How to convert broomsedge bankrupted soil to grass heaven.
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- How to convert broomsedge bankrupted soil to grass heaven. Check out my book Comeback Farms for more soil building techniques, available from our website:greenpasturesfarm.net
Just a little soil experiment had breathtaking results.
Greg Judy, the pastor of the pasture. :)
"It's not profit per animal It's profit per acre" words of wisdom. Amazing !!!! Basic mistake most people do.
In the Midwest, how much profit per acre should be expected?
FDR said the same about soil. "A country that destroys it's soil, destroys itself."
mark burrell - that’s about the only thing FDR said or did that was correct.
I just found alfalfa in my field 🙂 thanks to spreading old alfalfa hay used as chicken bedding this winter. I completed the cycle, lol! Thank you Greg for your wisdom!!
Did you work in the old hay into the soil, if so how deep
Me to a little
Laid the old hay thinly on the ground and good old mother nature worked the seed naturally into the ground. I'm amazed!
@@mikehendrickson8294 I think the cows work the hay into the soil when they walk on it.
Mr. Judy the knowledge you impart to those of us who are listening is priceless. Your channel and videos are a blessing. Thank you.
Just started mob grazing on my farm in Australia. After a couple of bad years in our area and dropping to half herd size I am looking forward to practicing better management of the land all thanks to RUclips and information available from Greg Judy and others.
A mushroom walks into a bar.
Bartender: We don't serve your kind in here.
'But I'm fun guy.'
Thanks for the minor topic detour, Greg. I feel the same way about Roundup. Its nice to know some folks realize how bad that junk is. I keep seeing farmers trying to incorporate it into regenerative cropping practices and it doesn't make sense. Keep on with your appropriately sized cows!
I saw a commercial for RoundUp on TV tonight. I was very upset. I'm going to figure out how to send an email to the network and tell them they need to stop advertising that junk and why.
Thank you, as always, for educating the next generation of young wannabe farmers. You're the best, Mr. Judy!
We didn't put down anything on our poor pasture which was loaded with broomsedge, except animals (goats in this case) and barn cleanings. We put the barn cleanings on the hill under the trees and hay on bare spots a bit here and a bit there. In one year the pasture doesn't look the same. With this years spring flush we allowed the fescue, etc. to grow up and we had to mow one time on very high setting, just taking the seed heads. It is just booming over there. Thanks for your assistance in seeing how the system works to the advantage of the animals, soil, and plants!
No! Stay on the high horse Greg! It's very inspiring.
Great integration of Scriptural references and sound agricultural sense. Thanks
Thanks Greg. Have gotten really fond of your ideas.
Thanks for enriching my life with your knowledge and the beauty of the pastures Greg!!
The algorithm put this in my video feed today. Although it was 3 years ago, It was food for the soul looking at the bountiful clover that sprang up after the phosphorous, potassium, lime, hay, bulls, and sheep. After the single digit temperatures we just had the 2nd week of January 2024, I am longing for those warm days to return. Lots of good information you shared in this video.
I don't know anything about cattle, but listening to him talk about the grazing land and how he brought it back was interesting .
Just got my first paddock set up yesterday
Hi mr Judy am watching from Toronto ca, starting my small farm in jamaica I've learn a whole lot from your channel thank you
Such a great video Greg! Almost everyday you have rich content and I’ve taken your tips and applied them to what I am doing- your experiences and wisdom is very encouraging to me - Keep em coming!
The only farm land you can buy around here is old beat to hell, played out ground that's so over grown in brush and serecia that most look at it and say...uh uh, lol. Even that kind of land is hard to find available now. I've got some of it, I'm finally getting it to looking like something worth while thanks to a lot of work and sheep. Cattle coming soon!
Keep at it!!!
Preach it Greg ! Great channel !!!!
I really appreciate your videos I purchased a small farm that had been run down for years and now I'm trying to bring it back
New subscriber here Greg. As a possible future farmer more for my family use for quality food to nourish us. Your videos help do much. You never know what can happen i may just want to have quality food for our family that was grown with love at first then can turn into something else.
Thx for your time and expertise Greg much appreciated
Welcome to our channel!
Hi Greg, your content is very inspirational. Have you done or are you able to do a video explaining how you rotate your animals to avoid inbreeding? Do you keep the heifers and rotate bulls? Is inbreeding even a concern in such a large herd?
Good question. I've always wondered about that myself.
Maybe he keeps track with the ear tags (numbers)? I've always heard farmers say, they let the bulls run with the cows. I look forward to the answer. (Google it)
Inbreeding? You mean genetic perfection!
@@mikemunns7443 gets a bad name. Many good gun dog breeders do line breeding to strengthen the traits desired and get more predictive results.
dizzy thinking of practising this on my grazing area. thank you sir for the knowledge.
Haven't watched your videos for a few weeks. This one is a classic.
Great video lesson Greg. Hope to see you in VA again soon.
Good information Greg . I’ll use this information
Thank you for sharing Greg. Your success is amazing. Land prices are similar in Western Massachusetts, and that you've managed to buy farms gives me hope I might be able own a place some day.
I’m late to your channel, but I’ve got a farm not far from you. I’m up in Cairo MO. About 45 minutes north of you. I’ve got a pasture that’s all broomshedge. I’m trying to get it better, that’s how I came across your videos. Loving your stuff!
Broomsedge is a nasty one, welcome to our channel neighbor!
I sold 5 acres of broomsedge because I wasn't aware of regenerative farming. Now I might have to lease it back! I mowed it for 16 years! Hindsight!
Nice to honor your father. Appreciate the video. I have major broomsedge issues. Hope I can get it fixed.
We have been watching your videos on paddocks and are really excited to see what is to come, great job Greg and Judy.
Yes, Greg and Judy both do a great job. 😉
Greg and Jan!
Your most epic video ever!!!!!
If the Land is Healed,
the animals and people will be prosperous.
Great video and message Greg - there's nothing like seeing the result where you have successfully healed that land. At some stage it would be interesting if you could go through the economics of your investment and the return you achieved over time. Always a pleasure to catch your latest episode -much appreciated.
I don't think he needs to go into great detail for us to know he's making a lotta money. :)
Thanks for all the videos.
Of course any farmer should be focus in profit per acre not on how much weight has his animal . In regenerative agriculture everyone can make a good living, producing healthy food! Thank you , great video again
“Your only as wealthy as your soil.” Aptly spoken.
Awesome video, Greg when is the best time of year to do what you're talking in the video?
50 years ago
Just start. Things will improve with good land management practices.
Greg you are amazing! We are doing it too.
I'm trying its going to be great.
What time of year did you fertilize? Ive just started on a farm the land owner told me hasnt had any fertilizer put down since his uncle died in 1940. Its the most beat down place I've ever seen, but it's growing on me. The hay land is basically broom sedge, and some of the pastures are pure golden rod that on one side hill only grew as tall as my knee.
The knowledge you just spilled in such a short time is fascinating…. Thank you…#newsub
Nice looking pasture for sure. Do you have videos where you address Johnson grass in your fields?
My 200 SF lawn grows clover and all kinds of grass, except nice suburban grass no matter how hard I work on it. One of your cows would have a feast for about 60 seconds.
"We got three and a half inches of rain last night." So jealous of the amount of rain you get. But hey, swings and roundabouts.
Go get ‘em Greg....
THANK YOU!
Industrialized agriculture is not even about growing food or environmental stewardship anymore. It's designed to maintain the endless demand for capital (machinery) implements and "product" from the petrochemical sector. The living crop that results is often nearly irrelevant to the long term reality of the situation beyond the momentary bank balance.
It's an addictive path once a farm goes down that road chasing enough revenue to pay for the interest costs of all that expensive industrial stuff.
Meanwhile, as you've said, the soil ends up in the oceans also, the aquifers become fouled and the farmers blame it on something quasi-superstitious as likely as not.
Yep, and you get the urbanite "woke environmentalists" blaming it all on animal agriculture. 🙄Don't get me started lol...
@@wildrosebeef As long as we agree that the elite industrialists who run the agro-business industrial complex are neither "woke environmentalists" nor urbanite (whatever that means to you) but elite mega rich types who have little in common with either rural OR urban Americans then perhaps you actually SHOULD get started thinking about it all.
Perhaps begin with toning down the divisive Left/Right, Urban/Rural, Blue State/Red State rhetoric. The enemy are actually that slim fraction of the population that hold your government in their pocket.
If you honestly think of yourself as "animal agriculture" you aren't any more so than a blue collar worker on a Ford or Tesla assembly line IS "automotive engineering" or perhaps a John Deer assembly line worker is more aptly NOT agro-business.
If you don't own a private estate and a super-yacht then sorry, you're just one of us minions.
The rhetoric just gets all the hard working people from everywhere angry at each other by using trigger words like "woke" and "urbanite" or "maga" and other more insulting terms.
I'm a city man so I come to places like this channel to learn what the other lifestyles are actually about rather than allowing some corporate puppet news reader to tell me who I'm supposed to hate on behalf of the politician that their board of directors installed in D.C. to pass tax cuts for the multi-billionaires.
Billionaires live in their own domains. They are neither city folk nor country folk. We are ALL just menials to them. Just like the tractors or the Teslas (missiles or pharmaceuticals; milk products or beef if you prefer) rolling off their assembly lines, we are factors to their revenue stream and ultimate wealth.
Start holding ALL politicians accountable to regular voters instead of their mega-donors. Stop hating your fellow citizens who live in other areas and don't know how to farm or whatever. They aren't your main problem.
...guess I got started again!
How do you find ranchers using these types of methods? I am in Texas and really would like to start doing this but wanted to find someone near me that i could see them doing this but dont know how to find anyone.
www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=texas+regenerative+grazing
@@chrish1657 dang i thought you put a useful link. I have obviously googled it.
@@lonely4wd found it thanks, unfortunately they are about 4 hours north of me but hey thats better than most ive seen being is Missouri or the carolinas.
@@masonbaylorbears I think King Ranch (TX) is also very interested in regen ag.
@@marlan5470 yeah probably but its one of the biggest ranches in the world. Im thinking more small local farmers learning and doing this every day. Im wanting someone i can bother and learn from lol so eventually i can start doing this on the side. Ive never done anything from buying, taking care of, to selling the product of cattle.
Lime, you should have started with the lime. (2:40 potash and potassium small amount) you added then at 5:13 you say and we put down 2 tons of lime!!! Glad you remembered to tell us that. Yes lime stops broom sedge . Nice pasture.
Two tons of lime per acre?
Yes
Which helped the most, the chemicals or the hay and animals?
Hey Greg! Is there such a thing as too small cattle wise? Is the 700 to 800 pound range to small? I hope to use dexters one day but they can be quite small. Thanks and keep up the great work.
I have thought the same thing - excluding the Dexter part. There is such a variety of breeds of cattle. Would Southpoles survive Wyoming or Montana ?
Yea, I live in Manitoba, there are alot of dexter breeders, thats why im wondering, will it work?since there is a market.
I have a question if you don't mind. I just bought 3.01 Acres in Washington County which is about 65 miles south-southwest of St Louis. And the cleared part of my property which is about half an acre is just absolutely drowning in broomsedge. The rest of it is all heavily wooded with a lot of white pine, red cedar, and some other miscellaneous Hardwoods and a few nut trees. The ground in the wooded part is definitely just dead leaves. Not enough sunlight ever reaches the ground to grow anything else. I don't plan to do this until probably next spring, but I had considered clearing the rest of my property, leaving a few mature Hardwoods of course, but clearing the rest out and turning it into pasture land if possible. Is it possible to turn what used to be heavy wooded areas into pasture land and would you do it the same way that you're suggesting for ridding yourself of broom sedge? I've only been here a couple of weeks and I'm on an extremely low, extremely fixed income. I don't even have tools LOL. But I really want to make this property into a self-sufficient small Homestead that can support at least a couple of pigs, a milkcow and possibly a steer, maybe a couple of sheep or goats eventually and I figured getting some nutritious ground going as one of the first things to do. I also plan to bring on rabbits guineas and chickens for some good cold compost. And put up bat houses to fight the mosquitos. This is cave country. Any advice? Thank you in advance.
Greg we haven't heard anything about that Arizona project fruit how's that coming along. Let's see if there's any results going on there. Have a great day Greg
Thanks for another great video . I am liking your electric fence tips and was wondering if you tried solar for any of your isolated farms ?
All of our farms are powered by plug-in chargers. There are some good solar chargers out there though.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thanks for the reply and Thanks for the grazing lessons .
Mr. Judy, how long do you think it took to see earthworms and dung beetles reappear on this farm?
On the second year life started to appear
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Perfect. Thank you.
Greg can you talk about your fourwheeler please. I want to buy one soon and want to here your thoughts. Does your Honda have the electric shift or manual? What year? 4x4?
We have a 2019 Honda Rubicon, 4x4. 500 cc, electric shift and manual option.
Exactly! Nature's ways are better !!
Mr. Judy, have you been able to do core studies to see how much top soil you are building over time? Is anyone at the University studying regen ag?
Oooo now that would be interesting to see!
Hi Mr. Judy, wondering what to do about sedge we have , it's the yellow sedge look alike , don't know the exact species but it's everywhere in our pastures especially in the wet areas, and our cattle don't touch it . Looks like a field full of forage but they will eat the grass down to an inch and leave that stuff 2 foot tall untouched. It's becoming a real problem. Located in mid Missouri. Thanks
Hey Greg. Thanks for the video. When you get soil test results for old neglected/bankrupted pasture like this was, how do you determine which recommendations to follow? i.e. the difference between pasture establishment/maintenance/intensively managed (different crop codes in my area, at least). Technically you aren't 'establishing' it, but it also wasn't in a position where simply 'maintenance' was necessary either at the time. Thanks!
Grass/legume mix is the crop that we fill in for soil test recommendations
Almost makes me want to go into beef cattle. But as you said in a different video, cash flow is what makes or breaks a farmer. Starting out, with poor soil and a first batch of cows, it will be how long before the first sale? 2 - 2 1/2 years?
I haven’t really looked into beef production as a business model, so I have no idea what the cost structure is once you send them off to the slaughterhouse.
Can you give a “rough” estimate on how many cattle @ # weight should net in the ballpark area of $50k annually after expenses? Let’s say 6 months of hay feeding per winter.
Using this amount of hay and selling to the slaughterhouse would mean like 250 mothers to make 50 k. If You sell all Your meat at a premium and use a minimum of hay like Greg it could be just 50 to make 50.
Foseninfo well the question here is what is the sales price? $2 per pound hanging weight? Iif we take Greg’s Soutpole at 1000 LB life and 600 LB hanging weight. We would get $1200 per steer before expenses. Is that a reasonable expectation? What would the price per pound be if we sell cow halves directly to consumers? Or do our own butchering what total revenue as an average should we be able to expect?
I know a lot of this depends on location. A state with ac$7.50 minimum wage has lower processing costs compared to one with $15 minimum. The same is true for inputs. If quality hay is not grown in my area it will be more expensive to ship in.
In my particular case, I doubt winter grazing will be possible. Too heavy of a snow load for too long ( NE Maine). But even if some is possible we need to be prepared for that bad winter so the livestock doesn’t go hungry in late February. Need to find that baseline to base my calculations on.
I think I won’t have a choice but to sign up to Greg’s grazing school to get answers, lol
@@4philipp Yes 1200 is a reasonable expectation, but these are prices You need having 250 cows for making a living in an average Year. In a below average Year You're out of business :) . Maybe start small and grow with Your premium custumer is a bit more save.
Where does You're client live, Portland, Boston or Manhattan? I do not think they want half a cow. (slaughtercosts = the skin in The Netherlands), but perhaps a box. You dump in sirloin but also brisket, because getting rid of "bad" meat is another matter. People taking 7.50/h for cutting up a side will probably result in burgers only. Retailcuts lowers hanging weight. Also everything You do Yourself is money saved. Just order meat somewhere and You know the price.
If Ne maine has wet and unstable winters its worst case. But You do not need quality hay, just average. There are some other methods like grazing cornstubble, and swath grazing.
The good news is: if You can get a premium price, You outcompete everyone else and can pay more for hay or fields then collegues.
I suppose grazing class is GRAZING class, cows already know how to graze :) buy a book perhaps?
I am a Dutch person living in Norway so don't take me to serious!
Greg - what would be a good soil test
Greg.... Your comparing your operation to crop farmers but , the grass that your so proud to raise is the enemy of crop farmers.
I agree... Roundup is used by just about all crop farmers and I don't know why. You would think we learned our lesson with our Vietnam vets but the farmers continue to add it into our food chain.
Because most of them don't understand about cover crops and how they keep the weeds down and the soil fertilized, watered, and cool without all those chemicals. I don't get it myself. Do they really prefer writing checks or receiving checks?
Well, I can answer that question: Glyphosate (a.k.a RoundUp) is a broad-spectrum weed killer that is used on crops that are purposely "selected" (genetically so) to withstand glyphosate while other plants won't. Corn, canola, and other crops have been genetically modified (yep, I used the term) to withstand such "treatments." Glyphosate is also a dessicant, which means that it's used as a means to deliberately kill a crop just before harvest so that it dries down and reaches maturity a lot quicker than if the crop is just left standing, unsprayed. Crops like oats, barley, wheat, and others (usually those not bred to withstand the chemical) are managed this way.
What most people don't know is that there's a whole lot more pesticides out there than just glyphosate. There's all sorts of pesticides used for certain crops (including pastures, roadsides, rangelands), used to target certain weeds or weed groups (broadleafs only, grass only, trees/shrubs...) that come in brain-hurting numerous names, names that don't just signify one particular chemical, but literal mixes of different chemicals. There's Lontrel, Liberty, Grazon, Tordon, MCPA, 2-4D (a popular one), and plenty others I can't think of off hand. Glyphosate is just one chemical that gets a lot of media attention, but I like to point out, what about the hundreds of other chemicals? And I didn't even touch on insecticides or fungicides! Check out the big books made in the name of information on different pesticides here: open.alberta.ca/publications/0261-2194
@@wildrosebeef Neonicotinoids are also hideously destructive, to bees as well as the pests they're supposed to be killing prophylactically. Unfortunately, they kill all kinds of beneficial insects under the ground as well when used for seed treatments. Dr. Lundgren said each corn seed is treated with enough of the stuff that it would kill hundreds of thousands of bees. What the hell????
When I first moved into my house 31 years ago, our backyard used to be buzzing with insects, including bumblebees and honeybees. We live in an agricultural area and had to get a pest control service or our house would be full of them. I still have that service, but I've been wondering if I should keep it. The yards no longer have so many insects even though we tore out the grass and put in flowering plants to attract them. What to do, what to do, and will it make much difference anyway?
@Steve Slade No, I’m not getting them confused. The term “pesticides” is often used to encapsulate herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides together. Glyphosate can be called a herbicide; it can also be called a pesticide. Both are true. There’s nothing to mix up nor to shake your head at.
Also, I’m not arguing that tillage was the biggest problem, and has been a tremendous problem long before synthetic fertilizers and pesticides were developed. Just showing what glyphosate is being used for, especially from what I’ve had to recommend to farmers when I used to work as a government ag extension person.
@Steve Slade She spends her time edjucating you, be nice.
G. If a farmer wanted to grow crops on it then would it be smarter to level out the land more? Then there would be less soil erosion, correct? Ideally, what grasses and plants do you want to have growing for your animals? native species? Any species you would like to introduce? I am amateur youtube farmer and interested in best practice. I thought old timer farmers at turn of the century figured it out but guess not
Tufted titmouse at 0- 0:50, Field sparrow at 3:44 (sounds like a ping pong ball dropped on a table)
I have wonderful birds on my tiny farm.
The fertilizers they use do not replace trace minerals, which of course begs the question of why their farming practices deplete the soil.
Pakistan, land grazed and planted for centuries. Europeans were still swinging from trees. Land depleted, that is why I love your channel. wiki2.org/en/Gandhara
When you say put down lime, phosphorus - how do you sow the seeds - direct drill, broadcast??
Hi Greg are we all still on for the South Poll field days at the end of June?
Field day update is on the South Poll website
Just beautiful what we can do without million dollar tractors
To get that lush of pasture without irrigating , I wish I had their rainfall lol .
Hi Greg, just found you channel and trawling though your videos. I have a very poor lease block I have just taken over. soil tests show a bit low in P but everything else is not too bad, the place has been set stocked and left over the summer as it burns off. Grazed with dry dairy cows over winter in a set stocked way. Can I improve things by grazing alone? I'm thinking of rotational grazing intensively and moving stock daily.
By increasing your daily stocking density and moving your animals daily, your land health will improve and your animal health will improve dramatically.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thanks for that, yes that's the plan. I run a dairy farm and the stock are moved twice a day so want to duplicate this as much as possible. Not living on site makes that a little harder but planning to use battery latches on the off day
Preach, greg
How many times on average do you make it across your entire farm in a year?
Depends on the rainfall for each particular year. Drought years maybe 4 rotations. Good rainfall years, 6-7 times per year.
beautiful
How do you get rid of foxtails and toxic weeds?
Mowing is best on weeds. They don't regenerate as well as the grasses
You move your cows on 12 hour or less shifts. Is water available on every shift or once a day
Yes, go back through some of his older videos. He covers his water in detail in a few. Clean clear water is always available
Good stuff
GREG I HEARD SOMEONE SAY CLOVER IS BAD FOR SHEEP TO EAT. IS THAT TRUE ?
Our sheep eat clover and do quite well on it. They are all robust and have lambs sucking on them that are growing like weeds.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher very good, thank you for answering my question 😊
!!! Profit per acre!!! That is the secret. Smaller, more efficient animals need less maintenance, get fatter on less forage, and make the producer the most money!
Cheers
Praise Jesus Christ!!!!! You always tell the truth. I’m STUCK in Sodom and Ghomora for a few more years. We’re MISOURI bound
Do you live in Israel?
Sounds like Vegas!
@@mijitaarmijo2490 way worse New York
We have a little interesting Bison grazing place in Delta Co. Colorado. They have permanent fences that are laid out sort of like concentric circles and they rotate the animals from section to section. Almost like taking rotational grazing literally. Believe it’s called High Wire Ranch.
If it's the wagon wheel style, That was the way Alan Savory preached it when he came to the US. He did a lot of work in the west and is still a big influence in Holistic Management. They have moved away from that, but that was revolutionary at the time. Alan was said to be crazy.
@@MrYogi12Bear Innovators always are, so it would seem.
Is this possible with SILAGE instead of HAY, too?
I can speak to this; No, silage tends to destroy a lot of the seeds in fermentation, rendering them basically dead (kills the endosperm inside the seed). Some seeds that have a tough seed coating (like some weed seeds) can survive both the fermentation from the silage AND the fermentation of the ruminant, but usually not with grass seeds. Not that it's worth a try, of course it's just another way to get organic matter on the soil, but there's a very low chance that any seeds would survive to germinate like the far better luck you'd get with hay.
Steve Slade That’s a big problem I have with baleage/haulage is All That Plastic... so much of it! Better to be dealing with plastic twine than that plastic wrap... what does a producer do with all that plastic especially if the county doesn’t have an ag plastics recycling program, right?? Makes me cringe just thinking of it...
What breed of cows do you work with?
South Poll breed. Southpoll.com
4000 is 2 steers in your world....I like your style.
Only two? I was under the impression his cattle were averaging about 1,000 lbs., which is easy on the pasture, especially when it rains a lot. They don't tear it up as much as heavier beasts.
Wendy you are correct.
@@wendyscott8425 $, not #'s. And I maybe low balling that number.
Look at the middle east.Israel could once grow giant bunched of grapes and was once cover giant cedarsof lebanon
How in the heck do you keep those Dogg-Gone Dandelions out of your fields ?
I’ve read that dandelions show their is a calcium deficiency in the soil, their long tap roots are bringing it up in the soil.
Manage for complete recovery periods between grazings. A dense healthy sward of grass out competes dandelions.
Dandelions are also a sign of overgrazing. Thus, like Mr. Judy said here, good long, complete recovery periods!
The 5 thumbs down are the Monsanto crowd.
Are you seeing any Bigfoots.
Yeah Greg, you need to tell this to the global warming nuts. This is how to "fix" the planet. Talk about paradise!
Roundup is not as bad as the new one used for Soybeans; ENLIST is called neighbor friendly,ha. If you breath in the drift from Enlist you will immediately have a bronchitis.
I have followed you for a long time. Pretty disappointed on your view of chemicals. On the ag side you either use tillage. Or you use chemical. There is no other way around it. I am not a fan of tillage, and try to do as little as possible. With cover crops you have to be able to burn it down. We plant roughly 3000 acres of soybeans every year right into green cover crops such as rye, crimson clover, ect. Come back a couple days a later and kill with roundup and some kind of residual. I lightly graze most of it in the winter time. How do you suggest it be done the right way?
Hey Greg, Ive installed a lot of new barbed wire fences over the last 3-4 years on my biggest piece of pasture. Many MANY miles worth. and I’m looking to add a power wire to all my fences, would it work if I just add power to one of my barbed wires and of course change the staples to insulators? (Other than being possibly illegal which I will check into) I’m REALLY hoping to save a ton of work and time in otherwise having to roll up all that wire which also seems like a waste
We have had good luck putting offsets at about 32" height on barbed wire fences. We wouldn't be comfortable electrifying barbed wire. The offsets go on quickly and can be spaced pretty far apart.
rancher Mike when you offset 32” can you run cows on both sides of the fence ?
short answer,,,, a HUGE pile of lime and fertilizer.
I want to start a prairie dog colony
Wait till you see them spraying diquat and paraquat.
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