Managing pastures & cattle during drought. Adjustments for those dry days.
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- Moving into a severe drought necessitates changes to herd sizes and grazing plans. A grazier must constantly manage both the herd and the grass inventory.
Here's what we do.
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0:00 Introduction
1:50 1. Cost of keep on grass 2. cost of keep on hay
3:00 1. Add feed (Hay) or 2. Reduce herd
3:15 Put beef in the freezer
3:46 Cull the bottom
4:14 DTR farm option: Harvest the top & cull the bottom.
4:46 Grass Audit: how many "cow days" of grass you have left.
5:24 Sell Calves early
6:30 Harvested the top 25%
6:38 Sold calves over 325lb
6:48 Culled some of the worst cows
8:05 Burning the pastures down to nothing is the worst option.
8:47 Step 1. Reduce the herd. Step 2. Ration the grass with some hay if necessary Step 3. Save the pastures by switching to hay early.
9:17 Stay Proactive!
🙏 hope it's better for all of you
Here in TEXAS the Drought was So bad this year almost Everything turned brown and died... Even my vege gardens and watering them... I got sick and unable to water for less than a week and almost all of my fruits & vegetables died only a few of the root vegetables survived... 😢
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Like your feed. Keep em coming.
Winchester Livestock Exchange was very busy Sunday with trailers unloading cattle.
I bet!
Always awesome video s. Building a small farm here in West Virginia after retirement now the real work in life starts. Thank s for all you do. Hope to meet you one day
Welcome mountaineer…Bridgeport Wv now. Originally from Bluefield. Best of luck with your “retirement” 👍👍I’m 13 months & 7 days away myself 🎉🎉
It’s dry here in York County, PA.
Good talk. Ironically (I think I'm using that word right) I live where there is a 'drought' all year every year. Except this year. We had that LA hurricane push moisture north to give us big rain in August, which never happens.
Makes good sense
Gonna be dry, and quite cold this winter. At least, this has been my observation for the start of an El Nino, over my 60 years.
I have some crab grass in some pastures. Just small patches. Its heat and drought proof. It really helps during dry years
Good morning may God bless you and your family for everything that you do I am a retired army vet starting up a farm business had one before but I got very sick so I'm well now going to try again can you please tell me what kind of heaters you use for your chicken brooder? Thank you sincerely Dale Nedrow
Do you guys have a video talking numbers on pigs and what’s needed in terms of starting like acres per pig etc.
Appreciating another presentation.
Passing comment.
You mention 31" of rain in one month. In the Kalahari region of SA. Top slaughter grades are sustainably achieved directly from grazing. With only with a phosphate lick as additional feed. From 12" of rain. Annually.
Where grazing is well managed 13 to 14 hectares is required per cow/calf unit.
The point to be stressed is that the annual precipitation is 12". During summer. For four months. Only.
We should have 31" by now, so over the first 9 months of the year. Our average annually is 37". I know many places get less and thus stock with less. Normally we're close to a 1-1 stocking rate which is only possible in temperate areas. Not complaining just we're very off our norm!
Thanks.
Keep very well!
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Did you mention rotating pastures? This helps to give the ground a break and the grass a chance to grow...
I think he’s operating from the assumption that we are moving our animals
Is harvesting some of the leaves from the trees an option? there looks to be quite a bit of fodder out of reach for the cows
That is an option but we're not there yet. Cutting the trees is akin to burning the boats.
Did you end up getting rain and growing some fall grass?
Wet here in West Virginia.
Yeah its weird how localized its been.
@@FarmBuilder Yeah, it's almost like it's a conspiracy.. LOL.
We are in Hampshire County WV and it’s dry!
@@creationfarms3097 We're in Ritchie county.
@@bradjenkins932 it rained where I’m at this year but last year was dry. Must be a conspiracy! Ha