Great vid! Ive been looking for someone to explain this and google was no help. Much appreciated. I always thought thatch was bad for grass hence dethatching.
Thanks for sharing this video !!! We are starting a 40 acre farm and trying to recover from over grazing!! All of what you said needs to be applied to my land
Stoney Ridge 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thank you for telling the truth. Every 7 years let the land heal itself!! Looking forward to see how that patch of land turns out for your live stock. Best video I’ve seen so for, besides the video with your new puppies 🐶.
this was truly educational and enjoyable. I am writing in july of 2022. Some of your more recent vids are really lame. Please do more like this showing framing/ranching/irrigation. thanks for sharing. I am going to look at more of your old vids.
I have a dairy farm and I haul manure on my pastures every winter sometimes I drink it but when it rains get out of the way. It grows very well. I had to travel pretty slow sometimes with the local if I decide to put it up for hay. But most times I graze it I won't let it get that tall if I'm going to graze it and I will get 5 Bales per acre on the first cutting period and you'll learn that as soon as you get going on grazing
That was a good video! And from a science teacher's knowledgable opinion, grsat CORRECT information! If you want to grow anything that a mammal will eat, you must feed that land and create nutient rich topsoil for that food to grow. Well done Josh! My students will LOVE this video! Everything you are saying here is just what they hear from me. My students learn to grow on very small plots because they live in suburban southern California, but they practice these principles. I loved this video. Hearing the correct scientific theorum behind growth and feeding animals to feed us, is awesome. Thanks lots. Well done.
I’m so proud of y’all Josh!! I think you’re doing a super job with all the infrastructure and teaching us as y’all go. Thank you so very much for your efforts and enthusiasm 😇. Wendy from coastal Carolina
Again, some great information Josh! In March 2018 we bought a new construction home on 5 acres and had to establish a lawn. There was lots of boulders, smaller rocks and it was rough! Took lots of box blading, land raking, tilling and then seeding, rolling and covering over with a layer of straw to get it going. It is still a work in progress.
I've bought some land that hasn't been cared for in about 3 years and I'm in the process of brush hogging it. That is putting down a lot of ground cover and I was planning on broadcast seeding this fall, but now I'm going to try to rent a seed drill and at least drill part of it. Thanks for the info.
Great Info. I have native prairie grass mainly here is SD, and not sure if it can be mowed that heavily but keeping it in the teenage stage seems doable. Need to be a grass farmer!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer That's too bad. I run horses and cattle. Prescribed fire is what we will be implementing this coming spring. Keeping the pastures healthy with horses is a challenge
Hey! Josh &Mrs Stoney Ridge Farmer! U, are good teacher! As a good man! Or Human being! That's a lot of rock's! U, Keep the good job! Little Brother &sister!
Nice lookin grasss there. That's a whole different climate and soil from us here on the tallgrass prairie of the southern great plaines. Very interesting. I need to find ways to keep grass out of garden beds. Love your videos.
I've been following you for quite a while. This is the best video I've seen so far. Very well done sir. Very well done. I've been farming my entire life. Your information is good.
Having grown up on farm,you are very correct about pastures but modern farmers that are trying to generate a profit are going to feed lots for cattle.I like your approach and appreciate sharing your adventures with us.GOOD LUCK
That was very well done. I remember growing up hearing a phrase, ' The grass is always greener....'. If I remember right it was meant , at least for some, not always what it seems like it should be. For me looking around while playing I always noticed the grass was always greener around the septic fields, lol. Lots of water and nutrients. Thanks for sharing.
I think that you once covered a Drill. I'd like to see a video that is just about the Drill. Do they come in different sizes, what is the tractor requirement or PTO requirement, how much area would it cover in a given time period, etc. You be the Professor!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Thanks! It has been 5 months now. Turns out that getting the wife to NOT allow the horses and cows to murder the grass down to mud is the real issue. It is not the animal's fault... of whom I made a sacrifice lot for... for no reason at all apparently. I also set the system up to make rotational grazing super simple... as in 5 mins worth of work every few days. I even went out of my way and sent her tons of videos and links (she refuses to watch) and walked her around and taught her myself on what it needs to look like when it is time to rotate. Nope... She insists the grass needs to be scalped because someone online said so somewhere... and that tall grass is bad for the horses.... Then we have to buy $1800 worth of hay (VERY TALL GRASS) to get the two horses through the Winter. All while she continues to let them back out onto that murdered grass all day every day, so it loses all hopes of survival. Venting complete. lol
I recently bought 171 acres in central KY to start homesteading, and this is the perfect video for me right now. We cleared off a hillside below the barn site with the dozer, and I need to get it planted. I was going to broadcast, but looks like it might take seed drilling. Like yours, there is no topsoil. Like the dust in a bucket analogy. I’m going to watch this a few times. Great video about building topsoil.
Another awesome video. Great topic. As we try to max out cattle/acre, we are really focusing on becoming grass farmers first and cattle raisers second.
Wicked video, super helpful !! I run an Angus herd in Ontario and we do pasture rotation. I definitely want to do better with how we rotate the cows and care for the pasture. Its so easy to get caught up in other work and slack off on something thats so important and forget to really give back to the land! Your lesson was jam packed with awesome knowledge that a young farmer like myself needs more of! So thanks a ton and im looking forward to learning more from you! Keep em coming!
I’m just seeing this video. I can attest to this. I have used the practice even in my hayfields. We have a very shallow layer of topsoil in SW Louisiana. I was able to establish some good stands of Bahia and Dallisgrass this way.
I'm from Kentucky here in Kentucky owner of horse farms and cattle farm we grow a lot Kentucky bluegrass here for a reason it has a deep root that helps break up Clay and make it Topsail we also use clover and dandelions to help out
Hey there- I'm just a residential home owner with a regular lawn. Should I not be bagging my grass clippings, and allow the thatch to accumulate? I've always bagged my clippings all but maybe once per year. (live in North Eastern Ohio) And until seeing this video, was under the impression that allowing thatch to accumulate prevented water from adequately reaching the soil. Thanks!
Are you bagging up your fertilizer and then spreading chemical fertilizer on your soil? Seems mighty redundant doesn't it. Thatch might choke out your grass if you've put too much fertilizer on your lawn...you might want to dethatch in the spring or fall...but grass clippings will build your soil in most cases
Awesome video. .. very informational I've been needing to see a video like this I have just a few Acres but it's been overgrazed and I plan on implementing what you have done on your property thank you very much Stoney Ridge this is the Clear Creek Homesteader
The Stoney Ridge Farm is by far the best educational location for learning the do's and don'ts of starting your own farm. The wealth of knowledge you share is worth its weight in gold! Thank you, Josh! 🚜-Woooooo!!!
Great explanation on how to establish a good pasture! Thank you and thanks for all of your great videos! I live in UT and I just got back from a trip to the Piedmont area to look for land to establish a homestead on sometime next year. I'm used to poor soils in UT but I was shocked at how poor the soil was in NC and quickly realized that step 1 when we move will be to start building soil! One question I have is you mentioned the detriment of bringing cattle onto a pasture that is still in the building phase, and that makes total sense...but what about goats or sheep and chickens? Do you think it would speed the process or slow the process?
Really great stuff, very educational. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge. I have seen something on this before but not in a video, it was from a scientific study done by an Agricultural college. Good use of the grass to show exactly the various stages.
Josh, please discuss the next item about healthy grass growth. The index’s that help guide the process; cation rate, what is a good microbial number, ph, what is the target amount for NPK, etc.
This is great!!! Now, how do you make hay. from start to finish. Lawn mower? sickle cutter? how short do you cut it? I 've seen a fluffler upper thingy, how often and why is that done ? what do you use to move it into rows for hay bales? Do you have to have rows? why are some wrapped clear and some in white stuff? why the difference? do you really need to and why? how come barns are so drafty? why do barns catch on fire? What is going on? was it because the hay was wet? so many questions sorry. Thank you for taking the time to teach us!!!!! Love Ya!
My tenant drilled 25 ac of fescue in my fields last fall. Couldn’t believe the results. Grew slow all winter then exploded in the spring. First cutting was good for about 60 tons of hay. N Alabama location.
Spreading winter grass with a Seeder is a very easy way to establish some organic matter on your soil’s I planted winter rye and then rolled hay out in the winter and fed cows on the hay between the hay the Cow poop and Pee The next year we turn Bare clay into Rich Summergrass but we’re still being very careful about not overgrazing.The Winter grass is just a good idea for anyone without a drill
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Did you learn this through formal education or through experience? I hope to see more of these videos from your channel.
I look forward to seeing the process of getting the grass to grow. I live in East Tennessee and recently had to replace the septic system a in July. My yard is red clay and now infested with weeds but I plan on raking and sowing k31 in the next couple of months.
I just purchased a small farm and I want to follow what you do. Do you give advice on the products to and not to buy? I’m new and have no idea what to or not to do.
THIS is why I subscribed! Teaching me stuff. My question is when you broadcast the seed (that first time that didn't work) did you follow up with a harrow? Like a chain harrow to cover the seed at all or truly just let it sit on top? I can't find anyone that will rent a seed drill and I've got 3-6 acres I need to redo. Mainly a 3 acre field that has been over grazed with horses for years. Only have a little 18hp tractor with no rear remotes. I was thinking broadcast then chain harrow after I disk up all the weeds a few hundred times. If there was a market for weeds, I'd be rich.
I would spray with 2-4D prior to kill the weeds off. You would need to keep the horses off the pasture a couple weeks. I get a good germination rate by discing, broadcasting then following with a chain harrow.
Great video! Grass needs stimulation. That's because lawns need artificial stimulation in the long run, because there are no animals. But how did the settlers in the past established grass on their pastures? I suppose they hadn't grass seeds... All the best from Germany
Love you stuff brother..I am planning on following Gabe Browns guides No till- 10 types of grasses and Dicon radish to drill soil. Then crush it with a roller and redrill. You thoughts? Any chance on testing different methods🤔
Hey Josh thanks so much for the video man eventually when I do get my property I guess I'm going to have to wait eight years before I can get my farm animals if I want to have grass like yours
I'm not sure how much land you have, but you might look into using Humic acid on your soil. It does wonders for microbiology and has properties the help with compaction in the soil. Also, it helps chelate any available nutrients that may be left in the soil so the plants can uptake them easier. All around it's an amazing product. Might be something to look into?
Josh, You touched on carbon and nitrogen but i wish you had gone into more detail. So many people do not realize how the legumes work, that they absorb nitrogen out of the atmosphere and fix it into nodules at their roots which adds the nitrogen to the soil. The thatch that you are talking about is from carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that the plants use for building blocks. This is true whether in hay fields or city lawns, thatch and legumes are good for the soil. Thanks for a great channel.
Lovely thing about where we are at ;) 12 - 18 inches of top soil . Josh you talk about N (Nitrogen) what are you doing for P (phosphorus) and K (potassium)? N is only part of the equation. You mention 17 on K what wer the numbers for N and P?
There is a seven year break for most every species of plants. A person has to keep in mind of the region they live in. The land speaks. Listen. Your theme song reminds me of "Louisiana Saturday Night " ...Nc. Saturday Night...
Great video Josh. I'd like your opinion on this. I planted a dry land pasture mix on some fresh excavation. It took off nice, but we've decided we should of went with a grass seed to make it into a yard for kids to play. Can I overseed with a lawn mixture or would I have to kill, till and start over?
Interesting video. Did you consider green manuring in your first year? In the UK poor soils may be boosted by sowing a green manure crop such as mustard to grow and be ploughed or otherwise incorporated back in to the soil without harvesting to add an instant boost of vegetative matter in to mineralised soils. It is also done to stabilise soils and , weather proof them and add humus over winter following grain harvest until spring cultivation.
Stoney Ridge, will this method work with sandy style soil? We have about 2 acres but the soil is crap. We want to build a small pasture for a cow and get about a 1/4 acre to be a garden next year.
at 6:47 I'm pretty positive that's not wild millet grass but instead it is in the Paniceae family within the genus of Setaria which are bristlegrasses. From my understanding the grass you're calling millet grass is actually plains bristlegrass
I was wondering - could I just broadcast the seed and then follow it up with a light application (shallow) of rotor-tiller?? I fully intend to do a deep rotor-till before broadcasting seeds and then follow-up immediately with shallow rotor-till. Do you think it will work? I expect the rotor-tiller to mix up the seeds with soil.
rule of thumb...a seed only needs to be planted as deep as twice it's size...so grass seed under 1/4 inch. I think you'd be wasting alot of time tilling it in...seed it right after ya till...however you're gonna have weeds anytime you till up the soil...so expect it
I have an old established cattle pasture that has good grass in it but the last couple of years I’ve noticed more weeds spreading throughout. I have nothing but cattle on this and is never cut for hay. What would you suggest to try and fix that?
Josh, I found this was one of your best learning videos. Fantastic presentation 👌. You spoke in a way even I could understand. Thank you sir.
Great vid! Ive been looking for someone to explain this and google was no help. Much appreciated. I always thought thatch was bad for grass hence dethatching.
Thanks for sharing this video !!! We are starting a 40 acre farm and trying to recover from over grazing!! All of what you said needs to be applied to my land
Stoney Ridge 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thank you for telling the truth. Every 7 years let the land heal itself!! Looking forward to see how that patch of land turns out for your live stock. Best video I’ve seen so for, besides the video with your new puppies 🐶.
this was truly educational and enjoyable. I am writing in july of 2022. Some of your more recent vids are really lame. Please do more like this showing framing/ranching/irrigation. thanks for sharing. I am going to look at more of your old vids.
awesome! this was a great video..and the farm has come so far since this
Josh... I don't know squat about grasses, growing stages or the such... but your video was one of your best yet! Thank You!!!
I have a dairy farm and I haul manure on my pastures every winter sometimes I drink it but when it rains get out of the way. It grows very well. I had to travel pretty slow sometimes with the local if I decide to put it up for hay. But most times I graze it I won't let it get that tall if I'm going to graze it and I will get 5 Bales per acre on the first cutting period and you'll learn that as soon as you get going on grazing
Good stuff! Love your biblical principle of the 7-year rest! This is very helpful to me! God bless brother!
Great episode, Josh.
Too many farmers think that constantly tilling the soil will let the water sink in, when the opposite is true.
That was a good video! And from a science teacher's knowledgable opinion, grsat CORRECT information! If you want to grow anything that a mammal will eat, you must feed that land and create nutient rich topsoil for that food to grow. Well done Josh!
My students will LOVE this video! Everything you are saying here is just what they hear from me. My students learn to grow on very small plots because they live in suburban southern California, but they practice these principles. I loved this video. Hearing the correct scientific theorum behind growth and feeding animals to feed us, is awesome.
Thanks lots.
Well done.
Great video Josh. Enjoyed the lesson
I appreciate that you are so willing to share the many lessons you've learned.
I’m so proud of y’all Josh!! I think you’re doing a super job with all the infrastructure and teaching us as y’all go. Thank you so very much for your efforts and enthusiasm 😇. Wendy from coastal Carolina
I love it when you wear that shirt. It puts a smile on my face. Thank you Josh 😀
Very informative. I'm going to watch it again and really try to absorb all of that information.
Josh, you did a real good job . Lesson learned. I wish my teacher's had taught like that. I love your video's. Real life. Thanks
Again, some great information Josh! In March 2018 we bought a new construction home on 5 acres and had to establish a lawn. There was lots of boulders, smaller rocks and it was rough! Took lots of box blading, land raking, tilling and then seeding, rolling and covering over with a layer of straw to get it going. It is still a work in progress.
I've bought some land that hasn't been cared for in about 3 years and I'm in the process of brush hogging it. That is putting down a lot of ground cover and I was planning on broadcast seeding this fall, but now I'm going to try to rent a seed drill and at least drill part of it. Thanks for the info.
Great Info. I have native prairie grass mainly here is SD, and not sure if it can be mowed that heavily but keeping it in the teenage stage seems doable. Need to be a grass farmer!
Nice....we've lost almost all of our native grasses around here...along with the Quail those grasses supported
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer That's too bad. I run horses and cattle. Prescribed fire is what we will be implementing this coming spring. Keeping the pastures healthy with horses is a challenge
Hey! Josh &Mrs Stoney Ridge Farmer! U, are good teacher! As a good man! Or Human being! That's a lot of rock's! U, Keep the good job! Little Brother &sister!
Nice lookin grasss there.
That's a whole different climate and soil from us here on the tallgrass prairie of the southern great plaines. Very interesting. I need to find ways to keep grass out of garden beds.
Love your videos.
I've been following you for quite a while. This is the best video I've seen so far. Very well done sir. Very well done. I've been farming my entire life. Your information is good.
I like your plan to develop the pastures. I wish you well in this project.
Having grown up on farm,you are very correct about pastures but modern farmers that are trying to generate a profit are going to feed lots for cattle.I like your approach and appreciate sharing your adventures with us.GOOD LUCK
That was very well done. I remember growing up hearing a phrase, ' The grass is always greener....'. If I remember right it was meant , at least for some, not always what it seems like it should be. For me looking around while playing I always noticed the grass was always greener around the septic fields, lol. Lots of water and nutrients. Thanks for sharing.
I think that you once covered a Drill. I'd like to see a video that is just about the Drill. Do they come in different sizes, what is the tractor requirement or PTO requirement, how much area would it cover in a given time period, etc. You be the Professor!
yep...search how a no till drill works. I've got a couple vids on it
I am here in Chesapeake, VA and really needing to get the recently reclaimed pastures back up and going again. Thank you for this one
Good luck!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer
Thanks!
It has been 5 months now. Turns out that getting the wife to NOT allow the horses and cows to murder the grass down to mud is the real issue.
It is not the animal's fault... of whom I made a sacrifice lot for... for no reason at all apparently. I also set the system up to make rotational grazing super simple... as in 5 mins worth of work every few days.
I even went out of my way and sent her tons of videos and links (she refuses to watch) and walked her around and taught her myself on what it needs to look like when it is time to rotate.
Nope...
She insists the grass needs to be scalped because someone online said so somewhere... and that tall grass is bad for the horses.... Then we have to buy $1800 worth of hay (VERY TALL GRASS) to get the two horses through the Winter. All while she continues to let them back out onto that murdered grass all day every day, so it loses all hopes of survival.
Venting complete. lol
What an amazing video on soil conservation, Thank You so much
I have a renewed and profound respect and appreciation for farmers and farming.
Thank you sir.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Awesome!
I recently bought 171 acres in central KY to start homesteading, and this is the perfect video for me right now. We cleared off a hillside below the barn site with the dozer, and I need to get it planted. I was going to broadcast, but looks like it might take seed drilling. Like yours, there is no topsoil. Like the dust in a bucket analogy. I’m going to watch this a few times. Great video about building topsoil.
Another awesome video. Great topic. As we try to max out cattle/acre, we are really focusing on becoming grass farmers first and cattle raisers second.
10 seconds from the end answered my question. thank you and good video.
Great video Josh. Learned a little something again this morning. Cheers!
Wicked video, super helpful !! I run an Angus herd in Ontario and we do pasture rotation. I definitely want to do better with how we rotate the cows and care for the pasture. Its so easy to get caught up in other work and slack off on something thats so important and forget to really give back to the land! Your lesson was jam packed with awesome knowledge that a young farmer like myself needs more of! So thanks a ton and im looking forward to learning more from you! Keep em coming!
I’m just seeing this video. I can attest to this. I have used the practice even in my hayfields. We have a very shallow layer of topsoil in SW Louisiana. I was able to establish some good stands of Bahia and Dallisgrass this way.
I'm from Kentucky here in Kentucky owner of horse farms and cattle farm we grow a lot Kentucky bluegrass here for a reason it has a deep root that helps break up Clay and make it Topsail we also use clover and dandelions to help out
yep great stuff
Hey there- I'm just a residential home owner with a regular lawn. Should I not be bagging my grass clippings, and allow the thatch to accumulate? I've always bagged my clippings all but maybe once per year. (live in North Eastern Ohio) And until seeing this video, was under the impression that allowing thatch to accumulate prevented water from adequately reaching the soil. Thanks!
Are you bagging up your fertilizer and then spreading chemical fertilizer on your soil? Seems mighty redundant doesn't it. Thatch might choke out your grass if you've put too much fertilizer on your lawn...you might want to dethatch in the spring or fall...but grass clippings will build your soil in most cases
Thoroughly enjoyed this video Josh, well done and thank you!
Very informative... never heard of drill down seeding...
Have a wonderful evening 🌻🌻🌻
Awesome video. .. very informational I've been needing to see a video like this I have just a few Acres but it's been overgrazed and I plan on implementing what you have done on your property thank you very much Stoney Ridge this is the Clear Creek Homesteader
The Stoney Ridge Farm is by far the best educational location for learning the do's and don'ts of starting your own farm. The wealth of knowledge you share is worth its weight in gold! Thank you, Josh! 🚜-Woooooo!!!
Thanks buddy
Great informational video. You did a good job.
Great explanation on how to establish a good pasture! Thank you and thanks for all of your great videos! I live in UT and I just got back from a trip to the Piedmont area to look for land to establish a homestead on sometime next year. I'm used to poor soils in UT but I was shocked at how poor the soil was in NC and quickly realized that step 1 when we move will be to start building soil! One question I have is you mentioned the detriment of bringing cattle onto a pasture that is still in the building phase, and that makes total sense...but what about goats or sheep and chickens? Do you think it would speed the process or slow the process?
Keep farmers farming. Save the land!!
I will do everything you said. I’ve got one or two big dirt patches myself...
Really great stuff, very educational. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge. I have seen something on this before but not in a video, it was from a scientific study done by an Agricultural college. Good use of the grass to show exactly the various stages.
Josh, please discuss the next item about healthy grass growth. The index’s that help guide the process; cation rate, what is a good microbial number, ph, what is the target amount for NPK, etc.
I wish there was a way I could communicate with you directly and ask you some questions. We're in new Mexico.
This is great!!! Now, how do you make hay. from start to finish. Lawn mower? sickle cutter? how short do you cut it? I 've seen a fluffler upper thingy, how often and why is that done ? what do you use to move it into rows for hay bales? Do you have to have rows? why are some wrapped clear and some in white stuff? why the difference? do you really need to and why? how come barns are so drafty? why do barns catch on fire? What is going on? was it because the hay was wet? so many questions sorry. Thank you for taking the time to teach us!!!!! Love Ya!
watch our hay making videos. I have a a playlist on the channel "everything hay"
My tenant drilled 25 ac of fescue in my fields last fall. Couldn’t believe the results. Grew slow all winter then exploded in the spring. First cutting was good for about 60 tons of hay. N Alabama location.
So cool seeing the journey over the years
thanks for all of the info on grass.
Great video josh you have made your farm very beautiful thank you for sharing wooo
Well done. Use Timothy, white ditch clover, and lespadesa on thin ground around here. Cut in the right stage foxtail makes fair hay.
That's the BEST video you've ever done .
Spreading winter grass with a Seeder is a very easy way to establish some organic matter on your soil’s I planted winter rye and then rolled hay out in the winter and fed cows on the hay between the hay the Cow poop and Pee The next year we turn Bare clay into Rich Summergrass but we’re still being very careful about not overgrazing.The Winter grass is just a good idea for anyone without a drill
But definitely seen major improvements with the Bush Hawking as well
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Did you learn this through formal education or through experience? I hope to see more of these videos from your channel.
I look forward to seeing the process of getting the grass to grow. I live in East Tennessee and recently had to replace the septic system a in July. My yard is red clay and now infested with weeds but I plan on raking and sowing k31 in the next couple of months.
I just purchased a small farm and I want to follow what you do. Do you give advice on the products to and not to buy? I’m new and have no idea what to or not to do.
A very interesting and extremely informative video on grass. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. When you mow the grass how high do you leave it?
Thanks for all the good tips. Its good to know. I appreciate it. 👍👍👍❤️
Super valuable video!!! Thank you
Thanks. I have a 200 acre ranch that needs this care.
I would love if you could do a video on how the box scraper works! Awesome video!!!!
This video is exactly why I subscribed to your channel..thank you!
THIS is why I subscribed! Teaching me stuff. My question is when you broadcast the seed (that first time that didn't work) did you follow up with a harrow? Like a chain harrow to cover the seed at all or truly just let it sit on top? I can't find anyone that will rent a seed drill and I've got 3-6 acres I need to redo. Mainly a 3 acre field that has been over grazed with horses for years. Only have a little 18hp tractor with no rear remotes. I was thinking broadcast then chain harrow after I disk up all the weeds a few hundred times. If there was a market for weeds, I'd be rich.
I would spray with 2-4D prior to kill the weeds off. You would need to keep the horses off the pasture a couple weeks. I get a good germination rate by discing, broadcasting then following with a chain harrow.
Love these videos brother, by far my favorite ones.
Thank you! Learnt so much🤠
Very informative. Thank you.
Great video! Grass needs stimulation. That's because lawns need artificial stimulation in the long run, because there are no animals.
But how did the settlers in the past established grass on their pastures? I suppose they hadn't grass seeds... All the best from Germany
Love you stuff brother..I am planning on following Gabe Browns guides No till- 10 types of grasses and Dicon radish to drill soil. Then crush it with a roller and redrill. You thoughts? Any chance on testing different methods🤔
Hey Josh thanks so much for the video man eventually when I do get my property I guess I'm going to have to wait eight years before I can get my farm animals if I want to have grass like yours
Excellent Josh! Excellent. Woooooooooo! 🤠💙🇺🇸
Awesome video, Thank you Sir!
Ashland Ohio
I'm not sure how much land you have, but you might look into using Humic acid on your soil. It does wonders for microbiology and has properties the help with compaction in the soil. Also, it helps chelate any available nutrients that may be left in the soil so the plants can uptake them easier. All around it's an amazing product. Might be something to look into?
Keeps the roots cool and shielded from sun burn too.
Josh,
You touched on carbon and nitrogen but i wish you had gone into more detail. So many people do not realize how the legumes work, that they absorb nitrogen out of the atmosphere and fix it into nodules at their roots which adds the nitrogen to the soil. The thatch that you are talking about is from carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that the plants use for building blocks. This is true whether in hay fields or city lawns, thatch and legumes are good for the soil. Thanks for a great channel.
Curious do you use a cultipacker to pack your seed into the soil after sowing?
if your soil is loose it doesn't hurt...there is a cultipacker built into our seeder
Lovely thing about where we are at ;) 12 - 18 inches of top soil . Josh you talk about N (Nitrogen) what are you doing for P (phosphorus) and K (potassium)? N is only part of the equation. You mention 17 on K what wer the numbers for N and P?
Good information the place is looking great.
There is a seven year break for most every species of plants. A person has to keep in mind of the region they live in. The land speaks. Listen. Your theme song reminds me of "Louisiana Saturday Night " ...Nc. Saturday Night...
Keep up the good work josh!
Great information Josh 🇺🇸
what was your Rye to K31 mixture ? Everything I read on mixing these two together. The rye grass will over take the K31 ?
annual rye simply shades the fescue my friend...so it won't hurt the fescue. Mix is 80/20 for fall contractors mix
Thank you ..... Very very helpful. Shared this video link on a video I made asking these same type of questions you answered. Thank you
Great video Josh. I'd like your opinion on this. I planted a dry land pasture mix on some fresh excavation. It took off nice, but we've decided we should of went with a grass seed to make it into a yard for kids to play. Can I overseed with a lawn mixture or would I have to kill, till and start over?
Love it, had to subscribe again..... We are working on growth on our place this fall again too.
Like that clover add in.Cattle will put on condition as a result.Hereford for the easier ground,easy to work with.Angus for the rough stuff.
Interesting video. Did you consider green manuring in your first year? In the UK poor soils may be boosted by sowing a green manure crop such as mustard to grow and be ploughed or otherwise incorporated back in to the soil without harvesting to add an instant boost of vegetative matter in to mineralised soils. It is also done to stabilise soils and , weather proof them and add humus over winter following grain harvest until spring cultivation.
Stoney Ridge, will this method work with sandy style soil? We have about 2 acres but the soil is crap. We want to build a small pasture for a cow and get about a 1/4 acre to be a garden next year.
sure it will..just keep at it..get a soil test too!
at 6:47 I'm pretty positive that's not wild millet grass but instead it is in the Paniceae family within the genus of Setaria which are bristlegrasses. From my understanding the grass you're calling millet grass is actually plains bristlegrass
I was wondering - could I just broadcast the seed and then follow it up with a light application (shallow) of rotor-tiller?? I fully intend to do a deep rotor-till before broadcasting seeds and then follow-up immediately with shallow rotor-till. Do you think it will work? I expect the rotor-tiller to mix up the seeds with soil.
rule of thumb...a seed only needs to be planted as deep as twice it's size...so grass seed under 1/4 inch. I think you'd be wasting alot of time tilling it in...seed it right after ya till...however you're gonna have weeds anytime you till up the soil...so expect it
Awesome information! Thanks for sharing.
I really like these educational videos it really helps
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I recommend spot spraying crabgrass, makes it easier for the better grasses to take over those areas.
SO helpful from real boots on the Piedmont ground :) Thank you!!
I have an old established cattle pasture that has good grass in it but the last couple of years I’ve noticed more weeds spreading throughout. I have nothing but cattle on this and is never cut for hay. What would you suggest to try and fix that?
So when you mow grass do you mulch the grass and leave it on the ground and can this be applied to a yard instead a farm.