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Your grass is looking good compared to last year...must have got some good rain fall this summer, im interested in a South poll bull calf if you have one available, im in ore city TX

You connected your ground to the hot wire ?))????

Look at the cattle get at it, nice

Will your 50% SouthPolls be registered or able to be registered?

Good looking herd.

Nice bull. Looked like a wire cut to me. I lost a really good tame bull to a wire cut. He got tetanus and i travel in my work and didn't catch it soon enough.

You have had a lot more training than the average rancher. Your cows your choice. It was apparent to me they were miserable with all the flys and tuff times call for tuff treatments sometimes. Don’t bother me at all. I get all the no pesticides stuff and agree but why not use what you can get to help them. If I had a herd and they were covered up with flies I would. You are heading in the right direction.

Calf seems healthy 😂

Outstanding. Great job.

Excellent video. Thanks from East Texas. Planning on doing the same thing, so watching with anticipation.

My good friend Alvin had red poll he said brought back to ranch in pickup truck bed those were the days with cattle rail trucks were stepped bed to have more room for hauling and cattle runs elevate to load in truck he then including us went limosine cattle sp best of luck take enjoy

Randy Owens is with you the band Alabama

Keep your cows and calves black or smokie they will bring 10 cents more a pound it’s your operation God Bless your family member

Not sure why your beating yourself up about spraying your cattle.we do it anytime they are out of control. Keeping the flies off them is very important to me.

Hi Cliff, how would I be able to contact you for some replacement heifers?

Hello Dr. Cliff. Is the Pharo bull also a South Poll bull?

Without killing the green sod before planting the mixed blends, it would be hard to get a good established stand. I think you got a pretty good stand by doing it the way you did.

Lovely lookin calves,but do the angus produce the best tasting beef.

Thank you for sharing.🐂

60 day calf, that's an excellent one. what are you feeding it ?

Beautiful calves, Cliff, nice and slick. I really l really like the half- bloods. They would work well in my environment, I believe. That Shanks is nothing to sneeze at ,but that PCC bull is awesome, I'm sure he's worth every penny you had to give for him!! Love the videos that give close-up looks at the herd! You have a lot there to be proud of and appreciate you showing them off.

Nice calfs wish you was closer like to have half Angus/Southpole bull black hided

Nice calves, Cliff. Glad to hear the PCC bull made a full recovery!

I would sure take a chance on that Bull calf. They are all beautiful. If you could get the half blood and then get you some More and work towards full blood like you are. They sure throw South poll genes. One fourth of the South poll is red angus so it make sense and they sure make some good looking calves.

Excellent job Cliff! Excellent herd. Thanks for your individual information on the specific animals.

Love the herd! Very relaxing and entertaining on my end.

What do you do with your steers?

Not judging here just a question. Are your South Pole bulls considered low birth weight since you're putting them on such young heifers? Or do they grow out to where it's not really a problem?

5:59 the calf, does she have an umbilical hernia? Navel looks rather large.

If you ran a mineral buffet you would see which minerals your soil lacks by what the ruminants choose to eat. They would pass those nutrients through to your soil via their fecal deposits. Would boost animal health, but is costly up front.

Cliff the calves and the herd lookin great, best wishes to you and your family.

Good morning cliff. Will contact you shortly. Chuck

I've tried the same on bahia grass. The main problem is soil compaction. The place where you dug a hole with the track hoe loosen the soil.

you added to the seed stock if nothing else... you may have to work on the pasture to see more results...

Sub-soil plow for compaction

The tall one with seed looks like sorghum sudan. The little stunted one that didn't do much looks like a cowpea

... so basicallyy ... you don't know shiit.

This summer in Texas has been good. Plenty of rain. Nice looking cows.

Enjoy the videos. The tall plant at 5:10 is sunn hemp, several short three leafed plants look like cowpeas to me. Maybe have a little sorghum in the mix. Man, cows like millet! I’m in Austin County, similar soil and climate, I’m managing for wildlife. Planting mixes for three years now, from Green Cover Seed and the soil has turned on. My first crops were pretty spotty too. I plant fall and spring, and each successive planting has been noticeably better. My big problems now are ferrel hogs and neighbor’s cows that invade every winter when they’re hungry and I have groceries. The dang cows have seeded my food plots with Bermuda grass and you might be interested to know that Bermuda grass will choke out a lot of what you’re planting. I’m attributing my crop improvements to soil changes from planting the mixes, and that has taken some time. One more thought, if you have deer, that could be why you haven’t seen some of the crop mature, they can wipe out 5 acres of sunflowers overnight. They love the peas and sunflowers.

Thanks for sharing Cliff! I like to see a wide variety of grass species in a pasture so it’s interesting for me to watch you experiment. In regard to your burn pile, the ash and other nutrients will feed the soil and that’s why that part is so lush. I try to place my burn piles on patches of poor ground so that the ash will improve it. Roll out hay over the ashes and then graze it and you will see good results. Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!

thank you so much

Cliff glad to see you back, hoping to see some of your spring calves from this year you all ways have some great looking South Poll and mix South Poll calves, hope you have great day.

Indicator species can tell you what your soil has and what it lacks. Allen Williams and others from Understanding Ag discuss this concept in videos.

Good to hear from you, Doc. The cattle looked good. I’m no grassman but they seemed to like the millet. I would be interested in seeing the pasture again after a few days to see how they graze it. I have seen other ranchers clip their pastures and that seems to allow the less dominant grasses to get a foothold. Take care and make more videos.

Soil nutrients would affect plant species that grow. Plants that grow from the seed bank will indicate what issues your soil has.

Cattle were excited when they got in.

Most likely a nutrient deficiency considering how it grew in the area of high organic matter. I tried the same in Bosque county with the same vendor with similar results. I think tall solo plant is sunn hemp.

Ruminant animal impacts, hooves massaging the soil, urine and manure fertilizing the soil will help improve soil and plant health. Your seed bank should grow without you planting. Check out Alejando Carrillo from Las Damas Ranch in Chijuajuan desert. He went from poor soil and poor forages to much better soil and forages.

I have been using a fly swatter on my 2 mamas and 3 babies. They generally let me swat these horseflies all I want if I throw down a pound or so of range cubes. I feel sorry for them and I have GOT to do something better. South Central Missouri. Willow Springs

Cliff, thank you for sharing this info about pasturegard. I have a fairly bad weed problem in my pastures and dont have enough cattle to effectively trample the weeds down like judy or salatin would do using high pound per acre mob if cows on a small area. I also cant run a herd of sheep or goats because i use a combo of single, double, and three strand high tinsle electric fence. Good enough to keep cows in but i would he chasing goats all over my county! After doing some homework i can see why you use this product. Triclopyr, and flouroxypyr have some of the lowest carryover rates into manure and soil of most herbicides on the market, have lower groundwater contamination potential compared to something like a picloram or 2,4,D style broadleaf herbicide. The half life in soil on the high end from what im seeing is 90 days. Picloram has been detected in soils for years afterward. No thanks. Dont get me wrong, i hate that i am even going to use herbicides in my fields, but i dont have any other effective, less toxic options. Your info has been vital in developing a strategy to help get my weeds under control giving my cattle more to graze and saving me money by reducing the amount of winter hay to buy due to increased stockpiled forage. For anyone on the fence about pasturegard, look into those main active ingredients, yes its poison, but a very mild one that breaks down in soils quickly and wont be detectable in your soil for years to come. Hope this helps someone. EDIT: even though this product has zero grazing restrictions, i do not intend on spraying weeds in the same paddock as my cattle are in. Instead, i plan to spray the paddock they just previously grazed for two reasons. One, it will be easier to more easily weeds in an already grazed field, and two, to give the product a minimum of 30 to 45 days to degrade and start breaking down as the pasture rests.