You should put some hay or straw over any bare ground to protect the ground from solarization and to reduce soil loss. Its good to see how you are learning the principles.
Great video. We just purchased a 30 acre farm that was abandoned for 11 years or so. Broomsedge is everywhere. Got the soil tested and added lime. Will be unrolling hay during the winter to get free seed. Hope we can get NRCS to assist with water. Thanks for the encouraging video.
Excellent! If you do exactly what you said and don't cut hay off your grazing fields you will be shocked at the amount of grass you can grow. I recommend checking out Greg Mann. He is a grazing specialist and has a website that has amazing articles.
Looking great David! Cumberland.... I think I passed near by there once on a road trip during winter way back when. That was pretty cold if I remember correctly. The water lines will be a great improvement for sure. I bet you can get away with portable troughs through the winter though if you put on a little continuous flow valve like Russ Wilson has shown on his tubs. How deep are you burying those lines btw? Best 💪👍☀️
Yes it is, if managed accordingly. It heals and protects the soil and ecosystem and lowers costs associated with feeding and manure spreading, as well as livestock health care.
Thanks for the great video !!! Impressive ! Such nice pastures too ! As a grazer.....Ive been doing it for over 45 years..... even before the old " Blitzer " electric fencer was the primary electric fencer. The old spring loaded clicking fencer. For 45 years I milked cows.......and grazed them. Highly effective and cheap way to produce milk ! However.....Key is... keep the grass in a vegetative stage. Anytime grass is over 6 inches tall.. it is rank ! And milk production dropped like a rock. So.. I always mowed it and baled what remained for hay. Mowing the grass stimulates it to grow back. If you dont mow it...whats there no longer grows. Thats lost production ! Now...after selling the milk cows....in 2015 I went to stock cows. Surprise surprise !!!!! Every one told me......you dont need the same quality grass as is needed for milk cows. What ???? So.... drove through the country side..... noticed many interesting things with stock cow producers. Number 1 and primary. Almost every stock cow producer had a hot wire running along the interior of the main line fence. That only told me the cows were hungry ! Ive never had that issue with my milk cows ! So......why not produce quality grass for stock cows too ???? Calves gain better with more milk....and...the calves will eat much more grass too ! Number two.... I also noticed there are very few rotational grazing dairy farmers ! The reason....they dont manage their pastures ! They are over grown ..and out of the vegetative stage. Another thing.....if you have multi-flora rose......treat and kill them !!!! Never just clip them off ! Ive worked with multi-flora rose now for 25 yrs. If you clip them.....they only stool out and produce more underground growth. Fact is....they love it whey you clip them ! Best of luck !
@@incorectulpolitic Both have good point and views.....just keep in mind... they depend on " You Tube" and many other income to support the cows / cattle. If things were so rosy..... they wouldnt need the other income ! Greg came from a dairy farm in Minnesota. If things were so profitable grazing......why didnt he stay with milk cow ? Can make a lot more money milking cows then stock cows ! His operation is not all people think it is ! He hides many things..... like pink eye..... foot problems calving issues.... deer taking out his fences.....etc etc. He will never mention those things ! Just lives in heaven !
You are doing a real good job David. The water lines will be nice when they are running. Grass looks good. Do you have another bull for Cadillac daughters?
@@davidcox9808 Well... we run a small hereford operation but I can see that the Angus cross south pole will be nice. What is generally the larger animal between the two.
You should put some hay or straw over any bare ground to protect the ground from solarization and to reduce soil loss. Its good to see how you are learning the principles.
Great video. We just purchased a 30 acre farm that was abandoned for 11 years or so. Broomsedge is everywhere. Got the soil tested and added lime. Will be unrolling hay during the winter to get free seed. Hope we can get NRCS to assist with water. Thanks for the encouraging video.
Excellent! If you do exactly what you said and don't cut hay off your grazing fields you will be shocked at the amount of grass you can grow. I recommend checking out Greg Mann. He is a grazing specialist and has a website that has amazing articles.
Looking great David! Cumberland.... I think I passed near by there once on a road trip during winter way back when. That was pretty cold if I remember correctly. The water lines will be a great improvement for sure. I bet you can get away with portable troughs through the winter though if you put on a little continuous flow valve like Russ Wilson has shown on his tubs. How deep are you burying those lines btw? Best 💪👍☀️
2 feet deep! To match NRCS requirements
Yes it is, if managed accordingly. It heals and protects the soil and ecosystem and lowers costs associated with feeding and manure spreading, as well as livestock health care.
Thanks for the great video !!! Impressive ! Such nice pastures too !
As a grazer.....Ive been doing it for over 45 years..... even before the old " Blitzer " electric fencer was the primary electric fencer. The old spring loaded clicking fencer. For 45 years I milked cows.......and grazed them. Highly effective and cheap way to produce milk ! However.....Key is... keep the grass in a vegetative stage. Anytime grass is over 6 inches tall.. it is rank ! And milk production dropped like a rock. So.. I always mowed it and baled what remained for hay. Mowing the grass stimulates it to grow back. If you dont mow it...whats there no longer grows. Thats lost production ! Now...after selling the milk cows....in 2015 I went to stock cows.
Surprise surprise !!!!! Every one told me......you dont need the same quality grass as is needed for milk cows. What ???? So.... drove through the country side..... noticed many interesting things with stock cow producers. Number 1 and primary. Almost every stock cow producer had a hot wire running along the interior of the main line fence. That only told me the cows were hungry ! Ive never had that issue with my milk cows ! So......why not produce quality grass for stock cows too ???? Calves gain better with more milk....and...the calves will eat much more grass too ! Number two.... I also noticed there are very few rotational grazing dairy farmers ! The reason....they dont manage their pastures ! They are over grown ..and out of the vegetative stage. Another thing.....if you have multi-flora rose......treat and kill them !!!! Never just clip them off ! Ive worked with multi-flora rose now for 25 yrs. If you clip them.....they only stool out and produce more underground growth. Fact is....they love it whey you clip them ! Best of luck !
What do you think about Gabe Brown's and Greg Judy's way of doing stuff?
@@incorectulpolitic Both have good point and views.....just keep in mind... they depend on " You Tube" and many other income to support the cows / cattle. If things were so rosy..... they wouldnt need the other income ! Greg came from a dairy farm in Minnesota. If things were so profitable grazing......why didnt he stay with milk cow ? Can make a lot more money milking cows then stock cows ! His operation is not all people think it is ! He hides many things..... like pink eye..... foot problems calving issues.... deer taking out his fences.....etc etc. He will never mention those things ! Just lives in heaven !
@@jerrylansbury9558 but Greg's channel is not monetised.
@@incorectulpolitic Huh ??? Thats all its about.........money !!!!! Anything he talks about is about "money " ! You havent noticed ?
@@jimmyjohnson7041 yes but he does not get money from youtube.
How large are you paddocks? How many cows do you have?
Enjoyed your video. Who did you say would help with the cost of putting in water lines? How would I look into that?
Contract your natural resource conservation agency
You are doing a real good job David. The water lines will be nice when they are running. Grass looks good. Do you have another bull for Cadillac daughters?
No we are going to do some line breeding to start
@@davidcox9808 Well... we run a small hereford operation but I can see that the Angus cross south pole will be nice. What is generally the larger animal between the two.
The Angus is about 150 pounds heavier
Who has the time unless ur retired and given land to rent cheap with fencing and water most of us work out
...only if you want success.
Spoiler - yes.