I'm so glad I came across your channel. In the past I have always poured my cattle, but no longer. I went and turned over my manure piles, and no worms. Wish I would have found you sooner! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!
@@anjin77 Pouring is when you apply dewormer as in Ivomec down their back. Greg is a huge advocate of not doing this as it kills all the good bugs along with the bad. The sun kills all lice when spring comes around.
@@WhooSRK Thanks for clarifying! I've been learning so much from Mr. Judy, Salatin and so many others, and I'm learning new 'lingo' all the time. So now 10 months later, are you seeing a return of earthworms? Or is it still too early to tell? Best of luck!
You know you are improving when patties disappear in 2 weeks. At the last place we renovated ex crp and manure patties could be found a year later - nothing broke them down!! Took 3 years before they disappeared the way they are supposed to. I love your enthusiasm over the manure and worms - happy dances here when that happens lol
Greg I grew up sitting on a tractor. I would have so much preferred doing things your way. We had 500 cattle in a feed lot. Spent about 1 hour a day with them, and 16 hours a day during season sitting on a tractor.
That is SUCH an awesome point about feeding the world Greg. People who are telling you that you need that is are really just telling you we need to rely on the Gov't and corporations to take care of us. Not a happy future if you ask me...
Stephen from Acobonac Farms just told me about purchasing 90 head from you. He asked me to be there on delivery day, I’m grateful that I passed the message along. Real calves on Long Island, and all God’s People say Amen 🙏 Appreciate Y’all
@@fooddude9921 I know trying to get the hell out of here!!!! I can my woman has 4 more years Town of Brookhaven!!!! Can not loose those benefits. This coming spring we’re gonna look Southwest Missouri. At least I can get out for a couple of months a year.
Got to love the earth worms, mum and dad to so many offspring. I can hardly believe that I wrote that sentence! I am learning so much thank you for teaching me to appreciate them
I love that you are doing what you are doing for the land and country. Thinking about how you can improve the condition of the land you have is always in your mind,too.Look into ground and powdered rock to add to the soil.It's minerals at its most basic level and proven over a hundred years ago in studies at Princeton University.They took a half section of worn out land and put tons of rock on it and within 5 years it had built the topsoil to 3 ft.They used a 5 way mix of granite type of rock ground to a fine powder.This was published in the 1920's.Nobody noticed. They got the rock dust from quarries in New England. Humic acid is produced by the plants being consumed by cattle and sheep.Humic acid has a power that can't be comprehended by those who have never seen it employed.My next door neighbor has a Hydrangea that wasn't doing well so I sprayed some humic acid on it and within a month it had greened up and the leaves grew as big as my hands.The flowers came on next and were 12 inches across and the deepest blue that I had ever seen.They make humic acid with cow manure so your land is getting it the natural way.You keep doing what you're doing as more people are waking up and following your lead.
I just read this about Humic Acid and thought I'd share it as it just was published in Jan.of this year. www.hindawi.com/journals/aess/2021/8838420/ Notice that the natural type of humic acid worked the best and is renewable.Most commercial humic acid is extracted from leonardite and lignitic coal and works but isn't renewable like manure.This study is from Indonesia.
Hi Greg, It's very depressing with all the negative news and actions tearing down our country and people, it is very consoling and encouraging that you with your great work show's there is hope for the future. By the way, you talk about loss of topsoil and ultimate destruction. At the time of Christ , the granary for the Roman Empire was North Africa - now desert lands.
Thank you for another great video Greg. Hopefully enough people will be convinced that management and stewardship are the way to go before we reach the tipping point.
Hey Greg that's Garrison foxtail. That's one of the characteristics you throw the seed head right off the bat period and when it gets more material turn black. Our whole Farm is that you're going to love that.
All I can say is.... Mr. Judy is the only person who can say look at the worms in that shit (of course he didn't say that ) and make it sound so awesome !! He's the most verbally adept man that I have heard speak :) ! I am a religious watcher and would love to have this guy's cows and sheep !! He's the man !!
You are right. They should put a photo of the actual field where food comes from with a balance sheet for carbon nitrogen and wild life per unit hectare/ acre. And energy to harvest.
My 15 year old made the comment yesterday that our livestock seem happier after moving to a rotational grazing program and its no wonder a vegan thinks feedlots are bad..... the animals are not allowed to be animals.
I agree, Veganism is a trend that believes its myopic view to be the answer to protecting the animals. It is simplistic and always seems to be a badge of honor for its followers. Hypocrisy at its finest. I’ve debated it with several of them, always results in a tantrum from these people because their whole world would crash in on them to accept truth. Humans are omnivores, period. Even if you don’t accept the Bible, just compare human teeth to other species. I’ll never understand them. That said, feedlots are bad. Rotational grazing is the way of nature. Mankind’s fixation on economies of scale, greed and profit are what’s destroying our soil.
I live in a rural county in Virginia, filled with farms in a climate similar to Missouri's (just a bit more mild). Driving across our county reveals many many pastures that are just as sorry-looking as can be. The cattle keep them nipped right down to the ground, and come high summer they will be lifeless. As usual.
Looks like timothy to me, but I'm not so experienced as you. Canary is one of the more important grasses for us. It grows well it the wet spots, and up on the ridges. I just love the stuff. I saw some put on a quarter inch of growth in a day after it had been bitten once.
14:00 mark....the only way to rid this country of the need for fuel is to do what we do, Greg. You said it best in here, we need to get back to what we were doing for thousands of years and grow grass for our livestock. We will rid ourselves of much, if not all, of the unnecessary "fluff" that we've allowed D.C. and their ilk to pour down our throats. thanks for all your videos!
Just put a perimeter fence in last fall. We’re excited to start regenerative grazing our 160 acres. What did you use to protect your trees? Hog panel or cattle panel? Noticed the cages.
As per the end of your podcast, even vegetable and fruit fields should be surrounded by pastures with animals. That way they could catch any eroded soil.
Creeping Foxtail or Meadow Foxtail are 2 possibilities . They thrive on wet clay soils and are very early Spring grasses. Creeping Foxtail can Dominate it’s pasture area but, remains a valuable graze thru Summer heat, into Fall. Does Well into Ontario and Mich’s Eastern U.P. I looked these up. Otherwise I knew very little about them. * Hat 🎩 Tip Marvin
Another great video Greg. On one of your videos in the future can you please talk about your thoughts (based on what you have seen or read) on best approaches to grow crops on their own or in combination with grazing? You're producing healthy food on your farm but most of us need to eat greens/potatoes/etc in addition to meat. Can you see a way that no-till gardening, which preserves soil life, could alternate with grazing?
Greg, if you would like to know more about Glyphosate, I was watching a video where Charles Massey mentioned Dr. Zach Bush and his team that has been studying & publishing about glyphosate. The info the good Dr. shares will surprise you. He is also an advocate of soil health.
Greg, Im appalled that out here in Easter Washington yesterday i saw a number of tractors our with rod weeders on fallow wheat ground. the dust plumes behind them were amazing. I wanted to go out and stop them and try to convince them to do differently.
Always love seeing them running to their next 5 course meal.. lol Grass looks so Fine.. More Farmers need to do this type of farming by moving there stock think the problem is that there to Lazy much easier to farm the way they do by just pouring grain into there trough... Thank you for all that you do..
I just got done walking my pasture. The grass is pretty thin. I have red clay dirt. I am running a small herd of goats that are chowing down on all the brush I have. I still want grass, but I also want the brush for my goats. I also have plenty of crawfish (mudbugs) drilling holes all over the place. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing to have them drilling the holes.
Did you sow any seeds or spread any lime on the soil when it was bare ground? I have an bare area that I have been unrolling hay on, and I guess I am too impatient. It does have some new grass, but was wondering if I need to do more. Thanks for the info.
Greg, I think it was the last video where you talked about how you just planted grass on a dam, and I was curious why you used Kentucky 31 vs Kentucky 32. I am establishing a new pasture in a soybean field and am curious which one I should plant. Thanks! Love the videos!
We have reed canary and not only would it be off time for it to be heading out, it's on Extreme short side for heading ( at least in north Dakota where it can grow several feet) and leaves aren't right either - too narrow etc
This liberal has been convinced now for a year-and-a-half and has been spreading the message to anyone who will listen. I even had a young woman who is working on a nearby regenerative farm speak about it at our League of Women Voters "lunch and learn" meeting. I've also noticed more and more grass-fed meats and dairy products showing up in the stores. It's happening. Maybe not as fast as we'd like but it is happening nevertheless.
We can do this. Conservatives are on board with this too... the land is meant to be stewarded by people! Not abandoned, not abused, stewarded with love and respect. ❤️
Interesting to see a soybean field converted to grazing. Q. What is the ratio of average cash rent per acre for soybean/corn field in that area vs. rent you are currently paying for grazing cattle on this former soybean field? Said differently, is the land owner accepting a lower return than they could otherwise achieve from cash renting to a local corn/soybean farmer? There are parts of the country where good corn/soybean land w/ good CSR will yield $250/acre/ year or more in cash rent.
Grazing land rent is not going to be subsidized like row crop land. Why do you think they can afford to pay $400 an acre? Tax payer funded subsidies deposited into their checking account. Some of these guys are making a million dollars a year off of government payments. That is called farming the government.
Greg, Did you broadcast the orchard grass seed to get that growing, or how did you get all that good grass established there? I've tried broadcasting orchard grass on top of poor pasture, and it has not taken.
Greg, I love what you do! I am a city slicker but my grandmother was the 15 child of homesteaders in Indiana. As a boy we used to visit the farm regularly. I loved it! I have a question on the math. You produce say 500 cows for market a year and do that on I don't know how much land but a lot. Is there enough land to feed everybody using your methods?
Hey Greg question for you, I have 63 acres of sage and weed infested arid pastureland, I grew up farming and ranching but the difference was we had irrigation. I have no water rights to my ditch, and I’ve been mowing multiple times a year to combat the weeds and sage, and was thinking of using worms off of amazon, cutting and discing sections of my pasture to plant clover to bring the nitrogen back to my fields, am limited on money as I’m not doing this full time, but if I can get things restored it would incentivize me to get cattle again, and then I’d just need to haul water for them and hay them. But first I need to reestablish my fields which I believe will take about 5 years any help would be appreciative!
I would get my perimeter fence in and establish 4 water points strategically placed on the 63 acres that allows you to graze it. You could use 250 gallon IBC totes for your watering needs. Until you put livestock on it, will be tough to heal it.
Hey Mr.Judy Another group of lessons taught and greatly appreciated. A quick wiki check on the Reed Canary Grass states that not necessarily a good thing for ruminant animals. Then again what do they really know over there. Thanks again.
Looking good Greg, love this time of the year. Good to see your end screens and subscriptions. I just spend $300 on equipment you recommend . I’m my opinion you need to do some affiliation with your channel. Another revenue stream for you.
Hey Greg, I was wondering how you learned the names and details of all of these grasses and things? Did you just pick it up through osmosis down through the years? Did you attend classes? Or did you read good books that taught you about all the grasses? If books, are there any you could recommend as being better than others? Thanks! (P.S.- can't wait to buy your new book! :)
check out free mobile phone apps for plant IDs, I downloaded Leafsnap. If it can't tell for certain, it gives you options to pick from. I take those options to google images and conservation websites and narrow it to the right one.
@@brennagarten317 What a great idea!!! I didn't even think of that! I will check 'em out. I'm so partial to books that I can hardly think of anything else. Heh.
We did sow some last summer in our area where the cows trampled the forest of cocklebur plants. It did not come up last summer like we hoped, but this spring it is starting to appear.
Hello Essentially a way to spread the cow manure. Dragging a length of heavy gauge chain link fence behind any number of vehicles is but one of many ways to spread manure.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Great, I’m trying to do the same thing, but i think my starting point soil is in worse shape. It was forest. I appreciate the response!
Well Greg, they've already started to destroy our honey bee population with all the poisons they spray on fields. Why not try and convince everyone that cattle aren't the way to go. Makes me sad 😥. Btw, that field looked beautiful. God Bless Laurel 💗👍😁
Say sign me up you know how people have calendar with tractors I see a Greg Judy doth pile calendar and old grandma should be in March fat and pregnant do each month is a shot of one or more cattle in the pasture with the same month from the previous year maybe even same paddock each year and month and some with their calf and we will be able to grass productivity
not enough trees do not mean all trees, I am a 9th generation rancher. not enough trees meany more shade needed, and shadow does not mean forested or groves btw my comment to Greg is on a personal level as we know each other in real life. and we both have been thorns in Jim Gerrish 's side
@@gmilla2825 Sounds like you have been brainwashed by right wing propaganda. I don't think John Deere is controlled by Bill Gates or vegans. Let me know if German drug maker Merck a financial backer of cultured meat is run by vegans i would guess it is not.
This channel is far superior to an AG degree. I love it. Thanks Greg !
Yup, I agree- pure gold...! :)
I'm so glad I came across your channel. In the past I have always poured my cattle, but no longer. I went and turned over my manure piles, and no worms. Wish I would have found you sooner! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!
Wonderful!
What does it mean to “pour” cattle?
@@anjin77 Pouring is when you apply dewormer as in Ivomec down their back. Greg is a huge advocate of not doing this as it kills all the good bugs along with the bad. The sun kills all lice when spring comes around.
@@WhooSRK Thanks for clarifying! I've been learning so much from Mr. Judy, Salatin and so many others, and I'm learning new 'lingo' all the time. So now 10 months later, are you seeing a return of earthworms? Or is it still too early to tell? Best of luck!
@@anjin77 My ground is still covered in snow, but I'm excited to find out come spring!
You know you are improving when patties disappear in 2 weeks.
At the last place we renovated ex crp and manure patties could be found a year later - nothing broke them down!! Took 3 years before they disappeared the way they are supposed to.
I love your enthusiasm over the manure and worms - happy dances here when that happens lol
All those worms and green grass makes my heart feel good!
Greg I grew up sitting on a tractor. I would have so much preferred doing things your way. We had 500 cattle in a feed lot. Spent about 1 hour a day with them, and 16 hours a day during season sitting on a tractor.
That is SUCH an awesome point about feeding the world Greg. People who are telling you that you need that is are really just telling you we need to rely on the Gov't and corporations to take care of us. Not a happy future if you ask me...
Keep teaching, keep doing what you're doing, keep pressing on, never give up, love it.
Thank you, I will
Thank you for the close up of the grass. I'm trying to learn what all is in my pasture. -Mike
You might get someone from your local extension or agriculture college to tell you?
Just ordered your new grazing book. Ty vm Greg and Crew!!
Stephen from Acobonac Farms just told me about purchasing 90 head from you. He asked me to be there on delivery day, I’m grateful that I passed the message along. Real calves on Long Island, and all God’s People say Amen 🙏 Appreciate Y’all
Long Island???
@@davidhickenbottom6574 Affirmative!!!
@@vitomilillo8566 I'm in Massachusetts they will be the closest south pol cattle to me.
Yep Stephen is getting a semi-load of steers shipped to Long Island.
@@fooddude9921 I know trying to get the hell out of here!!!! I can my woman has 4 more years Town of Brookhaven!!!! Can not loose those benefits. This coming spring we’re gonna look Southwest Missouri. At least I can get out for a couple of months a year.
Love a man who plays in Manure Pats. Beautiful to see new Life on what was once a Dead field. Love your Vlogs. God Bless and Peace Be With You All
YEAH !!! the Tree Swallows are back !! I love their work !!
Got to love the earth worms, mum and dad to so many offspring. I can hardly believe that I wrote that sentence! I am learning so much thank you for teaching me to appreciate them
I love that you are doing what you are doing for the land and country. Thinking about how you can improve the condition of the land you have is always in your mind,too.Look into ground and powdered rock to add to the soil.It's minerals at its most basic level and proven over a hundred years ago in studies at Princeton University.They took a half section of worn out land and put tons of rock on it and within 5 years it had built the topsoil to 3 ft.They used a 5 way mix of granite type of rock ground to a fine powder.This was published in the 1920's.Nobody noticed. They got the rock dust from quarries in New England. Humic acid is produced by the plants being consumed by cattle and sheep.Humic acid has a power that can't be comprehended by those who have never seen it employed.My next door neighbor has a Hydrangea that wasn't doing well so I sprayed some humic acid on it and within a month it had greened up and the leaves grew as big as my hands.The flowers came on next and were 12 inches across and the deepest blue that I had ever seen.They make humic acid with cow manure so your land is getting it the natural way.You keep doing what you're doing as more people are waking up and following your lead.
I just read this about Humic Acid and thought I'd share it as it just was published in Jan.of this year. www.hindawi.com/journals/aess/2021/8838420/ Notice that the natural type of humic acid worked the best and is renewable.Most commercial humic acid is extracted from leonardite and lignitic coal and works but isn't renewable like manure.This study is from Indonesia.
Great job Greg..... you're telling the outright truth about our nations food source and managing our soil
with all the worms your making me want to go fishing!!!! as all ways good job on taking care of the land
I was thinking the same! Now the kids know where to go for bait... straight for the cow pies 🤣
@@peachykeen7634 LOL
Hi Greg, It's very depressing with all the negative news and actions tearing down our country and people, it is very consoling and encouraging that you with your great work show's there is hope for the future. By the way, you talk about loss of topsoil and ultimate destruction. At the time of Christ , the granary for the Roman Empire was North Africa - now desert lands.
I was bush hogging a pasture when slowly a appeared hundreds (2-3 Hundred) of barn swallows Man what a feeling & sight !
Looking good Greg, getting excited to see it again in couple weeks. Have a wonderful day
$200k annual gas bill to go with that $200K tractor to spray glyphosate and plant GMO’s to pay for a 200K chemotherapy bill.
Great comparison Wendy.
Thank you for the nature walks and all the education.
One of the numbers I remember from college is that on average a cow will eat the grass from a cow pat spot after 45 days.
I hope that professor and his students watches all these worms, that is a solid indicator of ecosystem health as a whole.
Always a pleasure to watch your vids
It could be meadow foxtail. I’ve been looking at all types of grasses lately. Trying to get smarter on different types of grasses.
Good info, I think you’re on to this 👍
I thought the fox tails are warm season
What a contrast between Green Pastures Farm and that big steiger tractor !
Thank you for another great video Greg. Hopefully enough people will be convinced that management and stewardship are the way to go before we reach the tipping point.
Hope so!
Hey Greg that's Garrison foxtail. That's one of the characteristics you throw the seed head right off the bat period and when it gets more material turn black. Our whole Farm is that you're going to love that.
Thanks for the ID.
All I can say is.... Mr. Judy is the only person who can say look at the worms in that shit (of course he didn't say that ) and make it sound so awesome !! He's the most verbally adept man that I have heard speak :) ! I am a religious watcher and would love to have this guy's cows and sheep !! He's the man !!
You are right. They should put a photo of the actual field where food comes from with a balance sheet for carbon nitrogen and wild life per unit hectare/ acre. And energy to harvest.
My 15 year old made the comment yesterday that our livestock seem happier after moving to a rotational grazing program and its no wonder a vegan thinks feedlots are bad..... the animals are not allowed to be animals.
I agree, Veganism is a trend that believes its myopic view to be the answer to protecting the animals. It is simplistic and always seems to be a badge of honor for its followers. Hypocrisy at its finest. I’ve debated it with several of them, always results in a tantrum from these people because their whole world would crash in on them to accept truth. Humans are omnivores, period. Even if you don’t accept the Bible, just compare human teeth to other species. I’ll never understand them. That said, feedlots are bad. Rotational grazing is the way of nature. Mankind’s fixation on economies of scale, greed and profit are what’s destroying our soil.
That field looks amazing Greg! All that love you're giving that land is sure showing! 😀
I live in a rural county in Virginia, filled with farms in a climate similar to Missouri's (just a bit more mild). Driving across our county reveals many many pastures that are just as sorry-looking as can be. The cattle keep them nipped right down to the ground, and come high summer they will be lifeless. As usual.
So sad. I’m in SE VA, trying to revitalize old rowcrop field to pasture... trying to get the older farmers in this area to give something else a try..
@@peachykeen7634 we did that with a beautiful field of red clover
Earthworms in soil is always a good sight.
Looks like timothy to me, but I'm not so experienced as you. Canary is one of the more important grasses for us. It grows well it the wet spots, and up on the ridges. I just love the stuff. I saw some put on a quarter inch of growth in a day after it had been bitten once.
14:00 mark....the only way to rid this country of the need for fuel is to do what we do, Greg. You said it best in here, we need to get back to what we were doing for thousands of years and grow grass for our livestock. We will rid ourselves of much, if not all, of the unnecessary "fluff" that we've allowed D.C. and their ilk to pour down our throats.
thanks for all your videos!
Just put a perimeter fence in last fall. We’re excited to start regenerative grazing our 160 acres. What did you use to protect your trees? Hog panel or cattle panel? Noticed the cages.
As per the end of your podcast, even vegetable and fruit fields should be surrounded by pastures with animals. That way they could catch any eroded soil.
biodynamic farming
@@C.Hawkshaw Maxi, I don't know if you coined that word... But I love it!
Creeping Foxtail or Meadow Foxtail are 2 possibilities . They thrive on wet clay soils and are very early Spring grasses.
Creeping Foxtail can Dominate it’s pasture area but, remains a valuable graze thru Summer heat, into Fall.
Does Well into Ontario and Mich’s Eastern U.P. I looked these up. Otherwise I knew very little about them. * Hat 🎩 Tip Marvin
Another great video Greg. On one of your videos in the future can you please talk about your thoughts (based on what you have seen or read) on best approaches to grow crops on their own or in combination with grazing? You're producing healthy food on your farm but most of us need to eat greens/potatoes/etc in addition to meat. Can you see a way that no-till gardening, which preserves soil life, could alternate with grazing?
Greg, if you would like to know more about Glyphosate, I was watching a video where Charles Massey mentioned Dr. Zach Bush and his team that has been studying & publishing about glyphosate. The info the good Dr. shares will surprise you. He is also an advocate of soil health.
What's the name of the video? I'm currently doing as much research on the subject as I can.
Thanks!
Check out Dr Don Hubers work with glpyhosate, it will certainly get your attention.
Did you seed that field or just spread hay?
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Greg, Im appalled that out here in Easter Washington yesterday i saw a number of tractors our with rod weeders on fallow wheat ground. the dust plumes behind them were amazing. I wanted to go out and stop them and try to convince them to do differently.
would be cool if some of that land was turned into mob grazing land. My great-grandfather homesteaded 400 acres of wheat land in Ritzville in 1896.
How long did it take to get good grass on the bean field.
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You are right, that's not sustainable. It's ongoing. Ongoing debt, stress, and destruction.
Greg, Would there be any earthworms in the cow paddies if the cows were being treated with Ivermectin? Thank you.
No
wish we would of seen the bulls being moved .. thanks mr. greg
You will see the bull mob move tomorrow.
Always love seeing them running to their next 5 course meal.. lol Grass looks so Fine.. More Farmers need to do this type of farming by moving there stock think the problem is that there to Lazy much easier to farm the way they do by just pouring grain into there trough... Thank you for all that you do..
I just got done walking my pasture. The grass is pretty thin. I have red clay dirt. I am running a small herd of goats that are chowing down on all the brush I have. I still want grass, but I also want the brush for my goats. I also have plenty of crawfish (mudbugs) drilling holes all over the place. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing to have them drilling the holes.
Those holes are aerating the soil, good thing!
Did you sow any seeds or spread any lime on the soil when it was bare ground? I have an bare area that I have been unrolling hay on, and I guess I am too impatient. It does have some new grass, but was wondering if I need to do more. Thanks for the info.
On bare soil spots, we unroll hay and let the cows work it into the soil surface.
How do you take a field from growing crops to grass ?
Greg, I think it was the last video where you talked about how you just planted grass on a dam, and I was curious why you used Kentucky 31 vs Kentucky 32. I am establishing a new pasture in a soybean field and am curious which one I should plant. Thanks! Love the videos!
Kentucky 31 is a very tough grass that builds a very heavy sod to hold soil in place.
Not reed canary some sort of meadow foxtail first grass to put out a seed head here in Nova Scotia Can.
We have reed canary and not only would it be off time for it to be heading out, it's on Extreme short side for heading ( at least in north Dakota where it can grow several feet) and leaves aren't right either - too narrow etc
I agree
This liberal has been convinced now for a year-and-a-half and has been spreading the message to anyone who will listen. I even had a young woman who is working on a nearby regenerative farm speak about it at our League of Women Voters "lunch and learn" meeting. I've also noticed more and more grass-fed meats and dairy products showing up in the stores. It's happening. Maybe not as fast as we'd like but it is happening nevertheless.
We can do this. Conservatives are on board with this too... the land is meant to be stewarded by people! Not abandoned, not abused, stewarded with love and respect. ❤️
@@peachykeen7634 Let's hope.
Interesting to see a soybean field converted to grazing. Q. What is the ratio of average cash rent per acre for soybean/corn field in that area vs. rent you are currently paying for grazing cattle on this former soybean field? Said differently, is the land owner accepting a lower return than they could otherwise achieve from cash renting to a local corn/soybean farmer? There are parts of the country where good corn/soybean land w/ good CSR will yield $250/acre/ year or more in cash rent.
Grazing land rent is not going to be subsidized like row crop land. Why do you think they can afford to pay $400 an acre? Tax payer funded subsidies deposited into their checking account. Some of these guys are making a million dollars a year off of government payments. That is called farming the government.
About earthwormes, if you could have chickens over pastures, would you be worried if chickens would eat too much earthworms?
Greg, Did you broadcast the orchard grass seed to get that growing, or how did you get all that good grass established there? I've tried broadcasting orchard grass on top of poor pasture, and it has not taken.
The orchard grass has come from the seed bank and hay that was unrolled during the winter dormant season.
What is poured on cattle that doesn’t help the worm growth?
The farmers with those big tractors complain that the price of corn or beans is not high enough. No you are spending too much.
Greg, I love what you do! I am a city slicker but my grandmother was the 15 child of homesteaders in Indiana. As a boy we used to visit the farm regularly. I loved it! I have a question on the math. You produce say 500 cows for market a year and do that on I don't know how much land but a lot. Is there enough land to feed everybody using your methods?
2 acres per cow per year.
Hey Greg question for you, I have 63 acres of sage and weed infested arid pastureland, I grew up farming and ranching but the difference was we had irrigation. I have no water rights to my ditch, and I’ve been mowing multiple times a year to combat the weeds and sage, and was thinking of using worms off of amazon, cutting and discing sections of my pasture to plant clover to bring the nitrogen back to my fields, am limited on money as I’m not doing this full time, but if I can get things restored it would incentivize me to get cattle again, and then I’d just need to haul water for them and hay them. But first I need to reestablish my fields which I believe will take about 5 years any help would be appreciative!
I would get my perimeter fence in and establish 4 water points strategically placed on the 63 acres that allows you to graze it. You could use 250 gallon IBC totes for your watering needs.
Until you put livestock on it, will be tough to heal it.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher good to know! Thank you for that!!!
Hey Mr.Judy
Another group of lessons taught and greatly appreciated.
A quick wiki check on the Reed Canary Grass states that not necessarily a good thing for ruminant animals. Then again what do they really know over there.
Thanks again.
The question I had about foxtail causing pinkeye now that i think about it i think it was sheet grass
Looking good Greg, love this time of the year. Good to see your end screens and subscriptions. I just spend $300 on equipment you recommend . I’m my opinion you need to do some affiliation with your channel. Another revenue stream for you.
Does foxtail cause pinkeye in the cattle? Tom from Nebraska
I think it is Garrison Creeping Foxtail.
Do you ever get deschampsia cespitosa, and if so, what do you do to get rid of it?
Great info Greg. What do you do if ants take over everything that hits the ground. Will the earthworms still thrive
Do you have beavers in your area and what do you think about beavers? Do you want them in your rivers?
I can't answer for Greg, but I've heard him preach on having as many species on your land as possible, even coyotes, so I guess he'd welcome them
Hey Greg, I was wondering how you learned the names and details of all of these grasses and things? Did you just pick it up through osmosis down through the years? Did you attend classes? Or did you read good books that taught you about all the grasses? If books, are there any you could recommend as being better than others? Thanks! (P.S.- can't wait to buy your new book! :)
I'm also looking for good grass ID books
check out free mobile phone apps for plant IDs, I downloaded Leafsnap. If it can't tell for certain, it gives you options to pick from. I take those options to google images and conservation websites and narrow it to the right one.
@@brennagarten317 Thanks!!
@@brennagarten317 What a great idea!!! I didn't even think of that! I will check 'em out. I'm so partial to books that I can hardly think of anything else. Heh.
I wish there was a way to own stock in regenerative agriculture.
Do y'all have a hog problem yet & would you drag to smooth out pasture after?
No hog problems yet
My brother lives outside Higbee and he had two on trail camera tearing up a deer plot.
good question, I never realized that I've never heard him mention wild hogs
Greg, Have you considered sowing some Sorghum Sudan Grass seed?
We did sow some last summer in our area where the cows trampled the forest of cocklebur plants. It did not come up last summer like we hoped, but this spring it is starting to appear.
Great video. I think it's our fault the way we raise animals. We S--- at it in its traditional form.
Great video. What were the trees you had protected in that pasture?
Those were walnut trees that the squirrels planted for me.
What does “drag your pasture” mean?
Hello
Essentially a way to spread the cow manure. Dragging a length of heavy gauge chain link fence behind any number of vehicles is but one of many ways to spread manure.
Kinda looks like creeping foxtail crabgrass. Keep up the good work! You are about a month ahead of us in south dakota.👍
Did you seed this field or just spread hay?
Spread hay in the winter time, followed by a mob of cattle.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Great, I’m trying to do the same thing, but i think my starting point soil is in worse shape. It was forest. I appreciate the response!
I dislike dragging my pastures, not sure what it accomplishes?
Kind of looks similar to foxtail Greg.
It's Meadow Foxtail
"she was a leftist"
Based Greg 😁
Looks like Phalaris
Well Greg, they've already started to destroy our honey bee population with all the poisons they spray on fields. Why not try and convince everyone that cattle aren't the way to go.
Makes me sad 😥.
Btw, that field looked beautiful.
God Bless
Laurel 💗👍😁
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Say sign me up you know how people have calendar with tractors I see a Greg Judy doth pile calendar and old grandma should be in March fat and pregnant do each month is a shot of one or more cattle in the pasture with the same month from the previous year maybe even same paddock each year and month and some with their calf and we will be able to grass productivity
South Pole calendar sorry miss spelled
actually not enough trees
grasslands sequester more C than forests
not enough trees do not mean all trees, I am a 9th generation rancher. not enough trees meany more shade needed, and shadow does not mean forested or groves
btw my comment to Greg is on a personal level as we know each other in real life. and we both have been thorns in Jim Gerrish 's side
@@michaelsallee7534 thanks, wasn't clear, lots of people here pushing C
@@tedbastwock3810 I was pointing at animal health
Rumor has it, the Earthworms Union has filed a grievance on Rancher Greg.
For disturbing their peace 😀 🚩🪱🪱
oil isnt going over 85$ a barrel ever again. The us is now a net energy exporter and the #2 world oil producer. Not that that is even a good thing...
Don't hold your breath.
The future is autonomous electric tractors and cultured meat !
Not in my part of the world it’s not. Bill Gates and all the vegans can go take a long walk off a short dock.
@@gmilla2825 Sounds like you have been brainwashed by right wing propaganda. I don't think John Deere is controlled by Bill Gates or vegans. Let me know if German drug maker Merck a financial backer of cultured meat is run by vegans i would guess it is not.
Yuck.
Beef makes us stronger.
Loosh
Huh? No English?