The educational system has failed to include human development, growth, and spirituality along with other important aspects like cattle, land, labor, and money. Dr. Tom Field argued this point in 2006 while discussing various ranches and sustainable farming in Kenya. The document goes on to discuss concepts related to lifestyle, balanced scorecards, and decision making.

1. “ The single biggest failure of our educational system in agriculture is that we have kept cattle, land, labor, money, and decision making in the circle while holding human development/growth/spirituality outside of it.” Dr Tom Field, CSU 2006

2. Bell Ranch

3. Lost River Red Angus

4. Commercial Lost River

5. McDonald Farm

6. Sustainable orphanage farms in Kenya

7. San Isabel Ranch

8. Lifestyle

9. i If you were to create a presentation of your Balanced Scorecard Lifestyle what pictures would you CHOOSE ? Lifestyle can be directed by human resource energies, both positive and negative.

12. personal values personal standards of conduct spiritual beliefs Spiritual Being psychological health and adjustment cognitions feelings self-esteem, self-concept , self-control Psychological Being personal hygiene nutrition exercise grooming and clothing general physical appearance Physical Being who one is being

13. adequate income health and social services employment educational programs recreational programs community events and activities Community Belonging intimate others family friends co-workers neighborhoods and community Social Belonging home workplace/school neighborhood community Physical Belonging connections with one's environments belonging

14. activities that promote the maintenance or improvement of knowledge and skills adapting to change Growth Becoming activities that promote relaxation and stress reduction Leisure Becoming domestic activities paid work school or volunteer activities seeing to health or social needs Practical Becoming achieving personal goals, hopes, and aspirations becoming

18. Linear Decision Making Balanced Scorecard you desire desire desire

19. Lifestyle Desired Lifestyle desire desire desire Others “you” desire desire desire you Others “you” Desire Desire Desire Others “you” Desire Desire Desire

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22. Profit ; Salary: 50% of salary meets basic needs, 25% of salary meets investment, 25% of salary meets discretionary. Ranching: (Short term) 75% of income meets expenses. 25% invested back into business. (Long term) 50% of income meets expenses. 25% invested back into business, 25% discretionary. Production: Explore ways to and convert sunlight and rain into human protein with a long term goal of self employment. Explore and utilize creativeness. Pasture: A slight preference for ranching in a southwest rural environment, managing grazing livestock and land utilization in a manner to improve plant, water, and mineral cycles as well as livestock and wildlife welfare. People: Explore ways to and produce wholesome, affordable human meat food sources. Cultivate and maintain family ties and friendships. Aid our community, country and world through church, service groups and stewardship activities. Enrich our marriage.

23. To review ask: 1)What happened? 2) What did we learn? 3) How do we feel? Define the whole (what boundaries to manage) Decision makers (things that can impact you) Resource base (people, resources, money) Quality of life: (family, business, organization) Forms of production: (produced to create quality of life) Future resource base: (land, community) explore new ways to generate increased profit through improving range resources and production capabilities in a sustainable way Testing Questions: Cause and effect: (is it the root cause or symptom) Sustainability: (will it lead to the future resource base) Weak link: Social: (with prevailing attitudes could this action create a weak link towards the holistic goal. Biological: (what is the weakest point in the life cycle) Financial: (strengthen chain of production) Marginal reaction: (greatest return of time/money to holistic goal) Energy, money, source, use: (Is money, energy derived from appropriate source for holistic goal) Society, culture: How do you feel about it now? Will it lead to quality of life desired? Will it adversely affect others quality of life?

24. 1880–1960: 500 acres farms increased stabilizing over 350,000 1935-1974: 1 to 49 acre farms declined from 2.7 million to half million After 1974: 1 to 49 acre farms were over 540,000. 1935-1997: 50 to 499 acres farms declined from 3.9 million to million. Result since 1974: farms with fewer than 50 acres and farms with more than 500 acres have both increased their share of total farms, but midsize farms’ share has declined.