Richard Makim - Grass Finished Beef - Regenerative Grazing a Farming Revolution in Australia
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2023
- Producing top quality marbling from grass fed beef. Is it possible? As Richard says, there are not enough graziers who have been doing this for long enough to be able to answer this question. Richard is excited to see the optimal potential of his land, now that he is starting to see some regeneration happening.
Regenerative Farming is taking a surge forward into our future, name any problem we face today and when you follow the trail back to grassroots, the answer is Regenerative Farming. Health; both mental and physical, environment on land, rivers and the sea, the atmosphere, the entire food system, education and a circular economy.
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Thank you for these wonderful interviews. Please keep them coming
Thank you. I’ve just hit a crossroads in my business life, that’s why videos have been a bit slow in being edited.
I’m so pleased you are enjoying them 💚
Reminds me of Greg Judy
Could you publish or produce a short video about a regen farming book list. Books that these farmers have read or have influenced them?
Hi Rob, the best booklist that I know of is by David von Pein. He has his own playlist on this channel: ua-cam.com/play/PL4GiqkSZFMGqju67-MmxrrskV1neX5X27.html&si=AidLoqb_wpjc4dfQ
He also has a website: www.themeterman.com.au/ and you will find the booklist on the PRICE LIST pages 13 - 24
www.themeterman.com.au/pdfs/tmm-pricelist-18-12-2023.pdf. I doubt you will find a more comprehensive list anywhere else. David loves talking to regenerative people and is a wealth of knowledge so feel free to call him.
The paddock a 5:00 looked great, belly deep in grass in places, but no signs of chewing, or eating? Just sniffing and then gate watching. No mention of a 'holding area'. That's quite intriguing.
Great observation Peter. Animals who are able to graze a full range of plants don’t need to eat for so many hours because they are full. Grazing grass at a specific growth phase also provides them with highest amount of nutrition.
Both of these will give the animals more time to lie down and chew the cud (in relation to cattle). The result is faster and more healthy weight gain. Less stress on the animal, grazier and environment and much lower methane production.
As you can see these animals are happy and no stress hormones being produced.
@@FarmingRevolution Ah, we missed the lunch bell ("no dinner many a noon").
You're right about the stress. I was concerned enough to almost ask if this was a remedial class, just happy to be there, be breathing, till the funny two-legs show up.
Psst, CH₄ (methane) is highly volatile, any contact with oxygen (21% of the entire atmosphere) immediately shatters its retirement plans. Don't be bullied by the blue meanies. 😉
Thats what my cow looks like, she's 1/3 Red Wagyu along with Red Angus and Charolais and she looks so similar to your red ones , beautiful ...just had her first 1/2 South Poll heifer in July....nice slick coat and that large Senepol navel.
I'd want to graze on really good covercrop mix or maybe a pasture crop to see if I kept the gentics I was looking for. A real nice greedy feed. Then go backwards, because the wagyu barbling is suppose to be a gentic trait in itself. It always seems like in these systems that you have to make sure you got it in what you are crossing at least a season. Because what if the problem and why you are seeing it is because that gentic trait wasn't there in the grouping to begin with. Because it's not like the double musle trait. In something like muscular hyperplasia you can see it even if you don't feed them well. I always thought it was odd to do it like this for something like waygu on grass. Because you never know if they are receive the base amount. It's one of those times I'd rather work backwards. Backing them into less feed conversion and using a drone to work it out. Maybe even putting up a camera watching how much each cow is eating for a week then pushing that math forward into genetic selection from there.
Lovely looking bunch of cattle. My husband and I are new to regen farming. We have just started implementing our little knowledge on our new property. We’ve noticed a lot of red clover in our pastures. Which is in high country of the Hunter valley. Could you recommend a grass mix?
Before jumping straight in to ms mix ask yourselves what’s growing naturally. Dig them out and have a look at the roots. Find out what family they are in.
Clover is a good sign but have a look at its roots. Are the nodules pink/red in colour or are they green?
Pink = actively fixing nitrogen. Green = stopped fixing nitrogen.
Is your country compacted? Has it been industrially farmed? Etc.
Gather as much info as you can then think about what species you need in a ms mix.
There is a comment under ‘Soil and Seed’ video stating that by using a slasher and managed grazing only, they have seen different grass species reseed from the collection already in the soil.
Sometimes we don’t need to spend money on new seeds. By changing the health of the soil creates the conditions needed to grow palatable native species just waiting in the soil to germinate.
ua-cam.com/video/qP3pibwEdsY/v-deo.html check out the comment under this video about changing weeds to grass.
He has the steering wheel on the right side overthere when it is supposed to be on rhe left side hahahaha that's Australia.
How much space does one cow need in rotational grazing if you moved them every day?
I’m hoping Richard will give you an answer too. But basically your question depends on so many variables it’s almost impossible to answer.
I’ll throw in a couple of questions:
What stage is you grass growth in?
How many different species of plants are in the grazing area?
What condition is the cow?
What condition is the area eg are you in a dry period or wet period?
How well do your cattle behave?
Have they been handled correctly and trained?
As you can see Tom, there are so many scenarios that only your feedback observations on your property in your climate with your cattle and holistic skills can answer that question. Thank you for asking and please feel free to keep asking these very important questions.
That depends on the grass coverage/density and quality, and the critical element is when they go back to the plants for a second bite which sends that plant reeling backwards, to the roots to retrieve sugars, which in turn slows the recovery with even fewer solar panels, etc.
Many graziers say, a third eaten, a third trampled and the reminder left behind. For an adequate 5-6 week recovery. They even use tools and formulae to work it out. So on occasion a particular paddock (or section) may only last half a day.
Thats entirely dependent on how much grass there is, how much they are eating and how much you want them to eat.
Did you build this cow farm right in your garden?
No it’s a neighbours paddock. Richard was reducing the fire risk of his neighbourhood by grazing their paddock.
It's a no brainer, the word itself said it all, "Regenerative" become sustainability in the end. No? Hopefully common sense.