Benefits of Grazing Pigs on Cover Crops
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2024
- There are a lot of benefits of grazing pigs on cover crops, including saving money on pig feed, environmental benefits, and improving soil health.
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Just found your channel. I’m in MS too! In the Hattiesburg area. I am a beginner homesteader. Only veggies and perennials for now. Gotta convince my landowner (father in law) to turn a couple acres into pasture for chicken and sheep instead of a boring lawn!
That is awesome! Glad to hear from a fellow mississippian!
Your pigs always look so happy, and I honestly love to see pigs grazing through an open pasture. I also love how they love those turnip greens - I am *also* a fan of turnip greens. :)
Nice! thanks for the kind words.
Really helpful info, clear and concise. Thanks!
I'm glad that it was helpful! Thanks for watching and thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it.
I'd like to see a study on pigs and native grasses/forbs. There are some great numbers coming out related to beef raised on Native Prairie Grasses which are orders of magnitude better for the local environment than the non-native grasses like Sudan Grass, but I don't think I've seen anything on pork production. I'd have to think it was better, though, because the native grasses and wildflowers have evolved to interact with the soil in a way that non-native plants simply cannot. When we talk about building the ecosystem through regenerative practices, we often forget that the root word is "system". It's a complex web of interactions, most of which we're still ignorant about. It would seem logical that the plants which evolved in the region, like Panicum virgatum or Echinacea purpurea, would have specific interactions with the fungi and other components in the soil biome since they all evolved together over millennia.
With ruminants, native grasses can perform quite well. However, when we start talking about pigs, their nutritional needs are wildly different. It would be more like if you and I could survive on those native grasses and forbs. If I had a field of big or little bluestem, I would not let pigs on it under any circumstance. They would absolutely destroy it.
Jordan Green at J&L Green Farm in VA uses hogs to till in the seed. He seeds the paddock about 2 days before the pigs leave that paddock so they can push those seeds into the soil. The pigs eat some of the seeds but not all. You may just need to put out some extra seed that you otherwise would have. Have you tried this method yet? Great content btw! Thank you!
I have tried this. But it’s wildly unreliable. It’s functional if you just want something to grow on the ground. But if you are counting on a particular yield it doesn’t work.
That said, once our buckwheat goes to seed and the pigs graze it, they naturally replant it.
Hi, what mix of Sorghum Sudan are you using, we are in Tennessee in a similar climate to yours
I've used expensive BMR and PPS trait sorghum sudans and cheap ones. The cheap ones seem to be more aggressive to me. I'm using cowpeas, sunflowers, buckwheat, brassicas, sometimes okra, and others with it. The longer videos talk about it a bit more. I should have some videos coming in the next month to help you plan what you want.
Do you ever use sunn hemp or the daikon radish?
MS is one of two states that doesn't allow the use of Sunn hemp, considering it a noxious weed. I do use daikons though.
my grandparets and now my parents do similar thing for farm animals
Nice, do you know what crops they are grazing their pigs on? Where are they located?
@@DowdleFamilyFarms the mix that cultivates it is grass, alfalfa, clover, fodder corn
my family has a farm in Romania, Bihor county
That's really neat. Are you grazing pigs on these crops too?
@@DowdleFamilyFarms only after second only after the second mowing/cutting
they let pigs,geese and cows to graze, the land is divided into 6 plots, to avoid excessive grazing
Cool.
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