After just seeing this clip about pigs digging up and eating "quackgrass" I recalled recently reading about an invasive plant on our little acreage called cogon grass that is said to resist just about any control except glyphosate. It's been called one of the most invasive plants in the world! So I did a quick search "do hogs like cogon grass?" and it turns out they not only eat the grass but will root it up because they like the roots too.
Awesome. Soil farmers are profitable farmers. One can hope that through videos like this, many more livestock operations discover regenerative practices.
@@savesoil3133 For what it is worth, I support the education process. However, there is no place for politics, policies, or mandates. If governments try to shove this down farmers’ throats, there is not one good thing that could come from it. Better to let people learn the advantages of good stewardship as a natural part of their journey.
@@mattoe8621 You mean by growing green things? Farmers have sequestered carbon since the first seed was sown in a garden. No, government should leave farmers completely alone, no taxes, no agenda-driven incentives, no manipulative regulations.
Wir haben seit drei Jahren auf holistic planed grazing umgestellt, und sind beeindruckt von den Effekten für das Ökosystem, den ökonomischen Vorteilen, und der Revolution im Kopf!
Just amazing. This never gets old. I discovered Alan Savory and the rest some years ago but it is always exciting to see the sheer health of land and pasture under managed grazing. We have practiced it on our tiny plot for seven years and we struggle to keep the growth in hand. Your location is so beautiful.
He mentions nothing about soils eating themself out of house and home........ as Beaver........Prairie dogs etc do. Too much soil biology is also........not good !
@@mattoe8621 First....define " soil biology " ? There is no such thing ! But if a person chooses to call it soil biology and if you want to know when there is too much soil biology.... then explain this ??????? If you have an acre of pure sand.......add organic matter ( now days they call it carbon ?? ) ......... you will " never " improve what your suggesting is the soil biology. Because..... oxygen...water and bugs / worms devour everything thats there ! This is also true with any soils. Its called grow what you can when you can without destroying whats growing there. Or......the bugs oxygen etc will !
BEAUTIFUL ... Hope more and more farmers wake up and start to do the same !!! Thanks to these people that show that the change is possible , the nature need everyone ☺ You Guys are wonderful
I live in the suburbs and practice no dig gardening. I make bio char to use on my soil. I chop and drop my weeds and trimmings right back on the soil, even in the front yard. I have mini compost piles tuck away right in the front yard. My goal in to buy no more in puts. I put waste cardboard down to block out weeds. Then I cover it with grass clippings when I get from my neighbors yards. I only water my potted plants or new garden beds. I spray IMO all over my yard (Korean Natural Farming). My yard in like an airport for wild life.
This is such an amazing video! It's been great to watch Gabe Brown's talks, but to see his principles in action, with beautiful landscapes and camera work, is something else. Thanks! Hope to see more from you
In ancient references the area around the Eurphrates was a paradise. Makes you wonder. What came first? Was it continuous grazing on the middle east destroying the area and even changing the rain patters because of the now hot ground or was it a weather change first? We see in modern analysis of more recent changes that it was the destruction and desertification first and then the change in weather patters. We also see that we can put it back and see the rain return. Who's up to the work?
You and Greg Judy could be brothers. Keep making videos! Love what you did with your land in a high desert environment which further proves that this works in any location no matter how wet/dry.
Please dont compare this guy with Greg Judy ! There is no comparison !!!! This guy is honest.....direct......and original ! However I do have one issue regarding any of these videos despite who presents them. First of all...... if you have a lot of soil life / activity the " life " will eat the soil out of house and home ! Meaning the moisture .....heat..... bugs will consume everything there ! An example is........ As a Peace Corps volunteer to Liberia Africa......people grew their rice / gardens on what we here in the USA call the country gravel road. Try to " regenerate" a gravel road sometime ?????? It wont happen for long. Bug........night crawlers will consume anything thats there ! Finished ! Greg Judy is in it for the money. Period ! He lives in the land of heaven.....never a problem in the world. Unless you take the time and view with caution !
Hello from the South West of England, thank you for the very informative video! Please could you tell me how long it took getting your land to have such lush pastures? We have over 350 cows in various places and I am very keen to act now for the soils benefit... The land where we are is not beautiful soil but I feel it could be with this style of farming. Best wishes!
One key is to manage the rotation of your cattle from enough paddock spaces to give the land enough time to regenerate. If you can introduce water then the grasses will grow back faster. If you cannot irrigate your land then you have to wait for the rain and ground water to water the surface plants. The cattle should be followed by chickens, then sheep, then chickens, then pigs, then chickens w/ducks & geese, then cattle again. With a rest period after the chickens each time. The final test period before cattle again should allow the grasses to go to seed so that you not only feed the soil nutrition from the animals but also a new seed bank to thicken up the grass coverage… Don’t leave the animals in one paddock to the point that the living matter has to start all over. Think of it as 3 stages, baby grass, team age grass, mature grass which is going to seed. Rarely let the land get exposed to be a bunch of baby grass. Graze from mature grass to teenage grass. If you can’t give the land enough of a rest period between the live stock grazing then you have to many live stock or not enough water. Over time the land if managed with the right rotation of grazing and rest will provide for many more animals than you started out with. Goats can be used as well in overgrown areas to prepare it for removing larger brush and trees you want ultimately removed from the property to creat more pasture.
If I see it right the pigs have a mobile shade mobile and better yet it has aluminum panels that reflect the heat, not irradiate it to the area beneath it. Great to park short term over a troubled spot on your acreage. Great video.
Thanks for the video !!!!!! This is true with any crop grown if the soil / cover is managed correctly ! So sad that most farmers will rip / plow up a sod field. The most fertile soil and they go in and destroy the " tilth" . Milked cows for 45 years and never plowed. Sprayed and killed the sod after the corn / soybean crop was planted. Always a great crop ! Regenerative is not anything unique.......its all about managing the land !
thanks for your sharing, such a wonderful and useful information, and I'm just subscribe to your channel, looking forward another great information video clip
Hello Wayne, yes, occasionally, but there are a couple things that can reduce this. First, we get them super well-trained to polywire. We generally train new cattle by keeping them in the corrals for a couple days on hay and running nice hot electric fence through a portion of the corral. We'll put a little hay on the other side of the fence (of course they still have access to plenty on their side). They'll test the wire for a couple days, but figure it out pretty quickly. Second, if we're having real issues with cattle getting out, we'll run a double wire (one hot strand on top and a "ground" strand on the bottom) to "retrain" them a bit. But the fact is that if we have cattle frequently getting out, there's usually some underlying cause. Often it's either that the pasture is too small for that number of cattle, we didn't move them soon enough and they're getting discontent and picky because the pasture is too eaten down (and in that case, you're not benefitting soil, either), or the fence is just not hot enough and the wire is shorting out somewhere or you have a stretch of bad wire. The rule here is to never turn out the herd in a new pasture without first checking that your fence is hot!
Great video, thanks for sharing. When you mention the polywire and moving the livestock, how are you earthing the wire? Do you have several rods placed throughout the property or just moving the earth rods when you move the livestock?
Also, do you ever bring in seeds when you develop new ground or you just let the animals do their thing and let natural seed beds come back asking because I want to do this on a smaller scale with my 2 acre backyard
Good question. I’ve spread new seed using a broadcaster which are then trodden in by the cattle for a couple of weeks immediately afterwards. In future I will instead slash or mulch when seed heads are mature. This requires a longer rest period beforehand, but avoids the cost of buy seed. I’m saving for a mulcher. They can also be used to knock down tall (rank) grass during wet years when cattle can’t keep up with the grass growth rate.
17:44 that poor pig really wanted to know if you were going to eat that root. You kept waving it around and that delicious animal kept its eyes on it. LOL
So.... why dont any of these people make side by side comparisons ?? Example Greg Judy ( Mr. Glyphosate ) He has never made side by side comparisons using so called " chemical " fertilizers ( chemical fertilizers are all natural and come from the earth ) . Graze....or mow with a lawn mower and see the results. It only takes a tiny area to make these comparisons and very little work. Cut..... collect forage at different heights. Compare the " yield " after a year. Do these comparisons along with many others on your own property ! Another example .....earth worms. Mr Glyphosate says if you use " glyphosates " your soil is dead ! ...... No earth worms. So..... do this experiment on the country gravel road......where its like concrete a toxic waste dump ( from oils gas....farm chemicals from vehicles ) and place a board on the road.. cover it with grass......see what you find under the board in a few days ???? I promise you will be able to go fishing ! Theres more logic to farming / grazing then education !
I do have one issue regarding any of these videos despite who presents them. First of all...... if you have a lot of soil life / activity the " life " will eat the soil out of house and home ! Meaning the moisture .....heat..... bugs will consume everything there ! An example is........ As a Peace Corps volunteer to Liberia Africa......people grew their rice / gardens on what we here in the USA call the country gravel road. Try to " regenerate" a gravel road sometime ?????? It wont happen for long. Bug........night crawlers will consume anything thats there ! Finished !
@@alisongilbert8902 Been a farmer all my life Im age 65. Trust me....bugs......will eat you out of house and home !!!! No different then Beavers.... Prairie dogs....etc Thats why we have sand. Nothing you can do to improve those soils long term ! They will remain " sand " !
Alderspring ... Adamic-man, *Behold the Christian Race* ... Cush (Greek: Ethiopia), means sun-burnt face Phoenicians described by the Greeks, as fair-haired, fair-skinned people Persia means Lord of the Aryans now renamed IRAN Zimbabwe once known as Rhodesia Chicongo once known as Chicago ... 12 Tribes passed through the Caucasus Mountains (i)ssac's Sons / Saxons / Anglo-Saxons / Europe / Australia / New Zealand / North America / Christian First World / "We the People" ... 38 For as in those days before the flood, *they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,* until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, *so will be the coming of the Son of Man.*
I’m starting on a just an acre. Videos like this are appreciated.
After just seeing this clip about pigs digging up and eating "quackgrass" I recalled recently reading about an invasive plant on our little acreage called cogon grass that is said to resist just about any control except glyphosate. It's been called one of the most invasive plants in the world! So I did a quick search "do hogs like cogon grass?" and it turns out they not only eat the grass but will root it up because they like the roots too.
build back better soil
Hello! Greetings from Portugal.
Awesome. Soil farmers are profitable farmers. One can hope that through videos like this, many more livestock operations discover regenerative practices.
Indeed indeed! This is amazing🙏
Have you heard of the Save Soil movement before?🌿 It's also an initiative exactly for this purpose 🏞
@@savesoil3133
For what it is worth, I support the education process. However, there is no place for politics, policies, or mandates. If governments try to shove this down farmers’ throats, there is not one good thing that could come from it. Better to let people learn the advantages of good stewardship as a natural part of their journey.
@@critical-thought 100% agree about keeping federal and state government policy away from farming, ag, and grazing lands…
Tax incentives for soil carbon sequestration might help, if they let farmers figure out how to achieve it.
@@mattoe8621
You mean by growing green things? Farmers have sequestered carbon since the first seed was sown in a garden. No, government should leave farmers completely alone, no taxes, no agenda-driven incentives, no manipulative regulations.
Wir haben seit drei Jahren auf holistic planed grazing umgestellt, und sind beeindruckt von den Effekten für das Ökosystem, den ökonomischen Vorteilen, und der Revolution im Kopf!
Woher kommen Sie wenn ich fragen darf?
I can’t relay my enjoyment of this video enough
Soil health and proper farming on the regenerative basis is the solution to our environmental concerns.
So good to see you doing regenerative ranching.....building the soil. That's KEY.
Just amazing. This never gets old. I discovered Alan Savory and the rest some years ago but it is always exciting to see the sheer health of land and pasture under managed grazing. We have practiced it on our tiny plot for seven years and we struggle to keep the growth in hand. Your location is so beautiful.
He mentions nothing about soils eating themself out of house and home........ as Beaver........Prairie dogs etc do. Too much soil biology is also........not good !
How do you determine when you have too much soil biology?
@@mattoe8621 First....define " soil biology " ? There is no such thing ! But if a person chooses to call it soil biology and if you want to know when there is too much soil biology.... then explain this ??????? If you have an acre of pure sand.......add organic matter ( now days they call it carbon ?? ) ......... you will " never " improve what your suggesting is the soil biology. Because..... oxygen...water and bugs / worms devour everything thats there ! This is also true with any soils. Its called grow what you can when you can without destroying whats growing there. Or......the bugs oxygen etc will !
BEAUTIFUL ... Hope more and more farmers wake up and start to do the same !!! Thanks to these people that show that the change is possible , the nature need everyone ☺ You Guys are wonderful
super dense cover !
Excellent!
Stunning film. 1.9-7.3! absolutley historical . The truth of applied wisdom emitting in the joy of your soul, paradise,living the dream, much respect
Thanks for sharing this. As you point out, it all starts with the soil.
I’m looking forward to seeing more.
Hope is the best of things!
I really enjoyed learning from you and I'm very happy that you're so dedicated to the health of the earth and your entire team!
I live in the suburbs and practice no dig gardening. I make bio char to use on my soil. I chop and drop my weeds and trimmings right back on the soil, even in the front yard. I have mini compost piles tuck away right in the front yard. My goal in to buy no more in puts. I put waste cardboard down to block out weeds. Then I cover it with grass clippings when I get from my neighbors yards. I only water my potted plants or new garden beds. I spray IMO all over my yard (Korean Natural Farming). My yard in like an airport for wild life.
This is such an amazing video! It's been great to watch Gabe Brown's talks, but to see his principles in action, with beautiful landscapes and camera work, is something else. Thanks! Hope to see more from you
Good on you!
Regenerative ag is amazing.
Looks amazing, a lot different than New Jersey
Great video. Would love to see about your cows an or sheep's days work. Keep up the great work
In ancient references the area around the Eurphrates was a paradise. Makes you wonder. What came first? Was it continuous grazing on the middle east destroying the area and even changing the rain patters because of the now hot ground or was it a weather change first? We see in modern analysis of more recent changes that it was the destruction and desertification first and then the change in weather patters. We also see that we can put it back and see the rain return. Who's up to the work?
I am trying to get folks to follow your lead, keep up the great work!
Please cover an overview of your winter operations I am very curious to learn
great work! inspirational
Thanks for the message of hope!
You and Greg Judy could be brothers. Keep making videos! Love what you did with your land in a high desert environment which further proves that this works in any location no matter how wet/dry.
Please dont compare this guy with Greg Judy ! There is no comparison !!!! This guy is honest.....direct......and original ! However I do have one issue regarding any of these videos despite who presents them. First of all...... if you have a lot of soil life / activity the " life " will eat the soil out of house and home ! Meaning the moisture .....heat..... bugs will consume everything there ! An example is........ As a Peace Corps volunteer to Liberia Africa......people grew their rice / gardens on what we here in the USA call the country gravel road. Try to " regenerate" a gravel road sometime ?????? It wont happen for long. Bug........night crawlers will consume anything thats there ! Finished !
Greg Judy is in it for the money. Period ! He lives in the land of heaven.....never a problem in the world. Unless you take the time and view with caution !
@@jimmyjohnson7041 Greg Judy has proven that the better you treat your soil, water and animals, the more money you make.
Excellent
Hello from the South West of England, thank you for the very informative video! Please could you tell me how long it took getting your land to have such lush pastures? We have over 350 cows in various places and I am very keen to act now for the soils benefit... The land where we are is not beautiful soil but I feel it could be with this style of farming. Best wishes!
One key is to manage the rotation of your cattle from enough paddock spaces to give the land enough time to regenerate.
If you can introduce water then the grasses will grow back faster. If you cannot irrigate your land then you have to wait for the rain and ground water to water the surface plants.
The cattle should be followed by chickens, then sheep, then chickens, then pigs, then chickens w/ducks & geese, then cattle again. With a rest period after the chickens each time. The final test period before cattle again should allow the grasses to go to seed so that you not only feed the soil nutrition from the animals but also a new seed bank to thicken up the grass coverage…
Don’t leave the animals in one paddock to the point that the living matter has to start all over. Think of it as 3 stages, baby grass, team age grass, mature grass which is going to seed. Rarely let the land get exposed to be a bunch of baby grass. Graze from mature grass to teenage grass.
If you can’t give the land enough of a rest period between the live stock grazing then you have to many live stock or not enough water. Over time the land if managed with the right rotation of grazing and rest will provide for many more animals than you started out with.
Goats can be used as well in overgrown areas to prepare it for removing larger brush and trees you want ultimately removed from the property to creat more pasture.
If I see it right the pigs have a mobile shade mobile and better yet it has aluminum panels that reflect the heat, not irradiate it to the area beneath it. Great to park short term over a troubled spot on your acreage. Great video.
Great video!
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❗️❗️Now it's time to get a beer❗️❗️
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Bravo! Very inspiring.
Great testimony on practices that work.
Superb work!
Awesome thanks for sharing, consider learning about hourse grazing with Nicole masters class, God bless
Thanks for the video !!!!!! This is true with any crop grown if the soil / cover is managed correctly ! So sad that most farmers will rip / plow up a sod field. The most fertile soil and they go in and destroy the " tilth" . Milked cows for 45 years and never plowed. Sprayed and killed the sod after the corn / soybean crop was planted. Always a great crop ! Regenerative is not anything unique.......its all about managing the land !
Do you ever sow seed, where the pigs have been ?
Gracias❤
thanks for your sharing, such a wonderful and useful information, and I'm just subscribe to your channel, looking forward another great information video clip
“Ok now we might as well go get a beer” 😂😂
Hi Glen, Thanks for such an informative video. Do you ever have trouble with the cows busting through the poly wire?
Hello Wayne, yes, occasionally, but there are a couple things that can reduce this. First, we get them super well-trained to polywire. We generally train new cattle by keeping them in the corrals for a couple days on hay and running nice hot electric fence through a portion of the corral. We'll put a little hay on the other side of the fence (of course they still have access to plenty on their side). They'll test the wire for a couple days, but figure it out pretty quickly. Second, if we're having real issues with cattle getting out, we'll run a double wire (one hot strand on top and a "ground" strand on the bottom) to "retrain" them a bit. But the fact is that if we have cattle frequently getting out, there's usually some underlying cause. Often it's either that the pasture is too small for that number of cattle, we didn't move them soon enough and they're getting discontent and picky because the pasture is too eaten down (and in that case, you're not benefitting soil, either), or the fence is just not hot enough and the wire is shorting out somewhere or you have a stretch of bad wire. The rule here is to never turn out the herd in a new pasture without first checking that your fence is hot!
Great video, thanks for sharing. When you mention the polywire and moving the livestock, how are you earthing the wire? Do you have several rods placed throughout the property or just moving the earth rods when you move the livestock?
Love it! have you done any research on injecting any kind of compost/worm, casting tea through irrigation.
Also, do you ever bring in seeds when you develop new ground or you just let the animals do their thing and let natural seed beds come back asking because I want to do this on a smaller scale with my 2 acre backyard
Good question. I’ve spread new seed using a broadcaster which are then trodden in by the cattle for a couple of weeks immediately afterwards. In future I will instead slash or mulch when seed heads are mature. This requires a longer rest period beforehand, but avoids the cost of buy seed.
I’m saving for a mulcher. They can also be used to knock down tall (rank) grass during wet years when cattle can’t keep up with the grass growth rate.
How often should move 20 cows if you’re just starting out on bare ground and what do if you get back were you started.
17:44 that poor pig really wanted to know if you were going to eat that root. You kept waving it around and that delicious animal kept its eyes on it. LOL
How much snow?
Just dump the water in.....
So.... why dont any of these people make side by side comparisons ?? Example Greg Judy ( Mr. Glyphosate ) He has never made side by side comparisons using so called " chemical " fertilizers ( chemical fertilizers are all natural and come from the earth ) . Graze....or mow with a lawn mower and see the results. It only takes a tiny area to make these comparisons and very little work. Cut..... collect forage at different heights. Compare the " yield " after a year. Do these comparisons along with many others on your own property !
Another example .....earth worms. Mr Glyphosate says if you use " glyphosates " your soil is dead ! ...... No earth worms. So..... do this experiment on the country gravel road......where its like concrete a toxic waste dump ( from oils gas....farm chemicals from vehicles ) and place a board on the road.. cover it with grass......see what you find under the board in a few days ????
I promise you will be able to go fishing ! Theres more logic to farming / grazing then education !
I do have one issue regarding any of these videos despite who presents them. First of all...... if you have a lot of soil life / activity the " life " will eat the soil out of house and home ! Meaning the moisture .....heat..... bugs will consume everything there ! An example is........ As a Peace Corps volunteer to Liberia Africa......people grew their rice / gardens on what we here in the USA call the country gravel road. Try to " regenerate" a gravel road sometime ?????? It wont happen for long. Bug........night crawlers will consume anything thats there ! Finished !
Controlled animal impact has a lot to do with it.
@@alisongilbert8902 Been a farmer all my life Im age 65. Trust me....bugs......will eat you out of house and home !!!! No different then Beavers.... Prairie dogs....etc Thats why we have sand. Nothing you can do to improve those soils long term ! They will remain " sand " !
Alderspring
...
Adamic-man, *Behold the Christian Race*
...
Cush (Greek: Ethiopia), means sun-burnt face
Phoenicians described by the Greeks, as fair-haired, fair-skinned people
Persia means Lord of the Aryans now renamed IRAN
Zimbabwe once known as Rhodesia
Chicongo once known as Chicago
...
12 Tribes passed through the Caucasus Mountains
(i)ssac's Sons / Saxons / Anglo-Saxons / Europe / Australia / New Zealand / North America / Christian First World / "We the People"
...
38 For as in those days before the flood,
*they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,*
until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away,
*so will be the coming of the Son of Man.*
who is the beautiful young woman at 22:36 .
So what u are doing is mimicking nature. Good move.