Is 2-year-old hay stored outside any good for livestock?
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Is 2-year-old hay stored outside any good for livestock? Our cows are telling us that the hay we stored on oak posts for two years is still good. If you don't have a building to store your hay in, then place the bales on 6-8" diameter oak logs. By keeping the bottom of the bale from contacting the ground, it prevents rotting. For more grazing info check out my new book " How to Think Like a Grazier" on our website: greenpasturesfa...
Wow and the synthetic fertilizer prices, fuel prices, and grain prices just make this way look so much better, because it is so much better. Beside for the soil biology and water sources, etc. Thank you
It is going to take a lot of the high input producers out of the livestock business I am afraid. I am already getting emails from conventional livestock operators wondering how are they going to survive.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher they could survive and thrive if they'd do regenerative. I feel for them in their debts and losses
You're quite correct to question the contribution of academics Greg. People interested in Regenerative Agriculture get a lot more good advice from people in the game. Names like, Jim Elizondo, Johann Zeitsmann, yourself, and your interns, can join with others like, Salatin, Archuleta, Brown, Savory, etc. What working farmers provide are examples of the application of _Common Sense_ which is a real world multiplier wherever it available. They will accept 80% results whereas the book-learned are always unsatisfied with anything less than 100%. That's just not reasonable however it doesn't discount what they add. I mean who doesn't enjoy the intricacy available through the work of Dr Christine Jones, or the enthusiasm of Dr Elaine Ingham, etc. But the love and regard for the animals is what makes a farmer and that is reflected in the food they produce. The search for 100% is what is behind feed lots or the Green Revolution, and that has proven to be a disaster for humanity.
So true!
What a roll-call of honour!
I listened to a video of a big defense Lawyer once who said he don't like having college professors on a jury. He claimed none of them are as smart as they think they are and they don't have any real life experience or common sense. The Lawyer said he would much rather have a Truck Driver on the jury than a Professor. Then I had an older guy, ( I consider him old cause I'm 50 and he was my Sunday school teacher back when I was a teenager) tell me that he used to live in Bloomington Indiana where all of the I.U college Professors lived. He said those Professors were some of the dumbest people on Earth.
With those windrows of unrolled hay, not one of those cows is missing out on a mouthful or fighting over a spot on a bale ring.
when are we going to hear about Arizona!!
I was thinking the same thing. Wonder if it's working out.
They are getting close to bringing the cows into the program. They need to get the water pump hooked to electricity for livestock water.
For some reason the more of these video's I watch the more sense they make.
I can’t wait to get some heifers/steers from you someday, hopefully sooner rather than later. You have beautiful cattle, and I love your methods.
I have a feeling that there’s going to be a tipping point in cattle ranching, whether it’s from old guys retiring and young guys being open to new ways, or conventional guys just getting tired of losing money, and suddenly the light is going to go on around the world. The numbers are going to flip and its going to be 95% rotational and 5% conventional. It could be in the next 5 years.
Charlie I hope your right, but change is awful painful for fellows that are stuck in their rut of doing things a certain way. With input costs exploding, they are going to be in a world of hurt now.
I appreciate you all Mr. Judy.
Great videos, thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge and expertise.
Thanks for all your videos! It looks like our mud season could be over, but we are getting rain Thursday, Friday, and Saturday with some snow in there too so who knows. I planted some cover crops in our future pasture and it is starting to green up some. We are having sun and warm weather this past couple days so that is helping a lot.
Greg u do a good job feeding cows down there little different story in Ontario
I enjoy watching Greg's video's so much and try to see how it applies to our operation in Ontario - the conditions and cattle are just so much different it makes it a challenge to parlay the advice. We have 600 lb weaned calves, and 1200lb cows. Horses for courses I suppose.
I don't expect that they will be bawling with joy at the reunion later this year. Could be wrong. I was looking in a mirror earlier and I could see a bit of Dad in my face and my maternal Grandmothers smile uncle Doug's green eyes .. he and I were the only ones with green eyes . I remember a big family gathering when I was young and hearing she's the spitting image of her father while walking up to the potluck spread out at the far end of the hall on the Hoyt picnic ground next to the baseball field. Then with my plate in hand walking down the other side of the hall and hearing Linda looks like her mother's side of the family. I thought it was funny how they saw different things in my face or something else about me that said one thing or the other. Years later I saw a picture of my great great-grandfather standing with his brother and a few son's and another worker in front of his blacksmith shop you could tell who wasn't a Duplisea his feet were parallel to each other all of his family brother and sons stood with heels together and their toes so far apart that you would wonder how easy it would be to topple them front to back but not side to side. . I can tell you as a Duplisea it hurts if you try to stand with your feet parallel. Don't get me started about skating and skiing. Heck learning to walk was enough of a challenge.. see you in the next one 😘💕💞💕🍀☘️🍀🌟👍👍👍👍👍🌟💖🌟🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🍀☘️🍀🙋🏼♀️
Currently, grass fed is more expensive then regular. With the sanctions of freedom and crop failures, do you think grass fed will become cheaper at the grocery store then regular?
No but feed lot beef will Continue to go up.
That's a beautiful sight!!
It is sad to see and hear of ranchers suffering in a system that has the cards stacked against them.
I can’t wait til they start calving!!
Hi there Greg. Just recently I heard that in parts of America (something called the "Fescue Belt", which includes Missouri ) the very specific characteristics of the Fescue grass makes it economically sound to calve the cattle in the autumn. I'd love to hear you elaborate on that a bit. Thanks.
Lots of producers do calve in September/October and get by quite well doing that. Our spring born calves always out perform or fall born calves. We have about 8-10 fall calving cows left. 95% of our cows calve in April/May. I need to do a video on the advantages of both calving seasons.
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Oh thanks for the speedy reply. And I'd love to watch that video too.
Hurrah!
Thank-you.
My measure is to stay in business, make a living and *equally*! improve the land.
Kevin Moore, Craig Roberts, Maurice Davis
Yes that’s right Tauna, thanks for their names!
Happy Cows 🐮
Thank you for the video
LOL when you said AI, I was thinking herd modeling inside of a computer not breeding. I caught on the second time you said it in reference to natural siring.
Please explain to me the balance between winter stockpile feeding and eating your grass down so low that it is not an effective solar collector to stimulate new growth in the spring? Or is that a time when it doesn't matter? Thank you very much.
We like to leave 2-3 inches of residual with winter grazing
What happened to her tail
Greg, sometimes it is really hard to hear You!!!!
Thanks for the video! How old are the bulls when you band them?
7 months old up to 12 months old sometimes
I’ve seen a few of your cows with short tails I had a Bull that I had to put in the freezer I have Dexter Cattle shortly after I separated him from the herd I noticed he lost his Tail switch and for the next few weeks it got shorter but didn’t show any raw meat/skin can you tell me what that was
Fescue Kentucky 31 grass can cause some cows to lose their tail switch.
So can in breeding
Had a friend who had some of his herd lose part of their tails. Finally caught it on camera his Jenny Mule was biting them off.
@@shannonoconnor9671 time to sell the mule!!
So we Missed taking Out the Bulls ?
And the Banding of some Bulls ?
Yep, I do have a bull video coming out Saturday
Hey Greg
Did you ever find a link to where you buy those pocket calendars ?
The ones you carry with you
Daytimer.com is the site. You want the compact pocket size
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher 👍 Thank ya much !
Greg did you buy some black cows? I’ve been watching for along time and never seen a black cow, all red and one murrey grey is all I’ve ever seen and today I spotted at least 4-5 black cows, did I miss something? Lol
We have always had 3 or 4 black cows in our herd. They are good ones and the right size.
How old were your bulls when you banded them? Thank You. Sir.
He said they were 7 months.
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Have you got a new camera? Better resolution!
Nope same camera
I've been hearing a lot of negativity on Twitter, I thought it was just conventional guys but turns out some regen guys were also complaining. People saying they have to get out , no future in cattle, it'll become vertically integrated etc etc. Wonder what you think of that, and what the interns think of that. I know I disagree strongly with that negativity but wonder your take.
Solution: Twitter is a mechanism to find the lowest common denominator and then invert the scales. It's where thought goes to die.
@@peterclark6290 maybe but I bet if you go to your local salebarn or coffee shop you'll hear the same thing.
@@tsousley18 The twitterati are recognisable as humans, they need sustenance, who are we to deny them that? They may also prefer 'mob' environments where originality and applied knowledge is regarded as the mark of the beast.
BTW the printing press (Gutenberg) caused very much the same social ructions, sanity eventually prevailed.
@@peterclark6290 I'm starting to think UA-cam comments are pretty similar to Twitter
You simply do not hang around and listen to people saying there is no future in agriculture. Leave them alone and move forward. These are the people that are the most resistant to change, go move your cows, improve your water, fence, marketing, brainstorm new endeavors, and the list goes on. Folks we live in the best country on the planet, go for it.
I hate pity parties and there is no place for them on a successful grazing operation.
Doing something over and over expecting different results, I think that defines insanity. Have a wonderful day
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