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I appreciate this content. Great job

Same thing is happening here with us over in Chesapeake, VA. Sadly, I had my grasses up to my shoulders and seeded out a month ago and went through and brush-hogged it all back in anticipation of a week's worth of rain that was projected. Then the rain never came! Luckily, my pastures are now mulched very well on time for the dry/hot season... and I only cut it down to 10" to 12"... so the girls are basically eating hay out there. I may pull them to the dry lot for a few weeks once we get a good rain so that the pastures can recover. The dry lot was planted heavily in a grazing crabgrass... and has not been brush hogged. Lots of tall standing forage for them there. Forage that would withstand a short grazing just fine.

Your girls look great! Thriving! My friend likes to do the same as you with the twice a day moving for the same reasons. We are in Co Sligo, Ireland. We have been blessed with enough rain, just starting to get warmer this week. I don’t have cattle but live on a cattle farm. Iv been helping my friend who’s farming regeneratively like you. We were planting more trees in the winter. Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful day 😊💚🙏✨🐮🌱

Yes, too hot, too dry here in Virginia. Girls look great though!

UA-cam recommended your short video about leaving college early to farm. Subscribed. Love what you are doing! Nice video.. great idea..👍😁🌱💚🙏✨🐮🔥

Wow, that is a clear difference. 🏞️😊👍

Small producers like myself (21 lowline angus, 100 sheep, some chickens and pigs) and not a lot of land farming, in the margins or the unfarmable land of others is a way to things happen cheaply.

Is that a 2 day paddock?

At 24:26 exactly right.... hands out for making money ! Prime example Mr Glyphosate ( Greg Judy ) !!! How many so called.......streams of income dose he need ???? Think about it ???

Bale grazing......bale rings...... bale smaller bales.........problem solved ! I bale all 4 x4 bales..... easy to move....light weight and the cows eat and move on !

Greg Judy ? You mean Mr. Glyphosate ??? Take note relating to Mr. Glyphosate !!!! He never fails at anything.. heavenly ! Never has a cow with calving issues. He claims he sells those cows that have calving problems ??? How does that work .......sell the cow with a calf hanging out ??? Take note... how Mr. Glyphosate has is " internes " silenced ??? Nothing heard from them ! I question why that is ???? Suppose it has something to do with " money " ?? No one dare be critical of Mr. Glyphosate ! But he in turn tells the world about his next door neighbor saying their soils are dead ??? Think about how you would see Mr Glyphosate knowing he sees your land / soils as being " dead " ??? Start asking the real questions...... a person might learn much more !!!!!!

Cool. 🙂👍 (natural shade is great 🏞️👌) These last couple of years I've been transplanting maple tree saplings to provide shade trees for sheep. (with maple saplings i have to keep the root flare/crown above dirt level, so it can breathe/not rot) (the cardboard looked interesting, I've used wool as mulch for the first year)

The few times I've tried unrolling bales, i loved it. 😊👍 Very efficient usage of labor. You get all the head space you could want. You get the manure spread out on the pasture. And any hay waste is used to help improve the soil health for better grass growth in following years. (The bale needs to be unrolled thin enough to prevent thick mats, otherwise i need to use a pitchfork to break up and spread out the thick mats) Snow can make unrolling very difficult but a hill would solve that issue. Oh, nice music. 🙂👍

That is a awesome video we live in Michigan and we do bail hay squares and rounds very cool video

Work smarter not harder. 🙂👍 I've found that when doing projects: Half the work is thinking and the other half is physical.

Nice video. Keep up the good work.

It was great talking with you, thanks for sharing a little bit about us!

How much

Nice interview. They sound like they were having the same problems we were here in NC. Blessings

Are your pigs Kune Kune's?

Just listened for the 2nd time, 1st was at the event...great information! Got my first 1/2 breed South Polls in July, a bull and a heifer...growing it slow, keeping it simple : )

Lol mine are the same. Everywhere I go everything I touch. They have to lick it and inspect it

Glad to see you doing the south poll podcast again. That podcast was the reason for me getting south poll bulls. 👍

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Could you have unrolled hay the following day's to add cow manure to the soils. What is this pasture like now

Do you have to become a doctor to accumulate to a functional purpose

Curious what his cows are lacking in minerals. Talks about judy even he puts out mineral. Unless he talking about protein tubs not mineral tubs

Thanks for sharing. All common sense but still good things to review and keep in mind.

I’m a zero input farmer and cattle company. Is anyone truly zero? No, I have to buy little stuff, but I don’t buy supplements or inputs. I’m also 1000% about quality. It requires raising an animal that is all but sale proof at any sale barn, but my mix of genetics does produce 70% prime grading, and my dams produce an income. They don’t just eat and give us calves. We nurse cow 2:1, and milk 250 cows. I’m breeding Dexter Wagyu cross cross bulls with Jersey cows, and taking 24-30 months to accomplish it. We use them as our primary source of fertility on an at scale zero till row crop enterprise. Their is no prescription or start up plan. All you can do is be modular, able to expand and contract based on demand. It was 17 years of reinvesting, out of the 22 years we’ve farmed and raised cattle. If you want to build a great farming and cattle enterprise, get used to the fact that it’s not going to pay off until long after your dead and gone. Their is no greased lightening in a bottle, seminar or silver bullet. Just a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, but you won’t be broke and farming for the scraps thrown your way from the farm bill.

Kiss is my motto “ keep it simple stupid “ regardless of what you are farming, we have a number of enterprises dairy, cow / calf, sheep and beef. We have feed grass , grass silage and a maize soya and beet pulp meal , mixed to what we they need ( sucklers never get meals) finishing cattle get some meal , bucket calves get as much as they need and dairy cows get c. 0.75 tons per annum. I work off the principle that is an old adage here in Ireland “ half stocked full rent, fully stocked half rent “, we do house our cattle with the exception of the first winter stock which are out wintered as they are not heavy enough to do excessive damage to the land ( winters are wet here). We use fertiliser sparingly and lime liberally, sheep are never housed and receive very little meal but do get silage if needed. We stock at a total live weight of about c. 400kg per acre cows and sheep calve/ lamb march/ April, nothing is born before the first of march or after the first week of may( this year we had one lamb and two calves in the first week of may out of 520 ewes and 220 cows) any lambs not slaughtered by the end of august are sold as stores and any cattle not slaughtered by the first week of April are also sold as stores generally 120 lambs and 20 cattle, it’s a very simple system and it works however we own our land and only rent about 10 percent of the land we farm, we have no long term borrowings and we are only family labour so when things are not great we can always cut back on the drawings ( we have three houses which we own so the farm can accommodate the family with out mortgages to worry about) in the past we have bought land and intensively farmed and may do so again, however the system we operate is one we have followed for the past decade as my father was getting older and myself and my brother had young children so it suited us at the time and now we find that apart from march and April the work load is not excessive and we are usually reasonably profitable.

Do you do tours on your farm? Or pasture walks is what I like to call them, Awesome job on your talk very easy to follow and understand. Thank You.God Bless !!!

Thank you! Great info

Does synthetic fertilizer affect dung beetles?

I am in Chesapeake… and just getting started as well. I hear that doing this for three years… along with stockpiling and grazing… then there will be a tipping point to where things get exponentially better. I know worm poo has a PH of 7… plus their tunnels allow for ease of root travel… plus the poo is well mineralized. So that may be the spawn of fungal networks and great soil structure for water and fertilizer absorption. Plus dung beetles!!! There are many more layers to this o bet.

I'm pleased to have found this channel.

dung beetle have mites on there body that eat fly larve sometimes. I'd figure out what those beetles are doing before you break those winter pats.

overwintering beetles maybe?

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I just found masses of ding beetles on my property here in Chesapeake, VA. Showing up to learn. Thank you

Soil life that's what it's all about. Loved the cow photo bomb. Happy late winter/ spring Becky.

You’re Late ! Another reason Not to scatter apart the patties.

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These guys never changed. Through it, all ups and downs keep their feet on the ground

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Such a great video!

Great presentation. Everything I've read or heard points to perennial pastures being grazed by livestock. Maybe the general population needs to think about shifting their diet.

Becky, this is the best presentation I've watched on the importance of soil health and the role carbon plays.