Greg and the young men are tackling a new 200-acre previous crop farm converted to grass!
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
- Greg and the young men are tackling a new 200-acre previous crop farm converted to grass!
This is a beautiful farm that needs a lot of work and infrastructure but has so many positive aspects to it. Going to be a nice farm when we get all the fence, water established and stocked with our South Poll cattle!
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Gonna pull the last 6 strands on the new farm today, then crimp it all together and tighten it. I'm running out of time, gonna have to push hard to have it ready.
Congratulation for getting more land Greg and Jan.
Life is good when you do what you love and make the soil and the world a better place.
You got that right!
Thanks for the video! We are getting rain now. It does take awhile for the grass to grow when it comes out of row crop. The timeless fence post don’t like dry ground. I had to put water in each post to get them in the ground last year in the drought. I was told you could drill a pilot hole for it too. I need to seed more area of my farm too.
Yes, we are thinking about drilling a pilot hole if needed. We got our first rain in 22 days last night. 1” and greatly needed.
Very exciting! Nice to have a blank canvas and a very motivated land owner wanting to improve the property also. Sounds like a great base of deep top soil, with management and the cows this place is going to turn out amazing. That’s not to bad of a drive over from the farm, there is so much cool technology to help move the cows remotely.
Look forward to see the progress on this project.
thanks for sharing Greg.
Looking forward to see the development from scratch.
great that the landowner is on the project! That makes a heck of a lot of difference.
So, no need to worry about not having fresh contend from you.
good to see Isak & the boys.
How is '007, my favorite cow doing?
greetings from over the pond.
never been the 1st one to comment ;-)
Good to hear from you York from Germany! 007 is doing well. This farm has tremendous potential because of the existing top soil in place. It’s nice to take land that was cropped forever and put it into a grazing operation covered with diverse species of forages. We augured post post holes yesterday 4 1/2 foot deep on the lower portion of the farm, never hit clay. Just total black topsoil all the way down!!!
Love the " farmer high speed tape measure " .
Good luck with the project. 😊
Fun ahead
17 miles!!! Wow. That seem a little different for you. I'm just curious I get land is land but why the distance away from everything else unless you possibly plan to get more land in future around there. Thanks
Over the generations Agriculture has changed. In the late 16th and early 17th Century in England, leather became less expensive and more available due to the use of Turpentine in curing hides. This resulted in leather harnesses and the shift from Oxen with wooden yokes and hemp ropes to horse cultivation. By 1636 Monks were writing in their diaries that horse plowing had become "common". In the US horse plowing replaced oxen between 1850 to 1890. Steam engines were used for a time in large fields and then the Great War of 1914 occurred and it was Tractor time. Things are going more high tech with satellite systems, precision planting and more.
However on the Grazing side of life where soil erosion doesn't happen there have been improvements too. First with affordable wire fencing in the 1870-1880s. Then electric fencing, solar power chargers, mechanical trenching machinery, post hole drilling attachments and pounding units, as well as plastic pipe and trough watering systems. Grazing has gotten easier too!
Checking on and moving Cattle twice a day seems like a lot of work to successful grain farmers who can take off a week and leave town nine months of the year. However all that Corn creates a lot of uncomfortable humidity and soil erosion. Plus we suffer from all the chemicals for Fungicides, Herbicides and Pesticides. I hope more young people will watch Greg, Jan Isaac and Joel do it the correct way and make changes on the land that will one day come into their hands.
Plowed land should not have property taxes at the Unimproved Farmland basis equal to Pasture land. It has been torn asunder and is leaking valuable Soil to the Mississippi River Delta. Farm machinery and fuel should not be Exempt from Sales and Motor Fuel Taxes. Federal Crop Insurance should only be allowed for Crops intended for Human consumption. Hard Wheat, Oats and other crops intended for people to eat should be allowed this valuable taxpayer subsidy but not soft wheat, corn and Soybeans intended for livestock feed. Our tax system is a bad one.
We should have meaningful taxes on Herbicides, Pesticides and genetically modified seeds that resist herbicides to reduce their use and provide money to determine safety. People drinking rural well water have much higher stomach cancer rates than those with treated Municipal water. This is a 50 year old fact that is never mentioned in our media.
I wish we still had cattle around here. The only cattle we have now have two legs and are stacked and packed in shoddy condos.
That's exciting!
This so cool to watch.
Why so far away from your other grazing? Can you explain how you'll manage the cattle - will the herd be separate all the time from your other acreage or will you trailer part of your 300+ herd back and forth?
We like challenges and when you get access to 200 acres, you brainstorm solutions for making it work. We have plans😊😊😊
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What's the end stocking rate across all the bits of land you graze? cheers
Arsenic is forever. Hope that's really qc not cca
Nice truck Greg is that a RAM 2500🤔
Yes it is
Greg, I’m curious why you use the 9’ wood post corner post instead of the Timeless H Brace system?
That is what the landowner wanted installed.
That dirt got "nuked" with all of those chemicals for years it will probably take several years to rebuild that soil.
It’s been idle now for 2 years. Look out, major changes will be coming in 4-5 years.