Winter Stockpile & Grazing Techniques With Greg Judy
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2025
- Greg Judy and his wife Jan run a successful 1400 acre livestock grazing operation in Missouri founded on the principles of holistic, high density, planned grazing that results in sustainable lush forage. Greg willingly shares the “how-to” of his operation through public speaking and writing to enable others to create a successful business based on his grazing techniques. This is Greg’s FIRST TIME IN CANADA!
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Founded in 2012, the “Practical Farmers of Ontario” (PFO) includes a diverse group of over 200 farmers and friends of farmers. Field crops, beef cattle, dairy (raw milk), hog, lamb and poultry are the top enterprises for PFO farmers, although many have other operations, including fruits and organic vegetables. Our non-farmer members believe that practical farmers can provide multiple benefits to society, including local food security and sound, sustainable farming practices.
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I Love listening to Greg Judy. He knows so much. Gd bless him
One of the problems with hayfields... is that with the disc mowers, hay is often cut much too low to the ground. This inhibits the drying of the cut hay. More importantly, it takes a lot longer for the grasses to recover when cut too short. Alfalfa has deep roots with energy reserves, but grasses need their leaves to harvest sunlight to regrow. PLEASE leave enough hay stalk after cutting for the field to regrow!Also, instead of chemical or other purchased fertilizers, consider one rotation of grazing across your hayfields each year. Done properly, this is the best and most cost-effective way to fertilize and renew your hayfields. Also, multi-species hay is more resilient to weather extremes including drought. AND multiple species of grasses & legumes together make superior hay.
I want to watch this but the audio is horrible!
I appreciate the video, thank you for making it free to the public. I went degrees in North Dakota. I have found what you were saying all to be true. But I don't bother putting it in when rolls, I just Graves stockpile grass through the winter months, no hay.
Back to the Basics 101
Where you at in North Dakota?
Heads up for the videographer.
ALWAYS GET A BOARD FEED (Though you probably know this by now.)
If you can't get a board feed. place yourself as CLOSE to and directly in front of, the (audio) speaker as possible. Lastly, the sound guy did bad because you shouldn't have the speaker behind the presenter.
Next time, PLEASE use a Good Quality Sound Recording device, and DO NOT rely on the video camera's audio mic. for the sound recording!!! The ambient sound of this large room is HORRIBLE!!!
Regarding the question of whether holistic management grazing (what Judy calls mob grazing) can be done on high-yielding crop land, such as used to grow corn- there are a number of factors to be considered. Not just the income from a corn crop, but the damage to the land, the cost of the machinery for tilling, planting, etc, fertilizer, herbicides, whatever pesticides and/or fungicides are used, cost of carrying the debt to purchase the machinery, fuel, time and/or labor to harvest - or the cost of paying someone to combine it. The price received per bushel for corn, even at high prices, may not provide the same bottom line economic return as intelligently grazing cattle - ideally co-grazed with sheep and/or goats and/or hogs.Then there is the cost of topsoil lost to wind and water erosion. The cost of surface and groundwater contamination by the chemicals. Even some deeper aquifers are being contaminated with Round Up and other poisons used in agriculture. The active (and 'inert' but also toxic ingredients) in Round Up are showing up in RAIN! Then there is the cost of fish and frogs and other wildlife becoming contaminated with ag chemicals- which interferes with their ability to reproduce, or even to live. And the cost of the damage to the waterways and oceans where the silt from lost topsoil and the chemical fertilizers and toxic ag chemicals destroy the life that was abundant in streams, rivers, and deltas just 50 years ago - and which used to supply massive amounts of some of the very healthiest food for humans. Now its gone. Or too polluted to eat.
Salmon is a farm crop also. Columbia river usedto produce 50m salmon. Tribes now have water quality authority to manage 50,000,000 acres to protect water farmsand salmon.
Waste of time poor sound and now cut and paste facts
Crappy audio, unwatchable unfortunately.