Greg shares a strip grazing tip with you!
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- Greg shares a strip grazing tip with you! If you learn strip grazing winter stockpile techniques, this will save you thousands of dollars in livestock wintering costs. Use the right tools to make daily strip grazing simple and effective. Animals will harvest their own feed if they are allowed to. If you want to keep your farm profitable every year, check out my 3 grazing books that I wrote on our website: greenpasturesfa...
I have watched so much of Greg Judy that I had a dream about stockpiled fescue, and was appreciating the mature seed heads along with the endophytes that would create better grazing for next season. Always enjoy your content.
I wish I had enough land to let my grass seed better or better yet I hope it rain this year.
I started my cabin in northern Michigan Memorial Day weekend in 2008 and finally had it finished in the summer of 2016 along with the pole barn. Working just weekends from April to October.
Thank you so much for the nugget Greg! Again you’ve solved one our difficulties we have😅, greetings from Belgium!
Thanks for the video! I know I learned different ways of putting in step in posts when it is wet. Currently we are getting snow now. I think around 1” or so. It sure would be nice getting some sun. It has been really cloudy this winter and I think it is effecting our chickens. We haven’t got an egg in awhile but our chickens are molting and they are getting old too. It is crazy how expensive eggs are. We are going to get more chicks this year to replace the old chickens. We bought our first dozen eggs since 2017. We bought it from another local person. My animals would be jumping up and down eating that pasture.
Pet cows are expensive. Mom used to tell me in winter, Lancaster MO, as little girl they brought calves into kitchen with woodstove. Now Greg if they would have been separated and bred for optimal calving, think of all the little calves saved and herds replenished. Such a great aspect of real animal husbandry.😉
It's amazing how much grass you still have in your pasture ! Bulls look healthy and happy ,they perform perfect in your environment
Thanks again Greg just solved a problem I had yesterday
Congrats on 100K!!!!! You're teaching the world, Greg!
Thanks!
ThankQ
This morning in Missouri is pretty cold 11 degrees! I feed the chickens and son Scott feeds the cows. I see the farmers here let the cows in their ponds.
Thanks for the info Greg!
Jan could use that old metal water tank for a raised garden bed....
I’ve already claimed it for a rabitat home for bunnies!! Going to cover it with brush and let the rabbits have a condominium.
Great stuff. Make me want to be a cowboy.
Pointing at the ground makes it worse! Point it at the horizon instead please.
Thanks for the video!
"diesel cows", i am stealing that.
Zero mud on your bulls that keeps them warm.
Yikes! Its worse pointing your camera at the ground while you walk.
Are you use a fault finder ?
Could tell us something about this tools in one of the next videos ?
Re the video, just shoot the horizon if you're walking. The ground gives me vertigo! Otherwise, love your videos. 🙂
I will remember that!
That comment was for Outdoors with the Morgans sorry.
I'm sure by now your deer are well trained to jump the hotwire. Hold the camera up, that helps. The ground is worse. Thanks.
If I would plant fescue from scratch Gregg do you recommend Kentucky 31 or a new variety ?
Kentucky 31 is what we plant on areas that we have cleared with a skid steer. It grows well here and is $1 a pound not $5 a pound like the new fescue brands.
Greg, you seem to have some rolling, hilly, and flat ground. Do you prefer one type of terrain over the other? If so, why?
Thanks.
I like both hills mixed with flat sections of land. The hilly land comes in very handy in wet rainy periods, it drains off faster to prevent pugging.
How do you know it's Kentucky 31? I have access to tall fescue seed that I was going to seed over my new pasture. Does it have the same benefits as K31? My pasture was a cut over timberland so I'm starting truly from scratch and will need to seed it.
The seed bag that you buy will have it printed on the seed tag.
@Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher thanks for the reply. So I guess you planted this grass then. I have "wild" fescue that I was trying to ID, but I gave up. Lol. So does the tall fescue work as well as K31? That's the only fescue my local feed and seed carries
I did not plant this grass. It covers the whole Midwest. What they are calling Tall Fescue might be Kentucky 31. What is the price per pound that they are asking for it? This will give me a good answer for you.
@Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher Ah, I didn't know they were the same. I don't remember the exact price. It was a little north of $100 for a 50lb bag. I price checked a few weeks ago when I got 2 50 lbs bags of gulf annual rye for $40 each. I don't know how those prices compare for you, but I'm in rural SC. Not many choices of stores here so that may drive up our prices
Sounds like plain like Kentucky 31 fescue seed to me. The newer varieties are $5 per pound or more
Greg,
Do you have your own hay fields? Or do you buy hay throughout the year?
We buy hay in June and July.
Are those terragate pig tails available, I think a few of them could help diversify my paddock layout. Thank you and have a wonderful day.
Not sure if they are yet.
Hey Greg, was just looking at those cedars and wondered what your thoughts were on removing them from pastures. My farm has quite a few and I was thinking of removing the ones that make big enough logs for the mill. Thanks!
Yes if they are big enough, they need at least 8-10” of red in the center of the log to make a decent saw log.
How did the timeless step in posts ever turn out that you were going to try out about a year ago in a video that you posted?
They were not Timeless Posts, although they were trying them out to see how they performed. Another company made them and they did not measure up to our Obrien Posts.
In my inexperienc I ordered the timeless step in posts, honestly I don't like them a lot, however my farm is quite rocky so that tends to make a big difference. I'm sure you could manage with them if your ground isn't rocky!
331 by 18 steps, (3 × 18 = 54 feet+/-), 331 × 54 =
17,874 sq. ft. I would like to learn how to calculate pasture to give per animal. I guess it's an experiential skill.
43560 sq ft per acre
@@dustinneuhalfen1845 Simple to look up, I didn't know it, and took 5 seconds to confirm the figure. I am not sure why you gave me the square feet per acre.
My query was, "How do you take the number of head, calculate the height of the pasture, and how much pasture you want left when you give them another in half a day, and figure the square feet you will give them for half a day."
My thought, wing it at first, spend time out there with them, watching, gauging how close it's coming to the exit height, are they complaining, getting too much dung and urine to find clean grass to eat...
As I said, I figure it's a matter of experience.
@@dustinneuhalfen1845 I just got a video in my feed from 9 days ago, I missed it. Greg mapped out exactly what I was asking yesterday.
"Greg explains how to calculate how much winter stockpile to give your livestock with daily moves."
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He even demonstrates a Grazing Stick from the
USDA and NRCS. He shows the math, the whole thing. Thanks for commenting. Best, Tom
That looks to me like alot of fertilizer them bulls left behind. Come spring that should grow grass like an athlete or actor on steroids.
I'm thinking a deer touches that hot wire once, and never again...
That guy kept working you to plug his product. You tested it, it was inferior, if he persisted, you could offer to plug it, "ACME Posts, terrible, don't buy them, " if he is happy with that plug, send a signed approval in writing, and you are happy to let everybody know.
This is a joke of course. I hate hard sell salesmen.