Great video! Thank you Sounds like you turned a drought into positive changes looking to the future. A deep cull is hard but will pay off longer term. Cool I learned a lot!
I'd be real curious to know of any studies on using Vetiver grass planted on contour to slow rainfall runoff and draw nutrients up from deeper in the soil structure. With roots that go as much as 12' deep, Vetiver is legendary in it's use for erosion control and water catchment. While I've heard that it can be a good feed for cattle and such, I don't know if that's across the board or more hit-n-miss. As much organic material as it produces, though, it's a great way to revitalize worn out soil because it's pulling nutrients from far deeper than most cover crops and opens the ground so water and air can get down into the biome. I know a lot of places are using it as part of their Regenerative Farming plan, but I haven't seen much regarding use around cattle.
Thank you so much for this video. I really appreciate how you showed: - this is how we determine objectively how the grass us doung, if we had photos from last year to this year, usung a yard stick and recording the length of forage, - lets pull the bulls off first (but whet did they go?) Tha ks!
To make ponds or land work you need natural multichannel like grass and with ponds make sure you have trees to reduce evaporation and use moss too to absorb water to keep it in the soil trees will do the same
Check this: like God hammered earth with 40 days of rain! In Shelton Washington I recorded 66 consecutive days of heavy rains! When NASA decided to study rain patterns on earth for Mars study, NASA came here to Washington State! So others know about rain fall here too? 66 days, I thought we were growing gills!
Hey Lara, great question. Our Red River Ranch is a mix of native and introduced pastures. For a long time many of the pastures were mono crop pastures like wheat or bermuda grass and as far as we know right now we are unsure what may be in the latent seed bank. We plant a diversity of cover crops to do multiple things. the different root systems in the different plants will produce different results for us. Some with larger and thicker roots that can help penetrate and break down hard pan layers in the soil. Some of the cover crops will also help us fix nitrogen so that we don't have to rely on add synthetics to grow grass. You can still over seed cover crops in to native pastures as well to help bring more diversity, plant as well as animal (insect, wildlife, etc.) out to the field. Ultimately it all comes down to what the goals are for a particular piece of land.
