Talked to a banker about his cattle yesterday. I asked if he bale graze his cattle , or rolled it out. He said i dont have Buffalo so l dont roll it out, rolling hay is wasteful. I then said rolling hay puts carbon, nutrients and seed back on the land. He looked at me like i was speaking a foreign language.
Keep telling them about how good unrolling is! There are people out there that have to hear something 20-30 times then they start believing it. They keep hearing from someone that climate change isn't real, and they believe the nonsense. Greg is doing great with maintaining in good times and bad. Soil health principles for the farm's win.
People can't hear things the first time if they've been taught or trained something different. We all know all the words to hundreds of songs because of repetition, repetition. So say it again, sam.
Thanks for the video! How’s Johnny doing? I hope he’s doing better since his other half pasted away. You should see one of our bull calves. He looks like his father. The other one looks good too. The heifer calves look great too. We got some snow yesterday and going to get more this week. I got all the fence posts in before it froze. Now need to put wire up and connect everything and I’ll be done besides putting up the new electric fencer. Next spring I’ll paint all the corner posts.
Greg, How long would you expect it to take to get from a regular conventional farm field to a field like the one you have? Just wondering what people should expect in the first year, vs. two, three, four years down the road.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Yes. Obviously seeded down to a pasture type mix. Or I was thinking an old hay field, that people were not fertilizing, and then quit farming. There is a lot of marginal land around us that got farmed to death, and I just don't know what to expect, if I decided to put fence around some of it.
@@thatguy2105 It really depends on what you put into it. If you have funds, you can soil test, fertilize, and plant a recommended mix you decide on. If you have little funds, you can just feed hay on it until you heal it enough the seed bank starts growing. On my place I had rundown fields that was nothing but weeds. Spread hay and moved cows super slow first and second winter. Second summer grass was minimum 4 times better than the first summer. It takes time for biological bugs to get going
Have you ever calculated how much diesel u need for 1 kg of meat? I was thinking about marketing my lamb with small amount of watter in a small bottle to show how little petrol is uses for my meat (only for making hay)
Greg hardly ever uses the tractor with regard to the animals. His hay is delivered and put into place by others. Then, when hay is used it's usually rolled out with a gas-burning ATV or small vehicle. Clipping is only done now and then on really rough spots, never regularly. Selling animals right off the farm. Not much indeed.
My cow pads look the same Greg thanks bale of hay in this area is 100 roll if you can find it maybe a 4by 5. That will be the norm no more 25 so will adjust and cut back due to economics do you supplement cake tube molasses etc ?
To restore the natural hydrology of a continent you need to understand the negative impact of deserts and for that a good place to start is the work of Dr. Walter Jehne. Insolation needs to be converted to sugars and that is the job of plants. Thereby reducing the heat of the air prevents heat vortices that drive away or break up rain clouds. Ergo: Missouri is only getting half of its natural rain supply as long as the Western deserts are allowed to remain as deserts. Allan Savory has led the way in tackling this issue and how to do it cost-effectively. The knowledge is there, farmers can help themselves by putting pressure on cowardly politicians to become part of the solution. The carnivore diet is the human diet so there are two tools in your locker.
Love it Greg. Is it to early or have temperatures been okay for lice? I noticed a couple small bald spots on a couple of your in this video an one of mine has about a half dollar size area that's bald. She's always wanting to rub her head on something like she scratching an itch. Your thoughts please. Thanks
There have been lice since the world was created. Not going to poison my soil by pouring insecticides on our cattle’s back. 2 weeks of April sun and the lice bare spots are fully covered with new hair. Lice cannot take hot sun.
I think your estimates on costs for hay may be low. If you want to see those gorgeous full rumens, 2% doesn't usually do what you are seeing on your incredible cows. Here you can tell which farmers limit feed 2% and who feeds to full rumens. 2% plus you then consider 85% dry matter content then 15% waste minimum for fertilizing and we should consider it much closer to 3% . Add any cold weather stress ( I'm in ND) and you'll see cows consuming 3-4.5% to keep weight good and their furnace churning. Which means that $18,000 feed bill just went up 50%. . . Are you running 325 cow calf pairs or 325 animals ( ie bulls and 160 ish cow calf pairs). I'm blown away by the great/ loose manure - you obviously have excellent feed value there. To those worrying about lice. 90% of lice in your herd are on the carriers which are 2-10% of the animals. If you have bald cows, cull the carriers and you start to eliminate the lice. When you see lots of bald necks, it's usually too hot feeds, crowding winter quarters, stress ( whether nutritional, minerals, extreme cold) etc. If cows are bald in cold January, those are the ones you cull as they are your lower health cows. A few bald patches aren't a big deal, but I see herds with cows getting frostbite from large bald itchy areas. Great minerals and free choice American garlic powder make a big difference as does high plane of nutrition (no not protein tubs and grain but good forage and not starving cows) and cattle adapted to your property. Nobody likes to cull ( well I do 😁) but external parasite culling is good for the herd too. Thank you for the videos. I know it's time and work for you, but i sure appreciate it
It's time consuming but organic and harmless! Since there is not that many macho bulls, use for each one a different food colorant (harmless) on the front of their chest and bottom belly to mark the future pregnancy of cows, and know which ones are fertile and active! Used that with one color on the ram to remove from the herd the ewes "served", and keep the ram not too tired! Cheaper than DNA 🧬 but what a job every day and after each rain! Naaah, the advice givers don't pay the bills! Or Make it work ... They are talkers, not doers (like You and Jane and Isaac, all your teammates are) Thanks for All the knowledge you share with all the WORLDS around, that you proved it works in All your travels around (Europe, South Africa, the Universe!) Take care, Bless you!😊
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Your cattle are looking really well. You make me smile when you get excited about a manure pile. Blessings
Experiencing beautiful manure piles on winter stockpile grazing is my happy time😊😊
Talked to a banker about his cattle yesterday. I asked if he bale graze his cattle , or rolled it out. He said i dont have Buffalo so l dont roll it out, rolling hay is wasteful. I then said rolling hay puts carbon, nutrients and seed back on the land. He looked at me like i was speaking a foreign language.
Gotta love it!! Guy doesn’t have a clue about soil health.
I was in the logging business for years-most bankers have no idea where paper comes from.
Keep telling them about how good unrolling is! There are people out there that have to hear something 20-30 times then they start believing it. They keep hearing from someone that climate change isn't real, and they believe the nonsense. Greg is doing great with maintaining in good times and bad. Soil health principles for the farm's win.
@leelindsay5618 what's kinda funny, the name of the bank is Farmers State Bank.
People can't hear things the first time if they've been taught or trained something different. We all know all the words to hundreds of songs because of repetition, repetition. So say it again, sam.
Thanks for the video! How’s Johnny doing? I hope he’s doing better since his other half pasted away. You should see one of our bull calves. He looks like his father. The other one looks good too. The heifer calves look great too. We got some snow yesterday and going to get more this week. I got all the fence posts in before it froze. Now need to put wire up and connect everything and I’ll be done besides putting up the new electric fencer. Next spring I’ll paint all the corner posts.
Good job Marvin! It will be nice to have all your fencing done. Glad the bulls calves are doing well for you.
Just purchased comeback farms from you really helps a boy from Arkansas with my 480 acres
They look great. We need to shovel a few places and count our earth worms. Way better than spraying them
Happy New Year
Earthworms are amazing! "Earthworm poop!" 😅LOL!
Greg, How long would you expect it to take to get from a regular conventional farm field to a field like the one you have? Just wondering what people should expect in the first year, vs. two, three, four years down the road.
When you talk conventional farm field, are you talking about a row crop field?
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Yes. Obviously seeded down to a pasture type mix. Or I was thinking an old hay field, that people were not fertilizing, and then quit farming. There is a lot of marginal land around us that got farmed to death, and I just don't know what to expect, if I decided to put fence around some of it.
@@thatguy2105
It really depends on what you put into it. If you have funds, you can soil test, fertilize, and plant a recommended mix you decide on.
If you have little funds, you can just feed hay on it until you heal it enough the seed bank starts growing. On my place I had rundown fields that was nothing but weeds. Spread hay and moved cows super slow first and second winter. Second summer grass was minimum 4 times better than the first summer. It takes time for biological bugs to get going
I am interested in seeing the fall calving I don't think we are ready for that.
i wonder if the ear tags could get moved to the tail and be used as fly swatters?....
😂
Have you ever calculated how much diesel u need for 1 kg of meat? I was thinking about marketing my lamb with small amount of watter in a small bottle to show how little petrol is uses for my meat (only for making hay)
Greg hardly ever uses the tractor with regard to the animals. His hay is delivered and put into place by others. Then, when hay is used it's usually rolled out with a gas-burning ATV or small vehicle. Clipping is only done now and then on really rough spots, never regularly. Selling animals right off the farm. Not much indeed.
@@wadepatton2433 yes but producing hay and mineral salts takes diesel. I would have to state it all on packet
@@blubac Yes you would, but Greg does not. I don't think I will either. I cannot fix everything, but can help the soils.
My cow pads look the same Greg thanks bale of hay in this area is 100 roll if you can find it maybe a 4by 5. That will be the norm no more 25 so will adjust and cut back due to economics do you supplement cake tube molasses etc ?
No supplements on the cattle. The last 30 days of March, we give our sheep flock molasses lick. Their stockpile is pretty picked over by then.
To restore the natural hydrology of a continent you need to understand the negative impact of deserts and for that a good place to start is the work of Dr. Walter Jehne. Insolation needs to be converted to sugars and that is the job of plants. Thereby reducing the heat of the air prevents heat vortices that drive away or break up rain clouds. Ergo: Missouri is only getting half of its natural rain supply as long as the Western deserts are allowed to remain as deserts. Allan Savory has led the way in tackling this issue and how to do it cost-effectively. The knowledge is there, farmers can help themselves by putting pressure on cowardly politicians to become part of the solution. The carnivore diet is the human diet so there are two tools in your locker.
How many acres per cow do u run on a normal year?
With normal rainfall around 1.8 acres per cow/calf pair for the year.
Love it Greg. Is it to early or have temperatures been okay for lice? I noticed a couple small bald spots on a couple of your in this video an one of mine has about a half dollar size area that's bald. She's always wanting to rub her head on something like she scratching an itch. Your thoughts please. Thanks
He doesn’t care. Every spring a bunch have those bold spots.
There have been lice since the world was created. Not going to poison my soil by pouring insecticides on our cattle’s back. 2 weeks of April sun and the lice bare spots are fully covered with new hair. Lice cannot take hot sun.
Seven years unless you put it a container and take it down to one of those ponds and hang it on a hook. Live bait rules!
I think your estimates on costs for hay may be low. If you want to see those gorgeous full rumens, 2% doesn't usually do what you are seeing on your incredible cows.
Here you can tell which farmers limit feed 2% and who feeds to full rumens. 2% plus you then consider 85% dry matter content then 15% waste minimum for fertilizing and we should consider it much closer to 3% . Add any cold weather stress ( I'm in ND) and you'll see cows consuming 3-4.5% to keep weight good and their furnace churning. Which means that $18,000 feed bill just went up 50%. . .
Are you running 325 cow calf pairs or 325 animals ( ie bulls and 160 ish cow calf pairs).
I'm blown away by the great/ loose manure - you obviously have excellent feed value there.
To those worrying about lice. 90% of lice in your herd are on the carriers which are 2-10% of the animals. If you have bald cows, cull the carriers and you start to eliminate the lice. When you see lots of bald necks, it's usually too hot feeds, crowding winter quarters, stress ( whether nutritional, minerals, extreme cold) etc. If cows are bald in cold January, those are the ones you cull as they are your lower health cows. A few bald patches aren't a big deal, but I see herds with cows getting frostbite from large bald itchy areas.
Great minerals and free choice American garlic powder make a big difference as does high plane of nutrition (no not protein tubs and grain but good forage and not starving cows) and cattle adapted to your property. Nobody likes to cull ( well I do 😁) but external parasite culling is good for the herd too.
Thank you for the videos. I know it's time and work for you, but i sure appreciate it
325 animals total, not including the sheep flock which don’t eat hay.
Thanks for clarifying that - you are feeding generously then :)
Do you still have your Grandma cow?
Oops I asked too soon 😮 question answered at the end of the video. Thank you for all the good information you share.
How to lose an argument with Greg Judy: criticize Greg’s methods while YOU are the one losing money.
Have you considered DNA testing for calves and bulls to see which Bulls are doing the Job?
Seamen tests the bulls. A lot less to test but this year he only used the mocha bulls to breed.
We have considered it. Would be interesting to find out.
It's time consuming but organic and harmless! Since there is not that many macho bulls, use for each one a different food colorant (harmless) on the front of their chest and bottom belly to mark the future pregnancy of cows, and know which ones are fertile and active! Used that with one color on the ram to remove from the herd the ewes "served", and keep the ram not too tired! Cheaper than DNA 🧬 but what a job every day and after each rain! Naaah, the advice givers don't pay the bills! Or Make it work ... They are talkers, not doers (like You and Jane and Isaac, all your teammates are) Thanks for All the knowledge you share with all the WORLDS around, that you proved it works in All your travels around (Europe, South Africa, the Universe!) Take care, Bless you!😊
DBA testing all the cows sounds expensive. Is it?
The way he does it works splendidly. The Cows and Bulls make those decisions for him and at the right time.
Day 2 of asking for more sheep videos.
If you haven't seen these, maybe it will help till Greg gets around to posting some more. I would like to see how the goats are working out, too.
Hoping this is helpful.
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