Very nice looking pasture you have.Looks like a hay meadow.Driving through the country sure can see who does improved pasture management and who don't has nothing but weeds.
Great video, and I appreciate the info. We just moved out to your neck of the woods, and I'm now trying to control the same weeds and improve my pasture just as you have done. It's nice to see someone who has already been there and done that share their experience and knowledge. I've often said that "Some of my best ideas have come from someone else." Thanks, SK.
Cliff thank you for this video. Regenerative- for those of us along this journey, we don’t want to spray chemicals. However if we don’t get the weeds under control we don’t have the forage for our livestock. Of course the question is - why is there a weed? Mother Nature has a very good skill at covering her land with something. I sprayed with a pull behind this year to control Western Ragweed. Your pastures looks great sir.
Regenerative is only a name. Its not a way of life ! Greg Judy keeps bush hogging his pasture only stimulating the growth of many weeds. Example multi-flora rose..... It only thrives under clipping conditions ! The reason there are weeds.... most times its because we humans brought the weeds in........then walk away..... its not my fault ! Control is primary. No way to rid them.... because most neighbors do nothing to control or get rid of the nasty weeds. After all.......they live a different means of " regenerative " farming ! Allow weeds to thrive ! Like Greg Judy does !
Thanks for bringing us along Mr. Cliff. I think that weed you are calling iron weed is actually Dog Fennel or commonly known as summer cedar and you are right about it taking over a place if left unmanaged. It will get about 5 feet tall and when it gets mature in the fall it will be covered top to bottom in some very fine fluffy seed.
I really agree with your grass management style Cliff. We are also working to get away from the wholesale spraying of our pastures once the grass is established. As you said, that kills out the clover and other benificial broadleaf plants as well as the undesirables. I don't think that a monoculture pasture with only one type of grass is a smart management practice. Keep the great content coming! I really enjoy it.
@@cliffhonnasregenerativerancher been meaning to ask what county you're in, how many head on how many acres. I know where your office is just not where your pastures are. Just curious if you're meeting the 1-d-1 requirements for the county or fi you've increased it by a good bit
Beautiful place. I just bought a 300 gallon boomless spray trailer. I’m waging war on weeds next year. What do you use on Bahia grass? Pasture guard or Graz on? Thanks
How about running some sheep from time to time on those weeddie pastures. It should lower the weed rate and lessen the chemical load on you pastures and in your cattle. Just sying.
Great video. I'm in Victoria county and our place has a saltgrass problem, iron weed and greenbriar. Is there any herbacide that will work on saltgrass?
Boy, that’s out of my league. I have no idea about salt grass. This is what I found online. aquaplant.tamu.edu/management-options/how-to-control-salt-grass/ Hope you have no issues from the hurricane! Be safe!
Thanks for showing how you’re improving your pastures. Do you know if is possible to spray in the fall? We’re in central and west Texas. Certain issues caused us not to get to spray this spring. After the temperatures got so hot we heard the spraying wasn’t too effective. Thank you.
The Ironweed on your ranch looks like Dog Fennel, which is a very common name for it. That’s what it looks like in video. Yes, it’s invasive and useless. Only good thing about it is it smells good (subjective) when it’s brush hogged ( as long as you don’t have allergies.)
@@cliffhonnasregenerativerancher Ok, I was wondering how long it lasted you. I was debating to get a 5 gallon dewalt backpack unit, but now Im thinking that may be too small.
@@cliffhonnasregenerativerancher Thanks for the advice and wisdom sir! Learning a lot from your vids. I lost two sheep to poisonous plants this week, so its time for me to get serious about weed management.
@@cliffhonnasregenerativerancher Thanks for the reply. Any other helpful hints to get rid of cacti? We've been told to cut them and be sure to remove the plant clippings from the pasture as the pads will re-establish themselves. I've watched lots of Greg Judy's videos, but because you are in TX we are following you closely as we have land in Weatherford, TX, with a goal of having our pasture eventually look like yours! Thanks for all you do!
PastureGard HL also has no grazing restrictions for any livestock except lactating dairy cattle. That means you either don't need a secondary pasture to rotate to or you can immediately return animals to the pasture after spraying. I never take them off the pasture.
I don’t have Dallas grass, so no knowledge there. I like Johnson grass for grazing though. It grows where I put out Johnson grass hay bales but the cattle graze it down and it doesn’t come back usually.
Ouch.......yes rather expensive ! Pathfinder costs 325 dollars per 5 gallons. And you only use a " quart " at a time in a hand pump sprayer. A squirt is all it takes ! ( Of course Pathfinder is for brush / trees )
