What a blessing this man is. The knowledge is priceless. There were some people who were talking among themselves when Greg was talking and that was SO rude. Otherwise another excellent session with Greg Judy.
Excellent couple of videos with Greg, thank you. Even though I watch his channel there's a lot to pick up from watching him interact with a group of people.
35:45 fouled grass my Calfs are showing me how sensitive they are to it I love moving them to clean forage. Its like if we had to eat off the bathroom floor.
I have an animal like the one Greg names Ears. He's a castrated ram who will come running to his name every time. I keep him around just to make my life easier lol.
By Marlboro Man. In last Saturday’s episode of Ree’s cooking show, I took the four boys (our boys and their two friends) to cut down cedar trees on the ranch. Cedar trees are considered a scourge on the prairie. They spread rapidly and easily and can thrive in almost any environment. It doesn’t matter what soil type you have-Type 1, Type 2, sandy, loamy or even rock-if a cedar tree decides to grow there, it will thrive. Agriculture is a long-term business proposition. Every rancher or farmer I know is in the business of managing their land for the long term. We make our living off the land so we have to manage that land to make it the most productive it can be for the long term, long term being (hopefully) the rest of our lives…and even after. Cedar trees, which can take over your property in a matter of five to fifteen years, are viewed as a constant threat to the long-term production of any ranch or farm. Today (and on the show) the cedars look like harmless little trees. But left unchecked, those little trees will eventually produce thousands of seeds and spread across the property like wildfire. As they get bigger and more populous, they will eventually shade out the grassland and crowd out the better varieties of trees. I’ve seen many pastures where cedars have completely taken over an area, reducing the grazing capacity by seventy to eighty percent. Now, that would be a more extreme case, and it would take probably fifteen years or more of neglect for the same to happen here. But in a few years-maybe fifty or so-when I see my grandfather and great-grandfather in Heaven, they’ll definitely kick my butt if I let it happen on my watch. In more populated areas, cedar trees can also pose a great fire hazard since they burn so quickly and so hot. In more isolated areas like ours, fire can actually be a useful tool in controlling the spread of cedars. Periodic burning of pastureland will not only eliminate existing cedars, it will also eliminate the seeds dropped by those trees. If you have country that’s harder to burn, the best way is to handle cedars is to cut them down. As long as you cut them below the very bottom branch, the tree should not grow back. This is really easy to do with just a good pair of tree trimmers/pruners when the trees are small. However, as they get larger I like to use a good hand saw. It doesn’t take long to cut through a tree and it’s actually pretty good exercise. Cedar trees also absorb a great deal of water, which robs the land and water sources of their water supply. In a normal year, this is not as much of a problem. But during dry years it can really hinder grass production, which is ultimately what ranching is all about. Another reason to keep cedars away is cosmetic. I grew up in the house where Ree and I live now. We have to drive down five mile of dirt road through rolling prairie, and I’ve always loved the look of it. It’s probably a result of many years of conditioning by my father and grandfather and from many years of cutting down cedars on various parts of the ranch when I was a kid…but I can’t help it. To me, cedar trees are an eyesore-a blight on an otherwise beautiful landscape. The only good thing I can say about cedars is that they do burn well, and when the kids and I get to burn a pile of cedars we’ve cut down, it always makes for a nice bonfire.
Well, I think cedar trees are beautiful. They're also quite valuable. Naturally, if you have a pasture with livestock you'll want to keep them from spreading all over it, but the wood is fragrant and repels some insects, they give cows shade on hot days, they promote biodiversity, and burning pastures to control them pollutes the air and contributes to global warming. If you want to burn cedar, at least cut it into firewood and you can sell it, right? To make any farm work, it seems one of the main messages I've gotten from all these videos I've been watching is to not let anything that you can make a profit from on your farm go unnoticed and unexploited. A lot of regenerative farmers make furniture out of their cedar wood and sell their products, things like picnic tables, for example. What a waste to just burn it.
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What a blessing this man is. The knowledge is priceless. There were some people who were talking among themselves when Greg was talking and that was SO rude. Otherwise another excellent session with Greg Judy.
I'm convinced some of these old experienced graziers should be considered a national treasure. I just think the world of Greg Judy.
Greg Judy grabs my attention.. he has tacit knowledge of the land, animals and how to work them to compliment each other... amazing insights..
Excellent couple of videos with Greg, thank you. Even though I watch his channel there's a lot to pick up from watching him interact with a group of people.
grasspunk I agree wholeheartedly!
Its like a good preacher I need to be refilled weekly. I learn something new every message
Thank you so much for these videos Watching him go through the fields and talk about the soil and the livestock I learned so much. Thank you!
35:45 fouled grass my Calfs are showing me how sensitive they are to it I love moving them to clean forage. Its like if we had to eat off the bathroom floor.
This video delivers like UPS. How to combat fire ants is $$$ - THANK YOU! Subbed.
I built a silvo Pasture out of white pine forest I put down a lot of lime. It's beautiful
Thank you again for recording this.
Looking up Dr Garrett, his handle is The Dirt Doctor rather than The Soil Doctor. He sounds interesting, going to watch some videos later.
Good content. Any more videos from this trip with Greg?
I have an animal like the one Greg names Ears. He's a castrated ram who will come running to his name every time. I keep him around just to make my life easier lol.
GREG thet looks like a buttercup plant,dont know its latin name though, there seems ta be alot of it where its sprayed, thank ya fer the video
By Marlboro Man.
In last Saturday’s episode of Ree’s cooking show, I took the four boys (our boys and their two friends) to cut down cedar trees on the ranch. Cedar trees are considered a scourge on the prairie. They spread rapidly and easily and can thrive in almost any environment. It doesn’t matter what soil type you have-Type 1, Type 2, sandy, loamy or even rock-if a cedar tree decides to grow there, it will thrive.
Agriculture is a long-term business proposition. Every rancher or farmer I know is in the business of managing their land for the long term. We make our living off the land so we have to manage that land to make it the most productive it can be for the long term, long term being (hopefully) the rest of our lives…and even after. Cedar trees, which can take over your property in a matter of five to fifteen years, are viewed as a constant threat to the long-term production of any ranch or farm.
Today (and on the show) the cedars look like harmless little trees. But left unchecked, those little trees will eventually produce thousands of seeds and spread across the property like wildfire. As they get bigger and more populous, they will eventually shade out the grassland and crowd out the better varieties of trees. I’ve seen many pastures where cedars have completely taken over an area, reducing the grazing capacity by seventy to eighty percent. Now, that would be a more extreme case, and it would take probably fifteen years or more of neglect for the same to happen here. But in a few years-maybe fifty or so-when I see my grandfather and great-grandfather in Heaven, they’ll definitely kick my butt if I let it happen on my watch.
In more populated areas, cedar trees can also pose a great fire hazard since they burn so quickly and so hot. In more isolated areas like ours, fire can actually be a useful tool in controlling the spread of cedars. Periodic burning of pastureland will not only eliminate existing cedars, it will also eliminate the seeds dropped by those trees. If you have country that’s harder to burn, the best way is to handle cedars is to cut them down. As long as you cut them below the very bottom branch, the tree should not grow back. This is really easy to do with just a good pair of tree trimmers/pruners when the trees are small. However, as they get larger I like to use a good hand saw. It doesn’t take long to cut through a tree and it’s actually pretty good exercise.
Cedar trees also absorb a great deal of water, which robs the land and water sources of their water supply. In a normal year, this is not as much of a problem. But during dry years it can really hinder grass production, which is ultimately what ranching is all about.
Another reason to keep cedars away is cosmetic. I grew up in the house where Ree and I live now. We have to drive down five mile of dirt road through rolling prairie, and I’ve always loved the look of it. It’s probably a result of many years of conditioning by my father and grandfather and from many years of cutting down cedars on various parts of the ranch when I was a kid…but I can’t help it. To me, cedar trees are an eyesore-a blight on an otherwise beautiful landscape.
The only good thing I can say about cedars is that they do burn well, and when the kids and I get to burn a pile of cedars we’ve cut down, it always makes for a nice bonfire.
Well, I think cedar trees are beautiful. They're also quite valuable. Naturally, if you have a pasture with livestock you'll want to keep them from spreading all over it, but the wood is fragrant and repels some insects, they give cows shade on hot days, they promote biodiversity, and burning pastures to control them pollutes the air and contributes to global warming. If you want to burn cedar, at least cut it into firewood and you can sell it, right? To make any farm work, it seems one of the main messages I've gotten from all these videos I've been watching is to not let anything that you can make a profit from on your farm go unnoticed and unexploited. A lot of regenerative farmers make furniture out of their cedar wood and sell their products, things like picnic tables, for example. What a waste to just burn it.
yellow flowers are sulfur accumulators not weeds.
Greg racist to cows called the black one a black guy smh