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What diseases do you vaccinate for?

How long before you turn your heifers back in with the herd after weaning?

Those numbers are great! You should be proud. Cows and calves also look great!

Thanks for the video! I’ve been weed eating our fence lines since the some of the forage is so thick. I just trim out 2 acre area where I’m keeping our rams at. When I started it was 2.8-3kv, now it is 6kv or higher. I just shocked cutting a tree by hand and it sure made me jump hard and it got me good. I have 2 nice bulls but I’m keeping one for breeding because his mom breed back right away when I AI the first time twice in a row. Then, when I naturally bred her she bred back in 33 days. All our calves were born in July and she bred back in August. It was right in the heat of summer. I’m trying to move them up every year to have them calf in April/May timeframe.

This was a great interview!

Just found your channel and subbed I'm a regenerative rancher in Central Montana 406regen is my youtube channel

Thank you for giving Ben credit for his work. A lot of the behind the scenes work goes un-noticed.

1973 would have been the Summer I sold my steer a couple weeks before I would have taken it to our local fair. Got 68 cents lb. The regular price would have been 35 cents!

Thanks for sharing this! I found it helpful.

We actually sheet, or "skirt", our hay feeders to increase hay savings, and it protects against the danger of legs getting stuck/broken.

It's worthwhile to invest in equipment that lasts!

Amazing video - love the on-the-ground perspective!

1 time in seven years? Duh?

Congress is the problem they are paid off. As long as they can get away with it the country will keep on like this until we stop it. Look at the food chain and see how bad it is. That's why people are sick today.

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Great Post. Thank you for sharing. th-cam.com/video/9Y7xAVp6Wh4/w-d-xo.html

Corporations are the demise of rural as the large corporations have to much political power. I am adding hereford into my genetics and have found that the frame size is higher but they are easier keepers than the straight bred angus.

very good interview

Excellent interview.

Somewhat off topic, but the construction of the barn is interesting. Is it typical in Virginia? I’m thinking that the air space between the vertical siding boards is either for drying tobacco or ventilation for hay storage. Does anyone know?

Great to see you picking the brain of the legend himself!

Interesting. So much new things i learned.

What kind of fence "wire" are you using? how do you electrify it?

Thanks for posting this!

I really need to weld something on my set up for reeling out and putting in posts at the same time. Thanks for showing your set-up.

Wise words !

I have went to the NSUHDG this year also it is a game changer and I believe it drought proofs you ,good video

Finally got to listen to the rest, love it! Great interview!

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I use Gallagher reels quite a bit in the same manner you do but instead of dropping the handle into the holder I made my holder fit the hook on the reel. I really like how it locks on and the bale is at a better angle for the wire to feed out of. This also keeps you from having to cut off the hand guard and most reels have the same style hook. I love the 300 Hondas. Great machines. Great video as well.

I have watched a few rotational regenerative ranching videos. No one has ever mentioned getting water to the cattle. If memory is good, the average cow needs about 40 gallons per day. No one hauling water and relocating water troughs? When I helped dairy farming, after morning milking, we would let the 5o cows graze 20 acre seasonal wheat fields and bring the cows in after about 3 hours. One field and one water trough. My uncles that ranched had very rocky soil that needed extreme time, and man power for every fence post.

Great video. What are your thoughts on non selective/total grazing? It just doesn’t make any sense to me when it comes down to the diversity & health of pastures.

I appreciate this content. Great job

Same thing is happening here with us over in Chesapeake, VA. Sadly, I had my grasses up to my shoulders and seeded out a month ago and went through and brush-hogged it all back in anticipation of a week's worth of rain that was projected. Then the rain never came! Luckily, my pastures are now mulched very well on time for the dry/hot season... and I only cut it down to 10" to 12"... so the girls are basically eating hay out there. I may pull them to the dry lot for a few weeks once we get a good rain so that the pastures can recover. The dry lot was planted heavily in a grazing crabgrass... and has not been brush hogged. Lots of tall standing forage for them there. Forage that would withstand a short grazing just fine.

Your girls look great! Thriving! My friend likes to do the same as you with the twice a day moving for the same reasons. We are in Co Sligo, Ireland. We have been blessed with enough rain, just starting to get warmer this week. I don’t have cattle but live on a cattle farm. Iv been helping my friend who’s farming regeneratively like you. We were planting more trees in the winter. Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful day 😊💚🙏✨🐮🌱

Yes, too hot, too dry here in Virginia. Girls look great though!

TH-cam recommended your short video about leaving college early to farm. Subscribed. Love what you are doing! Nice video.. great idea..👍😁🌱💚🙏✨🐮🔥

Wow, that is a clear difference. 🏞️😊👍

Small producers like myself (21 lowline angus, 100 sheep, some chickens and pigs) and not a lot of land farming, in the margins or the unfarmable land of others is a way to things happen cheaply.

Is that a 2 day paddock?

At 24:26 exactly right.... hands out for making money ! Prime example Mr Glyphosate ( Greg Judy ) !!! How many so called.......streams of income dose he need ???? Think about it ???

Bale grazing......bale rings...... bale smaller bales.........problem solved ! I bale all 4 x4 bales..... easy to move....light weight and the cows eat and move on !

Greg Judy ? You mean Mr. Glyphosate ??? Take note relating to Mr. Glyphosate !!!! He never fails at anything.. heavenly ! Never has a cow with calving issues. He claims he sells those cows that have calving problems ??? How does that work .......sell the cow with a calf hanging out ??? Take note... how Mr. Glyphosate has is " internes " silenced ??? Nothing heard from them ! I question why that is ???? Suppose it has something to do with " money " ?? No one dare be critical of Mr. Glyphosate ! But he in turn tells the world about his next door neighbor saying their soils are dead ??? Think about how you would see Mr Glyphosate knowing he sees your land / soils as being " dead " ??? Start asking the real questions...... a person might learn much more !!!!!!

Cool. 🙂👍 (natural shade is great 🏞️👌) These last couple of years I've been transplanting maple tree saplings to provide shade trees for sheep. (with maple saplings i have to keep the root flare/crown above dirt level, so it can breathe/not rot) (the cardboard looked interesting, I've used wool as mulch for the first year)

The few times I've tried unrolling bales, i loved it. 😊👍 Very efficient usage of labor. You get all the head space you could want. You get the manure spread out on the pasture. And any hay waste is used to help improve the soil health for better grass growth in following years. (The bale needs to be unrolled thin enough to prevent thick mats, otherwise i need to use a pitchfork to break up and spread out the thick mats) Snow can make unrolling very difficult but a hill would solve that issue. Oh, nice music. 🙂👍

That is a awesome video we live in Michigan and we do bail hay squares and rounds very cool video

Work smarter not harder. 🙂👍 I've found that when doing projects: Half the work is thinking and the other half is physical.

Nice video. Keep up the good work.

It was great talking with you, thanks for sharing a little bit about us!

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