We rotational graze about 160 beef cattle on 120 acres. Mostly red and black angus and dutch belted, few charolais and jersey and holstein steers. Alot on nice clover,brome, timothy, orchard grass and canary grass in the wetland spots. Giving each field rest for several wks allows the grass to grow back even better than before bc they fertilize the field. Cattle grow fat and fill out nicely on healthy pastures. My brother sold 17 700lb steers then came home with 30 small skinny calves. Cows that were probably tied up in a barn since born some coughing and most has their ribs showing. All Cattle need is grass to be healthy , dewormer, and pinkeye vaccine to prevent it. And fly control spray to keep the flys off them. After 1 week on grass and eating fresh grass hay the 30 new calves look alot healthier and have more energy and actually get to run around in a big green clover pasture. Alot of cattle farmers out there don't graze and just bring food and silage to their barn to feeds them and live in dirty barns yr round. Rotational grazing allows the Cattle to exercise 24/7 and get rained on and cleaned. We used to farm 400 ewes in 2010. Had 800 total sheep that yr on 120 acres. Mostly all dorper genetics so we didn't have to pay to shear them every spring. We pasture raise cornish cross also every yr about 200. Best tasting meat u can get is grown on grass. Corn fed beef is just fat and greasy and lacks flavor in my opinion. Id take a grilled steak from our 100% grass fed yr round Cattle over any store bought meat anyday. Pastured animals are happy animals
Thank you for your fellowship in the Lord. The mystery of life in the Lord and finding His favor is truly a blessing. May God bless you family beyond measure.
That perspective on the two systems right next to each other is really illuminating. It’s encouraging to see the investment of these years bear fruit in not only your family’s lives, but also in the way you’re learning the language of the fields. The delicate dance with the earth, the partnership, all are anchored by intentional rest. It’s quite a stark testimony in the midst of the collapsing empire.
Great content. The aerial shot of the continuous grazing vs rotational grazing and you tied in animal units per acre! Good Job, you are making a difference. It's a lot of work to create these videos. Thank you.
Really good video. We are in our first year of Dexter and low line Angus cattle in Michigan, 2 heifers, 2 steers, a bull and a pony on 3.25 acres. They are moved every 1 to 2 days with 5 to 6 weeks rest. It works! They are flying through the second rotation and it's getting a little scary but the heat is ending and with God's rain, things are growing faster.
That’s awesome, Tim! I love hearing the success stories. We were just up there east of Lansing buying some ewes and a new handsome boy we’re calling Lou!🤠
“Grazing 8 cattle 34 sheep on 5 acres” is actually stunning. I don’t know if anyone reads books any more other than me, but I wish you would put your story in a book. Your thought processes are amazingly organized and informed. I think you would have the outline done in five minutes.
Best Word yet! Its kinda funny that you are having problems with the neighbor cows breaking in. I'm only surprised that you don't have to deal with that more often. As for the farmer that rents your land, I can't imagine seeing the difference in the fields and not deciding to move towards your system. Perhaps next year is the year he starts managing his herd in the same way to increase his gains.
Thanks! And here’s the thing I want folks to remember too - everyone’s context is different. The other farmer here has many irons in the fire to make ends meet as a full time row cropper. I do believe our system is a better fit for land and animals, but we are out here everyday being involved and not everyone can give that time to it. Thanks for being here and for your encouragement!🤠
Saw the interview with Casey Means and Calley Means. Ordered their book: Good Energy. Im half way through. Parts are tough for me. But I recommend that everyone who wants to be healthy and have healthy children should read it. It is already changing the way I live.
Thank you for this additional info! I found the stats in the interview stunningly sobering, to put it mildly. You know, we’re literally over civilizing ourselves right out of existence. I don’t know how to NOT call it what it is: a culling of humanity. Interesting to think if allowed to progress, only those resisting will remain.
@@birchfieldfarming I value your understanding and perspective. I think it all ties in to what you were saying about rest. Without it, health is not possible. It is 1/10th of being obedient to His commandments. More than that if we dive into every seventh year and every 50th year. Leviticus 26 33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it. (Leviticus 26:14-18, 21, 23-24, 27-28, 33-35) Right now the government is in stage 3 of 4 toward taking away a corridor of PRIME farmland 800 miles long and 5 miles wide, 4,000 square miles, 2,560,000 acres. “Grain Belt Express”. Imminent domain. KS, MO, IL, IN. Also foreign countries are buying up huge tracts of farmland. Hmmmm.
Excellent content today! Appreciate your vlog and message so much! Thank you!! Wanted to share this with you, "God is not in a hurry, you are. It is why you are tired and anxious, stressed and disappointed. Surrender your timeline in favor of His peace!"
Your message on “rest” is such a powerful eternal truth. Here is a very sobering scripture about rest. It basically says “your land WILL rest, either you see to it or I will.” 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it. (Leviticus 26)
Hey Jason, Question for ya. I’m running a small operation like you on 7 acres of grazable land with primarily 3 head of cattle. I don’t have sheep but I do have some egg laying chickens that I’m moving once a week. The chickens I’ve been moving weekly for about 1.5yrs but the cattle I just started AMP grazing towards the end of April of this year. On average, I’ve been moving the cattle 2X a day. I recall one of your videos where you broadcasted seed right after you moved your broilers. Was that a variety of different cover crop seed? Also, in those areas where you broadcasted seed, how long did you allow your ruminants to remain off that land before you allowed them to graze it? Thanks!
Yes, that was Green Cover Seed’s warm season grazing mix. Here’s a link: store.greencover.com/products/warm-season-grazing-mix Depends on time of year as to how long to wait. Problem is if you sow this now, you’re gonna be into frost season, which isn’t great to do with the sorghum. I’d wait and sow in the Spring, and then start in 30 days later or so. If you’re gonna sow anything now in my area, it should probably be their overwintering mix (cereal rye, vetch, barley, etc). Make sense??
Never had an issue. With invasives, getting that stock density up is key. Up around 50K lbs/acre at minimum with multi-species in a rotation seems to give us the pressure we need. The tricky part is when you have a lot of a toxic plant (Poison Hemlock up here), and you lock them down on it, I won’t do that…best to mechanically mow in that scenario. Be well in TN!🤠
Jason, I’m a new follower on this channel and I really appreciate your informed approach. You may have covered it in a previous episode/vlog but how did you subdivide your land into pastures? Are you using electrical fencing to divide paddocks? Thank you.
Hi Dave and thanks for following along. I wanted the least amount of labor inputs during the grazing season, so we run two hot wires. The set-up is semi-permanent, so all I have to do is open a make-shift gate and move water/mineral each day. I’ve got the water hook-ups there, so 10 min a day. I picked 1/4 acre cause it fit well with our carrying capacity and allowed us to grow. The two hot wires are great for cattle but work marginally for sheep. All works well with lots of forage but they get it down and sheep can pop out. Also, during lambing we run electronets to keep mammas and lambs together and continue moving.
@@birchfieldfarming thank you for the kind response. I’m new to this but my wife and I purchased a 16 acre property that has potential. It was so encouraging watching you produce all that you are on a relatively small amount of land. Thanks for the great videos.
Jason, In southwest Minnesota, a cash cropper can gross about $1,000 per acre / annually. I have no idea what the net would be…. What does your regenerative farm generate annually in comparison?
Running 10 St Croix ewes an acre on all grass would yield you 20 lambs every Spring, which would bring $9500 at current prices…and a grass-based system with these sheep gets better on its own every year with minimal inputs.
@@birchfieldfarming I’d be interested to see a breakdown of your area, hypothetically, how much difference in profit per acre a regenerative rancher like yourself could make per acre, vs a crop farmer on an average year
@@ericviessmann7507Interesting idea for sure. Problem there is two completely different philosophies and contexts. One excels at scale, one doesn’t. One feeds family and local community foods that actually heal, one doesn’t. Looking at straight dollars and cents is what got us in our current industrial cesspool…tho I will acknowledge we still have to pay the bills.
@@birchfieldfarming great perspective about the scale issue!!!!! I also hear people say how, if all the farming was this regenerative model, there wouldn’t be enough food! I think the opposite would actually be true, I think more food can be grown per acre regeneratively than with these monoculture toxic crops that are basically turned into ultra processed crap that isn’t even nutritious. I pray that The Lord continues to bless you and your family, that He continues to grow your profits for His glory and that you continue to reach a wider audience so people can see what real food is!
We have barn swallows everywhere, and they do help. We’ve also run chickens behind cattle/sheep in the rotation and that also helps. We have numerous water sources around the property (creeks, pond, etc), and I think it’s just challenging when you have the water around.
Such a great comparison between the two methods. Not to mention the increased yields from being able to carry more animals. I know you mentioned having this property for 6 years or so but how long do you feel it took to repair the fields and get them to a level that could support that many animals?
That’s a great question and hard to say b/c there was so much learning and experimenting. In the beginning, I learned I was a chronic overgrazer, which I’m sure hurt the system. The other thing I need to talk about is stocking rate. I feel like once we got close to 50K/lbs per acre with adequate rest between grazings that’s when we really start to see improvement. I think doing that with multi-species, resting, even a year or two is enough to make a difference. (Cover crop grazing mixed in there for a soil health bonus)
@@birchfieldfarming Could you explain your formula? "50K/lb per acre"? I'm so new to this I can't safely hazard a guess. 50K of what? Could you have meant 50K lbs of livestock per acre to fertilize that acre at a rate that tipped into lush production of vegetation? I'm just guessing, but we are deciding how much land we need for what we want to do. 😂 (We need to run on the efficient side and not overbuy.)
So if I ran one 1000 lb cow on 1 acre I’d be running 1000lbs/acre stocking rate. Take that same acre and bump to 50 cows, now I’m 50K lbs/acre…I don’t necessarily need 50 cows tho, I could decrease my paddock size from 1 acre to 1/2 acre and only run 25…see what I’m saying? Now, here’s the thing, I have no idea where you are or how well your forage grows in your specific climate, so you have to do dry matter calculations and make certain you are moving paddocks frequently enough to get your animals fed what they need. I assume mine need about 3% of live weight per day in dry matter. Depending on thickness of pasture, usually 200 to 300 lbs of dry matter in each inch of an acre of pasture. Knowing what your animals look/sound like when hungry and full helps here as well. Does this help? You can also contact me direct thru our website if you need more help.
@@gardeninggalagain ask your local county cooperative extension service, if you are in USA, what your county's yearly "acres to support 1 animal unit" is. This can give you a starting point that may get you closer to your climate's tolerances. Consider Alejandro Carrillo, Las Damas Ranch, who advises with Understanding Ag. His farm in the Chijuajuan Desert needed many, many acres to suppot an AU ( animal unit= 1000 pounds of animal) (1 smaller breed cow, 5 to 7 goats or sheep,...), however, over years of proper grazing management, he has built soil that grows better and thicker forages than his "set stocked" neighbors. Consider multispecies forages from the seed bank that will express themselves when paddocks are grazed in a well managed fashion. It is better to move often and rest a paddock at the absolute least 21 days, but better when that rest is 60 to 300 days. Mix up the order of grazing paddocks, stocking density, time spent on a paddock, like you would change up your lifting/exercise routine.
12:59 - you have to change the system. Unfortunately, Ag lobby /rural lobby / go big or go home / Ag fallout reaganomics / changed system is set up in the Senate to not do that. The major problem here is that we as a nation have already fallen. The second we cap the house seats federally which was the balance for the fact the other 2 branches are setup on 2 senators (no matter population) and the electoral college. Makes changing anything very very hard. The level of breakdown required to change a system with that kind of force of voting power is super super hard. That voting power bleeds into every single effort to stop a subsidy system that backs poor AG practices. The addict has the voting power to keep giving itself discount drugs. And the big Ag can keep going to work because they are a functional addict. But functional addicts always crash. For years, inside Ag, and outside, AG, people who have built levies, and all the things that make American AG work have begged, asked nicely, cried, mourned, bailed out, and set up programs, to wean Ag off its problem. But Rural Ag/Big Ag has more voting power than it has people. And it's deeply addicted to willful ignorance. And what is the key that you hear from almost every farmer or most of the farmers/ranchers 1 out of 3 at least that have made the switch or actually made changes and used the VAST amount of programs set up to make changes? They hit rock bottom like an addict on their farm/ranch. Had to make a change. I think the biggest step is admitting you have a problem (tough love) moment. climate change denial, which is destroying ag hasn't helped them. anti-union politics which forces immigrant labor on farms and all the crises that come from that, which means they never get real developed labor on farms/ranches because people fear. Destroying local industries and towns. What most farms/ranches are doing isn't even the most basic farming/ranching in a modern sense. It's a lot of scientists in places, yes, but it's also a lot of self-defeating nonsense. Some of that is the cycle of industry. For example, way back when you had people who ran cattle in large herds people still do. I've worked for some that have more wild untrained cattle herds that work public and private land. Nearly, killing cattle that you'd never want to see on a permaculture farm or ranch. But people still for the most part work that cattle. Nothing wrong with smart cattle that know what to attack but they have such a combat relationship with the herd that for anything else that herd is basically a labor sink. Because they never trained or worked the herd properly in a modern sense. They did it like the good ole days picture. We even rode horses and a few dirt bikes. I worked on another farm/public-private. Employed mostly women. They used a bucket and some staging mixed grass alfalfa pellets. Shake the bucket and moo 4 times for a big move. Shake the feed bucket 1 moo 2 times for small moves. And they spent years training the herd. Use 1/10 the labor. Had 2 x as many cattle 4 donkeys, 10 llamas. 4 dogs, and a sheep herd. Made 3x more than other operations, rotationally grazed. At that time they only saw a subsidiary for the cattle I think not the sheep. Better grazing because they were rotational. The cattle knew their humans, they knew not their humans, and the herd leader understood the score. Her second cow understood. Her granny cows understood. It had quality management and 80% was fully on the table profitable and replicable. Even if you take the 80% she might be able to get other people to do still more profitable than 99% of all other farms in America per dollar for both farmers and employees. But that will never happen because farms as I quote "farming is not built on a meritocracy it's built on inheritance." So we are dealing with tons of people who boom and bust depending on which kid you get. There's very little public farming investment that isn't directed towards a small amount of the same ole farming kids who said yes to the farm or are a poor match for farming and the ones that actually are. And you are always rolling the dice with this problem. And the second problem is the massive voting power that is backing it. So, no I disagree, we gotta speak plain, cutting. Because it has already been attempted nice, it's already been attempted, through payoff, it's already been attempted in so many ways. You gotta treat it like an addict at this point. Side question - 1. How are the dung beetles this year. How is the spray your using effecting the dung beetle population. (do you test before and after for 30 days?) 2. Have you thought about geese, if you setup a program for xmas goose running 100 per year. They take a bit longer than turkey but the herd really really well. And they do well in a rotational system if you give them same task. If you have a centeral tiktoc point and not use rotation you can actually just call them back. I'd do rotation though. If you ever get into pigs it's worth doing geese. 3. Have you thought about scaling acre and setting it up as silvo pasture? Which would also give you tree fodder.
Don’t take my shortness of response with a lack of care or respect for what you’re saying, just having trouble getting to everyone today. I certainly could have been more articulate, impressing that the change we’re needing (gosh that sounds disgustingly political) comes from outside of the system, it has to. Perhaps we agree on that. The spray for cattle is not harmful, mostly ACV with some essential oils. Dung beetle populations peak in May/June so can be really tough to tell how they’re getting along this time of year. I did ID several species this year though and was super excited. So we’ve raise and sold turkeys, even created our own pasture breed we called the Birchfield Bronze, bred a Narragansett hen with a bronze tom. Sold them one year and had great feedback. Here was our problem: If you don’t sell out in Nov & Dec, your turkeys will sit there all year long in freezer. Nobody (including us🤣) wanted to cook a whole turkey outside of the holidays. We ground them and sold some that way, but I’m afraid Christmas goose might be the same. Thank you for all your input and interaction here, friend.🤠
@@birchfieldfarming Yeah, I get a lot of agree ment on that point of the actual problem being Big Ag. But big AG, and small ag wrap up and all that voting power to hurt itself. And again, it's built on willful ignorance. And the system itself lacking competition of employment/ownership. Which in turn hurt itself again because your average farm is a low value employeer which again, it did to itself through voting power. But that's a wider convo and I get how folks don't agree with the tough love approch but a lot of it is a historical look at thing. Because they tried nice. The biggest key to goose, turkey sale is to not fully depending on xmas. The problem is volume as well. It's much harder when you are not within 20 miles of a major city with a muli ethic population. It's even better for sheep direct sales because mutton sells better. Honestly, a lot of them perfer mutton / older goats. A lot of the stewed dishes are ruin by lamb an hogget. It just falls apart the wrong way or doesn't hold the seasoning and taste. As muslim fast food gains momentum you'll see the sheep goat market soaring even more. More so if you can get a direct sales going to augement things. But back to the main point the thing is you might want to look into BBQ market. Smoking market. There's sometimes groups of small farmers who team up to sell things like that. The sad thing about turkey is way to much focus on thanksgiving and xmas. It's actually on the list of perfered meats by body builders and weight loss. But the point of sale is processed a bit more. We have such an underdevelopment in the butchery / abattoir on the small scale unlike most countries. France, is probably giving us one hell of WTF when there farmers visit the USA
@@MistressOPI definitely think you’re onto something with the small scale processing, especially sheep. I’d like to have a small area here where we efficiently process our Spring born ram lambs before winter. And if nothing else, it’s great meat for family without sitting in a freezing cold tree stand.
@@birchfieldfarming ya, or cluster location of CSA butchery would work as well but it's not support by anything which makes it hard. Because it's hard finding a bunch of farmers in the same practice. The good thing about ben and jerys (dairy) and Tillamook again dairy. Is it force a lot of farmers into organic farming at the very least in a small cluster. Hell Tillamook became one of the most powerful co-op on the west coast until it went to hell. Been around for 100 years. Then the great great great grandkids lost there mind and move the jobs out oregon to wisconsin. Started using facotry heifers and doing weirdo stuff. Within the last 5 years. But point is a co-op style butchery would work if you had 10ish other farms near you who did the same thing as you did. It would mean you could farm in the style you want but also hire maybe 2 people to abattoir. Hell, if a co-op was setup yall could probably rotation it and do it gother until you figured out who you might want to hire. Which would make the USDA stuff so much easier. One of those a little less corn subsidy a little more logical decentralize meat production stuff. But again lobby.
…Sorry, that’s not entirely correct. 100% grass on the ruminant side. The broilers and layers do get a non-gmo grain, and yes I think the broilers especially go thru a lot. There’s a video buried back there somewhere of our broiler feed schedule…thousands of lbs for 100 birds in 9 weeks for about 500 lbs of meat. When crap hits the fan, the first thing we’ll do is go straight grass ruminants and whichever layer chickens can survive off compost scraps.
@@birchfieldfarming so during the spring and summer, you have no feed inputs on the ruminants? You can run 8 cows and 30 sheep on 5 acres of grass alone? For how many months? And why does EVERYONE else including Greg Judy say you need around 2+ acres per cow for a grass fed operation?
@@jhost0311It gets a bit complicated when we try and apply the same rates in different contexts. For example, Greg Judy’s land is so rocky and poor they can’t row crop there. This is why he is able to rent ground so cheap, which is why I personally think it’s unfair of him to propagate the idea that anybody can just lease pasture ground anywhere across the country. It only works in his context. Same with stocking rates. Around here they recommend 1 cow per acre, but in Wyoming it might be 10 acres for 1 cow! It all depends on where you are, soil health, and pasture conditions. But here’s the takeaway, wherever you are, you can improve on the set-stock rate FOR THAT AREA by resting and rotating your ruminant animals.
We purchased raw land and creating fields for pasture land and gardens. The problem we are having is thick weeds not allowing healthy grass growth. Everyone we seek advice from says spray broad leaf killer is our only option. I have been against it 100% but honestly I have no idea what else to do. I have a few goats I would like to run with my cows but they don’t respect fences enough to rotate like my cows.
If you can run some electronet, making paddocks…get your live weight animal lbs/acre to at least 50,000 and mow behind the animals each time you rotate. Clamp your paddock size down to achieve desired impact, then the mowing behind will level it down and let your good stuff thrive again. Goats and cattle I would think could work well in weedy areas. And if you can’t do any of that, just mechanically mow it for a season. You’re wise not spraying.
Hot fences (7000+ volts) with close enough polybraids or electronet. Could create a training pen with "solid" walls or tight gates and HOT "wires" about 4 to 6 inches inside that physical barrier to teach the psychological barrier. I run goats on 2nd and 4th from the bottom and top 3 hooks of the O'Brien step in posts. I used halters and allowed each new goat, sheep, dog, calf added to fence to nose it until they each looked at the fence and moved away. I pulled each back into paddock as the shocks happened. Hope this helps. Be blessed!
Would he allow you to start running his cattle for him? Improving your leased pasture until his lease is up and from there custom graze. Armchair QB here😅
We have milked a couple of our Red Devon cows and actually a few sheep for awhile. The sheep milk was absolutely delicious, just not much of it per ewe so we switched to our Devons. Looked at a Jersey cow, but I love the fact that we can calf share with our Devons without them having trouble (milk or break when we want). I’ve always been curious if we could make more milk and still do that with a Red Devon/Jersey grass-fed cross.
About 13 Animal Units on 5 acres and your forages are AMAZING! God's plan is for abundance. Great soils, great forages, great health for animals and humans without purchasing inputs once the forages are healthy. Wean off the crutches. Greg Judy, Allen Williams, Gabe Brown,... and others show how to get to abandance in regen farming.
And anybody can do this! Matter of fact, I’d say those with no experience are better suited than those conventionally trained. Those old mindsets can be very hard to break away from, but we do still see it happening! Passing along hope here to all reading this!❤️
@@birchfieldfarming i was born and raised on high input dairy farm, raised crops of corn and hay,... dad retired and brothers switched to beefers. Unfortunately, they are still high inputs. I have been sending them regen videos for the last 2 or 3 years since i discovered the low input regen methods. A sis-in-law and i are trying, with some of the 2 brothers' kids to get the fence and critter moving figured out. Biggest error: putting the gate on the center side of a driveway, not a corner and setting next paddock in a mirror to the first. Something i missed in all the videos and grazing books that i have poured over. With poor hand strength and coordination the reels are a challenge. The Means siblings interviews are interesting, mind blowing!
@@birchfieldfarming a question that i asked Greg Judy at Greene, NY class in July 2023 was "can 100% grass-fed cattle get too fat?" No, not on only self-harvested forages. In TMR grain fed operations, that was an issue we had, especially with tail-enders that should be dried off or culled.
I’m not a fan of Trump, but Casey and Calley Means are working with RFKjr who is joining Trumps team and they will be in charge of fixing Big Ag, Big Food, and Big Pharma. It’s a no brainer vote at this point.
@@birchfieldfarmingAmen. This Hebrew Roots stuff is damnable heresy, making slaves of those who should be free in Christ. Gal 3:23-5:12. “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?” Gal 4:9
Your thoughtfulness and faith help me calm down. Thank you.
Continued peace and rest, friend.😀
Thanks. Clear. Concise. Truthful.
Thanks for watching🤠
We rotational graze about 160 beef cattle on 120 acres. Mostly red and black angus and dutch belted, few charolais and jersey and holstein steers. Alot on nice clover,brome, timothy, orchard grass and canary grass in the wetland spots. Giving each field rest for several wks allows the grass to grow back even better than before bc they fertilize the field. Cattle grow fat and fill out nicely on healthy pastures. My brother sold 17 700lb steers then came home with 30 small skinny calves. Cows that were probably tied up in a barn since born some coughing and most has their ribs showing. All Cattle need is grass to be healthy , dewormer, and pinkeye vaccine to prevent it. And fly control spray to keep the flys off them. After 1 week on grass and eating fresh grass hay the 30 new calves look alot healthier and have more energy and actually get to run around in a big green clover pasture. Alot of cattle farmers out there don't graze and just bring food and silage to their barn to feeds them and live in dirty barns yr round. Rotational grazing allows the Cattle to exercise 24/7 and get rained on and cleaned. We used to farm 400 ewes in 2010. Had 800 total sheep that yr on 120 acres. Mostly all dorper genetics so we didn't have to pay to shear them every spring. We pasture raise cornish cross also every yr about 200. Best tasting meat u can get is grown on grass. Corn fed beef is just fat and greasy and lacks flavor in my opinion. Id take a grilled steak from our 100% grass fed yr round Cattle over any store bought meat anyday. Pastured animals are happy animals
@@Garrett572xpg Sounds like you’ve got a good thing going!🤠🌱
Thank you for your fellowship in the Lord. The mystery of life in the Lord and finding His favor is truly a blessing. May God bless you family beyond measure.
Thank you, Jeff
Amen brother!!!
Praise God for the abundant love of Christ’s Grace!!!
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That perspective on the two systems right next to each other is really illuminating. It’s encouraging to see the investment of these years bear fruit in not only your family’s lives, but also in the way you’re learning the language of the fields. The delicate dance with the earth, the partnership, all are anchored by intentional rest. It’s quite a stark testimony in the midst of the collapsing empire.
And none of this would’ve happened without you guys. I still remember you sending me the listing!🤣🌱
And I will raise him up at the last day. Amen, Amen.
Hold tight, brother
Truly the best videos I've ever watched thank you:
Thanks for being here!!🤠
Great content. The aerial shot of the continuous grazing vs rotational grazing and you tied in animal units per acre! Good Job, you are making a difference. It's a lot of work to create these videos. Thank you.
…hey wait, I’m not done thanking you for that mineral correction!🤣🤣
Really good video. We are in our first year of Dexter and low line Angus cattle in Michigan, 2 heifers, 2 steers, a bull and a pony on 3.25 acres. They are moved every 1 to 2 days with 5 to 6 weeks rest. It works! They are flying through the second rotation and it's getting a little scary but the heat is ending and with God's rain, things are growing faster.
That’s awesome, Tim! I love hearing the success stories. We were just up there east of Lansing buying some ewes and a new handsome boy we’re calling Lou!🤠
A picture is worth a thousand words. What a testimony to the rotational system. Can't wait to get it started next year. Great word as always.
Thanks, big guy! How’s that new Deere runnin?
@@birchfieldfarming running great. brush hogging this weekend.
Really appreciate your videos! You inspire me to do better! Thank you brother!
Thanks, Guy🤠
I vote for the intro video! Keep making great videos!
Thanks Toby!🤠
“Grazing 8 cattle 34 sheep on 5 acres” is actually stunning. I don’t know if anyone reads books any more other than me, but I wish you would put your story in a book. Your thought processes are amazingly organized and informed. I think you would have the outline done in five minutes.
Thanks for this encouragement!🤠
Thanks Jason. Great vid.
Thanks for watching🤠🌱
Best Word yet!
Its kinda funny that you are having problems with the neighbor cows breaking in. I'm only surprised that you don't have to deal with that more often. As for the farmer that rents your land, I can't imagine seeing the difference in the fields and not deciding to move towards your system. Perhaps next year is the year he starts managing his herd in the same way to increase his gains.
Thanks! And here’s the thing I want folks to remember too - everyone’s context is different. The other farmer here has many irons in the fire to make ends meet as a full time row cropper. I do believe our system is a better fit for land and animals, but we are out here everyday being involved and not everyone can give that time to it. Thanks for being here and for your encouragement!🤠
Saw the interview with Casey Means and Calley Means. Ordered their book: Good Energy. Im half way through. Parts are tough for me. But I recommend that everyone who wants to be healthy and have healthy children should read it. It is already changing the way I live.
Thank you for this additional info! I found the stats in the interview stunningly sobering, to put it mildly. You know, we’re literally over civilizing ourselves right out of existence. I don’t know how to NOT call it what it is: a culling of humanity. Interesting to think if allowed to progress, only those resisting will remain.
@@birchfieldfarming I value your understanding and perspective. I think it all ties in to what you were saying about rest. Without it, health is not possible. It is 1/10th of being obedient to His commandments. More than that if we dive into every seventh year and every 50th year.
Leviticus 26
33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
(Leviticus 26:14-18, 21, 23-24, 27-28, 33-35)
Right now the government is in stage 3 of 4 toward taking away a corridor of PRIME farmland 800 miles long and 5 miles wide, 4,000 square miles, 2,560,000 acres. “Grain Belt Express”. Imminent domain. KS, MO, IL, IN.
Also foreign countries are buying up huge tracts of farmland.
Hmmmm.
Excellent content today! Appreciate your vlog and message so much! Thank you!! Wanted to share this with you, "God is not in a hurry, you are. It is why you are tired and anxious, stressed and disappointed. Surrender your timeline in favor of His peace!"
Wise words that I will heed. Thank you for sharing.
Fantastic content.thanks brother
Thanks for watching!
Great video!
Hey thanks!🤠
Thank you
Hang in there brother!
Amen to everything !!!
Thanks for watching, William!
Your message on “rest” is such a powerful eternal truth. Here is a very sobering scripture about rest.
It basically says “your land WILL rest, either you see to it or I will.”
34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it. (Leviticus 26)
Thanks
You bet
Hey Jason, Question for ya. I’m running a small operation like you on 7 acres of grazable land with primarily 3 head of cattle. I don’t have sheep but I do have some egg laying chickens that I’m moving once a week. The chickens I’ve been moving weekly for about 1.5yrs but the cattle I just started AMP grazing towards the end of April of this year. On average, I’ve been moving the cattle 2X a day. I recall one of your videos where you broadcasted seed right after you moved your broilers. Was that a variety of different cover crop seed? Also, in those areas where you broadcasted seed, how long did you allow your ruminants to remain off that land before you allowed them to graze it? Thanks!
Yes, that was Green Cover Seed’s warm season grazing mix. Here’s a link: store.greencover.com/products/warm-season-grazing-mix
Depends on time of year as to how long to wait. Problem is if you sow this now, you’re gonna be into frost season, which isn’t great to do with the sorghum. I’d wait and sow in the Spring, and then start in 30 days later or so. If you’re gonna sow anything now in my area, it should probably be their overwintering mix (cereal rye, vetch, barley, etc). Make sense??
How do you control the perilla mint invasive plants in your pasture. Thanks from Tennessee
Never had an issue. With invasives, getting that stock density up is key. Up around 50K lbs/acre at minimum with multi-species in a rotation seems to give us the pressure we need. The tricky part is when you have a lot of a toxic plant (Poison Hemlock up here), and you lock them down on it, I won’t do that…best to mechanically mow in that scenario. Be well in TN!🤠
Jason, I’m a new follower on this channel and I really appreciate your informed approach. You may have covered it in a previous episode/vlog but how did you subdivide your land into pastures? Are you using electrical fencing to divide paddocks? Thank you.
Hi Dave and thanks for following along. I wanted the least amount of labor inputs during the grazing season, so we run two hot wires. The set-up is semi-permanent, so all I have to do is open a make-shift gate and move water/mineral each day. I’ve got the water hook-ups there, so 10 min a day. I picked 1/4 acre cause it fit well with our carrying capacity and allowed us to grow. The two hot wires are great for cattle but work marginally for sheep. All works well with lots of forage but they get it down and sheep can pop out. Also, during lambing we run electronets to keep mammas and lambs together and continue moving.
@@birchfieldfarming thank you for the kind response. I’m new to this but my wife and I purchased a 16 acre property that has potential. It was so encouraging watching you produce all that you are on a relatively small amount of land. Thanks for the great videos.
@@daveowens4349So much you can do on 16! The Lord bless your family, your land, and the work of your hands. Multiply!
Jason,
In southwest Minnesota, a cash cropper can gross about $1,000 per acre / annually.
I have no idea what the net would be….
What does your regenerative farm generate annually in comparison?
Running 10 St Croix ewes an acre on all grass would yield you 20 lambs every Spring, which would bring $9500 at current prices…and a grass-based system with these sheep gets better on its own every year with minimal inputs.
@@birchfieldfarming I’d be interested to see a breakdown of your area, hypothetically, how much difference in profit per acre a regenerative rancher like yourself could make per acre, vs a crop farmer on an average year
@@ericviessmann7507Interesting idea for sure. Problem there is two completely different philosophies and contexts. One excels at scale, one doesn’t. One feeds family and local community foods that actually heal, one doesn’t. Looking at straight dollars and cents is what got us in our current industrial cesspool…tho I will acknowledge we still have to pay the bills.
@@birchfieldfarming great perspective about the scale issue!!!!!
I also hear people say how, if all the farming was this regenerative model, there wouldn’t be enough food!
I think the opposite would actually be true, I think more food can be grown per acre regeneratively than with these monoculture toxic crops that are basically turned into ultra processed crap that isn’t even nutritious.
I pray that The Lord continues to bless you and your family, that He continues to grow your profits for His glory and that you continue to reach a wider audience so people can see what real food is!
@@ericviessmann7507I agree, thanks so much for all the support and encouragement! So many good folks still out there!🤠
Have you tried putting out bird houses to combat the flies?
We have barn swallows everywhere, and they do help. We’ve also run chickens behind cattle/sheep in the rotation and that also helps. We have numerous water sources around the property (creeks, pond, etc), and I think it’s just challenging when you have the water around.
@@birchfieldfarming You can try fly strips near the water sources, Mr. Judy tried it, looked good.
Such a great comparison between the two methods. Not to mention the increased yields from being able to carry more animals. I know you mentioned having this property for 6 years or so but how long do you feel it took to repair the fields and get them to a level that could support that many animals?
That’s a great question and hard to say b/c there was so much learning and experimenting. In the beginning, I learned I was a chronic overgrazer, which I’m sure hurt the system. The other thing I need to talk about is stocking rate. I feel like once we got close to 50K/lbs per acre with adequate rest between grazings that’s when we really start to see improvement. I think doing that with multi-species, resting, even a year or two is enough to make a difference. (Cover crop grazing mixed in there for a soil health bonus)
@@birchfieldfarming Could you explain your formula? "50K/lb per acre"? I'm so new to this I can't safely hazard a guess. 50K of what? Could you have meant 50K lbs of livestock per acre to fertilize that acre at a rate that tipped into lush production of vegetation? I'm just guessing, but we are deciding how much land we need for what we want to do. 😂 (We need to run on the efficient side and not overbuy.)
So if I ran one 1000 lb cow on 1 acre I’d be running 1000lbs/acre stocking rate. Take that same acre and bump to 50 cows, now I’m 50K lbs/acre…I don’t necessarily need 50 cows tho, I could decrease my paddock size from 1 acre to 1/2 acre and only run 25…see what I’m saying? Now, here’s the thing, I have no idea where you are or how well your forage grows in your specific climate, so you have to do dry matter calculations and make certain you are moving paddocks frequently enough to get your animals fed what they need. I assume mine need about 3% of live weight per day in dry matter. Depending on thickness of pasture, usually 200 to 300 lbs of dry matter in each inch of an acre of pasture. Knowing what your animals look/sound like when hungry and full helps here as well. Does this help? You can also contact me direct thru our website if you need more help.
@@gardeninggalagain ask your local county cooperative extension service, if you are in USA, what your county's yearly "acres to support 1 animal unit" is. This can give you a starting point that may get you closer to your climate's tolerances. Consider Alejandro Carrillo, Las Damas Ranch, who advises with Understanding Ag. His farm in the Chijuajuan Desert needed many, many acres to suppot an AU ( animal unit= 1000 pounds of animal) (1 smaller breed cow, 5 to 7 goats or sheep,...), however, over years of proper grazing management, he has built soil that grows better and thicker forages than his "set stocked" neighbors. Consider multispecies forages from the seed bank that will express themselves when paddocks are grazed in a well managed fashion. It is better to move often and rest a paddock at the absolute least 21 days, but better when that rest is 60 to 300 days. Mix up the order of grazing paddocks, stocking density, time spent on a paddock, like you would change up your lifting/exercise routine.
@@Marilou-g5t Thank you.
12:59 - you have to change the system. Unfortunately, Ag lobby /rural lobby / go big or go home / Ag fallout reaganomics / changed system is set up in the Senate to not do that. The major problem here is that we as a nation have already fallen. The second we cap the house seats federally which was the balance for the fact the other 2 branches are setup on 2 senators (no matter population) and the electoral college. Makes changing anything very very hard. The level of breakdown required to change a system with that kind of force of voting power is super super hard. That voting power bleeds into every single effort to stop a subsidy system that backs poor AG practices. The addict has the voting power to keep giving itself discount drugs. And the big Ag can keep going to work because they are a functional addict. But functional addicts always crash. For years, inside Ag, and outside, AG, people who have built levies, and all the things that make American AG work have begged, asked nicely, cried, mourned, bailed out, and set up programs, to wean Ag off its problem. But Rural Ag/Big Ag has more voting power than it has people. And it's deeply addicted to willful ignorance. And what is the key that you hear from almost every farmer or most of the farmers/ranchers 1 out of 3 at least that have made the switch or actually made changes and used the VAST amount of programs set up to make changes? They hit rock bottom like an addict on their farm/ranch. Had to make a change. I think the biggest step is admitting you have a problem (tough love) moment. climate change denial, which is destroying ag hasn't helped them. anti-union politics which forces immigrant labor on farms and all the crises that come from that, which means they never get real developed labor on farms/ranches because people fear. Destroying local industries and towns. What most farms/ranches are doing isn't even the most basic farming/ranching in a modern sense. It's a lot of scientists in places, yes, but it's also a lot of self-defeating nonsense. Some of that is the cycle of industry. For example, way back when you had people who ran cattle in large herds people still do. I've worked for some that have more wild untrained cattle herds that work public and private land. Nearly, killing cattle that you'd never want to see on a permaculture farm or ranch. But people still for the most part work that cattle. Nothing wrong with smart cattle that know what to attack but they have such a combat relationship with the herd that for anything else that herd is basically a labor sink. Because they never trained or worked the herd properly in a modern sense. They did it like the good ole days picture. We even rode horses and a few dirt bikes. I worked on another farm/public-private. Employed mostly women. They used a bucket and some staging mixed grass alfalfa pellets. Shake the bucket and moo 4 times for a big move. Shake the feed bucket 1 moo 2 times for small moves. And they spent years training the herd. Use 1/10 the labor. Had 2 x as many cattle 4 donkeys, 10 llamas. 4 dogs, and a sheep herd. Made 3x more than other operations, rotationally grazed. At that time they only saw a subsidiary for the cattle I think not the sheep. Better grazing because they were rotational. The cattle knew their humans, they knew not their humans, and the herd leader understood the score. Her second cow understood. Her granny cows understood. It had quality management and 80% was fully on the table profitable and replicable. Even if you take the 80% she might be able to get other people to do still more profitable than 99% of all other farms in America per dollar for both farmers and employees. But that will never happen because farms as I quote "farming is not built on a meritocracy it's built on inheritance." So we are dealing with tons of people who boom and bust depending on which kid you get. There's very little public farming investment that isn't directed towards a small amount of the same ole farming kids who said yes to the farm or are a poor match for farming and the ones that actually are. And you are always rolling the dice with this problem. And the second problem is the massive voting power that is backing it. So, no I disagree, we gotta speak plain, cutting. Because it has already been attempted nice, it's already been attempted, through payoff, it's already been attempted in so many ways. You gotta treat it like an addict at this point.
Side question -
1. How are the dung beetles this year. How is the spray your using effecting the dung beetle population. (do you test before and after for 30 days?)
2. Have you thought about geese, if you setup a program for xmas goose running 100 per year. They take a bit longer than turkey but the herd really really well. And they do well in a rotational system if you give them same task. If you have a centeral tiktoc point and not use rotation you can actually just call them back. I'd do rotation though. If you ever get into pigs it's worth doing geese.
3. Have you thought about scaling acre and setting it up as silvo pasture? Which would also give you tree fodder.
Don’t take my shortness of response with a lack of care or respect for what you’re saying, just having trouble getting to everyone today. I certainly could have been more articulate, impressing that the change we’re needing (gosh that sounds disgustingly political) comes from outside of the system, it has to. Perhaps we agree on that.
The spray for cattle is not harmful, mostly ACV with some essential oils. Dung beetle populations peak in May/June so can be really tough to tell how they’re getting along this time of year. I did ID several species this year though and was super excited.
So we’ve raise and sold turkeys, even created our own pasture breed we called the Birchfield Bronze, bred a Narragansett hen with a bronze tom. Sold them one year and had great feedback. Here was our problem: If you don’t sell out in Nov & Dec, your turkeys will sit there all year long in freezer. Nobody (including us🤣) wanted to cook a whole turkey outside of the holidays. We ground them and sold some that way, but I’m afraid Christmas goose might be the same. Thank you for all your input and interaction here, friend.🤠
@@birchfieldfarming Yeah, I get a lot of agree ment on that point of the actual problem being Big Ag. But big AG, and small ag wrap up and all that voting power to hurt itself. And again, it's built on willful ignorance. And the system itself lacking competition of employment/ownership. Which in turn hurt itself again because your average farm is a low value employeer which again, it did to itself through voting power. But that's a wider convo and I get how folks don't agree with the tough love approch but a lot of it is a historical look at thing. Because they tried nice.
The biggest key to goose, turkey sale is to not fully depending on xmas. The problem is volume as well. It's much harder when you are not within 20 miles of a major city with a muli ethic population. It's even better for sheep direct sales because mutton sells better. Honestly, a lot of them perfer mutton / older goats. A lot of the stewed dishes are ruin by lamb an hogget. It just falls apart the wrong way or doesn't hold the seasoning and taste. As muslim fast food gains momentum you'll see the sheep goat market soaring even more. More so if you can get a direct sales going to augement things. But back to the main point the thing is you might want to look into BBQ market. Smoking market. There's sometimes groups of small farmers who team up to sell things like that. The sad thing about turkey is way to much focus on thanksgiving and xmas. It's actually on the list of perfered meats by body builders and weight loss. But the point of sale is processed a bit more. We have such an underdevelopment in the butchery / abattoir on the small scale unlike most countries. France, is probably giving us one hell of WTF when there farmers visit the USA
@@MistressOPI definitely think you’re onto something with the small scale processing, especially sheep. I’d like to have a small area here where we efficiently process our Spring born ram lambs before winter. And if nothing else, it’s great meat for family without sitting in a freezing cold tree stand.
@@birchfieldfarming ya, or cluster location of CSA butchery would work as well but it's not support by anything which makes it hard. Because it's hard finding a bunch of farmers in the same practice. The good thing about ben and jerys (dairy) and Tillamook again dairy. Is it force a lot of farmers into organic farming at the very least in a small cluster. Hell Tillamook became one of the most powerful co-op on the west coast until it went to hell. Been around for 100 years. Then the great great great grandkids lost there mind and move the jobs out oregon to wisconsin. Started using facotry heifers and doing weirdo stuff. Within the last 5 years. But point is a co-op style butchery would work if you had 10ish other farms near you who did the same thing as you did. It would mean you could farm in the style you want but also hire maybe 2 people to abattoir. Hell, if a co-op was setup yall could probably rotation it and do it gother until you figured out who you might want to hire. Which would make the USDA stuff so much easier. One of those a little less corn subsidy a little more logical decentralize meat production stuff. But again lobby.
So you bring in a lot of additional feed?
100% grass, so no grain. We do go thru about 10 tons of hay in winter, at about $100/ton.
…Sorry, that’s not entirely correct. 100% grass on the ruminant side. The broilers and layers do get a non-gmo grain, and yes I think the broilers especially go thru a lot. There’s a video buried back there somewhere of our broiler feed schedule…thousands of lbs for 100 birds in 9 weeks for about 500 lbs of meat. When crap hits the fan, the first thing we’ll do is go straight grass ruminants and whichever layer chickens can survive off compost scraps.
@@birchfieldfarming so during the spring and summer, you have no feed inputs on the ruminants?
You can run 8 cows and 30 sheep on 5 acres of grass alone? For how many months?
And why does EVERYONE else including Greg Judy say you need around 2+ acres per cow for a grass fed operation?
@@jhost0311It gets a bit complicated when we try and apply the same rates in different contexts. For example, Greg Judy’s land is so rocky and poor they can’t row crop there. This is why he is able to rent ground so cheap, which is why I personally think it’s unfair of him to propagate the idea that anybody can just lease pasture ground anywhere across the country. It only works in his context. Same with stocking rates. Around here they recommend 1 cow per acre, but in Wyoming it might be 10 acres for 1 cow! It all depends on where you are, soil health, and pasture conditions. But here’s the takeaway, wherever you are, you can improve on the set-stock rate FOR THAT AREA by resting and rotating your ruminant animals.
We purchased raw land and creating fields for pasture land and gardens. The problem we are having is thick weeds not allowing healthy grass growth. Everyone we seek advice from says spray broad leaf killer is our only option. I have been against it 100% but honestly I have no idea what else to do. I have a few goats I would like to run with my cows but they don’t respect fences enough to rotate like my cows.
If you can run some electronet, making paddocks…get your live weight animal lbs/acre to at least 50,000 and mow behind the animals each time you rotate. Clamp your paddock size down to achieve desired impact, then the mowing behind will level it down and let your good stuff thrive again. Goats and cattle I would think could work well in weedy areas. And if you can’t do any of that, just mechanically mow it for a season. You’re wise not spraying.
Hot fences (7000+ volts) with close enough polybraids or electronet. Could create a training pen with "solid" walls or tight gates and HOT "wires" about 4 to 6 inches inside that physical barrier to teach the psychological barrier. I run goats on 2nd and 4th from the bottom and top 3 hooks of the O'Brien step in posts. I used halters and allowed each new goat, sheep, dog, calf added to fence to nose it until they each looked at the fence and moved away. I pulled each back into paddock as the shocks happened. Hope this helps. Be blessed!
Would he allow you to start running his cattle for him? Improving your leased pasture until his lease is up and from there custom graze. Armchair QB here😅
I’m not interested. Probably just time to head in another direction now.👍
Do you guys milk anything
jason?
We have milked a couple of our Red Devon cows and actually a few sheep for awhile. The sheep milk was absolutely delicious, just not much of it per ewe so we switched to our Devons. Looked at a Jersey cow, but I love the fact that we can calf share with our Devons without them having trouble (milk or break when we want). I’ve always been curious if we could make more milk and still do that with a Red Devon/Jersey grass-fed cross.
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THANK GOD FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKING THAT LIVING WORD THDOUGH YOU MY BRO IN CHRIST
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Thank you, friend🤠🐑🌱❤️
About 13 Animal Units on 5 acres and your forages are AMAZING! God's plan is for abundance. Great soils, great forages, great health for animals and humans without purchasing inputs once the forages are healthy. Wean off the crutches. Greg Judy, Allen Williams, Gabe Brown,... and others show how to get to abandance in regen farming.
And anybody can do this! Matter of fact, I’d say those with no experience are better suited than those conventionally trained. Those old mindsets can be very hard to break away from, but we do still see it happening! Passing along hope here to all reading this!❤️
@@birchfieldfarming i was born and raised on high input dairy farm, raised crops of corn and hay,... dad retired and brothers switched to beefers. Unfortunately, they are still high inputs. I have been sending them regen videos for the last 2 or 3 years since i discovered the low input regen methods. A sis-in-law and i are trying, with some of the 2 brothers' kids to get the fence and critter moving figured out. Biggest error: putting the gate on the center side of a driveway, not a corner and setting next paddock in a mirror to the first. Something i missed in all the videos and grazing books that i have poured over. With poor hand strength and coordination the reels are a challenge. The Means siblings interviews are interesting, mind blowing!
@@birchfieldfarming a question that i asked Greg Judy at Greene, NY class in July 2023 was "can 100% grass-fed cattle get too fat?" No, not on only self-harvested forages. In TMR grain fed operations, that was an issue we had, especially with tail-enders that should be dried off or culled.
@@Marilou-g5tInteresting!
@@Marilou-g5tWhat a story! Hey, let us know when your UA-cam channel is up, you have lots to show!🤠🌱
If people want to fix the system they need to vote for Trump who is going to put RFKjr in charge of fixing the system.
🤣🤣🤣🤣….and heeeeeeere we go……
I’m not a fan of Trump, but Casey and Calley Means are working with RFKjr who is joining Trumps team and they will be in charge of fixing Big Ag, Big Food, and Big Pharma.
It’s a no brainer vote at this point.
The Fathers system is the Torah. We live by his spoken commands to Moses.
Jesus fulfilled the law and is greater than Moses. Our attention remains fixed on Him.
@@birchfieldfarmingAmen. This Hebrew Roots stuff is damnable heresy, making slaves of those who should be free in Christ. Gal 3:23-5:12. “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?” Gal 4:9
End the lease and use the rest of your land!
Yeah, thanks for the advice. Always a context there, lots of aspects to consider in such a decision.
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