Greg Judy - Green Pastures Farm - Agroforestry Farm Tour Video Series
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2024
- Greg Judy gives us a tour of Green Pastures Farm and talks about silvopasture, mob grazing, and the business of improving the land health on leased acreage.
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Funding for this video was provided by the USDA North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Service (www.northcentralsare.org/). - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Thank you for signing my book Greg, that was a nice touch I was not expecting. You really do put your personal touch on everything you do I'm seeing.
Greg Judy is an unbelievable legend
I am an avid follower of Mr. Judy and this production is a really good overview of what he does and how to integrate multi-species and open and forested land onto homeostasis with diversity in production, water retention on the soil and healthy biodiversity in the soil. Thanks for presenting this....
Love listening to him . I'm not even a farmer
goats, turkeys, bees, biochar, medicinal herbs, tree nursery - lots of stacking potential
Thank you Greg Judy for all your work! Especially in the Midwest! Your grinding some rusty ol' wheels to move us all into the right direction!
I love his enthusiasm about his passion
Really great 10 minute video! Thanks, guys!
Greg is doing Gods work.
Thanks for sharing all the good work you do and the results you are getting every day. Our future depends on new regenerative methods and increased soil health and you are showing us how.
Excellent video - Thanks!
This is a great video to introduce people to this idea in a very short concise video. Key!
Beautiful! Thank-you!
Thank you Greg Judy. Love watching and learning from you. Looks like you're working closer along the lines of Joel Salatin. As before you were concentrating on just cattle. I'm still yet aspiring to make my career change into ranching just like what you're doing there and Joel salatin , Alan Savory.
Gives us all hope what great farming your doing 👍
Transition zone produces some of the best forage to me.
Amazing! 💚
Just learned about Greg trough Justin Rhodes Farm tour videos. Man seems to know his stuff. I'm going to try and find his book " No Risk Ranching"
Read come back farms by greg judy!
Wonderful
Fantastic!!
The great thing about the hair sheep that Greg didn't mention this time is that they don't need shearing. What they gre w for the winter just falls off and it's good for the soil. If you're not wanting to mess with wool, get some o these. One breed is Katahdins. Edit: typo.
Great video but anything with Greg usually is!
Human beings evolved to live symbiotically with their environments; why is applying these intuitive approaches to our food systems so challenging?
Folks seem to be disinterested or too involved with dopamine chasing to learn enough to understand how this radical change is not optional. It's coming or we're going. It blows my mind how much folks hate to change despite change being the best available option. Some argue that our collective IQ isn't on the decline, perhaps it is?
Incredible
Awesome
2:40 Those cows look so healthy.
Because they are healthy. They also look happy, living in a paradise for grazing animals doing their grazing thing.
He reminds me of an American Geoff Lawton.
Greg better
I wonder how your honey locusts compare to black briar, for making walking sticks, self-protection, briar pipes…
Can I run 2 dexter cows and 4 katahdin ewes together while rotational grazing? I'm can't find if the get along.
What is your cattle to acreage ratio?
What is the climate/winter feed plan?
He grazes all winter. If the snow gets to deep he will plow rows through the pastures and Unroll bails if necessary. I believe Greg is in zone 6 there.
I wonder if South Polled will do OK in a tropical environment like central Brazil. Senepols do OK.
7:15 what kind of tool is that?
Hand inoculator for mushroom spawn
This is a nice video, and most of the ideas here I have read about. However, what is completely lacking are considerations about WINTER FEEDING and moving the animals to the slaughterhouse. Without handling facilities and at least some sort of roofed shelter, and without hay (which he said nothing about), you run the risk of serious losses, even with beef cattle. The perennial problem with cattle is that they take two years to reach market weight, and even if you do baby beef, you must take about half the herd (the brood cows) through the winter. While stockpiling pastures does work (at least where I live in Southern Indiana), grass simply does not grow when it is cold, so once the stockpiles are exhausted, you have to start buying hay. If you can sustain so many cattle on so many acres when the weather is warm, and the grass can recover in two weeks, during the winter you get once graze (instead of 8 or more) on the stockpile. You need to have a very flexible herd size to make this system work, and that often means selling low (in the fall) and buying high (in the spring). In short, there are many great ideas here, but this is a sugar-coated narrative. Also, that guy riding around on an ATV spearing step-in posts in the ground is laughable. Rocks? Frozen ground? Real life is walking and dragging around a hundred pounds of step in posts when there is a freezing ice storm.
If you will research Gregg you will find that he has addressed most or all of your issues. This was a short introduction to what they do. I know him and I guarantee you he is a wealth of grazing knowledge.
Greg Judy only feeds hay when the ice has stacked so high on the grass stockpile that the cows can't break through, if it's 2ft of soft snow he lets the cows dig through it to get to the grass. He does keep enough hay on hand to feed his cattle for at least 40 days,although many years Greg has to feed his cows hay less than 2 weeks of the year. He doesn't feed any energy supplements whatsoever such as corn or cottonseed meal, only forage. When he does feed hay it is bought in Hay and he unrolls it on pasture while continuing to move the cattle. His reason is that not only is he feeding his cattle through the winter he's feeding his soil through the stomped on hay residues.He doesn't use injections, wormers, or fly repellents. And you saw how fatty those heifers were. The guy throwing step in posts can do that because they have built up their soils over the past 15-20 years. As for hacking through snow and ice Greg does that too.
But he’s got a broadcast seeder bolted to the back of one of his quad bikes!
But what? Sometimes he seeds grass onto really bare spots along with unrolling hay on them at the same time. It's no secret, it's just a jumpstart. Diversity of biology is paramount and Greg knows that.
@@wadepatton2433 but he says in the video and I quote “people say Greg what do you seed?” “We haven’t done any seeding, we don’t do any seeding”. I admire what he’s done but it’s misinformation like that which annoys me. He also says he hates burning diesel clipping pastures and would rather get the cows to do it then makes another video about him clipping a pasture and how important it is.
6mins 28secs in the video for your reference.
@@rncharrison Okay, I see how it stirred you up. But his exceptions are not his rules. I've seen a great majority of Greg's short and long videos and know just about exactly what he's doing and when/where he "breaks" his own rules. Sorry that folks get hung up on that. Methinks that he's speaking of general rules or practices for simplicity and not breaking it down into all the small exceptions. There are always exceptions-that's how Life works. I also have all of his books.
As a general rule he does zero management with a tractor. He never drills grains like Gabe does. He rarely clips pastures (as I must do now with no animals).
Thanks for letting me know where he said it. But also Greg is good but imperfect. Imperfection is another thing Life gives us without exception.
And FWIW this isn't his video, he didn't edit it--and we all well know how editing can change context and expression.
I work a system with many of these ideas with dairy cattle. The difference is that my stocking rate is dramatically lower since only the choicest forage can maintain condition/production of modern dairy cattle. This leaves me with an overabundance of grass in the Spring and early Summer which I cut for hay and then feed back during the winter once stockpiled pasture is exhausted. It works, but it is not nearly as idyllic as what is presented here. Furthermore, cows are not magical. Their hooves do not correct drainage, they do not add new minerals or nitrogen to the soil. They do not turn clay into loam. They do not remove rocks. What they can do is kill plants and sew seeds if you broadcast them on before a move. Any urine or manure improving fertility is really just translocation of nutrients from one area of the farm to another. If the soil doesn't have native mineral fertility, you cannot get native mineral fertility by animals grazing it unless you feed the animals bought hay, which translocates the nutrients from the hayfield to the pasture (in which case you are buying both feed and fertilizer for the same price as just feed). But most farmers are getting smart these days and charging dear for good hay.
All soils already have the basic elements that plants need. What most agricultural soils are lacking is the microbial ecosystem to make these elements into plant-available nutrients. The cow manure and gentle soil disturbance proliferate these microbes, which in turn metabolize soil particles into plant-available nutrients. Increasing soil organic matter will help drainage and make a clay act more like a loam. They can add new minerals to the soil if you are feeding them minerals sourced from somewhere else.
Exactly what Caleb mentioned. Proper management promotes and speeds the regeneration of unfertile poor soil into fertile healthy soil. The effect that brings the most dividends is the increased organic matter , water infiltration, and water holding capacity of the soil. As for mineral availability I'm not saying that adding minerals can't be beneficial. The conflict comes when mineral supplementation isn't regarded with caution. There comes a point when many farmers practice the more on(moron) principal, thinking that every additional fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, and fungicide will increase yields, and they add all these supplements on a preventive basis desiccating their soil life. thinking that 200 lb of nitrogen is more beneficial than 100 lb of nitrogen because with perfect rain amounts they can increase increase their maximum yields by 30%. The problem is that no year is a perfect rain year, and plants react differently from rainwater then they do to irrigation. When added in excess, nitrogen and phosphorus in particular encourage the plant to stop feeding the microbes through root exudates. By the end of the season when the majority of the artificial water soluble nitrogen and phosphorus get Leached out by rain or erosion the plant struggles to continue to grow or set seed because it's running on steam. If the plant didn't have an excess of nitrogen and phosphorus at the beginning of the season then it would have built up microbial populations to sustain itself through seasons end. Depending on photosynthesis efficiency a plant will invest up to 25% of its sugar products into the soil to feed microbes in the first half of its life. In the second half of its life especially towards seed set it invests less than 5% into root exudates. Last point to make is that Greg made all his money from raising livestock animals he owns four of his ranches in full, he no longer takes out mortgages.He writes in his book no risk ranching that before he made the transition to leasing land and rotational grazing that there came a time when he only had $8 in the bank and two weeks before his town job paid him again, that's what I call scraping the bottom of the cupboard.
One thing I forgot to talk about was the fact that soil fertility can be grown by growing microbial populations. You talk about translocating and losing fertility in an area by moving cattle. This is just plain silly. The air consists over 70 % stable nitrogen, this stable nitrogen molecule can be broken down by certain bacteria that feed on sugars produced by legumes. To put a number on it, there is 70,000 pounds of nitrogen over every acre. tell me again why we're adding synthetic nitrogen instead of trying to manage nitrogen fixing bacteria? As for every other mineral and Trace element that is unavailable there are other biological systems to obtain these nutrients. Beneficial fungus called mycorrhizal fungi actually attach themselves to or in the plants root cell matrix. They directly feed many plants minerals that have a relationship with them. The fungi are amazing because they use plant root exudates to grow themselves but they also push root exudates on to their fungi hyphal tips and grow Little farms of phosphate solublizing bacteria. They absorb the phosphate Rich bacteria bodies before the phosphate can bind with other mineral and transport them directly to the plant roots in a plant available form.
You need to watch more videos of farmers following the regenerative farming practices. See their successful building soil videos & talks. THEY ARE AMAZING! IT TAKES TIME IT ISN'T AN OVERNIGHT SUCCESS
THE SOIL IMPROVES EACH YEAR AND HAS A CUMULATIVE EFFECT.
GREG JUDY & GABE BROWN ARE TWO OF THE BEST, BUT THERE ARE OTHERS HAVING GREAT SUCCESS AND PROVING THAT REGENERATIVE FARMIMG WORKS
There is no doubt in my mind at all: the only way forward is symbiotic renaturalization.
Anthropocentrism is clearly unsustainable and environmentally destructive.