Providing Biodiversity for Grazing with Cover Crops, Native Grasses, Forbs
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Regenerative farmers are using native warm season grasses and cover crops to add biodiversity for livestock grazing. Three farmers in Missouri share the benefits they've seen from thinking about their grazing systems differently.
This video features Dave Haubein (Dade County, MO), Macauley "Mac" Kincaid (Jasper, MO), and Jennifer Allen (Linn County, MO).
This video is part of a six-part series on regenerative farmers in Missouri. These videos were produced by the University of Missouri Center for Regenerative Agriculture with financial support from the Missouri Department of Conservation in collaboration with the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation.
such some basic logical farming practice, unbelievable how humans have drifted away from it and how so many still hasnt caught on
Interesting how we Native Americans, have been dependent on the Buffalo grazing, for so many years, have farmed the land & soil, using regenerative principles. But the nonfactory farms are learning our ways is the best way to farm & live. So kudos to the regenerative farmers in this video.
Mac, you are blessed with fluid words that highlight your observations, stewardship and passionate belief in the natural systems of flora & fauna! Keep sharing your love for life, it's deeply inspirational.
Very informative and high quality cattle in a high quality video of a high quality grazing management plan!
My concern is that generations of "conventional" Angus,Charlois, Simmenthal, Hereford etc etc simply can't make optimum use of native forages. These animals have been SELECTED for decades & decades & decades to respond to nearly monoculture tame pasture (fescue dominate).
Developing native forage is great but the "right" animal has to be used to harvest it.
I see it here in Texas, folks bring in pampered (fertilized/watered) bermuda background Angus and they fall apart in a couple of generations on the rough mid Coast prairie. Something dysgenic about a black hide pampered Angus on this ground in August. Each generation gets rougher and harder keeping.
It would be great to messer the difference in co2 between the different regenerative farm's cow's with cow's Fed on the seaweed additive ,the feedloting industry,and the industrial grazing farms ?
If the padocks have more than 30%tree covered the stock do better it might depend on the rain Fall and sun evaporation rate for optimum grass production Worth a thinking about it if you want to get machine around the padocks still it can be in lines on conture far enough apart to drive in-between ?
WHAT ABOUT MOON PIE.... KEEPING YOUR COWS HAPPY.
And there are people out there that say we shouldn't eat meat because it destroys the environment. Like herbivores are part of the ecosystem.