Olive Wagyu Fertilizer
A closed loop on Shodoshima: the cattle eat the rice straw and corn, and the fields feed on what the cattle return.
A closed loop on Shodoshima: the cattle eat the rice straw and corn, and the fields feed on what the cattle return.
On a trip to Japan, Crowd Cow co-founder Joe Heitzeberg saw how Olive Wagyu producers work as a closed system. The inawara rice straw and corn that feed the cattle are themselves grown in fields fertilized by those same animals — a quiet, generations-old loop between herd and land.
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