay,” “Switzerland cows,” “Switzerland manure organic fertilizer,” “Switzerland milk,” “Switzerland cheese,” “Switzerland chocolates,” and the likes.

Namaste.