Greg Judy details simple steps for healing an overgrazed farm. 

My wife and I bought our farm two years ago. It was overgrazed for a long time. I had no experience (which was probably a good thing) but I started raising cattle here. I am on my way to healing this farm Greg and I am using the methods you are talking about and we are seeing results. Just simply rotating the cattle made a huge difference from us and everybody else around here. We had a 3 month drought last year and all the neighbors were feeding hay in August and I was moving cattle into a paddock in October that hadn’t been touched for 90 days. I have a long ways to go but I am liking what I am seeing so far. I was out in the pastures today and here in February we have clover coming up where I have never seen it from unrolling hay. This stuff works but you have to get past what your neighbors think of you and be the weirdo that does things different.

Maybe you 70% unsubscribed folk forgot that it was FREE! Greg's videos cost less than a subscription to the Stockman Grass Farmer. This is a deal of a lifetime!

That’s me, 47, working in town while my heart and soul yearn to be doing what you’re doing.

Real world experience is an education that is priceless. The information you are giving away on your channel is also priceless. Thank you

I love how Greg understand the modern culture and how bad things really are. This rotational grazing stuff is no joke, we are saving lives in this journey everyday. Doctors can preform surgery but it takes a grazer to build soil and put food on the table so civilization can continue. The anti-human technocratic agenda ends here. Amen Greg.

You're talking about me Greg... 42 yrs old. It'll Be a dream life to be a grazer. Doing something for environment and creating clean nutritional food.

Greg Judy, the voice of knowledge, reason, and common sense based on practice and experience.

Don't thank us Greg, we can't thank you enough! I've been subscribed since I found you, I've learned so much, and someday I'm going to do it myself.

Damn didn't expect that great life advice in the last minute of the video. Thats how you know Greg Judy is the real deal.

I bough 80 acres of abused over grazed weed infested land last year, this is exactly what I am going to do this winter ( in Australia )

We need to get more people in this movement to form a lobby to promote this. State politicians are missing a huge oppertunity to bring money, agriculture, rural development , health, environment, conservation and wildlife, etc to their states. It's all right there and all you have to do is promote this stuff, help make it easier for young farmers , or old farmers to do this type of thing. And start letting people that know about this stuff, help with designing public land use. Lots of mismanaged public land that could really make a difference if it were under better management. This movement is a politicians dream if only they would figure that out.

I can't wait to trade in my "town job"!

I learn something every video. Thanks so much for taking the time to post each day!

Thanks for all your information, Greg. My brother, I, and our wives have started out on a small farm in East Texas. We've got three over-grazed pastures that we're trying to rebuild with ruminants right now. I often feel like I don't know what the heck I'm doing, and your videos go a long way toward helping light the way.

One of my fave videos.

Hey Greg I like how you are preaching keep it up it may sink to some of us people.

Greg I'm now just getting the fence going. Thanks to you I'm spending a fraction and will be putting up a better fence than I would have. Thanks again

I had 40 acres of land full of weeds and young cedars. Dozed the cedars and tilled the soil to plant grass. Before I had time to plant grass, the soil disturbance activated a native grass (King Ranch Bluestem) I didn't even know I had. Now, the pasture is covered in grass.

Tellin it like it is . Thanks Greg

Hay bales-“Put the darn thing up on poles” ..so simple. So genius, Greg Judy. Conserving carbon. Awesome.

This is what I’ve been waiting for-Jerry

Again, many thanks! I agree with everything you say.

What amazes me is how few people are mob grazing. Here in Western AR, i see overgrazed fields in May! Plus there are a lot of weedy underutilized grazing. I have trouble seeing how it's optimal to not do some hay. In the warm months you have way more grazing than you can use. Even with stockpile, how can you rotate enough in the dormant season? Also, in many areas, there is enough rain to leach nutrients below the reach of grasses. Alfalfa is very good at recovering deep nutrients. Years ago, I heard of a guy who experimented with planting Honey Locust in his pastures. The canopy is thin and doesn't prevent the grass from growing close to the tree. the pods provide a surprising amount of forage and the cows LOVE them. They are a deep rooted tree and recycle nutrients to the surface

Mr. Judy...thank goodness you are letting people know it is possible. So many channels only talk about how there is no money and it is super super hard work. I hate that! I know it is. But I am trying to convince my husband and all that talk gives him all the evidence he needs to deny me. My relatives openly mock my desire to farm. It actually makes me very angry.

Thanks Greg just started watching your videos and I'm hooked, went straight out to our cows and put 2 herds in to 1 could see the regrowth difference next day 😊

We are learning a lot from you. Great videos.

Love watching these videos. I’m a hobby farmer I could care less if I make money. I don’t want to loose money but any profit I get it’s a bonus to me. I have a small farm and use cattle to grow a beef a year and help keep the farm grazed off some. By watching these videos it has helped make my farm much better looking and have much greener grass to look at. If I were to ever seriously try and raise cattle and expand to make a profit I’d follow everything in these videos to a T.

I wish we had you tube when I was on the farm, sure would have changed some stuff up. Thanks for the info Greg.

i am ranching in Hawaii and i watch everything you put out. also a subscriber. ive learned alot from this channel. we have a dairy farm on the big island of Hawaii. i brought my cows over from Utah when we moved here.

I grew up in coal country. There's huge acreage in strip mined land that could be reclaimed with Greg's regenerative approach.

Thank you for posting these informative, uplifting videos! Please include a video on electric fence grounding in your upcoming ones. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge AND experience!

Inspiring

We are starting tiny with 5 feeder lambs on a free lease. If this works we will get breeding sheep. Thank you for painting the picture of how to start.

Best content on the internet, thx Greg!

Another great video. Greg thank you. For everything you do. The passion you feel for your land and animals is a beautiful sight. Your videos always make my days better.

1-3" of snow again...ugh...I've never been more ready for winter to be over. I'm so anxious for spring greenup I can't stand it.

I used to work for a really smart grass farmer when I was in my teens. One year we had a really bad drought in the spring and the grass was green, but it did not grow until the rain FINALLY started about six weeks behind schedule. The farmer I worked for fed more hay at that time than he had all winter, because he had to keep his cattle off the grass at all costs. If he’d not saved his hay all winter (he was a devout stockpile grazer) his pastures would have been hammered and it would have taken a long time to recover.

Greg I have to say I’ve farmed all my life yet I admire how well you take care of the land. I wish we had the acreage you have to run on.. it just simply isn’t available here. I like your methods for sure.

Spreading out hay the way you do does two things cows a full stomach and soil replacement to make the cows 🐄 😃.

Wow, just love your videos and the message. You are describing our operation. I just purchased multiple solar chargers and fence supplies. We are weekend ranchers, so I’m going to try weekly rotations. Not ideal, but will it work? Any advice?

Good evening Greg Another interesting film, thank you. Leaving hay outdoors; it's obviously staying good enough for the cattle to eat. In the UK hay is usually stored indoors. Do you find any challenges with outdoor storage like that..? Do you ever buy haylage/plastic wrapped hay? Thanks Peter

Hay is drought insurance! We raise sheep in Canada and we never go into May without having enough hay for another month.

I’m 34 years old. It’s my goal to be a full time grass farmer by 40!!!

It looks like you have your bales stacked 2 bales deep, how do you go about getting the first one loose with your bale unroller?

So the professor gave a thumbs down 17 times I guess. Good info Greg.

What about over seeding? Good idea for healing an overgrazed farm?

You mention 5 strand high tensile strength wire for sheep or goats. Is that electric fence or would you recommend high tensile woven fence?

Love your videos Greg. Been subscribed for a couple months yet I learned so much from your channel as well as other channels like yours. Thank you for the knowledge wisdom and inspiration. Soon enough this city boy will be in the country on the farm implementing all that I've learned.☺☺☺

I have to admit, the whole, "Get your cattle out on the road to walk to the next grazing point," makes me nervous. I imagine getting them out there, then some kid in a goat, (GTO), or a yuppie in an Audi, blasting through, scattering the cattle, and three days later I STILL haven't gotten 'em all back. SIDEBAR: hay, like a flat tire, it's only flat on one side. I say feed them what green alive is available, until it isn't, then turn to hay. "Hay is for horses, and not for men, they say it'll kill me, but they won't say when... "

I blocked up my pasture so I could rotate and rest my pastures more; and kicked up my Ca/Mg etc and doing much better. I cut all my own posts from hedges to save.

Amen and Amen

I live in northern Wisconsin. Please do a video on how to "stop haying your land".... I would love to move my hay field into pasture paddocks but the truth is that my cows need winter feed. Hay on a cheap year is $65 (4x5) on the average year $80. Last year $100+ When we can have 2+ feet of snow on the ground, freezing ice, etc we can barely unroll a bale

Hey Tim! I shared this to you through text. You better be watching this video 😁🤣

You'll save even more hay, Greg, if you line up those bales end to end, tight together. The ends will be protected and less rot and bleaching.

I'm eager to see that banding video. Do your steers finish out in 24-30 months?.. I probably wasn't paying attention enough regarding the bulls you save, do you fear inbreeding?

Go and hire or borrow a direct drill look at Gabe Brown videos form North decoator get cover crops in and your set go do it

About how long can you expect a Haybale to last outside like that?

Greg, thank you for all you do and the free information you provide. This next spring I will be starting my grazing operation (and will see you at your September grazing seminar). But here’s my question, you said the pasture was overgrazed for 47 years. After that you said you rested the pasture for a year. Then you went into your hay bales, sitting on posts, polywire, etc. that is in other videos - so you lost me. Why did you go into the hay? Was it because as you were resting the pasture you spread hay on the pasture during the winter to build up carbon? Or did you not do anything at all and just have the cattle come in 1 year after the rest period? I’m not being critical - no way, no how. It’s my not understanding your process because it seemed like you went from rest, to hay on posts, hay around the pasture for insurance, to not feeding hay early vs. forage, to water, polywire, to how you went from not being profitable to turning a profit. ALL OF THAT IS IMPORTANT - just please let me in on the way you revitalized the pasture a little more. Thank you for all you do!

Greg, what would you do in southwestern SD, where we get below zero and the grass turns brown and the protein drops dramatically in the grass. I supplement with cake. They will not gain like yours do on just grass.

You have so much practical knowledge it amazing! Thank you for taking the time to share such in depth practical tips to help build confidence.

Hooked up with you from Josh. You are great. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge. It appreciated!

The professors who write these articles are probably in the south and don’t deal with snow. I’m always careful to see who these people are and where their located. In Virginia, we get very little snow now. I make and store indoors 4000 bales a year and sell 8000...our winters for the last few years have been very mild, making hay almost unnecessary. My personal opinion on fence, spend the money on woven wire for borders and electric for interior. Your videos really intrigue me, I spend 100k a year on lime, fertilizer and herbicide just on pastures. Getting to a point where these things can be done naturally seems impossible but you’re doing it.

Wise words, focus on the important things each day. Honer your family, honer your land, but don't forget to honer God first cause He gave you all of the above

Great conclusion for your video. Regenerate the land, no matter whom it belongs to, but first renew the connection with the family, which is the fuel for every thing else.

Thanks so much for your videos. We are hitting 60 and are trying to grow things in this awful Oklahoma soil so that we have more control over our food and health. We have a bunch of chickens for eggs but would love to expand to meat animals. We would definitely need to lease land for cattle but what do you think about sheep maybe to start?

I literary love you :D 6:40 No, u know it by experience Hopefully i ll be a half of a farmer u re one day Best wishes from very very far away :d

Greg do you have any experience with small square bales? Any advice on how/what to do?

Greg, do you have any tips on speeding up the rehab of pastures? Lime takes years to move ph. Rolling out hay works but it will be take a season change. And neither address hard pan.

Greg, is there any tips you would offer for the guys who are grazing in Minnesota.

Hi Greg. Have you released an audible book?

Thanks for all of the Videos Greg. I am SO looking forward to all of the content and topics you are working on.

Great video Greg, well said!

Your spot on about get bigger or get out with conventional agriculture - that all started with Nixon's Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, in the 1970s. There is now a growing need for farmers like yourself to implement regenerative farming - Wendell Berry has been advocating passionately for the return of the family-owned farm to help restore and reinvigorate rural societies. Keep up the good work in promoting this message / wwe.rainwaterrunoff.com

If you have pressured water are microtroughs a good way to start?

how much everyone else paying for round bales? $35-45 for me in tennessee

You sound like Rick Kirkham

Thank you, and yes please share out the good word folks!

Greg, I have a hay field that i'm putting fence around this spring. The last 2 years have been so wet that nobody has mowed this field. Do you recommend mowing the standing dead grass from last year or just put the cows on it and hope they trample it? Thanks

If you have a big snowstorm coming, I would think about getting some hay, (as much as you calculate based on forecast), out to the Pastures where you figure the cattle will be when it hits, and when you need it.

I know the trendy thing right now is wood chips...do wood ships play a part in your carbon source or is spreading that on a field to unrealistic?

Thank you Greg!! Another great video!

Take your bails of hay 20 times 2 = 40 post for your 5 1/2 long.

Do you ever graze stalks?

Living away from the property, I pulled grazing, let it rest for 2 years, prescribed fire, and rested for 2 years again, then will run a prescribed fire back through in the next few months. I am slowly converting back to native prairie, though, so I’m not concerned with grazing recovery.

Amazing material Thanks Greg

Hi Greg, I emailed you today, sounds like a hair-brained idea, this fresh fodder concept. I look forward to hearing from you on this. It wouldn't hurt to crunch the numbers, figure what is possible.

In your area buying in hay may be ok. But it’s also poor practice to rely completely on someone else for feed. Which is why you keep so graze land obviously. However your tips work for you in your situation. Not all farmers ranchers have that luxury of having that much land to lease available. Keeping acres in a hay/graze rotation assures you know the source of your feed and can cut cost of hay in half.

We’ve had our farm for 4 years and cows on it for 2. I wish i would of found this video earlier. We have 30 acres, During the summer we have ok grass but in the winter we have dirt. next week I’m going to start unrolling our hay

Thanks for what you are doing ,take the Buffalo and how they grazed our land ,grass was higher than horse and rider.Check that out Greg,you may already know this.

Greg, I live in Florida, but I'm tired of the heat and the crowds. I will be leaving the state to follow my dream of becoming a farmer. Where would you go, if you were me? There's good deals in Maine, but most of the land is heavily wooded and of course there are the long winters. Tennessee is a possibility, as well as your neck of the woods. Any thoughts?

How long will it take for earthworms and other biology to return to a pasture after cattle who had been treated with Ivermectin have been removed from the pasture? Thank you in advance for your reply.

How would you start mob grazing on a larger farm that’s scatter over several different properties. 450 mamas in 60-70 cow bunches?

Something we have done for decades is planting several different maturities of corn in ungrazable fields and green chopping it in late summer/early fall to wean calves off in the fall. A cheap pull type chopper & 4 green chop wagons keeps a lot of cattle fed & makes it much easier to wean. Cattle get nice flesh before going into winter during a time when grass levels are at their lowest. This enables us to give pastures a rest in late summer to build stockpile for winter. We then plant cover crop rye on these fields & green chop it early so that we allow pastures to get good growth on them before turnout. Pastures last longer, cattle are healthier, & cost is minimal

Gracias Greg. How about when you don’t have the luxury of a lot acreage and moving them elsewhere. When is grazing school this year?

Just recently have noticed that Pepperweed has taken over the pasture. Is there a solution to get rid of Pepperweed?

👍

Love your videos.

Hi Greg, Do you ever use any kind of fertilizer other than what cows produce?

🐊🇺🇸🦅❤👍

Appreciate the videos. Subscribed