KYForages RU-vid Channel host videos related to forage and livestock management for the transition zone of United States. This area includes states ranging from Virginia to Missouri and Georgia to southern Indiana.
Consider installing Screech Owl nest boxes on your property. Owls eat rodents that host ticks, attract and feed pit vipers, Bobcats and Coyotes. There are not enough quality nesting cavities for Screech Owls.
21:00 Shade trees. Check out Professor Mark Coggeshall's three part video on his favorite Silvopasture tree the Swamp White Oak. He is a Missouri Agroforestry researcher. Greg of Greg Judy Rejuvenation Ranch Channel in Boone County Missouri likes the Thornless Honey Locust. 31:30 90% of parasites are on the top .8 inch or 2 cm of the plants. Cattle are taller and prefer to graze higher and prefer Grass. Sheep like Grass too but prefer to graze lower and prefer Broadleaf plants, many of which Cattle find unpalatable. Allow the Cattle to graze first to trim off the top of the parasite grass tips, then allow the Sheep in to Weed Whack the Broadleaf plants ignored by the Cattle. 46:00 Trimming trees for Veneer; they need two trimmings. The first when they are twenty to 25 feet high trim the bottom eight to ten feet. Then when 40 to 45 feet high do a second trimming. Don't trim more than the bottom 40% of the tree. This kind of trimming is useful to all good timber trees but is worth the Labor cost for money trees such as Black Walnut, Black Cherry, Red and White Oak. 46:00 Typically you are going to want to wait 51 days between grazing the same paddock to wait for the parasites to die. This was a good video.
Is it possible to get a link to the full talk? I am interested in mixing in some warm season grasses into my Kentucky hay pasture to more reliably get three cuttings.
additionally, taking all of the cover crop doesn't too much for your animal gain because the nutrition is in the top parts of the plants except grazing turnips or root crops.
Hello John, I am finished with your Erector Set hay processing video, which I guess is in Ohio. I may not sleep much tonight while processing you ideas. Congratulations are in order for your willingness to stick your neck out, to achieve your goals. I have recently found a younger man who has put the 45 tillable acres on my family’s (1907-xxxx) into Orchard grass. Being a retired toolmaker who was designing and building projects that then went to engineering for pretty drawings, and production, your accomplishments, and your true understanding of moisture in hay determining when to ted, rake, and bale are commendable. We are in north eastern Ohio, and have 8-9 inches of topsoil and then yellow clay. It can be tough, but as you said quitting is the end. I will look at your other material on RU-vid.
The one guy that laughed at the read canary grass joke got me. Great talk, saving it for later. Is this stuff in his book he mentioned at the beginning?
Great Analysis on head to head Hay vs. Managed Grazing. NEXT: Take a look at the AEA (Advancing Eco Agriculture) Soil Regen Process. They use Plant Sap testing to FIRMULATE a targeted Foliar Spray to optimize plant health. THE RESULT OF THIS.... Is increasing Photosynthesis from 10% -15% (typical POOR efficiency) to 50% to 60% Efficiency. That quickly produces MUCH MORE BIOMASS. 4 to 6 Times MORE Photosynthesis = 4 to 6 Times MORE CARBON. About Half of that goes into the Soil (Feeds Microorganisms) and Half into Biomass... Doubling to Tripling Forage Mass for Grazing. This is only done for a few years. Uaing AMP Grazing + AEA Soil Regen Process is like turning your OLD PASTURES... into 3 or 4 Times as much Pasture....BUT WITH FAR BETTER NUTRITION - If the proper MIX of Forage Plant Species for a LOCATION (at least 8 Species) The Nutrition of the Plants....and then the Cattle. That GRASS FED BEEF is worth twice Gain Fed Beef due to Nutrition Content. For instance...these Cattle have more Omega-3 Fatty Acids than Wild Salmon (selling at $9.00/lb). These healthy Cattle have almost NO VET BILLS associated.
Tag for research. Does this table 31:30 mean that if I am rotationally grazing, and unroll hay, I just have to unroll enough hay to feed them for 6hrs? After which, they've already consumed their 'adequate daily nutrition'? The 'potential' evening move or feeding becomes moot, as long as I've provided enough feed earlier in the day?
Dear UK This was a very bad grazing presentation to put up onto YT. Not a complete waste of time but pretty close. Its almost as if you just threw something onto YT just to throw something onto YT. No consideration for effectiveness of the video or how audience can make use of information. I'm 18 minutes in and I can't follow Chris's presentation very well because he's referencing PowerPoint slides. He's making comparisons between this pic and that pic and can't determine what he's talking about I'm sure it was a good "live" presentation, but it's a YT fail. Please make a better effort when deciding what's suitable for YT upload. Thx
I need advice, please. The neighbor beside of me put up a board fence. It's and they closed off my side of my property with there anything? I can do about that. They just took it up on themselves to concrete concrete fence and block my right side off
I graze down to 4 inches or so each pass. Mostly twice a day moves. I achieve rests of 50 to 80 days depending on time of year. I do a modified strip grazing. I create a new section every 3 to 4 days. I strip graze each section moving fence deeper every 12 hours. By the time forages are starting to regrow, I've moved off and onto a new section. Takes me 20 minutes twice a day. 45 minutes to an hour every 3rd or 4th day getting a new section fenced off.
Isoflavones in clover counteracting the defenses of a competing plant, tall fescue. Could it be an example of simple natural selection? Could it be the system of grazed plants evolving to favor ruminants(as opposed to insects that won't be eating both plants) so the woody plants don't take the sun from them? There is so much we will never figure out.
I wonder if cicada are truly a pest? I can't think of another animal that routinely burrows that deep inadvertently providing oxygen to deep roots, deep water infiltration and relieving deep soil compaction. If trees have 17 years to poison the nymphs, why don't they do it? You'd expect a tree that could would have a survival advantage, but I don't see it in nature.
Potato is essentially starch which is digested to glucose only. Soda drinks contain sucrose or worse high fructose corn syrup. Fructose is toxic like alcohol.
Very frustrating to try to understand several of Ballerstedt's slides, especially when he never explains or even mentions terms used in his equations in his "Emissions" slide, like DM, and DM above, and DM below. In the same vein, if he's going to the trouble of putting a lot of information into a slide that is a major argument of his thesis that raising cattle helps reduce carbon emissions, the least he could do is go through each line in the argument ("Emissions" slide). In other ways the presentation is interesting.
Which maturity type has more late fall growth? My assumption would be the early maturing varieties go dormant earlier in the summer, and will come out of dormancy better as the temperatures drop and produce more fall growth. This would prepare the early maturing varieties for an earlier start to spring.
The Jena biodiversity experiment found diverse pasture mixes not containing legumes fixed more N (over 200 kg per Ha) than legume monocultures. Free living N fixing bacteria are everywhere which is how plants get N in natural systems where no legumes are typically present. Dr Christine Jones talks about this in her presentation The Nitrogen Solution.
We have been bale grazing for decades and this year I’m switching to unrolling. The manure is too concentrated around hay rings and too much waste prevents summer grass from growing
You should be checking your herd condition, water etc every day anyway so very little additional cost to move them. Plus while doing this you are assessing your pasture which is the most important thing you can do as a grazier. Ideally you are moving your animals to maximise productivity of the pasture as well as the animals. You can’t do that unless you are out there in the paddock every day or two.
It's amazing how much more productivity you can get off of our perennial native legume species and native grasses if you do good rotational grazing management. Some of the ranchers near me never have to buy hay at all and are finishing off their cattle 3x faster than the usual fescue/clover mixes.
Jeremy, thank you for posting. In your opening, you mentioned you were going to talk about consideration for sheep and goats. Im looking to set up a 5 hot wire fence for rotational grazing that would include poultry, sheep, and cattle. Can you please provide any additional information? Mucho thanks. FYI, 70 acres in central Louisiana.
