Joel Salatin talks pasture cropping
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Joel Salatin discusses pasture cropping at Polyface Farm. Filmed during Polyface PIDS 2015. Fans of Colin Seis and Gabe Brown will be interested to know how Joel is adapting their techniques to a non-brittle environment.
It's really good to see Joel going this route himself and promoting it. He's a great promoter, so the fact that he's doing this is sure to bring more attention to this practice among Americans.
I don't know why he said Gabe Brown is not doing it for money or profit. Gabe Brown is the man. He always makes a profit and is so successful it isn't funny. He plants multi species and has high profit lines. People should check him out. He is a legend and America should immortalize him with a statue at the very least.
Tom Trantham has a similar system all worked out. It's called the 12 Aprils System. Tom uses it for dairy and has it worked out with a pasture crop all 12 months, hence the name. You know you are onto something when two people develope something completely independently of each other and both seeing far better than expected results..
Does Tom Trantham have a web site or email?
yup this stuff is awsome
So grateful for this video. I hadn't heard of Colin Seis before. Always happy to learn of more people doing amazing work.
Mixing all the seeds together sounds like a fun thing to do in a backyard garden, I might try it next year.
Thanks for putting up videos of Joel, love his talks. I really would like to take a vacation out to his place and see it for real so day soon.
Cefus you should plan it seriously. Joel’s place is one of those places, as soon as you’re standing upon his land, this ephinany washes over you telling you that is ‘the way’ we should all be raising our food. The views to and from his farm are breath taking. You will not want to leave once you’re driving down some of those roads in the immediate area.
We need more system like that to feed our cows and reduce Pastoral-Farmers conflicts in Tanzania.
The start would be to adopt high density grazing by the pastoralists training at the Africa centre - www.africacentreforholisticmanagement.org/ to regenerate the soil. The next step is to trial cover cropping on a portion of the grazing (main crop with other annuals for cattle forage) to show the arable farmers how a combined approach to land use can be achieved (symbiotic system of land management).
This is cool!!! I'm trying to absorb this but its like a student who has learned division and now trying to do Geometry lol. I LOVE it, I have to rewatch these many times, get my notes out and dont let my squirrels take control of my mind. Thanks for sharing this!!!
I agree. Seems so simple, but unheard of.
Joel Saladin should run the agricultural department!
Thanks for these great videos
See Gabe Brown in South Dakota, he does this on 5000 acres.
Gabe does something similar but a little different. He has some fields that are pure crops, so lets say his target crop in that field was corn (planted around late may), he would put a biological primer consisting of a 10-15 plant mix (like grains, legumes, brassicas, sunflower, etc) ahead of this crop (usually fall prior) and have the cattle graze it off just before he plants the corn. He can do vice versa for cool season crops.
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Funny how Salatin explain what Colin Seis is doing ... better than Colin Seis. I swear I watched half a dozen videos with Seis, before this one, and I had no idea about half the info in this one.
just to make sure, you plant cereals on pasture, during drought/summer to protect from extreme heat and before they seed you just 'bulldoze' everything and get a compost of sugars into the soil?
Cut de Pie Fails I don't think so. The annuals he's planting serve as grazing forage for the livestock during the non-performing season of the perennials. By their nature, the annuals will die out, to be replaced by the perennial grass as it comes back into its strong season.
I wonder though, what this type of management does to baking/malting quality of wheat/barley. Because i believe in integrating leys into arable cropping systems. But if due to competition for resources with the grass or so these grains dont have adequate baking or malting quality this system only seems to makes sense for filling in gaps in feed rations and animal production in general.
How do you manage cereal pests like slugs and stem weevil?
Why is Lee Adama there?
See you could do a Massonouba Foukouka seed balls instead of the seeder and there solves that problem
you know where are using this tipe of seeding? fukuoka method..? tks
Has anyone in US planted wheat this way?
As this system changes the diet dramatically and fast, does the cow's stomachs need time for appropriate bacteria to develop?
Kazzana I’m not sure that this system changes the diet much. If the cattle are constantly getting a diet with many different species, the main change would come if you put them on pasture with far more tender or far more lignified forage than they were used to. Then you’ll have a gut problem. In this system, the cattle are staying on roughly the same balanced forage all the time. It’s just sometimes it’s more annuals than perennials. Does that answer your question?
Yes, and I think you are right. These cattle don't have the gut flora of one or two grass species, but already have the flora of an abundance of species, so I can understand how they would easily adapt.
Thanks for that input, I just hadn't thought it through enough.
can someone write this guy name from australia?
+Justas Gegec search Colin Seis & pasture cropping
Colin Seis
DOES MR JOEL SALATIN HAVE YOU TUBE CHANNEL?
+Adem Paksoy
No, he doesn't, unfortunately. But he does have a number of instructional videos available on www.polyfacefarms.com/books-dvds/
No channel, but lots of videos on him: ruclips.net/channel/UCNXzf4qLwpDXV2R2Kn_z5DQ
I would rather do annual cover crops. Their decomposing root systems make perfect spots for new roots to come in. They also feed the soil better and return nutrients.
Matthew, I'm not sure what you're referring to. The crops Joel's put in (or Colin Seis or Gabe Brown) are almost all annual cover crops (like Sudangrass, cowpeas, oats, sugar beets, lentils, etc.). They seed annuals into a perennial grass sward. The livestock are allowed to briefly overgraze which allows the farmer to drill-seed annuals and they outcompete the perennials for a couple months until they're harvested (or grazed as forage).
Okay I didn't understand what was happening here. So he planted summer annual cover crops to increase production during the hot months when the perennials are slow? I was under the assumption that he was harvesting the oats as a grain. I wasn't listening too close. I'm more into cash crop production. That's my thing I don't actually eat animals so I guess I'm not interested in them, but I am interested in what they can do for farmers in terms of replacing the tractor as mobile compost and terminating machines.
i don't get it.
Peter Benvenuto Stiegmaier So, you've got a pasture of perennial forage grass on which you rotate your livestock. Just before your grass hits its seasonal slow down, let the animals graze. Then, while grass is short, interplant with appropriate seasonal forage annuals. Then, just before the seeds are due to sprout, graze the grass again, extra low. Now the annuals will outcompete the perennial grass and give lush grazing during the grass' normal slow period. Then, as the annuals die out, the perennial grass comes back into season and fills out again. The idea is to extend your shoulder seasons so to diminish, maybe even eliminate, your no-graze season, depending on location.
That's how i see it. If I'm off somewhere, somebody please feel free to help out.
pearl millet seed is expensive
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It would be nice if there was one Joel Salatin video where you could actually hear what the fuck he was saying.
if you turn up the volume on your computer you will find you are able to hear joel much easier. just a thought...
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"mowed for hay, then we planted, then we grazed to weaken the grass, it geminated." Get out of the hay business.
I think that’s one of their objectives with pasture cropping.
The hay, though, allows them to make really great compost in the barn over the winter. That saves the nutrients from the manure at a time when leaving the cows in the field would ruin the effectiveness of the manure.