Fertilizer prices are skyrocketing. Will your farm survive?
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Fertilizer prices are skyrocketing. Will your farm survive? Managed grazing by using your animals as your primary fertilizer tool will save your farm and allow you to have a profit every year. If your farm is married to commercial fertilizer each spring, you're in trouble for sure. The high cost of fertilizer will weed out producers that depend on cheap fertilizer to grow grass or crops. Your soil, animals and profit margin are all better off without it. For more grazing info check out my new book " How To Think Like A Grazier" on our website: greenpasturesfa...
Greg you can do two things very well. Raise cattle and find interns that are passionate about learning how to raise livestock. Thank you!
Greg you recruited another bright individual with your internship program. I believe David is going to have success in his future with regenerative agriculture he has the right mindset. He will make a great ranch manager and be a valuable asset to anyone's ranching needs.
You're a man after my own heart David, not afraid to make your creationist views known. I don't know how anyone who works with nature can't see the creators signatures in nature, Bless you David. I can also tell you have read Alllen Savory with your use of the terms "mineral and solar dollers" well done and well said!
You're an inspiration, I got my first 3 cows, working on 5 acre, and I'm going to rotate them onto another acre soon. Thinking of adding a few sheep in the future after I get a better rotational grazing system set up.
Innovation with the so many examples like yourself. Management which improves the soil and production at the same time. Thanks Greg. Would love to see that comparison and the healing timeline for this ridge.
absolutely. when you dont have to write a check to grow something it makes a big difference. when you dont have to count on the chinease or russians for inputs it helps.
The grazing rehabilitation is simply astounding.
And the condition of the animals. In mid winter. Certainly the very best available. WITHOUT feeding grain.
Very well done.
Give gas.
It’s amazing what animals can do to your property along with the correct management. We got snow yesterday, and it is getting colder too. Have a great day! Thanks again for all your videos!
Spotted some RED COWS today in my area. Hundreds of black ones, but caught sight of a small herd of red ones today. Chemical company fertilizers are no part of the systems I'm building.
It's really tough here in the mountains of Colorado, the summers are only 2.5 months long, then it snows again. Some people try it though. Usually they irrigate with big plastic pipes and buy calves at the right time in the spring, then sell them once the snow flies in the fall, and they don't keep them through the winter.
After watching Greg’s videos who would keep farming conventionally? I lived in the wheatbelt in Western Australia (Mediterranean climate) and one summer we had a fair bit of rain (unusually) and heard one cocky in the farm supply store say he had spent 70k on herbicide and the cropping season hadn’t even started. This was a while ago too
Beautiful Country out there.
Motivated Self Sustaining Farmers and Ranchers is our key to Success.
Never give up.
I have been watching your channel for a while now, and I want to thank you for all the useful information. I am also a farmer and have been using a lot of your tips to help me on my farm. I am a little south of you in Arkansas, and we have similar conditions with the weather and landscape. I believe we all have a responsibility to take care of the land and the farmer is the greatest steward of the land, so keep on doing what you are doing Greg
Happy New Year,for all of you guys, and thank you for the wonderful work you do to teach people the right way to become a regenerative farmers. God bless you!
HAPPY NEW YEAR to YOU GUYs as well, its nice to see green grass instead of cold white snow,, its hard to believe that was covered in CEDAR trees,, i have seen places around me that were cleared and the cedars took over in less then 5 years.
Yes they are
Wonderful set of gentle well taken care of cattle. Blessings on you guys Greg. Happy New Years🙂
Your kettle look so healthy. Thank you for sharing.
Really enjoying David's perspective on things. I really believe this is the future and the sooner it is adopted as standard practice the better.
I've seen people try to do this in the plains of Colorado. They do well for about 8-10 years, then a major drought hits and they all go bankrupt....
Happy New Year!!! God Bless ALL!!!
David has such a nice way about him. I believe he’s gonna be successful in what he does.
Those cows should have rotated out of that paddock a long time ago
Have you thought about selling fertilizer you have lots of cows hopefully chickens and geese to and if you don’t use pesticides you should be able to say that it’s organic fertilizer
I think I remember the brooms edge. You came out one video ahead, made your plan. Another video you brought your herd out-what was the strategy? -I think you waited to move them so they came on the sedge hungry. The video the next day, you were surprised how much they ate.
Nature doesn't do division, it does multiplication. Follow nature's rules and it gives back abundance.
Yep, math and head per acres does my operation pretty well.
Greg, I like how you mentioned the price of fertilizer this year. As a new “2 year” cattle farmer what cost me in a heavy seed and chemical fertilizer last year was $1500 for 13 acres of pasture now 2022 is going to be $3800 to $4000 for the same thing… it’s a shame as I’m in the process of getting rid of all my broom sage. Here in middle TN it gets bad. I’ve put 2,000 pounds per acre back in September and hoping for change in the next year. This year I’ve innovatived by buying 10lbs boxes of water soluble Miracle Grow and roughly have 600lbs at $12.98/box. This allows me to bypass the 300% increase I’ve been seeing here. It’s hard to get off the ground as a cattle farmer but I’m hoping by this year to calf 10 and sell 2 as processed beef.
This will be my last year using chemical fertilizer. My farm is heavy clay and somewhat low land however, it drys up within a week after heavy few days of rain.
Could you possibly give any pointers into markets that you’ve had best luck in other than the sale barn? Thanks
Talk to the guys at your local sale barn, watch who is bidding and talk to them after sale. We only take cull cows to the sale barn now, anything that will grade goes to another buyer.
Make sure you broadcast some clover in late winter. Legumes can fixate nitrogen from the air. Make sure you inoculate your seed before broadcasting 3 lbs per acre.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher this spring I’ve choosen perennial ryegrass at TS for $44/50lb bag. So that’s my plan fingers crossed that it works at least some what.
Greg, you might need to consider goats to clear out unwanted species when rehabilitating a paddock. A double application kills the rhizome and nothing comes back when that happens. The goatherder gets a free feed, win win.
He had goats and it was hard to keep them in. There’s 2 type of goats 1 goat that hasn’t been out the fence in area and the other goat has escaped the fence in area. I have 2 goats and they are trained to poly braid and high tensile fence. I had more goats but they were the escaping kind of goats so thy went to the sale barn.
I've raise goats for many years and Once trained to electric fence they aren't a problem
My neighbor has 100 head of cattle at his home farm. I spoke with him on a 40 acre pasture he cuts hay off of and takes back to his farm to feed to his cattle. He says if he does not put fertilizer on the hay field, the cattle eat filler and gain no weight. The power of manure keeps Greg's fields thriving and nutritious.
I’d love to see some before and after pictures!! Amazing what your cattle have done to transform your broom sedge field to grass. Cha Ching!!
Small farmers really can’t afford to incorporate commercial fertilizer into their land management programs. There are many more nutrients required than nitrogen, phosphate and potash. A good composting program coupled with rotational grazing works wonders on rebuilding soil
Look at that sky!
Greg are you ready for our veritable blizzard that's coming on Saturday? (I'm not lol)
Crop plants maintain a "rhizosphere", or a concentrated area of microbial activity close to the root. The rhizosphere is the most active part of the soil ecosystem because it is where the most readily available food is, and where peak nutrient and water cycling occurs. Microbial food is exuded by crop roots to attract and feed microbes that in turn provide nutrients (and other compounds) to the plant at the root-soil interface where the plants can take them up. Since living roots provide the easiest source of food for soil microbes, growing long lived roots that feed the foundation species of the soil food web as much as possible during the growing season should be a goal of farmers seeking a productive and profitable crop.
Roots associated with SWRT membranes have been shown to last all season long, contributing greatly to the improvement of soil quality because they have the nutrients and moisture they need.
I would be interested in you letting a couple thorn trees, honey locusts?, thrive...
One thing, I'd like to see some of the straightens limbs be held straight, so they grow very straight, maybe Form a cane hook in one, let it grow like that a few years.
You know, honey locusts, (I think, whatever you have there. I researched it a year or two ago), were used as nails at one point. Whose to say if we get back to that.
Happy New Year!!! Stay warm .
Greg get a small generator for those guys if the power goes out
We have one!
Good to see David wearing a summer hat and lightish coat today, yesterday I felt chilly watching him . I felt better when I finally realized he's a grown man and that he knows how to dress for the weather 😅 just because it's the end of December and the temperature here is below the freezing point doesn't mean it's the same in Missouri. I had to smile when you called him by the wrong name it made me think of dad it didn't happen to often but on occasion he would say to me come-on Murray hurry up . I didn't look like Murray his baby brother or like Philip his twin brothers eldest son but I would hurry up and I found it funny as a child to be called by a boy's name. I was supposed to be David Wayne for nine months as we're all my sister's . As mum said you can call me anything just not late for supper . See you tomorrow 🌟👍👍👍👍👍🌟🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🌟🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🌟🍏🤔☘️🍀☘️☺️🍏🙋🏼♀️😘💞
When you move the cattle to a paddock at 6pm,
what are they doing all night?
Can you share how your rotating your cattle from paddock to paddock with that amount of cattle
Just spread my farm with hog manure, thankfully. No commercial fertilizer this year!
These animals remind of the Milking Devons.
Great video boys. Not a farmer. Differently great information.
I believe everything returns to the earth, nothing leaves the earth, we just displace it. Oil and gas from the earth will be replaced in the earths due time.
Can you get cost share on Lime in Missouri? We have a 20$ a ton cost share here in West Virginia. Has to be certified ag lime of course.
Thank you for the video!
I hate the honey locust tree's. At least the thorned variety. They're roots can grow a distance. But glad they're good for something other then growing where I don't want them. 🙂
They do have their issues. Just control the propagation of them. They make awesome shade trees.
Triple 19 has just hit $985 a ton here in my area
of course those inputs are passed onto the consumer
Funny their was a fertilizer commercial at beginning of video key words without context haha they was their ad money I let it play out so Greg gets more revenue
My main question is does your dress quit growing ? We, in Minnesota have 16 inches of snow now and are feeding low ground hay with a bunch of brush in it, yet all you southern talk about the ruff conditions that you suffer, come t Minnesota in January. It’s getting minus 30-40 below some nights. Sorry, I’m not feeling your rough conditions.
I feel your pain, I was born up in northern Minnesota on a dairy farm. It was certainly cold, Missourians don’t know what cold weather is for sure!
Tough here in Wisconsin where we have to feed from at December to April, would you recommendations rolling bales out on they hay fields during winter?
Hi, Greg,
I have a weird question. Have you ever "taste tested" animals harvested at different times of the year to see how the forage affects the flavor of the meat? I was wondering if there was a better time of year to harvest an animal. I know you want them fat, but you have nice fat animals now. Would eating the KY 31 fescue make the meat taste different (in a bad way) than eating spring grass? Just wondering.
Not a weird question at all!
I was thinking a similar thing the other day about our animals
There have been at least 2 studies on the subject. It is limited evidence, but it does suggest that finishing on toxic fescue negatively affects the quality of meat in a significant way. Keep in mind that is only when finishing on fescue. Most fescue-fed calves will be finished in a feedlot (the evidence shows that is the best tasting meat). However, most pastures have more genetic diversity than you would think. I'm not going to stop grazing fescue anytime soon.
Your question reminds me of a visit to Reggio Emilia in Italy 10 years ago. They are serious about their parmesan cheese there. Each block is stamped with the date of the milking that made the chesse. Every season the different forage changes the taste of the cheese. Not the quality - it's all good- but locals definitely have preferences for parmesan made from different seasons. I could taste the difference but loved them all. Brought back two blocks the size of car batteries.
Greg -- you have mentioned multiple times sending your cull cows to the sale barn and such. Where do you sell your steers? Do you direct-market them or do you sell them to the same processors that buy the meat animals from "conventional" producers? One of the arguments my in-laws use against adopting these methods that you employ is that it only works, in financial terms, if one can charge premium prices. I am not convinced that is true...
He direct markets to customers. He is competing in a different market. 100% grass raised beef/sheep is more expensive. The market for organic things is getting bigger, your typical Walmart customer is not looking for healthy foods just a good deal.
Okay greg. So I've got several clumps of broom sedge is there away other then lime to control that ( like covering in hay an locking down animals to that area for half a day ) or is lime the only way to go?? Thanks
Do you use Fiskars geared loppers?
I like David, he's cool!
How big are your paddocks? And you keep them there for 12hrs?
It depends on many conditions. Our daily paddocks can range from 2 acres to 20 acres depending on the time of year and how fast the grass is growing.
Are you sure that steer isn't pregnant with all that stomach hanging out both sides? Lol
Please don’t take my word for it look into synthetic nitrogen fertilizer effects how the grass digest the carbohydrates ,sugars, protein etc isn’t converted in an effective and healthy way
I want to purchase your book
I’m conflicted: Should I get “How to Think Like a Grazier” or “No Risk Ranching”
I’m a beginner so maybe No Risk is the way to go?
Are you more interested in animal management or the business end? I think that will answer the question for you.
Mario, if you're starting up a small livestock enterprise you might want to check out Rob Mackey's UA-cam channel! He uses Greg's techniques on 5 acres with a handful of cows. I think his content is perfect to see rotational grazing and regenerative agriculture on a small scale with someone who is just starting out. He refers to his operation as a " micro ranch".
@@dlmsarge8329 that’s exactly the goal! Thank you Sarge I’ll take a look at his channel. God bless
@@FrogginHawgs well I’d say both, but considering a complete beginner I guess I’ll go with No Risk because I’m not even quite sure how to approach property owners.
I would think that fertilizer prices should affect the price of the hay you are buying for your operation. You are still strip mining the other land around you by buying hay from off your land. I am switching from selling hay, to running it through my own animals, to try and build my land back up. But I really think anyone who thinks they are going to be immune to the consequences of fertilizer going up in price 300%, is delusional (Where did all that hay come from? Is that farmer going to let you have hay for the same price, even though there prices tripled?).
Makes you a better grazier when you buy hay. Every bale you feed hurts your pocket book. By managing your grazing, you don't feed much hay, only in snow or ice storms.
I love the videos. However, if David has a sister then we need to see if we can get Conner back for a weekend, just for posterity's sake. I'm just saying. (tee hee hee hee)
People are to lazy to move animals everyday period most will never do it no matter what they will lose their farm first
Long time subscriber 👍. Impressive young farmer. David 👍. Greg & Jan must do an extensive intern interview 👍. Wish this “INFRASTRUCTURE” bill had carved out a BILLION 💵. For regenerative agriculture 🤔Greenies are SO misguided. Love the channel……………..,.. Happy New Years to all & LETS GO BRANDON 🙄
Use manure
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He doesn't believe in evolution when he is surrounds by hundreds of examples eating grass. Good grief.
How did the cow evolve from a single cell zigoat in a swap millions of years ago!?!? Tell us how much faith it takes for a atheist to believe that garbage.
He’s just a kid with a passion for God and healing the land. Don’t be an a hole.
There is evidence, imho, of evolution of humans in the bible. There was a time we didn't have a conscience/the benefit of the Holy Spirit. “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people”
@@ricksanchez7459 there is no evidence of anything in the Bible other that what it actually said...... God Created. End of story. What you said was a promise from God to the Jews given to Aberham and has nothing to do with evolution.
@@banjo3751 That's your interpretation.
Wait...doesn't believe in evolution but literally defines evolution seconds after
It's called micro-evolution. Within the creation system there is room for micro-evolution, which was documented by Darwin. In other words, that is the type of evolution that can be scientifically proven. The problem comes with the big theory of evolution, which is called macro evolution, which states that we basically come from "the big bang". It's called "the theory of evolution for a reason: it's nothing more than a theory that is based on the observation of micro-evolution. The big bang theory is called a theory for a reason: it's just a theory. When it comes right down to it, we know nothing. All we know is what other people tell us, and if you know a little bit about Luciferianism, then you will know that most of our most celebrated "scientists" were all Luciferians. Newton was a well-known alchemist who tried to turn lead into gold. The same goes for Darwin, who had family connections to the upper echelons of English society. Macro evolution is nothing more than a justification for all sorts of superiority theories, most important of which is eugenics. These people bend reality to their will in order to justify all sorts of wickedness. The current "pandemic" being the most recent example.
@@schmuckpuppet4842 Couldn't have said it better myself.
Theory of Evolution hasn't exactly been proven and falls apart at the cellular level. Same with Newton's Law's of Motion at the atomic level. Atoms don't loose energy when they collide into each other.