And that’s raising cattle in a nut shell folks. Healthy pastures equal healthy cattle which equals healthy protein for us. Greg is on the tip of the sword of the food production revolution. I use to day dream about selling a bull for big bucks. Now I say dream about changing the food culture. Having chefs search me out for my pork and beef. To feed people healthy food that benefits our health and our environment. Fight the fights worth fighting for.
Thanks for the class in grasses. It was something I’ve been wondering about. I need to listen to more of your videos for the education! Love stopping by to enjoy the farm...😚 🐂 🐑
Thanks for giving your viewers the rundown on the various grasses. One day I would like to be managing a herd of cattle, so knowing the grasses would be very helpful. Thanks Greg Judy
Hi #Greg Judy. Love your videos. This one is silent though, no soundtrack. Please could you reupload this one again with the sound sir? I've been looking forward to one where you really get into the forage species mix in your beautiful pastures, as I'm in the UK, and am interested in emulating your pastures with our native equivalents. Much love and well wishes to you and yours. Ve
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thanks for the fast response Greg. I tried watching it on my Android and it plays there, so must be a YT or Google tech problem. Looking forward to part 4 of the 5 acre farm series. God bless from England. Ve
Thank you belatedly for this video. It's hard to identify forages from those cute little pictures you find and when I ask my county agent to identify them all he says " I don't know but a cow will eat it."
Hey Eastern gamagrass! The only native plant shown in this video! Plant native! Like he said, drought tolerant and perfect because it is best for the soil and weather conditions that are present in the eastern US! (Because it is endemic to here!) All of the other grasses make it seem like we are in europe and asia. We aren’t.
Your timing is impeccable Greg! I was building fence today and on the way back to the shed I was driving around the pastures checking out the grasses and weeds and I saw a couple I wasn't sure about. One I was unsure about was the bluegrass, I have a lot of it and I didn't seed it, I was pretty sure it was bluegrass but I was shocked at how much of it there is. I'm still not sure what the other one is but it's got a tan-ish seed head and is about 24-30" tall, it's a cool season is all I can tell about it. It may be the canary grass but it didn't have leaves nearly as large as what you showed there. The serecia is really coming in now, any advice on battling that junk?
Thank you Greg for the good info! Could you do a video on Weeds in your pastures?I love how clean your pastures are. I trying to understand what I can do about the weeds in my pastures thank
@@trevorgreycattleco Yep! Mine eat all kinds of weeds. Thistles, plantain, dandelion, multiflora rose. They'll eat tree leaves too. It looks like a salad bar out there!
Good stuff Mr. Judy. So you don't worry about all the seedheads and plants diminishing their grow? We are pruning on our 2nd turn behind the cattle because we have too much rain and are stocked more for later grazing. GW
We were trying to clip some of the pastures behind our cow mob. It rains everyday almost, so no clipping! What we did get clipped is absolutely gorgeous, beautiful long new leaves growing back very quickly.
We were trying to clip some of the pastures behind our cow mob. It rains everyday almost, so no clipping! What we did get clipped is absolutely gorgeous, beautiful long new leaves growing back very quickly.
Will timothy grass thrive in a grazing rotation?. I have a diverse pasture in New England. This is my first year grazing I have K 31 orchard grass some rye and white and red clover. One year later quite a bit of Timothy in the pasture.
dear Mr Greg/ I am from south india/ i am very much interesting in sheep farming and already i maintaining. I need your help what are pasture s and rhodes clover grass are suitable my whether. temperature is between 32to44 degrees
You have to get the soil food web thriving. This requires, trampling carbon, manure pats, urine patches and rest. Repeat recipe. Be patient. Most cropped land has very little biology existing in it. You are starting with a blank slate. On the weed issue, graze off what they will eat, then mow off rest of them. On your first spring grazing rotation, do not graze the crop land off more than 2/3rds of the height. You want to encourage the beneficial grasses that may be there to compete with the weeds.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I'm looking at doing something similar (converting arable to pasture), and was thinking of seeding a highly diverse mix of perennial legumes and grasses together with a fast growing annual like oats or rye that's sparsely seeded to function as a nurse crop in the first year. I plan to use a rod weeder and harrow to break things up, and then broadcast the seed mix and use a cultipacker to get things started. Once the nurse crop is ready, it could be taken off with a combine (or just cut high) to encourage tillering and regrowth of the perennials below. Aside from the cost of seeding, do you think there would be any drawbacks to doing it this way? My concern is that many of the beneficial species I'd like to introduce (sainfoin, birdsfoot trefoil, etc.) don't even exist in the seed bank or surrounding areas, since this land has been cultivated for many decades. Just letting it go to weeds and waiting for the grasses to supplant them seems like a much slower process. Eventually I'd probably end up with a decent sward of grass, but probably not nearly as much biodiversity, and not necessarily the mix of species that would make for the most productive pasture.
@@andreafalconiero9089 Just be careful on purchasing a lot of seed that may not be adapted to your environment. Maybe try a few pounds of each before jumping in and buying full bags of seed that may never come up on your farm. I prefer to use what is in the seed bank, it might surprise you what is there already. Been seeds being dropped there for thousands of years, some are still viable.
Ide rather bale it. Spruce the place up with a little fertilizer and grasses like you gotty gets thicker then hair on cats back ! Make 5 bale to the acre and that stuff will bring premium in bale
I will stick with the 4 legged machinery harvesting their own hay right where it is grown. My machinery runs on sunlight harvested thru green leaves, not diesel fuel.
