stoneyridgeshop.com Folks thanks so much for watching today! Please...grab yourself some Stoney Ridge goodies and support the farm/channel and content! It all helps so much....Without you there would be no Stoney Ridge Farm! I appreciate you all so much!
I have been absent from your channel alot of this year but I told you about 2 years ago when you was lifting your shipping container about my air bag that could probably lift it safer than the bumper jack or farm jack as they call them. This month i got 2 shipping containers they droped one and missed the footers on one end. So i had to take my own advice and lift it with my air bag and it did no problem i could do it again in a video and show you directly but i dint have a place to send it to you so forward your email and i will do that I know yours was a 40footer and mine is a 20 footer but i dont think it would make a difference. So im just following up with you on the shipping container jacking.
Got the pasture mowed thanks to Josh for lighting a fire. Looks much better and got some rain afterwards. If nothing else the cow patties need to be broken up. A neighbor saw mine and asked me to mow his.
Last fall I turned out my one herd of sheep into my hay field instead of cutting a 3rd cutting mainly to get rid of the johnson grass on one end of field. This first cutting of hay has been the best hay I've gotten as far as weeds go. If I had to guess 80 to 90 % of my weeds are gone out of that field. Sheep absolutely destroyed the weed pressure on it.
This is great! I was literally clipping pasture yesterday and thought “I wonder what Josh’s perspective on clipping pastures is. Wonder if he’s got a video on it”.
I just mowed my little pasture last weekend. I practice the same land management practices that you do!! Of course I’m only on 5 acres, not 150!! Great video Josh!! I just have to figure out how to get rid of creeping Charlie.
Love this. Another great lesion/video from Josh. It is full of information above most others, as Josh goes farther then just mowing. If you like this and more content like tool reviews, food from planting and tons more, please like this video and if you support a veteran farmer, please subscribe to the channel and it is free.
Just a Few Acres is a big proponent of clipping in spring after the cows have grazed a pasture. He says it'll keep everything from going to seed, which keeps the grass growing vigorously. He says the clippings also help the soil hold moisture. Great to see how the different channels do things. How are those new three way chickens doing? Hopefully well.
I have been doing samples every 3 years and it's crazy how different each one comes back but it has helped me change what I'm doing to make it better each time
I'm an ops manager. I basically make things work smoothly. People always want to know the trick of what works. Well, the methodology is you work with it. I found this rather interesting as it's the same in life and on the farm. I don't know? Once I get there we will make do. Next year it will be different. We just work with what works best and set things up as best as can be for the future. ..... Basically ya gotta work 😅
take everything you've ever learned and add in the "mother nature curve ball" and you'll be farming! LOL.....after I mowed this pasture it hasn't rained in weeks!! Grass still looks ok, but mother nature isn't on my side this year!
What are perennials vs. annuals? Annual flowers grow for one long season, often into the fall, then die with the onset of freezing weather. With perennials, the above-ground portion of the plant dies back in freezing weather, but re-grows from the base and rootstock the following spring to bloom again. Also, planting grass seed can help get rid of weeds by creating a thick, healthy lawn that can choke out new weeds. However, it's generally recommended to kill weeds before planting grass seed.
yep...I mispoke....it was the opposite of what I was saying. When we already have grass...we typically don't need to plant new seed...the roots send out rhysomes and that builds the forage...but I do some overseeding in the fall/early winter. You'll see it soon! Summer will be over in the blink of an ey!
The Sericea lespedeza I believe has a 20 year seed life. It will also prevent other grasses from growing around it and eventually take over. Important to stay on top of that one.
Ty for the video... any chance you can talk about your temp fencing to move your cattle? (If my eyes don't deceive me, it looks like there are coil chords.
yessir....let me tell you how to find it. I have playlists on the channel Go to youtube.com/@stoneyridgefarmer and hit the playlist for livestock or fencing and you'll find it all. These are strainrite step in posts, strainrite polybraid and those springs you see are strainrite spring gates all from farmfencesolutions.com
Contact! Did you ever think of buying a Bush Plane, with the aired up bouncy tires like the Alaska shows? You're an Air Force Vet! Probably a hassle with all the licensing, registrations, expensive, etc.. Wooo!!
Hey Josh, love your videos! Noticed you’ve gone back to liberty overalls today. I own a pair of myself. Just curious if there’s a specific reason you’re wearing them today.
Hey Josh, We purchased an 80 acres farm nearly 2 years now which is established and previously ran 60 head of cattles. As a new owner we still havent being able to purchase a tractor with slasher and cattles. we have a lot of weeds and grass grow and I just wondering in my case how many time a year do I need to get a contractor to slash the property until we save a bit more to purchase cattles and tractor. Its quite sad to see lots of grass start overtaking the beautiful paddock.
why don't you get yourself a tractor? You can get by with a very affordable machine and a brush hog. Before we started running cattle I mowed 5-6 times per year to stimulate forage. You don't need anything fancy, get yourself an little $5k tractor and get in there mowing my friend...you won't regret it...or lease the land for grazing! My suggestion
Everything costs a small fortune when you have a place this big my brotha! it's good stuff. Both nutrigraze and super soil have helped alot...much less expensive than fertilizer
it doesn't spread the manure at all...you're mowing way way higher than the manure pats. You need to mow at at least 5 inches...preferably about 7 inches to preserve forage
So in Sept/Oct and Nov I’ll seed some spots ahead of the cows and let them hoof in the seed in the moist ground. I try to prevent grass from going to seed because fescue will send out rhysomes which are roots that expand the plants. No need to seed a good stand of grass in most cases
I've sat in one...but there's something coming soon down the pipeline here....potentially getting rid of the TYMs and consolidating machines to have less to maintain
Hey Josh, Have you ever thought of constructing a mobile shade structure to place inside your paddocks in order to keep manure and urine in the paddock rather than in the woody shady areas that might not grow much forage?
Josh …. CORRECTION - adjective …. Annual an· nu· al | \ ˈan-yə(-wə)l , -yü-əl \ Definition (Entry 1 of 2) * 1 : covering the period of a year //annual rainfall //annual income * 2 : occurring or happening every year or once a year : YEARLY //an annual reunion //an annual physical checkup * 3 : completing the life cycle in one growing season or single year //annual plants adjective …. Perennial pe· ren· ni· al | \ pə-ˈre-nē-əl \ Definition * 1 : present at all seasons of the year * 2 : persisting for several years usually with new herbaceous growth from a perennating part //perennial asters
yep...I misspoke it's the opposite of what I meant to say....thanks for clarifying....sometimes talking on the fly like this I might make a boo boo lol
This is probably the worst video I've watched. Went out to the pasture and saw every little weed out there. Now the brush hog is hooked up and my weekend is now cutting weeds. Gee! Thanks Josh.
stoneyridgeshop.com Folks thanks so much for watching today! Please...grab yourself some Stoney Ridge goodies and support the farm/channel and content! It all helps so much....Without you there would be no Stoney Ridge Farm! I appreciate you all so much!
I have been absent from your channel alot of this year but I told you about 2 years ago when you was lifting your shipping container about my air bag that could probably lift it safer than the bumper jack or farm jack as they call them. This month i got 2 shipping containers they droped one and missed the footers on one end. So i had to take my own advice and lift it with my air bag and it did no problem i could do it again in a video and show you directly but i dint have a place to send it to you so forward your email and i will do that I know yours was a 40footer and mine is a 20 footer but i dont think it would make a difference. So im just following up with you on the shipping container jacking.
Got the pasture mowed thanks to Josh for lighting a fire. Looks much better and got some rain afterwards. If nothing else the cow patties need to be broken up. A neighbor saw mine and asked me to mow his.
Awesome and outstanding as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along
Last fall I turned out my one herd of sheep into my hay field instead of cutting a 3rd cutting mainly to get rid of the johnson grass on one end of field. This first cutting of hay has been the best hay I've gotten as far as weeds go. If I had to guess 80 to 90 % of my weeds are gone out of that field. Sheep absolutely destroyed the weed pressure on it.
Have a good day up on the Stoney Ridge!!
You are blessed. Your pastures are green. Here in eastern NC, everything is brown and crunchy
Oh it’s super dry here. This was filmed about a week ago
Rain on Thursday Guys.... hopefully
We finally mowed after 6 months- it then rained every day for 5 days, and now the grass is knee-high! LOL!
Rain is a good thing! 💦🙏🏻🌿
That is awesome!
Josh, thank you for another educational video!
More to come!
Josh, this kinda reminds me of the movie, "Field of Dreams". If you build it, they will come! Great metaphor!
Keep having fun!
This is great! I was literally clipping pasture yesterday and thought “I wonder what Josh’s perspective on clipping pastures is. Wonder if he’s got a video on it”.
bam! They're ya go!
Beautiful green grass for ur healthy moo cows 🐮👍🏼
I just mowed my little pasture last weekend. I practice the same land management practices that you do!! Of course I’m only on 5 acres, not 150!! Great video Josh!! I just have to figure out how to get rid of creeping Charlie.
GOOD AFTERNOON
Love this. Another great lesion/video from Josh. It is full of information above most others, as Josh goes farther then just mowing. If you like this and more content like tool reviews, food from planting and tons more, please like this video and if you support a veteran farmer, please subscribe to the channel and it is free.
thanks buddy!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Your welcome. I enjoy supporting someone I believe in , and that is you my fine sir.
Good morning !!! 🌹🌹🌹🌹
Just a Few Acres is a big proponent of clipping in spring after the cows have grazed a pasture. He says it'll keep everything from going to seed, which keeps the grass growing vigorously. He says the clippings also help the soil hold moisture. Great to see how the different channels do things. How are those new three way chickens doing? Hopefully well.
yeppers....our operations are vastly different for sure
Do some soil samples and show us the progress of soil improvements I do it on my pastures and it’s crazy how they improve
I have been doing samples every 3 years and it's crazy how different each one comes back but it has helped me change what I'm doing to make it better each time
Where do you take the samples?
@proudgrandma138 to the local government office here in Utah that is over farm land in my area
Hey Josh thank you for the video woo
Great notes on the eggs and deer. I struggle with turtles in my fields.
mow it high...no turtles get harmed unless you accidently run over one
I'm an ops manager. I basically make things work smoothly. People always want to know the trick of what works. Well, the methodology is you work with it. I found this rather interesting as it's the same in life and on the farm. I don't know? Once I get there we will make do. Next year it will be different. We just work with what works best and set things up as best as can be for the future.
..... Basically ya gotta work 😅
take everything you've ever learned and add in the "mother nature curve ball" and you'll be farming! LOL.....after I mowed this pasture it hasn't rained in weeks!! Grass still looks ok, but mother nature isn't on my side this year!
What are perennials vs. annuals?
Annual flowers grow for one long season, often into the fall, then die with the onset of freezing weather. With perennials, the above-ground portion of the plant dies back in freezing weather, but re-grows from the base and rootstock the following spring to bloom again. Also, planting grass seed can help get rid of weeds by creating a thick, healthy lawn that can choke out new weeds. However, it's generally recommended to kill weeds before planting grass seed.
yep...I mispoke....it was the opposite of what I was saying. When we already have grass...we typically don't need to plant new seed...the roots send out rhysomes and that builds the forage...but I do some overseeding in the fall/early winter. You'll see it soon! Summer will be over in the blink of an ey!
The Sericea lespedeza I believe has a 20 year seed life. It will also prevent other grasses from growing around it and eventually take over. Important to stay on top of that one.
I agree....to the point where some folks get out the 2-4D on it!
Can I ask why you allow the PTO guard to spin, instead of chaining them off
chains broke lol.....they always break on every implement I have that's PTO driven! lol😯
Ty for the video... any chance you can talk about your temp fencing to move your cattle? (If my eyes don't deceive me, it looks like there are coil chords.
yessir....let me tell you how to find it. I have playlists on the channel Go to youtube.com/@stoneyridgefarmer and hit the playlist for livestock or fencing and you'll find it all. These are strainrite step in posts, strainrite polybraid and those springs you see are strainrite spring gates all from farmfencesolutions.com
The grass professional
Contact! Did you ever think of buying a Bush Plane, with the aired up bouncy tires like the Alaska shows? You're an Air Force Vet! Probably a hassle with all the licensing, registrations, expensive, etc.. Wooo!!
lol....look at my most recent facebook post facebook.com/stoneyridgefarmer
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Sir, I got rid of Face book after Zucker boxes. I'm full on Election Integrity. No holds barred.
Hey Josh, love your videos! Noticed you’ve gone back to liberty overalls today. I own a pair of myself. Just curious if there’s a specific reason you’re wearing them today.
wading in tall grass early in the day....keeping them chiggers and ticks off me
Do you rake out the manure before you mow?
typically that's a fall/winter/spring thing. I'll drag pastures once the grass has stopped growing or I'm getting ready to re-seed
Hey Josh, great job again. Do you still grass harrow after topping ?
typically not this time of year
Hey Josh, We purchased an 80 acres farm nearly 2 years now which is established and previously ran 60 head of cattles. As a new owner we still havent being able to purchase a tractor with slasher and cattles. we have a lot of weeds and grass grow and I just wondering in my case how many time a year do I need to get a contractor to slash the property until we save a bit more to purchase cattles and tractor. Its quite sad to see lots of grass start overtaking the beautiful paddock.
why don't you get yourself a tractor? You can get by with a very affordable machine and a brush hog. Before we started running cattle I mowed 5-6 times per year to stimulate forage. You don't need anything fancy, get yourself an little $5k tractor and get in there mowing my friend...you won't regret it...or lease the land for grazing! My suggestion
Woooooo!
And Moooooo 🐮
Move, mow. When do you harrow?
in late winter/spring or after rain storm in the summer
Was hear wooooo
Don't forget to spray that bio juice stuff (Worm tea). hehehe. That probably costs a small fortune too... :(
Everything costs a small fortune when you have a place this big my brotha! it's good stuff. Both nutrigraze and super soil have helped alot...much less expensive than fertilizer
Do you find mowing after the cows helps spread the butt fertiliser it the mower too high to make contact with it?
it doesn't spread the manure at all...you're mowing way way higher than the manure pats. You need to mow at at least 5 inches...preferably about 7 inches to preserve forage
You have annuals and perennials confused. Perennials are the ones that come up every year from roots and annuals come up from seeds
yep...misspoke there....
What happened to the electric tractor that you had?
nothing...it's still sitting here in the way!
Do you ever over seed areas that have a hard time recovering or let an any pasture seed itself?
So in Sept/Oct and Nov I’ll seed some spots ahead of the cows and let them hoof in the seed in the moist ground. I try to prevent grass from going to seed because fescue will send out rhysomes which are roots that expand the plants. No need to seed a good stand of grass in most cases
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer seems like the smart way to do it. We don’t have cows, I use the weight of snow to bed the seeds in.
Have you tried out the tym 130 🚜
I've sat in one...but there's something coming soon down the pipeline here....potentially getting rid of the TYMs and consolidating machines to have less to maintain
Hey Josh, Have you ever thought of constructing a mobile shade structure to place inside your paddocks in order to keep manure and urine in the paddock rather than in the woody shady areas that might not grow much forage?
yes for sure! Just gotta build it!
Wooh
Those looked like Oxeye Daisys which are non-native.
Yeppers we’ve lost most of our native forages here in NC
Josh ….
CORRECTION -
adjective …. Annual
an· nu· al | \ ˈan-yə(-wə)l , -yü-əl \
Definition (Entry 1 of 2)
* 1 : covering the period of a year //annual rainfall //annual income
* 2 : occurring or happening every year or once a year : YEARLY //an annual reunion //an annual physical checkup
* 3 : completing the life cycle in one growing season or single year //annual plants
adjective …. Perennial
pe· ren· ni· al | \ pə-ˈre-nē-əl \
Definition
* 1 : present at all seasons of the year
* 2 : persisting for several years usually with new herbaceous growth from a perennating part //perennial asters
yep...I misspoke it's the opposite of what I meant to say....thanks for clarifying....sometimes talking on the fly like this I might make a boo boo lol
This is probably the worst video I've watched. Went out to the pasture and saw every little weed out there. Now the brush hog is hooked up and my weekend is now cutting weeds. Gee! Thanks Josh.
lol....time to get to work buddy!! Getr done!
2 seconds of mowing in this whole video 😡😡😡
next time I'll let you edit it lol 😉
Please let us see u mow ??? Ugh 😮
did ya watch the vid brother?