You guys do a great job. Managing this along with the job in town is a lot of work and I like your attitude to keep improving. Looking at the pig pastures in the wooded areas and beside your pastures in the video, are you planning on cutting out more of the junk trees to get more sunlight on the ground and thus more true silvo pasture? Salatin's pig pastures look like beautiful diverse cattle fields after 75 - 90 days of recovery with good timber trees more spaced out. Yours look fungal dominant. Also, he doesn't do any cover cropping because the pig disturbance, seed bank sunshine and rain do a great job. Love what you guys are doing.
@drumhillerfarms6858 isn't it a lot of your cover crop that you're putting in there? Also, the last video you did not too long ago showed a lot of little trees in there, right?
@drumhillerfarms6858 What about knocking that down to 20% - 30%? That's what Salatin and Judy do with their silvo. More forage, more diversity, less inputs (maybe hay now and then), more money.
Good video as always. Always looking forward to your content. Where bouts did you go for date night. Me and the ole lady are always looking to try new stuff.
Stockpile looks great,just started the total grazing this year myself ,I understand your thinking about coming back to stock pile but my thoughts are would you gain more days and save labor ( set up time ) by slowing them down and higher consumption rate ,please don’t take this as a jab just my thoughts
@@freddieconner-ey2xs I don’t know, I have slowed them down a little from when I started. There is so much grass there the stampede a lot of it, it’s hard to get them to have 90% harvest efficiently on it
@ I understand,I have the same trouble I have to adjust paddock sizes ,I run my paddocks similar to yours on the video but I have cross fences to only giving so much at a time but I don’t have the numbers you do either
@@freddieconner-ey2xs in the summer when I’m doing 12 hour moves I will put up cross fences, I’m moving every 24 because of the time change and working my city business
I do not live to far away from Nathan's farm. I have installed some underground water lines in our area for a couple of customers at 48". Most areas of lower michigan building codes say building footings are set at 42" to prevent heaving and be below the frost line. Hope that helps.
How many acres do you need to keep this amount of head. This year i'm entended grazing season about three weeks, still too short but two yours drought is hard to grow anything.
@@drumhillerfarms6858 Amazing, a lot of work in front of me. I'm grazing about 23 acres, 9 cows and bull. Unrolled hay helps a lot. I'm form northern Poland so similar climate to Michigan.
Amazing that is a ton of stockpile good stuff thanks for documenting.
@@Plan_it-Farm thanks for watching
Good work Nathan !
@@michiganmafia1 thanks!
You guys do a great job. Managing this along with the job in town is a lot of work and I like your attitude to keep improving.
Looking at the pig pastures in the wooded areas and beside your pastures in the video, are you planning on cutting out more of the junk trees to get more sunlight on the ground and thus more true silvo pasture? Salatin's pig pastures look like beautiful diverse cattle fields after 75 - 90 days of recovery with good timber trees more spaced out. Yours look fungal dominant. Also, he doesn't do any cover cropping because the pig disturbance, seed bank sunshine and rain do a great job.
Love what you guys are doing.
@@whitshane3511 you can’t see the pig pasture from this video. It’s pretty good looking stuff in there right now.
@drumhillerfarms6858 isn't it a lot of your cover crop that you're putting in there? Also, the last video you did not too long ago showed a lot of little trees in there, right?
@ it’s probably about 60% wooded. It does grow a lot of forage in the spring.
@drumhillerfarms6858 What about knocking that down to 20% - 30%? That's what Salatin and Judy do with their silvo. More forage, more diversity, less inputs (maybe hay now and then), more money.
Looking good.....
@@180turnprojectrestoredchur8 thanks pastor
Good video as always. Always looking forward to your content. Where bouts did you go for date night. Me and the ole lady are always looking to try new stuff.
@@rickyartibee3460 Schulers in Marshall
Stockpile looks great,just started the total grazing this year myself ,I understand your thinking about coming back to stock pile but my thoughts are would you gain more days and save labor ( set up time ) by slowing them down and higher consumption rate ,please don’t take this as a jab just my thoughts
@@freddieconner-ey2xs I don’t know, I have slowed them down a little from when I started. There is so much grass there the stampede a lot of it, it’s hard to get them to have 90% harvest efficiently on it
@ I understand,I have the same trouble I have to adjust paddock sizes ,I run my paddocks similar to yours on the video but I have cross fences to only giving so much at a time but I don’t have the numbers you do either
@@freddieconner-ey2xs in the summer when I’m doing 12 hour moves I will put up cross fences, I’m moving every 24 because of the time change and working my city business
How deep deep is your water line? I am over on the west side of the state and will be putting in some water lines within the next year or so.
@@aaronscovill5161 42ish inches
I do not live to far away from Nathan's farm. I have installed some underground water lines in our area for a couple of customers at 48". Most areas of lower michigan building codes say building footings are set at 42" to prevent heaving and be below the frost line. Hope that helps.
@@andrewmarks6168You typically use a trencher or a mini excavator to dig your water line in?
@@aaronscovill5161 I have a trencher attachment for my skid steer works well
How many acres do you need to keep this amount of head. This year i'm entended grazing season about three weeks, still too short but two yours drought is hard to grow anything.
@@Tomek745li I’m grazing about 110-120 acres 120-130 head
@@drumhillerfarms6858 Amazing, a lot of work in front of me. I'm grazing about 23 acres, 9 cows and bull. Unrolled hay helps a lot. I'm form northern Poland so similar climate to Michigan.
@ awesome!! You will get there!!