How to think like a Grazier - Groundswell 2022
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2022
- Speaker - Greg Judy
With all the challenges facing farmers today with skyrocketing input costs it is extremely important to stay focused on what we can control. We can lower our input costs by fine tuning our grazing, livestock genetics, building soil life, keeping our soils covered, and developing a strong marketing program. We are in the solar energy conversion business, every blade of grass is important to us. By maximizing our solar panels and turning succulent green leaves into a healthy protein we have a wonderful product to market. To build a strong profitable farm every year, minimum fossil fuel is used along with minimal machines. Stay focused on 4 legged machines that run on grass and reproduce themselves every year. 
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That guy is brilliant. I love him, he's proving that the animals are what belongs on the land. I remember that intoxicating smell of fresh soil from my childhood.
Thank you for sharing so quickly. Perhaps include “Greg Judy” in the title to help marketing….
I am here because of Greg . Sorry Greg I didn’t even finish your video that I was watching don’t worry I will go back after this 🍀👍🍀👋🍀🖖🌟💞🌟🙋🏼♀️
I got Lucky and recognized Greg’s picture
Just bought 12 cattle from him last week. He’s a busy man.
It’s always great to listen to Mr. Judy. He is a wealth of knowledge.
Only 3 minutes in and I love this. Couldn’t make it this year so thank you for posting these.
Howdy from Australia,
I made the mistake of getting produce scraps for the grocery store and handing it to the cows. They would start bawling as soon as I drove into the farm which upset the neighbours and the land owner.
The solution was to turn up, set up the new fence, and then spread out the produce scraps move the water and then let them into the new paddock where they find the food treats instead of demanding it directly from me.
Cool! Great talk. So exciting to see people around the world learning this! England has a great climate for grass fed. Just like us they’ve been doing it backwards with both sheep and cattle for 100 years. I love “All Creatures Great and Small” but it’s hard for me to watch it now because I want to correct everything the vets and the farmers are doing, LOL. Thanks Greg for putting this talk up!
A true expert. And he did not mention "global warming" once. What a bonus
He does talk about carbon sequestration
So good to see these up so fast!
Such important information. You rock, Greg. Keep educating ranchers and the general public.
I like the comment that references the goal of $100 a head. I have a small farm. Again, your story is what sells the beef. Me, it’s grass fed beef with modest marbling and the fact I returning my land to a prairie like habitat with regenerative means
Greg Judy is the best! Please put his name in the title. He has a big following.
Thank you for sharing this,
Excellent Presentation Greg!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Hope you post the 2nd talk by him and the farm walk
Excellent presentation. Learned a bunch. Thank you 😉
where was this event held ?
@@Flowing23 London, UK
Have the very best it's just that simple.
Thank you for the knowledge and motivation
Espectacular!
GJ Legend
Greg Judy knows his stuff y’all.
I subbed to-groundswell because of mr. Judy
"The neighbours, they don't like their soil, so they send it down the creek to me". Funny, I thin Alan Savoury projects have the same neighbours, in Africa!
A farmer out standing in his field.
A great guru of grass grazing.
I'd like to know if sheep can survive outside when it's -50c, -60 f. I live in Canada where it gets very cold. Tia.
so, north Texas, extreme drought.
great stand of speargrass and the sheep won't eat it, but 1 cow is?
should I overseed with cover crops to increase diversity?
Excellent. I'll forgive home for calling bison buffalo ;)
Nice one Greg Thanks one day I'll be able to start my farm In Sha Allaha.
Aaway dadkaygi..??
Regenerative Rocks!
Do you still sale the
Bale unroller.
The Greg Judy bale unroller!
This dead land can be turned into something magical again, like virgin soil, the way it used to be before machines and chemicals got to it to destroy it. Put it back the way it was. Hooray.
Why did they cut him off....
Their is no grant money, because there is very little to sell, so they don't get corporate sponsorship.
As a former dairy farmer I often questioned how a stock cow farmer like Greg Judy can graze cattle on poor quality forage / grass as shown in this video ??? And get good returns since a dairy cow eating this same grass would go dry ! Some have said that a stock cow dont need the same quality grass because the calf only needs about a gallon of milk per day compared to what a dairy cow produces...up to say 9 gallons per day ? With that being said.. shouldnt you be able to graze around 8 cows per acre instead of only one stock cow per acre.This way each cow has less to eat and they would produce less ?? Since each cow would produce one gallon...and each have one calf. Id say thats a great return on any stock cow operation !!!!!!! Of course you would need high quality grass to feed that many cows ! For some reason is there something logical missing here ????
Some one please help me with this analogy !
An example of what you should not do ! Greg Judys latest video ruclips.net/video/c97uyACyV8M/видео.html
Notice the many new sprigs of brush growing in the pastures. This is the direct results of brush hogging / clipping and not " killing " the brush itself !
This issue will get much worse as time goes on. A sapling that is not dead and is cut off...will only shoot up more new saplings ! Eventually the pasture will be over come with just that....short brush saplings. It might take 10 or 20 years.....but it will happen ! These saplings also take water and nutrients from the soil.......which the grass can not compete with.
Brush and trees..... treat and kill them !
So......whats it called.......organic matter or carbon ? They are not the same !
Gee, I hope his neighbors don’t watch this one. Might make for tough relations.
Meat heals
You ARE a grass farmer. It’s the grass that feeds the soil through root exudates. It all starts with the grass. Once you have grass the soil will come. It’s not about the trampling, it’s about a diversity of plants photosynthesising and pumping out root exudates which feed the soil microbes which in turn feed the plants and build soil structure. Also overgrazing is not eating too much, it’s coming back to soon before plants are fully recovered. How much you allow the animals to eat will depend on your grazing strategy which will vary with your context. There is no one recipe for grazing that will work every where.
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Greg Judy. Keep in mind..... hes from Minnesota....has a dairy back ground. If grazing was so profitable why go to stock cows ? Its because if you feed milk cows the grass hes providing his stock cows the milk cows would go dry ! This is what his stock cows are also eating....poor quality forage ! Any grass over 6 inches tall if over mature ! Stock cow calf cant get enough quality grass....nor can the cows.... get enough quality grass to produce more milk ! Greg does not talk about any drawbacks in his operation .....only the positives . For the sake of everyone to learn.. boths should be brought front and center. Greg Judy lives in heaven !!!! Never a cow with calving issues.. never a calf that dies in being born.......never foot problems....never pink eye..never fencing issues ( deer wiping out fences ). He dont need a corral .., he wont do trial and error projects.....fertilizer comparisons mowing pasture compared to not mowing ... etc etc.. Greg Judy is so profitable he only needs about 50 other enterprises to pay for one....... his stock cows ! Greg does have many great points........information....... but be careful with what you hear and see. Its not always golden ! Im a dairy farmer now a stock cow farmer.......been farming for 45 years. I very familiar with both... stock cows and dairy. Ask why there are very few " dairy " farmers grazing ? Its a lot of work !!!!!! But very profitable !
Thank you .
But I do see the over grazing and the land abused here in the states .
I also see diary cows in California in the field and no grass but straw .
They are problems culling them .
The land in California looks like a wast land .
And the top soil powder ground hard as concrete .
@@nancysmith-baker1813 Thanks for your response ! Id agree with you in relation to pastures being waste lands......bare.... Thats my point in general. Most.........including Greg Judy dont understand the true value / profits in grazing !
Relating to milk cows.......there is no comparison ! Farmers consider stock cows to be a low class grazing animal. Stock cows still produce milk for their calf....and the calf also should have and needs good quality grass to eat to gain weight !
Anyone including Greg Judy should lay out the positives and negatives in grazing . Thats what farming is all about ..learning and sharing information. Not only providing a " positive " view !
If Greg Judy has such a profitable outcome with his stock cows...how come he needs ...who knows..... 30 different enterprises to make his operation profitable ?????
@@jerrylansbury9558 he started with almost nothing but debts. Now hes got 400 cows and 200 sheep. I sure don't. What are you complaining about?
@@charleswalters5284 Im not complaining.....just bringing out the reality in Gregs operation. The question is...why did Greg start out with nothing but debts ??? Gosh...at his age.... ( my age 64) he should have 400 cows....and lots more ! Still he need income from "RUclips " to support his cows ??? Along with how many other incomes he needs just to support the cows ?? Fencing supplies... cattle sales....... sheep...... speaking fees he charges........ dog sales...... mushroom sales..... firewood sales.... Thats only a start.......along with needing two and three employees ? Please.........I operated my farm operation ( dairy ) by myself and my wife. No other income......other then maybe 2000 bushels of corn to sell if we produced too much....... Total income came from the milk cows.....rotational grazing. Paid off the farm too.
Gregs operation is not as productive as you think.
@@jerrylansbury9558 quite better than what i got, and i'm old as the hills.
He's very industrious ; i'm quite impressed with both of you.
@Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher I was hoping for an answer...thanks for that. First......interesting we can carry on a basic conversation here.....but can not on your own videos. However......you state here about the life being sucked out of the room by negativity ? So.......In a number of your videos you comment about adjacent farms / farmers.......going " glyphosates / chemical ( relating to herbicides ) on their fields and they have dead soils. Do these farmers know your stating this about them and their operation..... saying it to a world wide audience ? You have done this in other videos as well.....in other ways too. This to me is more about negativity and as you may see it as...hating ? Those are dead soils when they " may " produce up to 200 bushels of corn per acer or 60 bushels of beans per acre ?? I tend to disagree. So to use as an example.. is a county gravel road dead soil ? Its totally compacted.... has chemicals galore on it. Nothing growing on it for years ! Then after a few rainy wet days often I see as many as 6 night crawlers per square foot popping out of the road. They are not just crossing the road......but popping out of the rock hard road ! Have you updated yourself on the herbicide use regarding farmer / farming ? Glyphosates are among one of the least used products out there.......but by far also the safest !
I have nothing against so called " regenerative agriculture " But it is only a title / name. I prefer it be called .... " farming".
Farming is a great means of experimenting. A never ending challenge !
Farming can not be taught........it can only be experienced !
Hope you never get Asian jumping worms on your pasture. Look just like regular earth worms but live on the top just under mulch layer and eat all the mulch and tender young shoots of grass and legumes to strip the soil of all its nutrients and life. Experts have no clue on how to irradiate them
If you can't show something to support your story, maybe we should irradiate you.
If they haven't got control over their government them forget about it. Even a clean state nation like the USA has an ever-increasing, burdensome government that is very happy to trade 'security' for your rights and privacies, at a price.
Well that’s a defeatist attitude! We educated people have to lead this coming agricultural revolution.
@@C.Hawkshaw I answered this...? YT seems to have lost the reply. I'll try again but first I will see if this makes it past the bots.
@@C.Hawkshaw OK. First was an acknowledgement that you were right. Excuse: Sometimes brevity is suitable. Men and their punchiness.
@@C.Hawkshaw Third part was to make the argument that Adam Smith's thesis was that only a society that valued _individual autonomy_ in a _free market_ could possibly expect a brighter future because the _invisible hand_ (when common sense vies with competition) is the correct mechanism to determine policy and development. That thesis I believe to be *the most seditious* in all of Philosophy because it does not support any orthodoxy or corporate-like activity: his definition of those monopoly-inducing creations includes govt., trade assoc., guilds and unions and perhaps many others like organised religion, regional loyalty, etc.
@@C.Hawkshaw Fourthly were some observations about the human condition. I believe the human genome is the product of a long, rather deaf, dumb and blind development process that has somehow arrived at us. The 'design' of the genome was to produce a majority of alpha-types who could make good use of replies 2 and 3. However at no point in history has this been a major concern for any society as such citizens would be basically ungovernable: but they would also be _adequately_ courageous, resilient, sociable and achievement-seeking. A heady mix.
So.......Gregg Judy and Josh from Stony Ridge farm stated that a cow paddy will decompose in months if soils are heathy ( a year and half ago ). Now.....Josh just commented...... ruclips.net/video/CKQLzRNTh7A/видео.html at 14:00 that cows wont eat over a paddy for a year. I stated two years because Im familiar as a dairy farmer. Also using heavy equipment on pastures destroys them...and Josh is out harrowing his. So.....your saying these soils are not healthy ? Which is it ?
One large mob. False statement.
I’ve been watching his RUclips channel, and respect his business, and intelligence, but I’m pretty sure they haven’t had pigs in years.
The cattle lead and after they are rotated out the sheep are brought into the paddock. The bulls are mixed into the herd in July and are removed in March just prior to calving. The rams join the flock in December and are pulled out just before lambing season too.
Calving in late January during a blizzard can result in calf loses. So do separate bulls from the herd to prevent out of season, higher risk calving. Same goes for sheep.
The latest on Greg Judy doing repairs on a wash out..... ruclips.net/video/AFwfdkbLyjQ/видео.html
Ive had these types of washouts on my farm. Key is....... always allow the water to spread out. Remove any trees along the area. Trees create shade and dont allow grass to root... or grow. Do not try to make the water stay in a narrow area. Smooth the area out.....widen it....and allow it to grow grass ! On my farm the previous owners use car tires. I removed 400 tires from a waterway. Flattened the area......and reseed it. I did this in segments. I did try to do it all at one time.....but mother nature washed everything out shortly after I finished it. Point being......do small areas instead of committing to expensive large areas.
Tires.......rocks...... create churning and cause the water to cut.
A very good solution is to use bale mesh wrap... tack the wrap every few feet using light gauge wire formed into a " J " hook. After the grass is established......pull it up....and redo again Works great !