Josh, another great video! Could we only imagine if in the last 200 years, beef was raised in this fashion? How much healthier we would be as a result. Not to mention, the toll that" traditional" farming has taken on our environment.
Great point! I think we're headed back in the direction of regenerative farming now....things are changing...costs are increasing and making farmers think outside the box like they did 150 years ago
Simply offering another perspective and pointing out Josh's earlier point from the video. Maybe you already recognize this, so forgive me if you do...Isn't it so easy to figure out what "should" have been done for years when you can find anything at the supermarket, buy your favorite this or that with a few clicks, etc. Comments like this one really seem to lack an appreciation for how much has been done in years past to make sure every generation had it better than the last. Josh clearly stated the technology for this wasn't available until recently. Maybe give those that came before us a little more credit for what they did with what they had. Wise man once instructed to have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. Well wishes brother!
I farm in Australia and there is no doubt that some of the New Zealand made animal handling equipment is not only the best in the world, but is also used all over the world. Te Pari sheep and cattle handling equipment for example, or Gallagher electric fencing!
Awesome video josh heck it feels like yesterday you were just getting started and now look at ya moving the cows and building the mega shop and all the water lines you've ran and showered with lol. Its looking good buddy
Thank you for another entertaining as well educational video Josh. I really enjoy the enthusiasm the cows demonstrate as they go to new grass. The cows also interact with you. Your farm is really taking shape , your pasture land is looking good. Got a suggestion though, is there enough clearance.in the pipe so you could attach a small mag light to your water valve wrench, might help you if you had some light down there. Good job always! Wooooo! 👍
We use a 21 day rotation for cattle grazing here in Ireland using the same equipment for fencing as you. I find it’s handy to put in some permanent posts to attach the geared reels to so your fence is running from the solid boundary fence to the solid post near the water drinker.. Most dairy farmers started using this system in the 80s and dry stock beef producers now see the benefits of paddock grazing.
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer no problem we can all learn from each other grazing properly fascinates me. Guys in Ireland measure farm grass cover weekly with a plate meter you will find it on utube. If the grass gets too strong they will skip a paddock and make that paddock into bales during the strong grass growing may and June months to supplement their winter feed or if we get drought in July or August
Dude you have lost a whole TON of weight Josh! Looking good and strong brother. God bless you. That building is awesome, about to start that process myself! Amazing what you have done. I am on year 1.5, but everything is built around SYSTEMS for long term. Like you, do it right or dont do it at all is my philosophy when spending money
gotta build it to last and build it to be low maintenance....nothing worse than being glued to your farm 365 days a year...a guy needs to get away sometime to keep his sanity for sure!
Hey Josh thank you for the video I enjoyed it and I like that that means less work you have to do now you don't have to cut the grass anymore the cows cut it for you I like it woo
LOL! While my chicky-gurls are small, I move their run all over the backyard, and I've been dumping buckets of 'dead' dirt from previous veggie growths, too- trying to layer over our wonderful Florida sand.. 🙄
So one waterer will service a handful of pastures looks like? Just adjust your wire around the watered for whatever pasture they’re in? Very cool and efficient.
In that statement that scrolled @12:45, I think you meant 'perimeter fencing', not 'parameter'. Somewhere in Joel Salatin's channel and also in a Ted Talk of his, Joel explains how this sort of grazing can outperform the same acreage of forest several times over when it comes to carbon sequestration. The carbon in vegetation is drawn from the atmosphere, and mob grazing keeps the plants in that phase of their life cycle around their peak growth rate. That means this is an effective way to reduce greenhouse gasses while optimizing herd productivity and restoring soil quality and biodiversity. It's a win-win-win-win situation. Way to go Stoney Ridge! It won't be all that stony much longer.
so Joel is a friend of mine....and over the 70 years or so that Polyface farm has been in operation, they have made leaps and bounds in restoring the land...however folks need to remember...Joel has close to the same number of animals...but his climate is cooler, he's had a 65 year head start on me and he's got alot of help on that place for sure. Joel is a smart fella...as well as my buddy Greg Judy out in Missouri. I love what I'm doing here and can't wait to watch the farm transform even more than it already has....just unloaded nearly 100 tons of hay in the last 2 weeks! That's 100 tons of carbon!!! WOOOOO!!!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Another regenerative farmer on UA-cam whose work I admire is Richard Perkins, an Englishman commercially farming 125 acres in Sweden. There is one video (a few years old, now) where he showed how one spot when he got the land compared with the same spot after a few years of his method. The depth of rich topsoil added was VERY impressive.
yep...I lived in Ogden area for 10 years buddy....it's insanely expensive and your growing season is pretty short if yuo get out to places that have affordable land...that high desert country north of Brigham city....cross over the wasatch front and you've got a very alpine climate...land here can go as cheap as $2k per acre in places
Josh, have you looked into using any different Angus cattle genetics for your herd long-term. I've got a small herd of Angus in Graham that we breed exclusively AI. Been trying to increase grass efficiency, decrease frame size and maintain good docility/fertility. What are your genetic goals for your herd?
so....I'm not like Greg Judy in this aspect....I don't believe in my area that there's much of a difference between a 900 lb cows impact and a 1400lb cows impact...however I'm attempting to breed and build stock that has a large and stocky frame...cows that are naturally parasite resistant and thrive on my grasses. All that being said...I'm very early in this game..the bull I use is a shorter and heavy framed animal...so I guess I'm still learning and growing in this aspect of the farm
I’m pretty sure migrating elk herds, or something, had a major impact that were missing in Massachusetts. I’ve never heard of bison bones found here, but we do have a plains eco system that’s basically gone. I have been watching a sand plains restoration project a couple towns over that has been a complete failure without animal impact. They may have given up because right now it looks like brush, and saplings that are so dense you can’t see through under the canopy trees they left when they thinned the scrub. Maybe they’ll burn it again next year.
From what I've read, the bison ranged as far north as New York, but not further in New England or into the eastern tidewater areas. They were seen east of the mountains, but the first settlers to cross the Appalachians found huge herds, particularly in Kentucky, which the various tribes had treatied to keep as hunting lands instead of permanently occupying it.
they do...in the evenings typically...a flock of birds stays with the cows most of the time...some eat from the ground and some catch insects in the air
are you building up the land? or are you robbing from it and putting back commercial petroleum based fertilizers? Is what you do with your farm building soil, microbes, earthworms and a healthy ecosystem or are your animals and farming methods having a negative impact on the land?
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Are you buying hay that has been fertilized with petroleum based fertilizer? Would that not be like.... receiving stolen property or something? LOL. Even IF hay fields are fertilized with manure... chances are at the front of the line someone used fertilizer. Who makes the rules?
I've always questioned comparing the bison to mob grazing. With unlimited acreage I would guess the bison were completely nomadic only foraging on the best plants as they went. There were no boundaries to make them circle back around to eat the weeds off.
they moved...mobbed and mowed my brotha....so they basically roamed the plains in large herds and cleared everything in their paths...we're talking thousands of animals mobbing across the grasslands
While the flies may not necessarily be causing a health issue, your animals would certainly appreciate less flies. Some well-placed fly traps throughout the property would dramatically reduce the flies bugging your heard. Your poor guard donkey looks miserable.
Flies are gonna be around manure and livestock....I'm not pouring chemicals on my animals and I've been testing fly traps.....video coming soon buddy! Whether it's 1 fly or 100 flies they will still be an annoyance....and the animals will still shake their tails and ears and rub and scratch. This is farming and ranching life and it's hard for some people to understand ......again...I"m testing out some cool fly traps that are re-usable and they work great! Vid coming soon...rest assured...reducing the fly numbers is on my mind...however this is not a high fly load and the donkey isn't miserable unless you make it up in your head that she is. This is not your living room my friend..it's a cow pasture and you've gotta put this into context...I will not give my food a systemic fly treatment
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Awesome man, I will look forward to that video! I love your videos, and enjoy watching you develop your 1st Gen farm! I have 35 head on my pastures, so I try to do what I can to minimize the annoyance. I started out early this year to try and keep the early flies down to try and hopefully lower the total population. Keep up the good work. :)
Josh, another great video! Could we only imagine if in the last 200 years, beef was raised in this fashion? How much healthier we would be as a result. Not to mention, the toll that" traditional" farming has taken on our environment.
Great point! I think we're headed back in the direction of regenerative farming now....things are changing...costs are increasing and making farmers think outside the box like they did 150 years ago
Simply offering another perspective and pointing out Josh's earlier point from the video. Maybe you already recognize this, so forgive me if you do...Isn't it so easy to figure out what "should" have been done for years when you can find anything at the supermarket, buy your favorite this or that with a few clicks, etc. Comments like this one really seem to lack an appreciation for how much has been done in years past to make sure every generation had it better than the last. Josh clearly stated the technology for this wasn't available until recently. Maybe give those that came before us a little more credit for what they did with what they had.
Wise man once instructed to have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. Well wishes brother!
@@wesclark4335 very wise and humble comment. I was thinking the very same but failed to put it into words as elegantly as you.
Wow josh you definitely got a great setup.... Wooooo got those girls trained...😉 Have a great weekend!!
It is very gratifying to see the progress you have made on your farm, Josh. I remember videos from when you cleared the land and now it looks awesome.
thanks for the video, Josh
You're doing an amazing job Josh. Regenerative farming is where it's at. The land feeds the livestock and the livestock feeds the soil.
Fascinating, clear and detailed breakdown.
All that hard work and preparation has materialised in really impressive pasture.
Well done Josh!
Yes, it is fun learning farm life being such a city slicker all my life - tnx.
Very interesting Josh Really Liked the time-lapse of the cows grazing in the field that was pretty cool!
every video is an education, thanks Josh.....
Herd mentality and strategy….great summary
Those water troughs look well made, the cows must like them
I remember like yesterday you preparing the land and to see how it has progressed is amazing!
I farm in Australia and there is no doubt that some of the New Zealand made animal handling equipment is not only the best in the world, but is also used all over the world. Te Pari sheep and cattle handling equipment for example, or Gallagher electric fencing!
Man that pasture is looking lush. Nice work Josh!
Josh, I am happy to hear your drought days are behind you.
don't jinx it bhahhahaa They still say we are due for a dry season this year
great information have a great day!!
Thanks for the visit
Your girls sure know when its ready to go
New Zealand! What great country👍🏻
Awesome video josh heck it feels like yesterday you were just getting started and now look at ya moving the cows and building the mega shop and all the water lines you've ran and showered with lol. Its looking good buddy
Thank you for another entertaining as well educational video Josh. I really enjoy the enthusiasm the cows demonstrate as they go to new grass. The cows also interact with you. Your farm is really taking shape , your pasture land is looking good. Got a suggestion though, is there enough clearance.in the pipe so you could attach a small mag light to your water valve wrench, might help you if you had some light down there. Good job always! Wooooo! 👍
clearance in the pipe
yeppers...no clearance at all...I have to do this totally blind due to the insulation on the pipe and small 4 inch pvc
Great video Josh 🇺🇲 I always enjoy learning about the farm it looks great WOOOOOO 🇺🇲
We use a 21 day rotation for cattle grazing here in Ireland using the same equipment for fencing as you. I find it’s handy to put in some permanent posts to attach the geared reels to so your fence is running from the solid boundary fence to the solid post near the water drinker.. Most dairy farmers started using this system in the 80s and dry stock beef producers now see the benefits of paddock grazing.
Great tip!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer no problem we can all learn from each other grazing properly fascinates me. Guys in Ireland measure farm grass cover weekly with a plate meter you will find it on utube. If the grass gets too strong they will skip a paddock and make that paddock into bales during the strong grass growing may and June months to supplement their winter feed or if we get drought in July or August
In 1900 they had spark coils, wire and insulators but nobody thought put them together for this use.
It's interesting but also a good bit of work
yessir...takes work to build a farm for sure
Dude you have lost a whole TON of weight Josh! Looking good and strong brother. God bless you. That building is awesome, about to start that process myself! Amazing what you have done. I am on year 1.5, but everything is built around SYSTEMS for long term. Like you, do it right or dont do it at all is my philosophy when spending money
gotta build it to last and build it to be low maintenance....nothing worse than being glued to your farm 365 days a year...a guy needs to get away sometime to keep his sanity for sure!
Hey Josh thank you for the video I enjoyed it and I like that that means less work you have to do now you don't have to cut the grass anymore the cows cut it for you I like it woo
Amazing ❤️
If you mounted fly traps near your waterers you could collect the dead flys once a week to feed to your chickens. Sounds yummy 😋. Have a great day 😊.
yeppers...I'm testing some this week my brotha! You'll love the vid..coming soon!
LOL! While my chicky-gurls are small, I move their run all over the backyard, and I've been dumping buckets of 'dead' dirt from previous veggie growths, too- trying to layer over our wonderful Florida sand.. 🙄
Awesome content as always
So one waterer will service a handful of pastures looks like? Just adjust your wire around the watered for whatever pasture they’re in? Very cool and efficient.
that's it buddy....1 waterer serves multiple paddocks within the pasture...I now move the cows 2 times per day and it's working great!
Sorry you got drown out up there. I might have prayed too hard for rain for ya...lol. Glade you got some though.
Glad not Glade...lol
Informative video!
Awesome
Howdy Josh, Texas
Cows naturally fertilize the pasture totally awesome
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In that statement that scrolled @12:45, I think you meant 'perimeter fencing', not 'parameter'.
Somewhere in Joel Salatin's channel and also in a Ted Talk of his, Joel explains how this sort of grazing can outperform the same acreage of forest several times over when it comes to carbon sequestration. The carbon in vegetation is drawn from the atmosphere, and mob grazing keeps the plants in that phase of their life cycle around their peak growth rate. That means this is an effective way to reduce greenhouse gasses while optimizing herd productivity and restoring soil quality and biodiversity. It's a win-win-win-win situation.
Way to go Stoney Ridge! It won't be all that stony much longer.
so Joel is a friend of mine....and over the 70 years or so that Polyface farm has been in operation, they have made leaps and bounds in restoring the land...however folks need to remember...Joel has close to the same number of animals...but his climate is cooler, he's had a 65 year head start on me and he's got alot of help on that place for sure. Joel is a smart fella...as well as my buddy Greg Judy out in Missouri. I love what I'm doing here and can't wait to watch the farm transform even more than it already has....just unloaded nearly 100 tons of hay in the last 2 weeks! That's 100 tons of carbon!!! WOOOOO!!!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Another regenerative farmer on UA-cam whose work I admire is Richard Perkins, an Englishman commercially farming 125 acres in Sweden. There is one video (a few years old, now) where he showed how one spot when he got the land compared with the same spot after a few years of his method. The depth of rich topsoil added was VERY impressive.
was hear
woooooo!
Aluminum tends to work harden and fatigue faster too.
Wooooh
WoooooooooooooHeeeeeeeeeeeeHeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!Alright!!!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗
Ever thought about installing bat houses throughout the fields for insect control?
yep...did it my friend
Tryin my darndest to get me some land and do this regenerative farming. Utah is so dang expensive right now. Might have to head south east!
yep...I lived in Ogden area for 10 years buddy....it's insanely expensive and your growing season is pretty short if yuo get out to places that have affordable land...that high desert country north of Brigham city....cross over the wasatch front and you've got a very alpine climate...land here can go as cheap as $2k per acre in places
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer no kidding? I’m in north ogden area. 2k an acre?! Wow! Can’t sniff an acre around here for under 6 figures.
We love watching the cows. Are you using the seven way mineral? Thank you!
Josh, have you looked into using any different Angus cattle genetics for your herd long-term. I've got a small herd of Angus in Graham that we breed exclusively AI. Been trying to increase grass efficiency, decrease frame size and maintain good docility/fertility. What are your genetic goals for your herd?
so....I'm not like Greg Judy in this aspect....I don't believe in my area that there's much of a difference between a 900 lb cows impact and a 1400lb cows impact...however I'm attempting to breed and build stock that has a large and stocky frame...cows that are naturally parasite resistant and thrive on my grasses. All that being said...I'm very early in this game..the bull I use is a shorter and heavy framed animal...so I guess I'm still learning and growing in this aspect of the farm
I’m pretty sure migrating elk herds, or something, had a major impact that were missing in Massachusetts. I’ve never heard of bison bones found here, but we do have a plains eco system that’s basically gone. I have been watching a sand plains restoration project a couple towns over that has been a complete failure without animal impact. They may have given up because right now it looks like brush, and saplings that are so dense you can’t see through under the canopy trees they left when they thinned the scrub. Maybe they’ll burn it again next year.
From what I've read, the bison ranged as far north as New York, but not further in New England or into the eastern tidewater areas. They were seen east of the mountains, but the first settlers to cross the Appalachians found huge herds, particularly in Kentucky, which the various tribes had treatied to keep as hunting lands instead of permanently occupying it.
Ha i’m surprised that the birds don’t follow the cows around and just have a feast👌🏼😁 you know like do flybys😄🙄 no pun intended😂
they do...in the evenings typically...a flock of birds stays with the cows most of the time...some eat from the ground and some catch insects in the air
Looking good Josh, how many head can you water with that system. How large will you grow your herd.
up to 60 dairy cows or 150 beef cattle
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How many cows will you be able to have on your farm once you get all fences and stuff finished up ? Awesome video 👍👍
I plan to build the herd up to about 100
Josh what name brand of poly braided wire/rope do you have?
www.shopfarmfencesolutions.com/electric-fence/ here ya go buddy
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer thanks for the link. Keep up the great work
I believe that parmark pigtail posts are made in the USA.
Dragging poop 💩 helps immensely
yeppers...that's a fall, winter and spring activity that we'll get back into soon! It has helped for sure!
I must have missed it thought there was two donkeys?
there were 2 donkeys up until last July
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer they were so cute. What happened to them?
What is the difference between a farm and a ranch
How will I know if I am a regenerative farmer or just a regular farmer??
are you building up the land? or are you robbing from it and putting back commercial petroleum based fertilizers? Is what you do with your farm building soil, microbes, earthworms and a healthy ecosystem or are your animals and farming methods having a negative impact on the land?
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Are you buying hay that has been fertilized with petroleum based fertilizer? Would that not be like.... receiving stolen property or something? LOL. Even IF hay fields are fertilized with manure... chances are at the front of the line someone used fertilizer. Who makes the rules?
I've always questioned comparing the bison to mob grazing. With unlimited acreage I would guess the bison were completely nomadic only foraging on the best plants as they went. There were no boundaries to make them circle back around to eat the weeds off.
they moved...mobbed and mowed my brotha....so they basically roamed the plains in large herds and cleared everything in their paths...we're talking thousands of animals mobbing across the grasslands
While the flies may not necessarily be causing a health issue, your animals would certainly appreciate less flies. Some well-placed fly traps throughout the property would dramatically reduce the flies bugging your heard. Your poor guard donkey looks miserable.
Flies are gonna be around manure and livestock....I'm not pouring chemicals on my animals and I've been testing fly traps.....video coming soon buddy! Whether it's 1 fly or 100 flies they will still be an annoyance....and the animals will still shake their tails and ears and rub and scratch. This is farming and ranching life and it's hard for some people to understand ......again...I"m testing out some cool fly traps that are re-usable and they work great! Vid coming soon...rest assured...reducing the fly numbers is on my mind...however this is not a high fly load and the donkey isn't miserable unless you make it up in your head that she is. This is not your living room my friend..it's a cow pasture and you've gotta put this into context...I will not give my food a systemic fly treatment
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Awesome man, I will look forward to that video! I love your videos, and enjoy watching you develop your 1st Gen farm! I have 35 head on my pastures, so I try to do what I can to minimize the annoyance. I started out early this year to try and keep the early flies down to try and hopefully lower the total population. Keep up the good work. :)