The is truly the hardest concept to teach to the old school generation. I've been starting to graze this way on our farm but my dad just can't get passed seeing trampled forage as a negative thing. I'm always trying to get our pastures to fully recover get nice and tall, graze it for 1 day and and leave lots of trample, but my dad is like "the grass was too tall! They trampled and wasted so much! We need to get in there when is nice and short and graze it more often!" I'll try to get him to watch this but I have explained my thinking (and Greg's science) of leaving litter many times but I just can't get through to that old engrained thinking. For those who think it's easier to inherited a farm from the older generation than to seek out new land on your own, think again. I feel like I'm renting from another land owner all the time. For the record though, I love my father very much and he is doing an amazing thing by handing a whole farm down to me and he wants me to succeed. I just wish we both saw thorough the same lens.
Dear Greg and Jan: I know this is an older video now, but I'm curious abouyt whether can you also "trample" forage with sheep alone? Thank you for your insight. - Issac
It's funny, I got into land management stuff through the Growing Deer channel, then found your channel years later now, and come to find out you're in the same state using similar but different management concepts.
Apologize for the off topic. Had to go outta town. Desided to take the long way home. Found some Columbus method cattle with the death triangle. Thank you Mr.Judy for all of these lessons.
Its the depression before the left hip bone. It is depressed deeply when the cow doesn't get enough to eat. Its also called Limiting. Limiting the amount of food a cow can eat is starving them. Greg discusses it multiple times in his videos.
Greg I wonder if your insights should be mandatory training for the epa, Dept. of AG and the FDA? I think that there is a argument to be made on just national food supply and military support concerns.
I carry my phone and listen while I'm working. I don't always see unless I grab out my phone and look. I get to watch when I fold my laundry, or in the evening with relaxing with a beer or glass of wine, haha. Might as well learn when I'm out weeding the garden, putting up electric fence, or cooking.
OUR CHILDREN WERE ALWAYS LISTENING. NOW I HAVE MY GRAND GIRLS AND THEY TRULY LOVE IT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE FARM AND THEY ARE 7. CONSIDER DOING A BOOK. MY FAVORITE BOOK WAS A BOOK ABOUT A JOHN DEERE TRACTOR. I STILL HAVE IT TODAY.🙂🙂 ALWAYS BLESSINGS TO YOU AND JAN
I think the litter is the biggest difference between a hayfield and your grazing. Even if you spread manure on the hayfields (like I do) to compensate for the extracted nutriens, the soil is pretty much uncovered for 3 - 4 weeks after cutting and the soil biology is having a hard time. That's especally true if it's dry and hot.
Ha! My yard is full of white clover and blue grass since this mowing service took over. So true! I am trying to convince the property owner to change companies. In the meantime I am working on trying to put litter on the ground to feed the microbes.
How long do your dog live and do you think their breed would make good service animals. My service dog is a Malamute because she can think and act independantly around other people and equipment with her training.
No, those are the most ADHD dogs a person could own, they live with the sheep. They would not make a good service animal other than protecting livestock.
I have Stopped Thatching. thanks 😊 Dogs in background - Playing. meanwhile the sheep 🐑? Jan, a woman that stuck with a broke rancher and helped him get back on his feet - guys, that’s the kind of women we Need.
Can’t believe that it’s August 2020 and the GJRR community still haven’t had an “it’s poly braid not poly wire” merch drop yet! ... Love the channel - lets me dream about life in a couple of years when I can escape to the country and get a few acres.
He generally doesn't fertilize established pasture on a regular basis. Greg has mentioned using lime as well as some phosphorus and potassium on severely degraded cropland or abandoned wasteland that he has recently leased, in order to jump-start the soil's recovery. Once the health of the soil is recovered, these amendments are no longer necessary since the plant roots, mycorrhizal fungi and other microorganisms found in healthy soil can extract these from the subsoil. Legumes provide the nitrogen. Liming might still be needed occasionally in certain areas, but that's about it.
I recall hearing that some of my grandfather’s cows dies in his woods (in Pennsylvania) from eating a poisonous plant. How do you know if any poisonous plants are in a woods before letting your cattle and/or sheep in a woods?
What about those locations where mineral and water rights are sold separately from the property? By making the land absorb more water you deprive the “water rights” owner of his share of run off. Ok I’m kinda kidding but still wonder about this. You can’t legally collect rainwater in some locations.
There's a big difference between increased water infiltration in the soil and water impoundments. Some states are super crappy about landowners impounding water in reservoirs but as far as I know, no state or entity has ever tried to regulate water infiltration rates. I'm not sure how they would even accomplish that. Some crooked sob probably will sooner or later though, lol.
Brent when the year round stream starts to dry up because of lack of runoff, someone might notice. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting Greg is doing anything wrong, just thinking slowed about what could happen is someone tries to push it.
@@4philipp Most "year around streams" are fed by ground water springs. Increasing soil water infiltration should in fact increase spring fed stream flow over time because water percolation rates are drastically improved. Liken it to a sponge, it may take a while for it to reach full saturation but once it does the system should balance and cycle as normal...all things being equal.
Great video. Important information to thrive
I love your dogs playing at background. Love your channel!
The is truly the hardest concept to teach to the old school generation. I've been starting to graze this way on our farm but my dad just can't get passed seeing trampled forage as a negative thing. I'm always trying to get our pastures to fully recover get nice and tall, graze it for 1 day and and leave lots of trample, but my dad is like "the grass was too tall! They trampled and wasted so much! We need to get in there when is nice and short and graze it more often!" I'll try to get him to watch this but I have explained my thinking (and Greg's science) of leaving litter many times but I just can't get through to that old engrained thinking. For those who think it's easier to inherited a farm from the older generation than to seek out new land on your own, think again. I feel like I'm renting from another land owner all the time. For the record though, I love my father very much and he is doing an amazing thing by handing a whole farm down to me and he wants me to succeed. I just wish we both saw thorough the same lens.
Hang in there Tam, change is very difficult for folks.
AudioBook? It would be great to have an audiobook edition that you read and offer bonus input or stories you had to leave out on the written book.
I like how the young boys get engaged in your program👍
Greg, you are so blessed to to have a supportive wife who is your equal and team member. It looks like you have a great marriage.
This is a wonderful episode Greg. Keep up the great work.
Those dogs be dogging hard
Jan is a UA-cam pro! You two make a great team .
Loved hearing Jan sharing your passion. Now that's a marriage! ❤ I love it.
Agreed. A spouse with conviction for stewardship is a blessing. We were made to be caretakers.
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Dear Greg and Jan: I know this is an older video now, but I'm curious abouyt whether can you also "trample" forage with sheep alone? Thank you for your insight. - Issac
You absolutely can with long rectangular shaped daily grazed strips of pasture
It's funny, I got into land management stuff through the Growing Deer channel, then found your channel years later now, and come to find out you're in the same state using similar but different management concepts.
I think that vine you were talking about in this video is American hog peanut. It’s a native legume.
God bless the farmily, friends.
Apologize for the off topic. Had to go outta town. Desided to take the long way home. Found some Columbus method cattle with the death triangle. Thank you Mr.Judy for all of these lessons.
What is the death triangle?
That’s what I’m wondering
Its the depression before the left hip bone. It is depressed deeply when the cow doesn't get enough to eat. Its also called Limiting. Limiting the amount of food a cow can eat is starving them.
Greg discusses it multiple times in his videos.
Lee Lindsay thanks! I remember hearing him talk about that, but didn’t remember the term he used.
Another great example of the stewardship Jan & Greg exemplify in their operation, love it!
Greg I wonder if your insights should be mandatory training for the epa, Dept. of AG and the FDA? I think that there is a argument to be made on just national food supply and military support concerns.
I like the hats. Good merch is key
The dogs 😆😆
Another gem, so good. Enjoyed watching the pups play. They are beautiful. Thank you again.
Blippi
Can I watch them play?
Y’all are the best!!!!
I watch every episode. I could watch for hours if I had the time. Thanks again!
I carry my phone and listen while I'm working. I don't always see unless I grab out my phone and look. I get to watch when I fold my laundry, or in the evening with relaxing with a beer or glass of wine, haha. Might as well learn when I'm out weeding the garden, putting up electric fence, or cooking.
I’m working my way through all of these videos.
New book!!! Awesome, can’t wait!
Definitely like the videos with that have a back and forth between the both of you, feels natural!
YOU NEED TO DO A CHILDREN'S BOOK!!
OUR CHILDREN WERE ALWAYS LISTENING. NOW I HAVE MY GRAND GIRLS AND THEY TRULY LOVE IT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE FARM AND THEY ARE 7. CONSIDER DOING A BOOK. MY FAVORITE BOOK WAS A BOOK ABOUT A JOHN DEERE TRACTOR. I STILL HAVE IT TODAY.🙂🙂 ALWAYS BLESSINGS TO YOU AND JAN
I think the litter is the biggest difference between a hayfield and your grazing. Even if you spread manure on the hayfields (like I do) to compensate for the extracted nutriens, the soil is pretty much uncovered for 3 - 4 weeks after cutting and the soil biology is having a hard time. That's especally true if it's dry and hot.
Any update on the project in Arizona?
Do you feel the pastures' nitrogen needs are not being fulfilled by the manure?
Ha! My yard is full of white clover and blue grass since this mowing service took over. So true! I am trying to convince the property owner to change companies.
In the meantime I am working on trying to put litter on the ground to feed the microbes.
Am from Pakistan what kind of plants and grasses would u suggest for a pasture in a land which receives less annual rain. Water requirements?
Buy Rhodes grass a tropical perennial grass
How long do your dog live and do you think their breed would make good service animals. My service dog is a Malamute because she can think and act independantly around other people and equipment with her training.
No, those are the most ADHD dogs a person could own, they live with the sheep. They would not make a good service animal other than protecting livestock.
I have Stopped Thatching. thanks 😊
Dogs in background - Playing. meanwhile the sheep 🐑?
Jan, a woman that stuck with a broke rancher and helped him get back on his feet - guys, that’s the kind of women we Need.
Lol...those are their pet dogs, not their guardian dogs.
Lee Lindsay - I wondered. 🧐
Can’t believe that it’s August 2020 and the GJRR community still haven’t had an “it’s poly braid not poly wire” merch drop yet! ... Love the channel - lets me dream about life in a couple of years when I can escape to the country and get a few acres.
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What type of fertilizer do you use?
He generally doesn't fertilize established pasture on a regular basis. Greg has mentioned using lime as well as some phosphorus and potassium on severely degraded cropland or abandoned wasteland that he has recently leased, in order to jump-start the soil's recovery. Once the health of the soil is recovered, these amendments are no longer necessary since the plant roots, mycorrhizal fungi and other microorganisms found in healthy soil can extract these from the subsoil. Legumes provide the nitrogen. Liming might still be needed occasionally in certain areas, but that's about it.
I recall hearing that some of my grandfather’s cows dies in his woods (in Pennsylvania) from eating a poisonous plant. How do you know if any poisonous plants are in a woods before letting your cattle and/or sheep in a woods?
Your local extension office probably has info or could send out an agent.
Books, ordered
I knew there had to be a good woman somewhere in that success!
Love the back of the shirt lol 😂
What about those locations where mineral and water rights are sold separately from the property? By making the land absorb more water you deprive the “water rights” owner of his share of run off.
Ok I’m kinda kidding but still wonder about this. You can’t legally collect rainwater in some locations.
Greg is not collecting water. Nature is.
There's a big difference between increased water infiltration in the soil and water impoundments. Some states are super crappy about landowners impounding water in reservoirs but as far as I know, no state or entity has ever tried to regulate water infiltration rates. I'm not sure how they would even accomplish that. Some crooked sob probably will sooner or later though, lol.
Brent when the year round stream starts to dry up because of lack of runoff, someone might notice.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting Greg is doing anything wrong, just thinking slowed about what could happen is someone tries to push it.
@@4philipp Most "year around streams" are fed by ground water springs. Increasing soil water infiltration should in fact increase spring fed stream flow over time because water percolation rates are drastically improved. Liken it to a sponge, it may take a while for it to reach full saturation but once it does the system should balance and cycle as normal...all things being equal.
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