Fully agree Greg it's the same with ram's "oh you need to give them meal or they'll melt" I've found they melt because they get meal/grain. Haven't fed meal to ram's for 6 year's now there own and if they can't recover a good body condition after mating and keep it on grass diet there gone. Tell my ag advicer that all he says you've spent 400-500 on a ram you should be feeding him meal to look after him. No if he needs extra artificial feeding his daughters will need the same that's a recipe to go broke.
400-500 is not really too expensive of a ram anyway. I bet Greg's would cost quite a bit more. I think I've bought my last ram for a long time. Anything I buy melts. Last guy I bought one from this past fall had Greg consult on his farm design, had Timeless fence right around the farm, and moved his flock every other day or daily on a ten inch wire. His farm really checked all the boxes and the ram was gorgeous, but in less than a week he was lame so I chucked a few of my best homebreds in to chase him. Last year I traded a weaned pup for one and a couple hundred bucks from a similar grass oriented farm and he really wasted away breeding so I used home breds then too. From now on I'm going to breed the top 10% of my homebred rams once and either get them processed after finishing them on spring grass or sell them as proven like the Sami do with their reindeer.
@Joe your best breeding stock will come from your own farm. If you have rams that thrive on your farm, just keep using them. No other animal will be as adapted to your farm than an animal born on your farm. Another point you made was having all the right equipment and management doesn't mean anything if you have the wrong animals.
Great looking stock pile for sure. Wished you could have got some the rain that moved across the south this week. Spring flush is coming and don't see any long range forecasts that will stop it through mid Feb.
We have to get electricity installed hopefully in the next couple weeks. Then we are getting stockers in to start wasting our winter stockpile. Then this spring we’ll get some south polls to start our herd.
Impressed that from every single video you watch there is always a little new nugget to learn. Appreciate the genuine heart advice. God Bless many more years 🙏
It is good to get you fired up about these issues every now and then. I don't know how anyone can watch your videos and listen to your descriptions and comments and come away without a clue. Unless you are independently wealthy and don't need to make money on your cattle and sheep operation, don't follow Greg's methods. Hoping your rainfall is adequate to grow some serious grass this spring and summer. Looks like you've got a great new team for 2023 with the hiring of Jackson and keeping Ike for another year. Good to see Jan all bundled up
My son Scott and I are learning from you and others like you because the advice we got when we started 3 years ago with cows cost us 2 cows and 2 calve out of our herd of 7.
Thanks for the video! I am big on not giving my animals any grain but I do give them a protein tub to help them along in cold weather or poor hay that I feed them.
You are doing it right. With less than stellar hay, feeding them a protein lick will help the animals keep their condition on through the lean part of the winter.
Absolutely amazing lesson ! Bulls look great,pasture also and you sir a happy rancher!😃 Thanks again for your time to share with others the best way to manage operations like this.
I hope sometime you can and will see fit to give more detail about your guard dogs. For example breed, different characteristics both physical,behavior and style of doing their job you have noticed. Personally I think guard dogs is what's going to allow people to grow quality food without needing to kill of ALL the predators. I'm all for hunting,but you can't harvest that which is extinct. but we MUST have people growing food or we will all go hungry. I don't know about others, but I like to eat.
There are multiple playlists on Greg's youtube channel that cover many aspects of guard dog care and training. Try this one for starters. ua-cam.com/play/PLnUnmUucxsyRgGbkU_FrAihGMvpt7r6wF.html
Beautifully conditioned animals, beautiful land. Landowners, if you want to build equity in your land, get a regenerative rancher like Greg onto your land. After some time, your land will be beautiful like what you see in Greg's videos, instead of the sorry-looking, wrung out, spent farms that are a dime a dozen at least here in Virginia where I drive past them by the hundreds of miles worth every week. And no, Greg doesn't know me from Adam, he didn't put me up to posting this. I just care about land, whoever owns it. Too much land is being spent and ruined by 19th-century farming techniques. More land needs to be regenerated before it is too late. If doing that you are doing isn't working, then consider doing what Greg demonstrates every day to work, and work very well and profitably for all concerned.
Ron, I hate to tell you this.... but 97% of landowners I know only care about what the land can do for them. $$$. I started regenerating a run down lease farm. As soon as it started improving the landowner took it back from me. He made a deal with some of his family "in the hay business". The have cut hay from that place for about 4 years now. They have taken, taken, taken never put anything back..... and now it is soild broom sedge and run down even worse than it was when I got it. I had years of sacrifice in it..... but when someone gets a smell that you are making money off them.... its over. More often than not they are going to hook you.
@@farmtuber7815 First off, as I said in my post I am fully aware that many landowners do not properly care for their land. Second, a good regenerative rancher is not out to "make money off of" landowners. A good regenerative farmer will enter into lease agreements with landowners where the landowner understands that the landowner increases his equity as the land regenerates; more so than poorly cared-for land. Third, anyone who leases land knows that even if you do everything right sometimes leases are not renewed. Just because you worked the leased land does not give you moral right to it in perpetuity. Therefore it makes sense to negotiate leases long enough to be profitable even if it is not renewed.
@@rontiemens2553You are both right. I should not have said 97%..... but I can name many leases that have not worked out. No matter what a contract is written on or how it is written, I know several that decided it best to cut losses and walk away from the lease due to a thorn of a landlord. Besides, we are going down a rabbit hole here. I am just listing a possible reason why you may be seeing so many grown up poor places. It truly is a tough sell to get enough years to improve soil and it truly is tough to survive raising livestock on the kind of poor soil you see. I have been running wide open for a long time, buying land, cleaning it up, putting fences on it and transforming it into productive soils. I run many hundred head and would like to expand. The DIFFERENCE now vs in the past is that the NEW landowners have purchased land as an investment and soil health is not on the agenda. When actual farmers owned the land you could share in these ideas but these new people.... naw..... they want to sit on long enough to try to split it up or put houses on it. Devlopment minded people do not care about regenerative ag unless it makes them alot of $$.
My stockpile is running low and losing quality to cold temperatures. My manure piles are getting tall. Do you recommend feeding protein to aid digestion?
In the days of Ai supermodels making movies now, with automated crop robots replacing farmers... We really need natural education like this more.. before it's all lost to the 2nd next generation.
Fully agree Greg it's the same with ram's "oh you need to give them meal or they'll melt" I've found they melt because they get meal/grain. Haven't fed meal to ram's for 6 year's now there own and if they can't recover a good body condition after mating and keep it on grass diet there gone. Tell my ag advicer that all he says you've spent 400-500 on a ram you should be feeding him meal to look after him. No if he needs extra artificial feeding his daughters will need the same that's a recipe to go broke.
400-500 is not really too expensive of a ram anyway. I bet Greg's would cost quite a bit more. I think I've bought my last ram for a long time. Anything I buy melts. Last guy I bought one from this past fall had Greg consult on his farm design, had Timeless fence right around the farm, and moved his flock every other day or daily on a ten inch wire. His farm really checked all the boxes and the ram was gorgeous, but in less than a week he was lame so I chucked a few of my best homebreds in to chase him. Last year I traded a weaned pup for one and a couple hundred bucks from a similar grass oriented farm and he really wasted away breeding so I used home breds then too. From now on I'm going to breed the top 10% of my homebred rams once and either get them processed after finishing them on spring grass or sell them as proven like the Sami do with their reindeer.
@Joe your best breeding stock will come from your own farm. If you have rams that thrive on your farm, just keep using them. No other animal will be as adapted to your farm than an animal born on your farm. Another point you made was having all the right equipment and management doesn't mean anything if you have the wrong animals.
My husband and I look forward to attending the grazing school again.
Elizabeth it will be great to see you folks again! You are doing such a good job with your sheep.
Great looking stock pile for sure. Wished you could have got some the rain that moved across the south this week. Spring flush is coming and don't see any long range forecasts that will stop it through mid Feb.
Amazing looking bull mob Mr Judy. Well conditioned animals.
Kentucky 31 Fescue and clover raised. They have done well on our winter stockpile.
Greg, you really hit the nail on the head with diesel vs. grass powered cattle. What a great way to explain it.
We have to get electricity installed hopefully in the next couple weeks. Then we are getting stockers in to start wasting our winter stockpile. Then this spring we’ll get some south polls to start our herd.
Impressed that from every single video you watch there is always a little new nugget to learn. Appreciate the genuine heart advice. God Bless many more years 🙏
I appreciate that!
It is good to get you fired up about these issues every now and then. I don't know how anyone can watch your videos and listen to your descriptions and comments and come away without a clue. Unless you are independently wealthy and don't need to make money on your cattle and sheep operation, don't follow Greg's methods. Hoping your rainfall is adequate to grow some serious grass this spring and summer. Looks like you've got a great new team for 2023 with the hiring of Jackson and keeping Ike for another year. Good to see Jan all bundled up
Jayzuz them bulls are as good as gold
My son Scott and I are learning from you and others like you because the advice we got when we started 3 years ago with cows cost us 2 cows and 2 calve out of our herd of 7.
Thanks for the video! I am big on not giving my animals any grain but I do give them a protein tub to help them along in cold weather or poor hay that I feed them.
You are doing it right. With less than stellar hay, feeding them a protein lick will help the animals keep their condition on through the lean part of the winter.
Absolutely amazing lesson ! Bulls look great,pasture also and you sir a happy rancher!😃 Thanks again for your time to share with others the best way to manage operations like this.
Great life advice 5:40
I hope sometime you can and will see fit to give more detail about your guard dogs. For example breed, different characteristics both physical,behavior and style of doing their job you have noticed. Personally I think guard dogs is what's going to allow people to grow quality food without needing to kill of ALL the predators. I'm all for hunting,but you can't harvest that which is extinct. but we MUST have people growing food or we will all go hungry. I don't know about others, but I like to eat.
He does explain it in stuff the last year.. it is really explained on the dog page of his site
There are multiple playlists on Greg's youtube channel that cover many aspects of guard dog care and training.
Try this one for starters.
ua-cam.com/play/PLnUnmUucxsyRgGbkU_FrAihGMvpt7r6wF.html
Is this the most pressure you've but on a group of bulls?
Beautifully conditioned animals, beautiful land. Landowners, if you want to build equity in your land, get a regenerative rancher like Greg onto your land. After some time, your land will be beautiful like what you see in Greg's videos, instead of the sorry-looking, wrung out, spent farms that are a dime a dozen at least here in Virginia where I drive past them by the hundreds of miles worth every week. And no, Greg doesn't know me from Adam, he didn't put me up to posting this. I just care about land, whoever owns it. Too much land is being spent and ruined by 19th-century farming techniques. More land needs to be regenerated before it is too late. If doing that you are doing isn't working, then consider doing what Greg demonstrates every day to work, and work very well and profitably for all concerned.
Ron, I hate to tell you this.... but 97% of landowners I know only care about what the land can do for them. $$$. I started regenerating a run down lease farm. As soon as it started improving the landowner took it back from me. He made a deal with some of his family "in the hay business". The have cut hay from that place for about 4 years now. They have taken, taken, taken never put anything back..... and now it is soild broom sedge and run down even worse than it was when I got it. I had years of sacrifice in it..... but when someone gets a smell that you are making money off them.... its over. More often than not they are going to hook you.
@@farmtuber7815 You said one bad contract.. out of millions of families and potential. Get a better deal on paper next time
@@farmtuber7815 First off, as I said in my post I am fully aware that many landowners do not properly care for their land. Second, a good regenerative rancher is not out to "make money off of" landowners. A good regenerative farmer will enter into lease agreements with landowners where the landowner understands that the landowner increases his equity as the land regenerates; more so than poorly cared-for land. Third, anyone who leases land knows that even if you do everything right sometimes leases are not renewed. Just because you worked the leased land does not give you moral right to it in perpetuity. Therefore it makes sense to negotiate leases long enough to be profitable even if it is not renewed.
@@rontiemens2553You are both right. I should not have said 97%..... but I can name many leases that have not worked out. No matter what a contract is written on or how it is written, I know several that decided it best to cut losses and walk away from the lease due to a thorn of a landlord. Besides, we are going down a rabbit hole here. I am just listing a possible reason why you may be seeing so many grown up poor places. It truly is a tough sell to get enough years to improve soil and it truly is tough to survive raising livestock on the kind of poor soil you see. I have been running wide open for a long time, buying land, cleaning it up, putting fences on it and transforming it into productive soils. I run many hundred head and would like to expand. The DIFFERENCE now vs in the past is that the NEW landowners have purchased land as an investment and soil health is not on the agenda. When actual farmers owned the land you could share in these ideas but these new people.... naw..... they want to sit on long enough to try to split it up or put houses on it. Devlopment minded people do not care about regenerative ag unless it makes them alot of $$.
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My stockpile is running low and losing quality to cold temperatures. My manure piles are getting tall. Do you recommend feeding protein to aid digestion?
Yes that will help them keep their condition on.
How old are the bulls?
two years old in May
In the days of Ai supermodels making movies now, with automated crop robots replacing farmers...
We really need natural education like this more.. before it's all lost to the 2nd next generation.