Keep your heavy equipment off your pastures in the winter, this includes your pickup. Use an ATV if you want to unroll hay. Check out this video on the advantages of unrolling versus bale rings. Go to greenpasturesfarm.net for more info.
Last winter it was so wet my cattle tore a couple paddocks up so bad they look like feedlots absolutely not one stitch a grass left but I got them off of it n the spring and it came back and now it's some of the best looking grass I've got on the farm
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Greg and Co. ... Enjoyed watching the regular content you’ve started doing this year and hope to learn so much more in 2020! Thank You Greg!
December 20th and the first hay fed of the season and only because you aren’t coming back to that ground until spring! Nice work! There are guys in my area that have been feeding hay for 2-3 months already. I don’t know how they manage to not go broke. I know some people that even feed some ground up hay year round out of a troff in a continuously grazed pasture. So every day they are out there in that $70,000 tractor loading up the feed wagon that also has a dedicated $70,000 tractor hooked up to it. I’m not certain how they can justify all that steel and input expenses on the farm when they have an animal with 4 legs that was designed walk and eat grass.
Merry Christmas to you and Jan and team. Looking forward to your informative videos in the new year. Honestly as a first generation rancher I have learned a lot from you over the last 3 months. Thanks a lot.
That’s awesome... once we’re into January we use feed wagons to reduce work. I built up the home farm ground to raise 88.3 bushel per acre soybeans I used 0 fertilizer, only the manure from cattle. It’s a great way to improve you’re land naturally
Greg, I have a Land's End squall jacket that I've worn for about 25 years, although it doesn't go through the abuse yours Carhartt does. I marvel at how you've worked out a winning system involving minimal inputs, yet achieving maximum animal performance.
Merry Christmas to everyone!!!! Muddy here too, I've been using my 4 wheeler as much as possible. I have some ground that's so darn rough that pugging it badly would help it out, lol. Those cows look good Greg, take good care of them, I want fat healthy heifers when I buy them off you this coming year!!!! I'll get some bought by gosh if I have to sell a kidney! (totally kidding....maybe) lol
As an aside....working ground from animal hoof action can actually be a good thing in the right circumstances. Soil health is partially based off of bacteria/fungi ratio. Too much bacteria and soil tends to be anaerobic and weedy, too fungal dominant and you'll fight woody invasives non-stop. A little soil action from hooves can actually bring that ratio back to a balanced ratio from too fungal dominant. You just don't want it to be to the extent that it goes the other way and makes it bacterial dominant. It's also a great way to incorporate seed. Like in my case I have a bunch of ground that needs overseeded to boost the soil seed bank and improve my pastures that were over grazed by people before me to a gross extent. As I rotate animals I can broadcast seed over a small area and let them stomp it in, after a while I'll have covered every inch of my farm without working much at it, just a little bit each day.
hay up here is crazy high. been selling 4x5 bales for 70 dollars and going to be running out soon. yes fall and spring use a sacrifice areas to save the pasture here.
hay in Australia is over $300 per bale at present due to the drought. we now have fires all over t he place. I think lots of farmers who farm cattle the 'traditional ' way are going to be in a lot of trouble....
Any thoughts on the best way to fix ruts? The farm we bought has one 8 acre pasture that has about 4 deep ruts the length of the field. I was thinking about laying down loads of wood chips?
@@michaelmaguire6637 how do you manage it I need t9 show a few in my discussion group it works I have been laughed at as being an asylum patient for too long I need to prove them right
Greg, allot of folks are moving from 4 wheel atvs to side by sides vehicles. SbyS are not too much heavier but offer more versatility. what keep you for going that route? Merry Christmas, love your content, you are an inspiration to me.
If your pulling heavy loads, the Honda 500 cc Rubicon is the best one out there. If you do not need to pull heavy loads, a 250 to 300 cc is good. Honda makes an awesome ATV.
You could, but it wouldn't be cost effective. The hay has tons of seed in it. As the cows eat, and tread on the hay, they are breaking off seeds, trampling them down into the mud, and reseeding the pasture.
I saw one RU-vidr who has a mini-cow, about 750 pounds. I think your ATV is a Honda, what size? I don't need an answer now. It will be awhile before I think about having cattle.
