Great to see the mob moving Greg!! I just started about 2 weeks ago...moving the cows twice a day!! YOU ARE RIGHT!!! IT"S AMAZING!! The cows are fatter, grass is better despite the drought! Take care guys! lol Edit: Yep I fed 2 bales the other week to let the pastures ahead of the cows recover a few more days...then the rain hit and exponential growth! Thank goodness I had my Greg Judy Bale unroller!
Appreciate you mentioning the date. That helps a lot on gauging drought. We are on on the same path grass is burnt up and ponds dry also. Watching this July 25 and more drought and heat. Thanks for sharing your management.
Growing up my grandpa kept front yard cut and trimmed no vines .After a car wreck it scraped a couple of inches of grass knocked down box wood bush and fence a few weeks latter a vine started growing on new fence grandpa said he hadn’t seen that since he built the house 50 years ago it’s part of the pea family and stayed in the seed bank for 50 years
Hey Greg yep we are also in the Ozarks in North Arkansas we planted our grass seed in early spring and now we lost it because of the drought as well hopefully we will all get some good rain coming up. We have some cows and goats. We enjoy watching your channel and have learned a lot thank you! Your animals look happy and healthy!!
So glad you are hanging in there. The cows looks beautiful! Praying y’all get some rain soon. I don’t know why more don’t do this after they see the forage you still have!
Thanks for the video! I hope you get some rain soon. We got a rain not to long ago, and it was dry here too. After the rain, you could see the pasture grow each day, and it turn back to green too. After watching and talking to you, I don’t mow anything because they eat aren’t picky eaters. At first I thought everything was a weed that was not a grass or normal feed stuff. They do eat Canadian thistles, but now it is way too mature. I’m going to mow them or more like a weed eater because I don’t like driving over rest of the pasture with the tractor.
We were in Branson last weekend. It was amazing how dry you all were in that part of Missouri and Arkansas. Thought it was just us over here in Oklahoma. We live in North Central Oklahoma and looks about same. Had to slow down our rotation due to not enough shade with this heat. Guess that is why we need to change to red hide cattle. LOL! Stay Cool!!!
Hi Greg, we are up here in Maryville. No drought so far. You should have gotten lots of rain the last two days. Bet your farms turned green overnight. Amazing to see how tall you’re grasses are even with a drought. The herd looks happy as usual.
Tall grass and fat cattle, when the grass is tall the cattle can get fat. I remember Greg Bran saying something about the bison moving to be clean and not to get more grass. This is making sense to me as I walk through the paddock the cattle are presently in, the grass is still tall, but it smells of urine and manure. I have a theory that there was much more trampling of the grass than was being consumed. They moved on quickly as to have a new clean buffet each day. Thank you and have a wonderful day.
Hello, folks. This drought depends on how come huracans so from the atlantic ocean and the gulf of mexico, also from the pacific. Howthe nature force has to respond. Where am I, in South Sonora, Mexico; we have a lot dry wells thats because the rains hasn't be enoguh to recharge aquifer mantles. But still we have the rest of summer even september and october a hurricane tail can still arrive. In my ranch until the moment have 5 inches of rain and there is still hope. courage folks
I have another 29 minutes set on my timer so I might get most of the backlog viewed before I do the eye drops and start making breakfast actually my main meal of the day. Changed my plan going to reset the timer and after the drops I will spend 45 minutes out in the yard transplanting the seeds I started last week I can’t believe how big they have grown I wonder if is due to the sheep manure compost that I mixed with the soil. I am off to find today’s video and then if time allows look for any that I have missed. Thank you for sharing your time with me today 🍀☘️🍀🌟😘💞💕💞🙋🏼♀️
That limping yearling(?) reminds me that you haven't covered culling losses recently. How are you doing for injuries, non-calf producing and body condition culls?
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I was wondering if it was a thorn or rock it stepped on, looked too healthy to be more than that. Thanks for solving the mystery.
Visited w kin folk in the cattle biz about your grazing operation... They just can't believe it works. They're headed home today to buy more hay without thinking twice about what they seen on your daily walk and talk. Sad, they have been struggling to make a decent profit for past ten years. Glad I found you, the boys and Jan.
Dry as heck here as well, hopefully we get some relief soon. We've been dry and crispy for a while I think the earliest I've seen it this dry and hot here, it's usually late august before it gets this bad here if it ever does.
Extreme SW Missouri here. VERY dry. It came a good rain on June 5th...since then we've had 2/10". I remember the 2012 drought and the 1980 drought as well. Fed hay in July those two times...since then, I've begun rotational grazing with several reels. I have a LITTLE bit of bermuda and some Red River Crabgrass...but mostly (3/4) fescue...which of course is dormant right now. *knock on wood*, I haven't fed any hay yet...and it's July 27th. We are looking to get some rain these next 3 or 4 days! YES! I'm planning to go ahead and begin stock-piling a patch of bermuda to strip-graze beginning in October. Will also stock-pile fescue beginning next month for strip-grazing beginning December...of course I am banking on some timely fall rains! Thanks so much for taking the time to do your videos! I have learned a lot from y'all.
Greg, seems like you are feeding hay time to time during spring and summer, making that call based on where the bales are set, almost as if to get rid of the hay and use it up before it goes bad, or strategically placed to heal soil. Does that sound accurate?
No, we only feed hay in the winter. Trying to feed old hay to livestock in the growing season is a good way to have your cattle lose weight. If there is green grass available, never feed hay. It is strictly insurance, hope you don’t need it but sometimes you do.
Hi Greg, do you think fescue will be good for green winter feed? Or will it die back over winter? Someone said that My best bet would be winter rye, what do u think? My winter low is 25°f and rarely snows.
I see quite a bit of milkweed I have some on my farm too but no cattle yet. Do you do anything about the milkweed? I have a few weeds that they say are poisonous for livestock but my sheep ignore it. Having only 7 ewes I give them a half acres, and move them every 5 days or so.
Greg, we experienced a mild winter in east TX, had normal rains in April/May then stopped in early June. Day after day of highs hovering around or exceeding 100. Texas is now the epitome of DRY! Needless to say, slow moves.
It all depends on your rain accumulation you get from August 15th to Oct 1st. Good rain fall allows us to grow a lot of winter stockpile forage. No rain in the fall, lower your stocking rate and this allows less hay feeding in the winter.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher What is an average range? ...a minimum and maximum---like, 1 - 5 bales/head/yr. I'm looking for a general comparison to share with local ranchers. Around here, SE Kansas, they feed hay (and corn, and...) all year long, and do not appear to be able to fathom there's a better way.
@Jonathan Bohl At Greg's grazing school, a little more than a year ago, i seem to recall him saying he used 300 bales, and I'm pretty sure he had about 300 head at the time. But i didn't write it down, we were walking with the cattle in th pasture, and i dont remember numbers well, so I'm not confident about the number bales. And I think some of that was to bring a poor piece of land up to snuff.
glad to hear it, I know you are very aware of conditioning and what cows you hold through this drought. Great show and you prove what can be done with your multi species approach and everyday moves. We are seeing a lot of trucks on the road with hay, which means it's all ready to far gone for a lot of these small ranchers.
@@vikingmountainranchlife7447 then let's get everyone we know together who understands the stuff and have everyone they know and etc and several handshakes down the line and get everybody to say the same thing "shut off HAARP shut off CERN". LET'S TRY TO GET EVERYBODY IN THE PATRIOT MOVEMENT WHICH BY THE WAY IS A MAJOR CHUNK OF THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW TO GET ON TO THIS
Great to see the mob moving Greg!! I just started about 2 weeks ago...moving the cows twice a day!! YOU ARE RIGHT!!! IT"S AMAZING!! The cows are fatter, grass is better despite the drought! Take care guys! lol Edit: Yep I fed 2 bales the other week to let the pastures ahead of the cows recover a few more days...then the rain hit and exponential growth! Thank goodness I had my Greg Judy Bale unroller!
How many acres and head?
Appreciate you mentioning the date. That helps a lot on gauging drought.
We are on on the same path grass is burnt up and ponds dry also.
Watching this July 25 and more drought and heat.
Thanks for sharing your management.
Growing up my grandpa kept front yard cut and trimmed no vines .After a car wreck it scraped a couple of inches of grass knocked down box wood bush and fence a few weeks latter a vine started growing on new fence grandpa said he hadn’t seen that since he built the house 50 years ago it’s part of the pea family and stayed in the seed bank for 50 years
Old wooden ships under water for 300 years and brought to the surface have had seed that was in cracks of the floor germinate and begin growing.
Hey Greg yep we are also in the Ozarks in North Arkansas we planted our grass seed in early spring and now we lost it because of the drought as well hopefully we will all get some good rain coming up. We have some cows and goats. We enjoy watching your channel and have learned a lot thank you! Your animals look happy and healthy!!
So glad you are hanging in there. The cows looks beautiful! Praying y’all get some rain soon. I don’t know why more don’t do this after they see the forage you still have!
Thanks for the video! I hope you get some rain soon. We got a rain not to long ago, and it was dry here too. After the rain, you could see the pasture grow each day, and it turn back to green too. After watching and talking to you, I don’t mow anything because they eat aren’t picky eaters. At first I thought everything was a weed that was not a grass or normal feed stuff. They do eat Canadian thistles, but now it is way too mature. I’m going to mow them or more like a weed eater because I don’t like driving over rest of the pasture with the tractor.
We were in Branson last weekend. It was amazing how dry you all were in that part of Missouri and Arkansas. Thought it was just us over here in Oklahoma. We live in North Central Oklahoma and looks about same. Had to slow down our rotation due to not enough shade with this heat. Guess that is why we need to change to red hide cattle. LOL! Stay Cool!!!
Hi Greg, we are up here in Maryville. No drought so far. You should have gotten lots of rain the last two days. Bet your farms turned green overnight. Amazing to see how tall you’re grasses are even with a drought. The herd looks happy as usual.
We got 3 -3/4 inches in the last two days. Absolutely a blessing for our dry pastures!
Morning Greg. They are looking great! 😎👍
Tall grass and fat cattle, when the grass is tall the cattle can get fat. I remember Greg Bran saying something about the bison moving to be clean and not to get more grass. This is making sense to me as I walk through the paddock the cattle are presently in, the grass is still tall, but it smells of urine and manure. I have a theory that there was much more trampling of the grass than was being consumed. They moved on quickly as to have a new clean buffet each day. Thank you and have a wonderful day.
My favorite videos are those of the cattle drives. Beautiful site to see!
Hello, folks. This drought depends on how come huracans so from the atlantic ocean and the gulf of mexico, also from the pacific. Howthe nature force has to respond. Where am I, in South Sonora, Mexico; we have a lot dry wells thats because the rains hasn't be enoguh to recharge aquifer mantles. But still we have the rest of summer even september and october a hurricane tail can still arrive. In my ranch until the moment have 5 inches of rain and there is still hope. courage folks
He's is Missouri so I'd think most of his rain comes from the pacific northwest, not the hurricanes in the gulf.
I have another 29 minutes set on my timer so I might get most of the backlog viewed before I do the eye drops and start making breakfast actually my main meal of the day. Changed my plan going to reset the timer and after the drops I will spend 45 minutes out in the yard transplanting the seeds I started last week I can’t believe how big they have grown I wonder if is due to the sheep manure compost that I mixed with the soil. I am off to find today’s video and then if time allows look for any that I have missed. Thank you for sharing your time with me today 🍀☘️🍀🌟😘💞💕💞🙋🏼♀️
That limping yearling(?) reminds me that you haven't covered culling losses recently. How are you doing for injuries, non-calf producing and body condition culls?
That limping cow stepped on a thorn. We cull when they don’t perform with our twice per day moves.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I was wondering if it was a thorn or rock it stepped on, looked too healthy to be more than that. Thanks for solving the mystery.
We are about 1 month and 3 weeks without rain. Made a trip out west..high temps, saw many dirt devils. Matt. 5:45 🙏
Horse Sense from a Cattleman. Love it!
Visited w kin folk in the cattle biz about your grazing operation... They just can't believe it works. They're headed home today to buy more hay without thinking twice about what they seen on your daily walk and talk.
Sad, they have been struggling to make a decent profit for past ten years.
Glad I found you, the boys and Jan.
You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink!!!
Dry as heck here as well, hopefully we get some relief soon. We've been dry and crispy for a while I think the earliest I've seen it this dry and hot here, it's usually late august before it gets this bad here if it ever does.
Hope you get some rain along with everybody else that needs it.
We got our shipment of timeless posts the other day to start our new fence.
Extreme SW Missouri here. VERY dry. It came a good rain on June 5th...since then we've had 2/10". I remember the 2012 drought and the 1980 drought as well. Fed hay in July those two times...since then, I've begun rotational grazing with several reels. I have a LITTLE bit of bermuda and some Red River Crabgrass...but mostly (3/4) fescue...which of course is dormant right now. *knock on wood*, I haven't fed any hay yet...and it's July 27th. We are looking to get some rain these next 3 or 4 days! YES! I'm planning to go ahead and begin stock-piling a patch of bermuda to strip-graze beginning in October. Will also stock-pile fescue beginning next month for strip-grazing beginning December...of course I am banking on some timely fall rains! Thanks so much for taking the time to do your videos! I have learned a lot from y'all.
It certainly looks like you folks are going to get some much needed rain! Your doing a great job!
Middle Tennessee also very very dry. Probably only get 2 cuttings this year…
what was wrong with the cow with a bad limp?
Nothing. It is lunch.
She stepped on a thorn
Prairie has amazing plant diversity
Hope that limping heifer gets better Greg.
She is better now
In our area we normally get 37 inches of rain…since the market garden(2 acres) was planted this spring we have gotten 1.66 inches
Hope you get some rain, hang in there.
Where are you located?
The drought in Texas is horrible. Seems like rain is nonexistent here. I feel for the farmers because grass is all crispy and mostly brown.
Greg, seems like you are feeding hay time to time during spring and summer, making that call based on where the bales are set, almost as if to get rid of the hay and use it up before it goes bad, or strategically placed to heal soil. Does that sound accurate?
No, we only feed hay in the winter. Trying to feed old hay to livestock in the growing season is a good way to have your cattle lose weight. If there is green grass available, never feed hay. It is strictly insurance, hope you don’t need it but sometimes you do.
Any idea what the white delicate flower is, not the aster, the one with the bigger top?
Queen Ann’s Lace
How has pinkeye been this year in the herd?
We had some in June, it is mostly gone in our herd now.
Hi Greg, when its hot like this how do you manage shade on all your paddocks with your herd sizes? Do you always provide shade opportunities?
Yes we always provide shade for our livestock. All of our farms have trees on them that allow us to offer shade for them.
Hi Greg, do you think fescue will be good for green winter feed? Or will it die back over winter? Someone said that My best bet would be winter rye, what do u think? My winter low is 25°f and rarely snows.
Fescue is the king winter forage
Great info! Has anyone ever said you sound just like Woody Harrelson? Lol
A lot of people have, I guess I do!
@Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher I should have phrased it as "Woody Harrelson sound like you." Lol
Greg, how to you keep the ticks and chiggers off you in your tall pastures?
Chiggers don’t like my skin much. Ticks are pulled off twice daily
I see quite a bit of milkweed I have some on my farm too but no cattle yet. Do you do anything about the milkweed? I have a few weeds that they say are poisonous for livestock but my sheep ignore it. Having only 7 ewes I give them a half acres, and move them every 5 days or so.
Milkweed gets hammered by our cow and sheep mobs.
How do you fix the cow with the thorn or is it a cull cow now ?
No they heal up fine.
Greg, how do y'all deal with chiggers? Treat your work clothes with pymethrin?
Nope, they don’t bother me
You got a limper in there. Hope she's okay?
She stepped on a thorn.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Happiest cows on the planet!
Saw one limping??? How about an update on that cow.
She is fine now, stepped on a thorn
I'm sure you noticed it at 0:34 seconds into this one of the cows was limping badly
She stepped on a thorn.
Nice video
Greg, we experienced a mild winter in east TX, had normal rains in April/May then stopped in early June. Day after day of highs hovering around or exceeding 100. Texas is now the epitome of DRY! Needless to say, slow moves.
Do you have nutsedge on your farms Greg? Is that a weed cows will eat? Hate it here, it takes over like crazy.
Our cows are eating it when we stock them at 100,000 lbs per acre with twice daily moves.
When you say commingling into one herd, so you mean putting intact bulls into cow herd? Or you're combining 2 different cow herds?
Yes we put the rest of the bull mob in with the cows. About 35 of them
How much hay per head per year is typical with regenerative grazing?
It all depends on your rain accumulation you get from August 15th to Oct 1st. Good rain fall allows us to grow a lot of winter stockpile forage. No rain in the fall, lower your stocking rate and this allows less hay feeding in the winter.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher What is an average range? ...a minimum and maximum---like, 1 - 5 bales/head/yr. I'm looking for a general comparison to share with local ranchers. Around here, SE Kansas, they feed hay (and corn, and...) all year long, and do not appear to be able to fathom there's a better way.
@@treenopie I think I recall him saying he tries to keep 1 bale per cow? That might be 1 bale left over per cow at the end. Not sure.
@Jonathan Bohl At Greg's grazing school, a little more than a year ago, i seem to recall him saying he used 300 bales, and I'm pretty sure he had about 300 head at the time. But i didn't write it down, we were walking with the cattle in th pasture, and i dont remember numbers well, so I'm not confident about the number bales. And I think some of that was to bring a poor piece of land up to snuff.
at 7:02 I mistook you for Johnny Cash! Have you had to sell off cattle due to drought this year?
We sell cattle every year. That is our income source. We always sell off livestock in the summer period to take some pressure off our pastures.
USE FOG NETS TO COLLECT WATER. SORRY ALL CAPS CAN'T C SMALL LETTERS ON KEYBOARD
You're up early this morning!
Yep, cattle marketing to customers today. Getting an early start!!!
We're in a La Nina weather pattern.
Why was that cow limping so badly?
She stepped on a thorn
The drawback to honey locust, I guess.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher you should probably pin a comment to the top lol
Cow with foot rot?
Nope, stepped on a thorn
Did nobody see the one limping pretty bad there at the 32 second mark
She stepped on a thorn, she is already getting better
one of your cows was limping heavily.
She stepped on a thorn, she is doing much better now.
glad to hear it, I know you are very aware of conditioning and what cows you hold through this drought. Great show and you prove what can be done with your multi species approach and everyday moves. We are seeing a lot of trucks on the road with hay, which means it's all ready to far gone for a lot of these small ranchers.
Am I the only one who saw the limping cow at :32? I hope she is alright
Nope, 10 other people have comments on her. She stepped on a thorn and is doing better
One cow was limping.
Stepped on a thorn
One cow has a limp. Do you sort out and keep in a special needs paddock. Bob in Nevada
She stepped on a thorn, she is doing better
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Everybody noticed that cow!
Then turn off HAARP
Agreed and CERN!
@@vikingmountainranchlife7447 then let's get everyone we know together who understands the stuff and have everyone they know and etc and several handshakes down the line and get everybody to say the same thing "shut off HAARP shut off CERN". LET'S TRY TO GET EVERYBODY IN THE PATRIOT MOVEMENT WHICH BY THE WAY IS A MAJOR CHUNK OF THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW TO GET ON TO THIS