Turning Brush into Pasture to Feed Cows
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2024
- The best way to make a beef cattle farm more profitable is to increase the amount of grazing land available to your cows and in northern Minnesota that usually requires removing aggressive willow and alder brush. Watch as we demolish brush with our Kubota SVL 75. #familyfarm, #regenerativeag, #regenerativefarming, #beefcattle, #kubota,
Good morning Dave and Dawn ☕️☕️
Good morning Dawn and Dave ☕☕☕
Good morning Ed. We’re just back from visiting family…trying to catch up.
That mower is doing a beautiful job Dave. Man, what an improvement to that pasture. Nice work
Thanks Brad. Rare opportunity with no snow.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn No snow can bring good or bad! Nice that we have been able to get more work done in the woodlots, but some fear the alfalfa could take a hit!
That is the best set up ever. Hydraulic driven mower on the front of a skid loader. Especially on a tracked loader.
Agreed…and I figured you’d appreciate the color of that skid steer😊. After two years I’m sold on Kubota.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn , I ran one of the SVL 75’s for 3 years. They are an absolute beast. Never one single problem with it.
Very easy to service and maintain and it was easy on fuel for a 75 horse power machine.
Hello “Rolling Hills Farms”! Thank you for showing us such a wonderful video! I feel so happy! I look forward to your next work! Have a nice day!
Welcome to the channel!
It sure has been a good year for getting the brush cut down, frost and no snow....We have a brush hog for our skidsteer also, never have regretted that money that was spent. I go out in August with it and knock down any weeds or new brush growth....looks like a lawn afterwards....Thanks Dave, stay safe and warm.
I’ll probably need to do the same thing in these areas. Maybe eventually the cows will keep it clear.
Saturday morning coffee and it’s snowing and blowing here in Vancouver…brush hogging was and still is something I still enjoy doing!
Good day to stay inside. This was a satisfying job that will really pay off in additional grazing, which will allow us to expand the herd. Need more pasture to scale this place into profitability.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn ,more bovine buddies!
Great bush hogging set up, we run ours on the back of the tractors. I bet having it in front of you on a skid steer makes it so much easier to see. Thanks for sharing the video.
It’s essential in this rough ground. My neighbor has destroyed his three-point brush mower and broken the front axle on his IH 656 trying to mow the adjacent pasture. It’s even hard with a skid steer. Next video will show the damage I did.😊
I find brush mowing to be very satisfying. That'll look nice next summer. A tree puller for your skid steer would be great for the bigger stuff.
Do you think the tree puller would be better than a grapple bucket?
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmnwith a tree puller, you don't have to dig to pull the roots out. A grapple will probably get those pesty things out too.
Nice job clearing!
Yup.. back blading saves the driveway!!
Once we clear a few times I can push forward.
Look should make some good pasture for you guys Dave
I'm not surprised the ground is soft.
The sloughs we used for pasture had cottonwood, and willow.
We cleared them.
The current owner tiled the ground.
When I go past it looks alien to me.
Looks like you will gain some good ground. Thank you Dave.
Sounds like progress. We have too many rocks and swamp to ever do that here without a giant dozer and tiling😊
Awesome tool Dave, I used one before. Big problem I have is autumn olive taking over my pastures
I hear that stuff is super aggressive.
We have gotten snow here now as well. Boy do we have snow!
We got 6 inches Tuesday into Wednesday and we may bay gotten 8-10 overnight.
The plows were pulled from the roads yesterday and the state patrol recommended no travel. Many roads were closed.
I saw that monster storm bearing down on you guys. This kind of weather you appreciate having a tractor. I expect I’ll see your snow on an upcoming video. Stay safe
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn thanks Dave
Looking good. Late snow sure can be beneficial. I have had some decent results making that smaller willow go away by just repeated grazing and mowing. The cows are slowly killing the big ones off too.
I hope you’re right about repeated grazing. This was hard work.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn If it's dry enough in August to mow it or part of it you should do that. Willow and Alder as copice regenerating species will regrow best when cut when they are dormant. If you cut them when all the nutrients and sugars are out in the leaves growing it's a big loss to the root system that they don't have time to recover. It took a while and it was too wet to cut it every year but I eventually killed off the regrowth and just have a few big tree size willows. Graze it hard. I don't know that my cows actually ate it but they do enough damage to the brush that it helps. I never sprayed any of it and I know you don't care for spraying but 2-4D or Grazon is an option to kill brush and leave the grass. Plowing would be brutal because of roots plugging up the bottoms but I have disked brushy pastures both here and MI with decent results. The summer before I started making TH-cam videos I disked up most of the west pasture (It was really dry) and planted millet. It was rough but I baled it and fall planted pasture grass. No brush is coming back yet.
@@farawayfarm2520thanks for the advice. I can generally hit most of that ground in August but that’s a really busy month on the farm. Have to make room😊 for
That's cool how that brush mower works. Never saw one like that before. ONe thing I wondered - I remember in a previous video you showing how many rocks you have sticking out of the ground on at least some of your property. Where they already removed from the area you were cutting brush on? Otherwise, I would think you would be hitting them.
In the rocky areas I have to keep it high. Snow helps. The rocks were picked in the area I worked in this video years ago and brush was allowed to take over.
Five acres is a good addition for the cows.
Looks good! How many more acres do you guys have available to pasture in the future?
There’s 20 more acres of brush and trees inside the fence in this pasture that need clearing and thinning plus 10 acres in the main pasture by the barn (although that’s pretty rocky). I have years of work ahead😊.
i know someone else that got 3” overnight. hey-o!