Practical Considerations for Regenerative Cattle Grazing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Grazier Ariel Greenwood talks grazing, grass management, and strategic planning for grazing cattle.
Ariel Greenwood now co-owns and operates Grass Nomads LLC, a grazing company that practices management intensive grazing and consults for large ranches in Montana, New Mexico, and beyond. Follow her at www.grassnomads...
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Trying to restore the land by Grazing with cattle certainly requires a lot of overthinking. I am probably the largest Grazing for money contractors in California.I have over 10,000 sheep and goats mostly goats that graze for fire breaks and land restoration. I can’t help but think that goats or sheep could change the land in at the most two years. We use targeted grazing with portable electric fence that makes a huge difference in what can accomplished in a relatively short time. Good luck with your program.
jesus man 10k sheep XD i have 22.
I didn’t start with over ten Grand. Started with 33 sheep and 150 goats 🐐 18 years ago you can do the same just don’t sell any girls. That’s the secret. Remember it’s a secret don’t tell anybody.
So how is it different?
Diego Footer
Hi Diego
The part that I said it was a secret and not to tell anybody was actually a joke.
The truth is my wife and I are first generation ranchers and no one left us a ranch. So we graze for money and in the off-season we lease over 10,000 acres of California desert to lamb out and kid out on. So the real secret is we think outside the box. It’s difficult to find land to run animals on so our leases are generally the kind cattleman don’t want. But it doesn’t matter Goats And Sheep can thrive where cattle will starve to death.
@@DiegoFooter He probably has a lot of brush and weeds. Goats and sheep can make a good living on brush that a cow would starve on. He must mean that he is transitioning scrubby junk land into nice pastureland faster than he ever could with cows. Everything is about context I spouse.
She is very articulate. Than you! Just bought 100ac in Texas and looking to graze it...
Wow! Really?! Awesome!
God bless. I am from Texas and wish I could get my hands on acreage like that to graze inna regenerative fashion
Nice video Diego, thanks. So great to hear Ariel share thoughts, perspectives and knowledge. Hope to meet you and others in the US next year!
Dropping Horticultural & Ranching Bombs Of Knowledge!!!!!!
The train analogy was good. Thanks for sharing Diego!
What is the one or two main goals you speak of? Weight on animals? Growth of nutritious grasses? I’m confused about what the highest order key goal is. Or it may be a conjunction of key highest order goals???
In other words, what is she solving for? Good question.
Great work in such a dry climate!
Diego, nice one... It would be interesting to check back with her annually to chart the pasture and animal health...
Thanks Mark.
I just bought 4 acres east of Bodega Bay in Sebastopol, aiming to build a house and do regenerative farming. I'm planting Sunn Hemp in a couple of weeks in September. Hoping to find animal stock that can pasture on it come November. I'm glad I found this video as I wasn't aware protein rich forage would be an issue after dry grass.
nomadmac, you bought in the area I have wanted to live in for a few years. I hope you have tremendous success with your land. There is a lot to learn but it is also exciting as you try different techniques, etc. All the best to you and your land.
@@thisorthat7626 Thank you for the best wishes and kind words.
Servus.. spannende Erklärung! Danke!! :D
Hast du schon mal vielleicht das wasserstoffreiche Wasser Wasser aus einem Wasserionisierer schon mal getrunken?
Dieses Wasser ist richtig phänomenal! ❤
Es ist super beim Laufen .. ☘
Please explain. Not a rancher ,but like to check out various regenerative agriculture. Why is this rancher only using grass's? Many use a three types of plants mix. Is it zone, soil, water or a desire to use native plants?😊
Here is a story from late 1800's of what early pioneers were seeing on the plains of the Karoo, South Africa.
"The Karoo was once home to one of the world's great wildlife marvels, the springbok migration. Stories tell of millions of these antelope filling an area as far as the eye could see as they swept through it. Settlers went on massive hunting sprees, shooting down the springbok by the thousands. Mr Cronwright- Shreiner described a scene after one slaughter:
The whole veld was damaged: it was hardly possible to put one's foot down in that vast extent of country without treading on the spoor of springbok, and the Karoo bushes were torn and broken by their sharp hooves. We passed several outspans where the hunters had encamped for days -- deserted camps which were marked by ash heaps and charred bones and the remains of bundles of forage; while offal, heads and lower portions of the legs of buck lay about to such an extent to be quite disagreeable.
The year 1896 saw the last of the great migrations. A Mr Gert Van der Merwe describes it:
At last the sound of a faint drumming could be heard. The cloud of dust was dense and enormous, and the front rank of the springbok, running faster than galloping horses could be seen. They were in such numbers that I found the sight frightening. I could see a front line of buck at least three miles long but could not estimate the depth. All night long the buck passed. The morning air was clear, the day bright. Then I saw the landscape, which had been covered with trees of a fair size were gaunt stubs and bare branches. The buck had brushed off the herbage in their passing and splintered the young trees so they would not grow again.
What a sight this must have been! Both writers emphasize the landscape "destruction" that took place with the passing of the great herds. Yet that very destruction maintained the grass. Millions of hooves broke capped surfaces, allowing dormant grass seeds to germinate. Millions of dung pats provided fertilizer. And the grass came back, year after year." managingwholes.com/klipdrift.htm/
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Good video, very informative. I wonder if is using some techinc to improve wather in the soil (like Yeomans or swales). Cheers.
You BETTA TELLLLLLL ITTTTTTT SIS!
SHE IS A MULTIFACETED MANAGER! GOOOOO SIS!
Amazing
excellent questions and excellent answers!
How many cows and hectares do you have?
I wonder if you could bring in chickens there... it would really kick up the productivity a notch.
Way too much land. Chickens would only impact a very small portion of the land.
Diego Footer what about scaling up the # of chickens?
There is a lot of experts that claim that regenerative gracing does not work so I don’t really know who to believe.
At least one thing seems clear: there is nowhere near enough land for all the animals we eat to be gracing. In US 99% meat comes from factory farming.
It’s Animal Weight per Acre, Pure & Simply.
Bigger Cattle = Less Cattle 🐄 Less Calfs. And Less Sheep 🐑 Less Hogs 🐖
* Longer Time to Market - More Soil degradation, more Feed Required, more Acreage Needed. Or Higher Grain/Hay Costs, Less Profits.
what part of the country are they located?
Bodega Bay California.
Diego Footer I thought that was western Sonoma county. I was just up there.
That one crow in the background desperately trying to catch the attention....
Like eating prime rib....every day for 2 months then a drop down to spam....for the next 4 months....guess fattening those cows on that grass is going to be though....