Regenerative Agriculture: How We Improved Soil Health with Rotational Grazing...and How You Can Too! 

Indeed indeed! This is amazing🙏 Have you heard of the Save Soil movement before?🌿 It's also an initiative exactly for this purpose 🏞

@@savesoil3133 For what it is worth, I support the education process. However, there is no place for politics, policies, or mandates. If governments try to shove this down farmers’ throats, there is not one good thing that could come from it. Better to let people learn the advantages of good stewardship as a natural part of their journey.

@@critical-thought 100% agree about keeping federal and state government policy away from farming, ag, and grazing lands…

Tax incentives for soil carbon sequestration might help, if they let farmers figure out how to achieve it.

@@mattoe8621 You mean by growing green things? Farmers have sequestered carbon since the first seed was sown in a garden. No, government should leave farmers completely alone, no taxes, no agenda-driven incentives, no manipulative regulations.

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He mentions nothing about soils eating themself out of house and home........ as Beaver........Prairie dogs etc do. Too much soil biology is also........not good !

How do you determine when you have too much soil biology?

@@mattoe8621 First....define " soil biology " ? There is no such thing ! But if a person chooses to call it soil biology and if you want to know when there is too much soil biology.... then explain this ??????? If you have an acre of pure sand.......add organic matter ( now days they call it carbon ?? ) ......... you will " never " improve what your suggesting is the soil biology. Because..... oxygen...water and bugs / worms devour everything thats there ! This is also true with any soils. Its called grow what you can when you can without destroying whats growing there. Or......the bugs oxygen etc will !

Please dont compare this guy with Greg Judy ! There is no comparison !!!! This guy is honest.....direct......and original ! However I do have one issue regarding any of these videos despite who presents them. First of all...... if you have a lot of soil life / activity the " life " will eat the soil out of house and home ! Meaning the moisture .....heat..... bugs will consume everything there ! An example is........ As a Peace Corps volunteer to Liberia Africa......people grew their rice / gardens on what we here in the USA call the country gravel road. Try to " regenerate" a gravel road sometime ?????? It wont happen for long. Bug........night crawlers will consume anything thats there ! Finished ! Greg Judy is in it for the money. Period ! He lives in the land of heaven.....never a problem in the world. Unless you take the time and view with caution !

@@jimmyjohnson7041 Greg Judy has proven that the better you treat your soil, water and animals, the more money you make.

One key is to manage the rotation of your cattle from enough paddock spaces to give the land enough time to regenerate. If you can introduce water then the grasses will grow back faster. If you cannot irrigate your land then you have to wait for the rain and ground water to water the surface plants. The cattle should be followed by chickens, then sheep, then chickens, then pigs, then chickens w/ducks & geese, then cattle again. With a rest period after the chickens each time. The final test period before cattle again should allow the grasses to go to seed so that you not only feed the soil nutrition from the animals but also a new seed bank to thicken up the grass coverage… Don’t leave the animals in one paddock to the point that the living matter has to start all over. Think of it as 3 stages, baby grass, team age grass, mature grass which is going to seed. Rarely let the land get exposed to be a bunch of baby grass. Graze from mature grass to teenage grass. If you can’t give the land enough of a rest period between the live stock grazing then you have to many live stock or not enough water. Over time the land if managed with the right rotation of grazing and rest will provide for many more animals than you started out with. Goats can be used as well in overgrown areas to prepare it for removing larger brush and trees you want ultimately removed from the property to creat more pasture.

Hello Wayne, yes, occasionally, but there are a couple things that can reduce this. First, we get them super well-trained to polywire. We generally train new cattle by keeping them in the corrals for a couple days on hay and running nice hot electric fence through a portion of the corral. We'll put a little hay on the other side of the fence (of course they still have access to plenty on their side). They'll test the wire for a couple days, but figure it out pretty quickly. Second, if we're having real issues with cattle getting out, we'll run a double wire (one hot strand on top and a "ground" strand on the bottom) to "retrain" them a bit. But the fact is that if we have cattle frequently getting out, there's usually some underlying cause. Often it's either that the pasture is too small for that number of cattle, we didn't move them soon enough and they're getting discontent and picky because the pasture is too eaten down (and in that case, you're not benefitting soil, either), or the fence is just not hot enough and the wire is shorting out somewhere or you have a stretch of bad wire. The rule here is to never turn out the herd in a new pasture without first checking that your fence is hot!

Also, do you ever bring in seeds when you develop new ground or you just let the animals do their thing and let natural seed beds come back asking because I want to do this on a smaller scale with my 2 acre backyard

Good question. I’ve spread new seed using a broadcaster which are then trodden in by the cattle for a couple of weeks immediately afterwards. In future I will instead slash or mulch when seed heads are mature. This requires a longer rest period beforehand, but avoids the cost of buy seed. I’m saving for a mulcher. They can also be used to knock down tall (rank) grass during wet years when cattle can’t keep up with the grass growth rate.

Controlled animal impact has a lot to do with it.

@@alisongilbert8902 Been a farmer all my life Im age 65. Trust me....bugs......will eat you out of house and home !!!! No different then Beavers.... Prairie dogs....etc Thats why we have sand. Nothing you can do to improve those soils long term ! They will remain " sand " !