If I were younger I would love to do this for a living. I also watched all of Joel Salatins videos but he seems to have quit posting on RU-vid. Has he fallen out of favor or what? I like his idea of having chickens follow the cows to eat the maggots.
@@hikerJohn I am almost 50 years old and disabled and yet i plan to try and get started within the next year or so....leasing land and taking it from there. See what good i can do.
I played the video while driving to work, while getting ready for work. I find myself studying alot. Almost 50 and trying to figure out a way to make this work.
I love that he talks about his past mistakes and how started thinking about what he was doing, and changed from driving over his microbes, and/or burning...wise man.
A few years ago, I used to work out west And used to drive hours just to go to work and back home daily. On them long, straight, flat roads it came to me that all that road tar was like a BIG SCAR on the earth! And the earth, like our skin is always trying to heal the skin and remove the scar. May GOD bless you Greg with all the work your doing.
You guys got it hard over there with all that snow! in New Zealand we get 120 to 150% Lambing We have been farming like this for generations the electric fence is amazing
You are a big picture rancher. You have all the disciplines covered to efficiently produce livestock. From animal health and efficiency to controlling quallity of grazing and other feeds. You understanding and improving soils is just an important part of this.
The hamburger absolutely that's going to be my focus. I'm a retired butcher I despise supermarket ground beef so gross. I mostly eat venison. Greg I shot a beautiful doe in New Hampshire last fall talk about finished and fat cover. Zero agriculture just acorns and beech nuts. Here in North East big market for grass fed. We have some small farms not being used I will be trying to put back to grazing.
OMG so humiliating, I always thought that was cow shit in a pasture not french pastry on dinner table. Really very interesting and helpful , you Mr. Judy are not typical. Thank you
Greg thank you so much. I started with 3 bottle calves watching you videos. In 2017. Inow have 4 leases and 71 momma's here in Texas I am 80 to 90 miles south east of Dallas. can we grow fescue? we get all of our rain from January to June in drought years . And more rain in the Fall in an good year. It seems to me the best Choice with no horses
I do have ponds on the propertys but they are not long term as of now. I was actually just looking at your 100,000 pounds per Acer every day with a sixty day rest and thought I could buy a small place say 30 Acer's and with the stockpiled fescue allowed it grows could save three monthly payments on hay I would not have to buy. Also and main reason for interest in fescue is that our winter's are so mild it could grow all year it would have a lot I life to it.
As a landscaper I use to plant Elaeagnus umbellata, it's a beautiful shrub with a great fragrance. I never knew to just now that it was considered an invasive species. I never saw a wild one out here on the left coast.
What's crazy up here is you either see moon scape pasture or empty land no grazing. People claim grass fed or pasture raised what aI joke sad. My goal is to follow your way some thing to be proud of thanks for all you teach.
Ever since I got turned on to Greg Judys video lessons I've been looking around my neighborhood 4 miles and miles around there is no grazing there's a few fields of hay that are bailed, but everything else is cash crops
Folks, find you a heifer with fine bone structure. Those big boned heifers are high maintenance. Where were you before I got married Greg? Coulda saved me a lot of heartache.
the crazy thing we got organic dairy farms going out of biz right now. then you tell em you know that raw butter makes ghee and people buy that. they look at you like your crazy. then you tell them ghee is more healthy from grass-fed cows than coconut oil that gets ship overseas. I want to cry for the dairy farmer. they got no idea how much money they leave on the table. I wish a lot of the local guys would start there own brand instead of these bought-out companies that shaft them
I’ll be saving this one. Wow so much information! Great presentation. One of my questions is if God didn’t make a monoculture why don’t we have it in amongst livestock as well. Don’t goats eat weeds?
Goats occupy scrubland in nature-generally rocky, highslope, twisty-tree areas. Cows (bison and other grazers) occupy grassland-flat, few to no trees for miles on end. They don't eat from the same storey either. So it's not a monoculture to separate them, it's niche exploitation, same as nature does.
Seeds can actually last over 100 years. So the Gama grass makes sense. I've read of stories of perennial grass seeds 200 years old still germinating. My question is this>>> how does one combine annual cereal and annuals more generally WITH mob grazing. 90% of what we eat is annuals, not perennial foods. What do we do? Can mob graze, then no-till plant and right afterward bring in cattle, or maybe sheep, to lower the height of the grasses and cover crops?
Search for "Gabe Brown" here on RU-vid and listen to what he has to say. His system works and it does include a certain amount of annual cropping, if that's what you want to do.
You could rotate between the two, converting old cropland into pasture for awhile and then eventually back to pasture, chickens would be handy there to work behind the cows.
CHILEDOUG KIZERIAN Ugh. They’ll listen to the gov then not vote. I believe the meninites do the same thing. There’s a mass exodus out of PN right know because of the liberals. But if they voted the liberals would not have so much power to implement crappie legislation. Talk about shooting your right foot and bandaging the left.
I just visited a huge Amish community in Northern Michigan. They are all doing 100% grass fed, beef, dairy, sheep. AMAZING! I'll be posting soon all about what they are doing (and how they don't take help from the gov.)
Who's the South African rancher Greg keeps referring to? I'm not a farmer but picked up interest in regenerative farming practices after seeing Allan Savory's TED talk and had been seeing lots of videos of Joel Salatin, Greg Judy and Allan Savory on RU-vid. But haven't heard of the gentleman Greg mentioned so far and it sounds interesting
Dollar store aluminum pan. Set it on some blacktop and it’ll melt just fine. Otherwise set it in a pan of hot water on the stove, like a double boiler.
So the Ivomec kills the dung beetle? Or the dung beetle just doesn’t want to eat an Ivomecced patty? Pretty cool that the dung beetle takes the patties down to the roots.
Can someone share a link to the talk about northern hay feeding he was referencing? He seemed really impressed, but didn't say how it's done. Unless it's just using bale feeders?
up in Minnesota, Montana, and Alberta, it's pretty common for cattlemen to arrange round bales out in their pastures prior to winter due to the amount of snow they get (sometimes it's too much work for the cattle to get down to the grass until it thaws a little). They strip graze it still, but the cattle also eat off and lay on the bales spread out in the field.
you have to reduce stock, and then feed hay. If you have to sell off your whole herd, do that and start back at grazing other peoples cows until you can afford a new herd. protect your microbes. Your soil health is your business, the livestock is how you monetize it.
With better management of cattle, often droughts are mild because the soil is covered, water infiltration is better and the soil acts like a sponge. Reducing cattle numbers won't be nearly as bad as conventional grazing.
move the animals more frequently, so they keep up with the grass. snipping the ends off sets the grass back quite a bit when it comes to producing seed.
The work with not beat nature into submission... exactly. Folks like to blame Christianity for the dominance mind-set, yet what did Jesus say ? He said it's sinful man who has ideas of leadership like that ( y'all can go look for the verse yourself. It's in the gospels somewhere ) - He says for us to be like Him, which is to be a servant-leader. Which is where I'm going with this. Husbandman. An out-of-use term for being a steward of the land or animals, which was understood to mean good stewardship. Which should inform us as to what it means to be a husband to a wife, also. Someone who helps her flourish, who respects & serves her best interests, and not meaning anything condescending by that ! Anymore than it's condescending for him to need her support & help & wisdom. She submits cuz God is holding him accountable for them as a couple, so, he deserves her co-operation ! Nothing offensive in that ! We each have a job, we each have a sinful nature that wars against being content with our own job, and with doing a good job of it, but it's possible, when we submit to God above all. Sorry if off topic here, but to me this all affects each other, realzing what these terms signify, & getting rid of unnecessarily being offended or misled by them.
