Greg Judy discusses his new winter stockpiling method
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2019
- Get your livestock fat on grass before the weather turns cold. By grazing the tips of grass cattle pack on weight before winter arrives. Go to greenpasturesfarm.net for more grazing info.
I saw a presentation here on RUclips a few months back that was comparing root strength and regrowth rates, and I remember the short version of the answer being that 6-8 inches of grass grows back the fastest while providing the best value. I only have a few chickens right now but trying to learn in preparation for getting livestock in the future. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Hey Greg,
I’m in London, UK 🇬🇧 love the vlogs between yourselves, Justin Rhodes, Joel Saliton & all the other homesteading community across the pond you’ve all inspired me to start my own homestead, saving the pennies at present but one day in the near future, thank you all for the honest, educational and such informative advice!
Thank you
Mark Butcher 👍
That grass looks awesome.
We’ll be doing this with our sheep. Great vid.
Love the Jersey photobomb
There are two A2/A2 Jersey heifers in the herd that were bred by our South Poll bulls. Will be freshening next spring
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher that will make some nice beef. People say the Jersey meat is very good.
it's the truth. I'm not in the cattle biz I'm in the land regen/restoration biz but same diff. I really wish someone would convert one of those farming video games into a real usable product for farmers so they could visually understand what's going on better.
Exactly. It would be so cool if they would incorporate soil health principles and some microbial and carbon metrics. Right now there's about 3 or 4 farm simulators released yearly but its all conventional Till, Harrow, spray herbicides and chemical fertilizers, then plant. They're essentially heavy equipment and chemical catalogs for young people to get introduced to the industrial mindset. some type of Game would really be useful in introducing people to regenerative dynamic Agricultural systems.
Farm simulator
I wish those games would incorporate shit like break downs 😂
I wish we were able to do this in the fall in nebraska. But our grass will go dormant by September most years considering we are mostly warm season grasses
When it gets hot and dry, all that leaf and thatch are also collecting and most importantly keeping alot of moisture from the dew. Golf course pastures dont hold much moisture. I'd like to do some soil temp comparisons with my neighbors pasture at midday in July sometime as well.
Greg, sir, are you choosing your round/move order differntly now coming into the fall season too?
Best way to learn is to learn the hard way and hope your business survives.
Will you be grazing through the whole winter? I was wondering what someone would do in northern Michigan Late springs, and early winters with lots of snow. I would like to try out your methods.
I'm in the U.P. I'd like to know about that as well
Great question!
thinking my environment that a grazing mix pasture for the cows to be on in the summer and i would be mowing the pasture ahead of the cows to make hay for winter. then next to the pasture another pasture with the 60 inch corn with covers for late season grazing?! behind the combine let the cows onto the corn residue and thick covers to graze as long as they can before the snow gets to deep.
or I could use old grass pasture that by late july i would be hauling hay bales from another field to feed the cows. i would like to use the hay from the other field to sell for more money income.
i am fencing 90 acres in and setting up water system for year round watering. when its -40 in the winter a guy needs to plan ahead. lol
I'm a little confused, did you say 60 days? If you have them eat 4 inches and leave 12 you would think more than 4 inches would grow back in 60 days unless it goes dormant.
It all depends on if you get any moisture. The strategy I was pointing out was to try and leave as much leaf area as possible. The larger the solar collector, the quicker the regrowth.
Mr Judy, I raise goats and a good portion of my field is over ran with yellow foxtail which the goats will not eat. What do you suggest, sir?
I just did a search in youtube for "yellow foxtail" and there's plenty about it and at least one guy talking about managing its seeding--no chemicals, etc. I hope there's something there for your situation, too.
Do you graze throughout the winter?
I'm trying to figure out how to cut costs on hay since its so pricey right now.
Check out the vids on his channel and he shows how he grazes in the winter and also how he supplements with hay. He has sheep also, which are grazed a bit differently in the winter, as they are able to paw the snow away from the grass.
One thing I have not been able to understand from your videos (which I love) is how you move 300 cattle to 16 different farms? Are they contiguous? Do you close roads? Do you have a video covering moving from one (non-contiguous) farm to another that I just can't find? Thanks for all you do!
I have tons of videos on my channel showing our cattle drives to the next farm.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Dang, I was using the wrong keywords. I am not sure what you call asking a dumb question out there in Missouri but out here in the DMV we call it "Fiddy." So, fiddy. Just watched some of them, fascinating. Using the electric fence and the road closures were my main question. They were super-helpful. Thanks!
Greg, is that an Ayrshire cow walking behind you near the end of the video? Or just a South Poll with a lot of white or Hereford or what? Looked like she'll make a good mama.
How much of that ragweed will the cattle eat or benefit from?
My pastures are overrun with it and I'm looking at mowing it before it goes to seed to hopefully break the lifecycle.
There are millions of ragweed seeds already in your seed bank. Mowing them off might help open up the canopy where your grasses can get some sunlight and will be better able to compete for moisture heading into the fall stockpile period.
@@hairymanonetwo this is the short Western ragweed, it came with the farm.
I just have a handful of Dexters now, trying to start rotational grazing.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher what height do you recommend you mow them to after grazing.
we have a lot of dog fennel and after moving the cows off I mow at 5 inches, is that too tall? i don't want to knock the rest of the forage down too much and stunt the regrowth.
How many acres per head would someone need to try this?
I wish if you could introduce one dairy cow and see how well it dose on the same pastures
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Did you notice there was a Jersey dairy cow in this vid?
downbntout i did actually but I don’t think its a pure Jersey cow lol
What about Cow tetany with rapid growing grass?
With the stockpiled grass, the cows are getting a mouthful of dry matter along with the new grass growth, which tends to balance out the nutrients as they graze. Other people do that by offering hay for the animals that are grazing new grass, but Greg's hay is mixed in with the grass, so no need to offer bales of hay to balance the rumen.
I had to leave in the middle of this video and move my cows
Everyone has grazed their fields down to half inch then bought hay for winter. .... and we're not even out of August ...
That is not good, it will be a long winter for them by having to feed hay now until who knows when. It comes down to constantly monitoring your growing and daily grazing conditions to prevent this from happening.
come to iowa, everyone grazes like that spring summer fall and has to feed hay grain. its not agriculture around here, everyone is a chemical application specialist.
youre one of the few in the state
well, 14 out of about 87,000 farms.
@@hairymanonetwo we are from Iowa, we dont grain our cattle ever. They do get mineral tubs for all season, salt blocks, we graze them and they winter graze just fine as well, only in extremely deep snow do we give bales of hay. They have even gone full blast winters without supplimental water, they lick snow and if theres enough snow fall steady, they adjust early in the fall/winter months. We have not hauled water in 3yrs, theres a creek and if that freezes, they get by just fine on snow. The pastures are lush when they've grazed thru winter, we have 4 we allow open choice of pastures thru the winter and section them late spring thru Aug-Sept.
Is this type of grazing feasible when I gotta make hay for at least 6 months of winter? I’m in Manitoba Canada and There’s zero grazing after the 15th of November on a normal year. I’m wondering if I would have the time to move my animals often enough to make it worthwhile. I’ve been trying to make hay steady since about July 20 so I’m busy daily
This might be an optionruclips.net/video/qRLb5LKGhGY/видео.html
Greg has this upload ruclips.net/video/QbfG0n2rcI4/видео.html or this one ruclips.net/video/um0cctAext8/видео.html
Check out gabe brown he is in north dakota and grazes his cows thru the snow at -30 -f. He has lots of videos on that
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m. rude not the last 2 years, been in severe drought. I’m haying sloughs that haven’t been able to hardly walk across for the last 15 years