10/31/2026
Most field days are for ranchers. This one was for everyone else.
Last week, Loy and Adam Sneary opened their ranch in Bay City, Texas to a group that doesn’t often spend time together, let alone a weekday morning in a pasture.
Everyone came with something different on their mind. For leaders from Matagorda and Fort Bend counties, it was Houston’s growth and what it means for the ranches in its path. For a professor studying population health, it was what well-functioning landscapes might mean for the people living near them. Our partners at Audubon Texas and the WHF Texas , who already work alongside ranchers, were after new ways to support them and the rangeland they care for.
Then there were the sustainability teams from potential corporate partners, who are just starting to explore soil carbon removals. They wanted to know how nature-based removals compare with engineered ones, and what a healthy grassland offers beyond the carbon itself, from water to wildlife to the ranching families who look after it. Most of all, they were asking where it might fit in their own climate plans.
The day included a cattle move at sunrise, a close look at how carbon in the soil is measured and verified before it ever becomes a credit, and a rainfall simulator from our friends at the Texas Grazing Land Coalition that showed, side by side, what soil under regenerative grazing and ground managed conventionally each do with a hard rain.
Everything the group saw that day was shaped by years of changes Loy and Adam have made in how they manage their land. They’re one of the first ranches in our program, and a good example of how investing in ranching families pays dividends well beyond the ranch gate.
Want to learn more about the Snearys? We captured their story in our Rooted in Change video series. You can find the link in the comments.
Loy and Adam, thanks for showing everyone around!