Greg, you're an inspiration and a treasure. The amount of lives you've helped is immeasurable. Mine included. Thank you for this new lease on life. Sincerely, Chris
The daytimer is crucial. The more detail the better. What details? Weather for one. On line search for the National Weather Service. Input your zip code. Even if the reporting station is miles away it will give you approximate values to record. What if any, wildlife was observed? What were they? How many? What were they doing? Passing through or foraging. What plants are budding or blooming. What are the grasses doing? At one time years ago I fished very hardcore. A professional guide told me to start a log and write down all I observed. No matter how insignificant I might have thought it was. Bottom line over time I fished less and caught more. I was working with nature. Wright down what you did. Over time some actions will continue and some will seldom be done in the future. Good talk Mr.Judy. Thanks.
For anyone looking for a more modern one. They're pricey, but look into coyote reaper headlamps and coon lamps. Then check out sniper hog lights headlamps and coon lamps.
I’ve got less than twelve months till I give up my day job and run my cows full time. Very rare I get a day off always jobs to do for the cattle but I can see the light🙏🙏. I’ve enjoyed your channel for a while now and appreciate your no nonsense approach to running cattle. One of your videos inspired me to go and see a lady about leasing her land and what do you know she said yes. Will be nice to have another paddock a bit closer to home. 👍🏼👍🏼 🇦🇺
Congratulations 🎊. That’s just awesome for you and I am so proud that you are living your best life!! God bless your hard work and we will see you down the road 👍
i think if your doing what you love days off arent needed much. I'd love to try ranching, currently I'm a truck driver and I love it, and its one of those loves where I feel every day was a day off cuz I was doing what I wanted.
@@tarasporleder1 some days doing what I do to pay the bills is a grind knowing I’m so close to doing what I love. I don’t mind taking the truck for a drive be nice if I had a few more creature comforts on my old girl though👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺
@@mountainblokemoments I get it. I have frustrating days too. But I think of one of my fav quotes from the TV show "the office" where dwight says, "If onlys and buts were candys and nuts, then everyday would be Erntedankfest" I dunno if it means much but makes me lol
Another good story. I went down to Southern MN yesterday, and listened to Ray Archuleta give a talk on soil health and cover crops. He is a good speaker with loads of information! Have a wonderful weekend
Greg you are old school and that's the only way you can make it today. So many don't understand that accurate, knowledge, applied is the only thing that is going to stand in the coming days. You have to sacrifice to achieve. Thanks for all the knowledge.
‘If you don’t write it down-you can’t remember it!’ And the action of writing it down helps you to remember it. Nite lights are about 1/5 the size now. Led bulbs and lithium ion batteries have made a huge improvement
Thanks for the recommendation Greg. That pocket size day-timer with two pages per day is perfectly any working person size. The only thing I've ever consistently written in is a pocket sized spiral notebook.... 👍
Spoiler ALERT: While reading your book Comeback Farms a couple years ago; my husband and I stumbled into a GEM of a side story! I don't want to give too much away to others that haven't read it, but the coon light in this video and the "thick thorns/brush" comment reminded me. I've been chomping at the bit to mention the rodeo Aussie in the comments for sometime now. There it is done. Greg, you caught us completely off guard with that story, lol. What a laugh we had reading that part!! All the best to everyone! -Until next time.
First! Thanks again for all your videos! I used a coon light all the time back in my younger days going hunting. I got it for Christmas one year. It was one of the best Christmas gifts I ever got. My light was on a ball cap hat and not on a hard hat though. The only downfall of the light the bulbs would burn out fast. I always kept extra bulbs with me so I wouldn’t be out with a light. Now I use a smaller light when I work in the dark. I only work a little bit at a time after work because I want to spend time with my family too, or I get up early to work outside before I go to work since they are sleeping. You have to be a person who wants it that bad too. You have to have self motivation or a drive that you won’t stop until you achieve your goals. I log everything on my phone in my calendar which is attached to an email calendar. Then, I can look it up by typing in my phone and it gives exact day and time. I also write stuff in a little notepad like you have too when I have time. Yeah I remember the drought of 2012. It was super hot and dry. I mowed my lawn in March for the first time which normally we mow in the end of April or early May. Then, I didn’t mow the lawn again until September or October. I was living in town at the time. This past year we had a lack of rain too. I would say it was a drought but not as bad as 2012. We had small rains here and there but it was scattered rains.
I used to use those lights for coon hunting. Lights have made some huge improvements there are lot better option today with LED lights that are smaller lighter are brighter and the batteries last longer
I've been out working in the fields at midnight as a grown ass man and had my Mother show up and ask me what I'm doing. My house is up the road from my parents. My mother is a night owl and a worry wart. Lol
I used just bound note pads. I have a whole box full of old ones. I don't like single pages glued, I like a book that is one page of paper double wide, a bunch of pages, and sewn down the middle, or some are flip flop. A daytime, how many times are you going to have nothing to say?, blank page. I put the start date at the top, (Waterproof ink! Get stuck in rain, and you have a black and blue illegible smudge if not Waterproof). Each entry date it at the top, same place always. Finish the book? Put the finish date outside next to the start date.
Used a wheat lamp in the 70's when I was a kid. It was the BOSS of lights back then (and I was a kid) but things have changed dramatically since then with LED's and fancy battery tech. Finally got a clear sight line on the new, never-cleared section of boundary today. Still a lot of wood to get out. Then Timeless Fence will be strung. By the way, I have some highland swampy areas, on this place. Would you make brushpiles in the damp areas or put it on higher ground? The damp won't grow much but also it's not really good "rabbitat" with a soggy floor. Also most of the wood is white oak, so where ever I put the piles, there will be piles for a long time.
Great stories to learn from. Would love to see how you plan out your grazing schedule. So much goes into it, but you probably know it by gut feeling. How do you learn how to plan out your paddocks?
I’d love to know more on that one too. In the meantime you can check out mark Shepherd in Wisconsin. He builds lots of stuff right out of pasture. Grazing and permaculture etc. That’ might even be his specialty. (I might not have spelled his name spelled right but you can find him. Loads of material on his work 👍
Yes don't watch any TV, I can attest it's addictive and promotes laziness and if you drink it will make you want to drink all the more!... read books about grass farming and finance and nature science, and only watch Greg Judy!!!😁
I've been using my phone for notes. I want to refer to something, (a month from now I'll remember the phosphorous reference you told us), "Phosphorous," in the search bar, and I have it in a second. Caution, everything is tied to the internet, or like the Airtag, network with other devises, sending your data back to a computer company's, (which I think is a foreign power), and databased.
I still prefer paper over electronic notes. We had to look something up at work a couple weeks ago. I had my notes and a coworker had her phone. Funny thing is we answered at the same time.
@@ryanforbes3021 I said I could discuss the benefits of written notes, but the takeaway is that written notes are best managed by databaaing to computer-if it matters. I started thia notepad in 2020, simultaneously buying another phone. I probably put a couple hundred notes on it, and it sat idle until I started using it primarily about a year ago. I have 1966 notes on it. I can scroll through titles from the last couple months, but a note written 6 months ago, I would be hard pressed. That said, this is the detriment of digital notes: These days, you can't buy a peripheral without Bluetooth and WiFi, and increasingly, they use am radio bands. Ring cameras, Air Tags, a refrigerator built as part of the IOT, (Internet Of Things), all gather all information, which is transferred to anything with a signal, and ends up at their headquarters. Imagine you devised a unique application to solve a problem.ike Nicolai Tesla, who invented radio, but was stolen, and attributed to a British Crown accredited Licensee, Marconi, who was attributed as the inventor. SO, We need to jealously protect our intellectual property. That is just one drawback.
@@ryanforbes3021 Exactly. I have been a digital note taker, I don't know, ten years? I have probably an 8" by 8" by 6" deep box full of notepads spanning back to the 1980s, that once I have time, I imagine digitizing. I doubt I will ever get to that.
One thing, if you will do it, write in your notebook,, and transfer to a database system, or even a Word document, easier to refer to, and your computer can stay off the internet.
One thing to think about, they have greatly improved lithium Ion batteries, lighter (10X±), longer charge, longer life, (more charges), not as fragile as to being left in a low charge state, (❗But caution❗Run it empty, and it's a paperweight. Most devices have a failsafe to keep you from running it dry).
There are a lot of us. Tom Condon played for the Chiefs, if I recall, Joe Montana's sports agent. I once got a call from a young lady, would I come to a certain brewery pub and hang out with she and her female friend. I said sure, we chatted, and she said, "You sound different from Tom Condon, I don't think I know you." I admitted I didn't recognize her, and she said, 'Oh well.' "Would you like to meet up anyway?" "No thanks." I'll check out James.
Mum used tiny coiled booklets for her notes she liked to record her milage and gas purchases to see how much it cost to run the vehicle.she liked knowing things they drove across Canada quite a few times she could tell you what it cost for each trip where they ate and what they bought too I remember standing in the dining room with my with my son a toddler at the time two raccoons were on the deck they were so large! one of them was standing up at the window looking back at us. It didn't tear the screen well behaved but scary all the same. Do you think it was complaining that we had bought a garbage can that had a locking mechanism ? The raccoons knew when garbage pickup was scheduled they would scout our yard the night before. You are allowed to put garbage bags out after eight at night I do it just before eight in the morning. Cleaning up torn scattered bags of garbage does make an impression been there and don't want to do it again. We had a massive rainstorm Friday my mountains are a bit larger than molehills! I am glad the wind blew the driveway pavement dry as the temperature late in the afternoon dropped to below freezing.. Blizzards are not fun I think mother nature is playing with me, she must have plans to dump a ton of snow but not until next Friday I hope that the forecast is correct. 🌟🍀🌟🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🌟🍀🌟🍀🌟👍👍👍👍👍👍😘💕💞💕🙋🏼♀️
Greg, you're an inspiration and a treasure. The amount of lives you've helped is immeasurable. Mine included. Thank you for this new lease on life.
Sincerely,
Chris
Coal mining light. 👍
The daytimer is crucial. The more detail the better. What details? Weather for one. On line search for the National Weather Service. Input your zip code. Even if the reporting station is miles away it will give you approximate values to record. What if any, wildlife was observed? What were they? How many? What were they doing? Passing through or foraging. What plants are budding or blooming. What are the grasses doing?
At one time years ago I fished very hardcore. A professional guide told me to start a log and write down all I observed. No matter how insignificant I might have thought it was. Bottom line over time I fished less and caught more. I was working with nature.
Wright down what you did. Over time some actions will continue and some will seldom be done in the future. Good talk Mr.Judy. Thanks.
Greg, you are PRICELESS!!
For anyone looking for a more modern one. They're pricey, but look into coyote reaper headlamps and coon lamps. Then check out sniper hog lights headlamps and coon lamps.
Greg Judy, is a hound guy!!!!
Which is your favorite? Plott,redbone,bluetick,bnt, or one of them beautiful treeing walkers? Lol
Walkers and Blueticks were my favorites!
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher do you have a link to buy the pocket planners you use ?
I’ve got less than twelve months till I give up my day job and run my cows full time. Very rare I get a day off always jobs to do for the cattle but I can see the light🙏🙏. I’ve enjoyed your channel for a while now and appreciate your no nonsense approach to running cattle. One of your videos inspired me to go and see a lady about leasing her land and what do you know she said yes. Will be nice to have another paddock a bit closer to home. 👍🏼👍🏼 🇦🇺
Congratulations 🎊. That’s just awesome for you and I am so proud that you are living your best life!! God bless your hard work and we will see you down the road 👍
i think if your doing what you love days off arent needed much. I'd love to try ranching, currently I'm a truck driver and I love it, and its one of those loves where I feel every day was a day off cuz I was doing what I wanted.
@@tarasporleder1 some days doing what I do to pay the bills is a grind knowing I’m so close to doing what I love. I don’t mind taking the truck for a drive be nice if I had a few more creature comforts on my old girl though👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺
@@mountainblokemoments I get it. I have frustrating days too. But I think of one of my fav quotes from the TV show "the office" where dwight says, "If onlys and buts were candys and nuts, then everyday would be Erntedankfest"
I dunno if it means much but makes me lol
You have to be willing to do today what others won't do. ( to have what others won't have tomarrow. )
I'm successfully weaned off of TV, but how do I wean off of UA-cam?!
G'day Stevie, took my advice, for which I thank you. Pappy.
I wish I knew how many miles I walked at a young age chasing my papaw through the woods using Night light or Bright Eyes branded lights.
Link for the planners? The ones online are very expensive.
Another good story. I went down to Southern MN yesterday, and listened to Ray Archuleta give a talk on soil health and cover crops. He is a good speaker with loads of information! Have a wonderful weekend
Love that story when I read the book. Thanks for the info and reminders!
Do you have a link for the notepad/planners ?
Greg you are old school and that's the only way you can make it today. So many don't understand that accurate, knowledge, applied is the only thing that is going to stand in the coming days. You have to sacrifice to achieve. Thanks for all the knowledge.
You’re the man, Greg!
‘If you don’t write it down-you can’t remember it!’ And the action of writing it down helps you to remember it.
Nite lights are about 1/5 the size now. Led bulbs and lithium ion batteries have made a huge improvement
I always worry I'll forget something if it's not wrote down.
SPOILER ALERT: Despite the title, this video doesn't explain how he leased 12 farms. He just talks about wearing a head lamp.
Good thing they have better flashlights these days.
Thanks for the recommendation Greg. That pocket size day-timer with two pages per day is perfectly any working person size. The only thing I've ever consistently written in is a pocket sized spiral notebook.... 👍
Spoiler ALERT: While reading your book Comeback Farms a couple years ago; my husband and I stumbled into a GEM of a side story! I don't want to give too much away to others that haven't read it, but the coon light in this video and the "thick thorns/brush" comment reminded me. I've been chomping at the bit to mention the rodeo Aussie in the comments for sometime now. There it is done. Greg, you caught us completely off guard with that story, lol. What a laugh we had reading that part!! All the best to everyone! -Until next time.
Great video! Had to do lots of work on the farm in the dark after work. Farming full time now but still have to work in the dark sometimes.
Love your tenacity Greg. I can just see heads spinning because you recommended paper and pen LOL
First! Thanks again for all your videos! I used a coon light all the time back in my younger days going hunting. I got it for Christmas one year. It was one of the best Christmas gifts I ever got. My light was on a ball cap hat and not on a hard hat though. The only downfall of the light the bulbs would burn out fast. I always kept extra bulbs with me so I wouldn’t be out with a light. Now I use a smaller light when I work in the dark. I only work a little bit at a time after work because I want to spend time with my family too, or I get up early to work outside before I go to work since they are sleeping. You have to be a person who wants it that bad too. You have to have self motivation or a drive that you won’t stop until you achieve your goals. I log everything on my phone in my calendar which is attached to an email calendar. Then, I can look it up by typing in my phone and it gives exact day and time. I also write stuff in a little notepad like you have too when I have time. Yeah I remember the drought of 2012. It was super hot and dry. I mowed my lawn in March for the first time which normally we mow in the end of April or early May. Then, I didn’t mow the lawn again until September or October. I was living in town at the time. This past year we had a lack of rain too. I would say it was a drought but not as bad as 2012. We had small rains here and there but it was scattered rains.
I used to use those lights for coon hunting. Lights have made some huge improvements there are lot better option today with LED lights that are smaller lighter are brighter and the batteries last longer
and how.
I've been out working in the fields at midnight as a grown ass man and had my Mother show up and ask me what I'm doing. My house is up the road from my parents. My mother is a night owl and a worry wart. Lol
Encouragement from one of the best We'll keep on moving forward to live our dream Oh how bad we want it
I used just bound note pads. I have a whole box full of old ones. I don't like single pages glued, I like a book that is one page of paper double wide, a bunch of pages, and sewn down the middle, or some are flip flop. A daytime, how many times are you going to have nothing to say?, blank page. I put the start date at the top, (Waterproof ink! Get stuck in rain, and you have a black and blue illegible smudge if not Waterproof). Each entry date it at the top, same place always. Finish the book? Put the finish date outside next to the start date.
LED's and tiny high-tech batteries have long obsoleted those behemoths. Much easier now for lighting. Still plenty of work to be done.
Used a wheat lamp in the 70's when I was a kid. It was the BOSS of lights back then (and I was a kid) but things have changed dramatically since then with LED's and fancy battery tech. Finally got a clear sight line on the new, never-cleared section of boundary today. Still a lot of wood to get out. Then Timeless Fence will be strung.
By the way, I have some highland swampy areas, on this place. Would you make brushpiles in the damp areas or put it on higher ground? The damp won't grow much but also it's not really good "rabbitat" with a soggy floor. Also most of the wood is white oak, so where ever I put the piles, there will be piles for a long time.
My excuse Im single lol. And I am flat out busy in the winter. I suppose finishing grassers in the summer could work though....
Great stories to learn from.
Would love to see how you plan out your grazing schedule. So much goes into it, but you probably know it by gut feeling.
How do you learn how to plan out your paddocks?
Great video, any chance you could do a video on turning bare cropland (old soybean field) in to pasture? Cheers from Canada
I’d love to know more on that one too. In the meantime you can check out mark Shepherd in Wisconsin. He builds lots of stuff right out of pasture. Grazing and permaculture etc. That’ might even be his specialty. (I might not have spelled his name spelled right but you can find him. Loads of material on his work 👍
Hope the conference is going well.
Hola Greg, say Hi to your better Half.
Yes don't watch any TV, I can attest it's addictive and promotes laziness and if you drink it will make you want to drink all the more!... read books about grass farming and finance and nature science, and only watch Greg Judy!!!😁
I've been using my phone for notes. I want to refer to something, (a month from now I'll remember the phosphorous reference you told us), "Phosphorous," in the search bar, and I have it in a second.
Caution, everything is tied to the internet, or like the Airtag, network with other devises, sending your data back to a computer company's, (which I think is a foreign power), and databased.
I still prefer paper over electronic notes. We had to look something up at work a couple weeks ago. I had my notes and a coworker had her phone. Funny thing is we answered at the same time.
@@ryanforbes3021 I said I could discuss the benefits of written notes, but the takeaway is that written notes are best managed by databaaing to computer-if it matters.
I started thia notepad in 2020, simultaneously buying another phone. I probably put a couple hundred notes on it, and it sat idle until I started using it primarily about a year ago. I have 1966 notes on it. I can scroll through titles from the last couple months, but a note written 6 months ago, I would be hard pressed.
That said, this is the detriment of digital notes: These days, you can't buy a peripheral without Bluetooth and WiFi, and increasingly, they use am radio bands. Ring cameras, Air Tags, a refrigerator built as part of the IOT, (Internet Of Things), all gather all information, which is transferred to anything with a signal, and ends up at their headquarters. Imagine you devised a unique application to solve a problem.ike Nicolai Tesla, who invented radio, but was stolen, and attributed to a British Crown accredited Licensee, Marconi, who was attributed as the inventor. SO, We need to jealously protect our intellectual property. That is just one drawback.
@@tomcondon6169 to each there own. Whatever works best for the one making notes.
@@ryanforbes3021 Exactly. I have been a digital note taker, I don't know, ten years? I have probably an 8" by 8" by 6" deep box full of notepads spanning back to the 1980s, that once I have time, I imagine digitizing. I doubt I will ever get to that.
@@tomcondon6169 sounds like you have a project on your hands 🤣 you have notes almost as old as I am. Have a good evening
One thing, if you will do it, write in your notebook,, and transfer to a database system, or even a Word document, easier to refer to, and your computer can stay off the internet.
Lucky that game warden didn't have ego problems!
One thing to think about, they have greatly improved lithium Ion batteries, lighter (10X±), longer charge, longer life, (more charges), not as fragile as to being left in a low charge state, (❗But caution❗Run it empty, and it's a paperweight. Most devices have a failsafe to keep you from running it dry).
A James Condon has a really nice channel on small motor repairs, gennies and such.
There are a lot of us. Tom Condon played for the Chiefs, if I recall, Joe Montana's sports agent. I once got a call from a young lady, would I come to a certain brewery pub and hang out with she and her female friend. I said sure, we chatted, and she said, "You sound different from Tom Condon, I don't think I know you." I admitted I didn't recognize her, and she said, 'Oh well.' "Would you like to meet up anyway?" "No thanks."
I'll check out James.
I wonder what that game warden thought was going on back there.
He thought I was poaching a deer out of season
I use a FULL FOCUS which is three months to each book. I write the year and quarter on the spine in permanent marker and keep them in a bin, spine up.
Mum used tiny coiled booklets for her notes she liked to record her milage and gas purchases to see how much it cost to run the vehicle.she liked knowing things they drove across Canada quite a few times she could tell you what it cost for each trip where they ate and what they bought too
I remember standing in the dining room with my with my son a toddler at the time two raccoons were on the deck they were so large! one of them was standing up at the window looking back at us. It didn't tear the screen well behaved but scary all the same. Do you think it was complaining that we had bought a garbage can that had a locking mechanism ? The raccoons knew when garbage pickup was scheduled they would scout our yard the night before. You are allowed to put garbage bags out after eight at night I do it just before eight in the morning. Cleaning up torn scattered bags of garbage does make an impression been there and don't want to do it again. We had a massive rainstorm Friday my mountains are a bit larger than molehills! I am glad the wind blew the driveway pavement dry as the temperature late in the afternoon dropped to below freezing.. Blizzards are not fun I think mother nature is playing with me, she must have plans to dump a ton of snow but not until next Friday I hope that the forecast is correct. 🌟🍀🌟🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🌟🍀🌟🍀🌟👍👍👍👍👍👍😘💕💞💕🙋🏼♀️
Please put the fuel tanks outside, in a building away from people and valuable equipment.
Those are empty fuel tanks
🤓🖖👍✌👌😎
TV is trash but what about UA-cam?!? Regenerative agriculture would sound like some goofy political term.