Dynamite results 60 days later after putting pressure on sericea lespedeza with cattle.
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- Dynamite results 60 days later after putting pressure on sericea lespedeza with cattle.
August 16th, Isaac spent the day with our cattle mob moving them every 30 minutes with a stocking density of 500,000 to 800,000 lbs per acre. This pasture had been taken over by the invasive sericea lespedeza. By tightening up the cow mob, they ate and trampled the plants onto the ground. It is truly amazing to see the stark difference in the lush grass now growing where there was not any before this treatment.
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And THIS is why Issac is the Farm Manager. He actually manages the grass USING the cattle. A true GRASS FARMER! He need a good Christmas Bonus. Its awesome to see a young man being so knowledgeable about farming/ranching! Grass diversity is drought resistance!
One more point about not spraying is the money you save. Good job!
The local farmers' daughters must appreciate the crew.
I remember that August experiment, good stuff! Isaac and Greg, thank you both for sharing. Great side-by-side comparison! You cannot argue with those results. Isaac works outside-he doesn’t need to work out. 🇺🇸 💪🗽👍🏻
A paper that outlines the calculations, primary conditions and methods needs to be written and published (on your website at first?) Supplemented by observation updates.
Kept up as a program across your properties I imagine a wider range of forage from the seed bed will emerge including native grasses which can only be good for your animal's health.
Well done Isaac, you listened and now it's time to expand yourself by adding to the public record.
Issac is a fine young man. We all share in your care for him. Bob in Nevada
Amazing results. Seeing the same effects, albeit in a much smaller scale with my 5 head on 10acres
Great job fellas! I've noticed the same with Canadian thistle. Once I had run the cows through a few patches at higher density, they started to pick at it across the farm. Might not get rid of it, but it doesn't bother me nearly as much to see it anymore! Lol
I remember that. Good to see the results. Helping those who will listen.
Greg I bet you are thankful everyday to have this outstanding young man on your farm. Great experiment Isaac, you are smart kind and wise. Thank you for the video, gentlemen. I am teaching two high school Agriculture classes this semester and they know all about Greg Judy regenative farmer. We went on a tour of 2 farms this week... a dairy farm and a vegetable farm
Great job Isaac, a strong passion for your work is worth more than gold! And great job Greg for letting your manager use his creativity. The results speak for themselves.
You have a tremendous group of young men down there. Great intuition, and work ethic. Thank you , and have a wonderful day.
Thanks guys. This is really helpful. Your process WORKS! Grateful for your teaching and guidance every day.
Looks great, good work. Thanks for sharing
Goats like to graze sericea lespedeza too
I’m always amazed and learning from your videos. Thanks.
Incredible work gentlemen! And excellent job on passing on the knowledge too Greg! Very impressive and warms my heart too.
One of the BEST videos you've ever put out. Great job, Isaac!!
I can't like this video enough. Great job boys.
Great demo! Thanks!
Best part about regenerative grazing! Getting to see beautiful results after all the hard work. Well done!
I remember that video. This is great. Great work Isaac and all the team there
Isaac has the potential to be the next titan of regenerative ranching. It’s great to see him doing this and learning from Greg. I hope I can do this someday.
Thank you for the video the ranch manager Issac always has great ideas awesome young man.
Isaac is learning from the master.
Well done 👍
Thanks for the video! It great seeing the before and after. I moved my animals into the new part of the pasture I’ve been working on all summer. It’s mostly cover crops that’s been reseeding itself. This coming year will be the 3rd year. Hopefully you will be getting rains. It amazing what rain can do even this late in the season. Our plants been growing like crazy.
Very interesting. Always something to learn isn’t there.
Great job Issac!
That kid is wise beyond his years. I see why you decided to make him part of the team. I believe he could go out and with some decent luck he could be a successful farmer. He is like a sponge. He has a pretty good Teacher. But he can take the knowledge you give him and take it and make it work. He always talks about making crosses with cattle and I wonder how the South Pole would do with like a Low line Angus. They are a smaller cow and just wondered.
Will be awesome for your epigenetics!
Great video! I’m still learning about all the different plants that grow in the fields
Just relooked the video from august. What a remarkable difference! Great.
Excellent job! Love these show and tell videos!
Thanks for sharing!
Should Mr. Alan Savory be able to take notice of this, his heart would pump chocolates.
Moreover. Would he be so proud of Isaac. Which at a very young age. Yet. Is the manager of an exquisitely managed cattle and small stock farming operation.
And blooming!
Well done All. Very well done!
Amazing what management of the herd can accomplish.
Excellent what an awesome young man.
Allan Savory would definitely applaud your high density management. Thank you Issac and Greg for the detailed explanations ❤
That farm was completely covered with 2-3 foot hogh CL plants. There was not a whole lot of grass that could compete with it in August.
Now you've got an awesome foeld of fescue with a few manageable stands of CL.
What a testement to active farm/ grass management.
Morning Greg.
Wow. Good job.
I was hoping for a follow up video, great stuff
Well dun Issac
Love to see it!
Having seen it in person it works!
Very cool to see. I remember the video when it was thick. The grasses responded very well! Love seeing this approach to land management.
The bison effect. Great video
Sericea is a legume. It will send roots deep into the soil and help to biuld nitrogen. It is not a bad plant to have. You just need to keep it from getting to big. Eighteen inches should be the maximum height. At that size it would need to be grazed heavily or cut for hay. It is a wonderful tool for soil building. Like so many things it needs careful management.
When you can mistake fescue for brome you are knocking jt out of the park. Plus sereccia lespadeza gone that isa a worthwhile investment. With drought conditions this is great. Issacis is an Ace.
That's super awesome..but I had a friend once and the more I hurt and ignored him... the meaner he came back 😮
"Isaac puts 800,000 lbs stocking density on Sericea Lespedeza".
Here's part of the name of the other video in case you wanted to go back and see what Isaac was working with or what 800,000#/acre actually looks like.
The AI (yt) wipes out links unless the channel puts them in. The channel didn't give us one and it takes a minute to dig in the archives to pull out that video. Hope that helps. I had to dig it up again to share in other social media where the topic is perfect.
Very interesting...I've been experimenting with mowing about the time the Lespedeza starts to flower....looks like I could tighten up the herd on the paddocks and intensively graze it....be nice if it would work for broom sedge ..very interesting
This type grazing definitely put more pressure and reduced the stand of serrecia lespedeza than mowing ever did. I’ve mowed this area right at bloom stage for 10 years, never made a dent in the population of plants.
Oh, we do want that? We do want that! - Eddie Izzard
When you had that video on the leased farm that was bought by the developer I was thinking: What is going to happen to all that land that you are grazing on in the future after you are gone? Do you want to preserve the gains in production of beef and wildlife for the next generation or see it cut up to become a disaster like everywhere else that has been over developed? You stated that you don't have children but by taking all these youngsters under your wing you have become a father figure. A land trust predicated on always keeping that land in agriculture in the manner you are doing it now should be set up by a competent lawyer. I'm only suggesting a possible solution. People like to disparage Theodore Roosevelt for being a war hawk but they all agree the best thing he ever did was putting land aside for national forest and national parks and monuments. Too bad the National Forest was so badly managed. The main thing it has contributed in the last 30 years in my state(washington)is wildfires.
Questions: 1) Would sheep have the same impact on the sericea lespedeza had they been stocked at a similar density?
2) Will the seed germinate after the cattle poop them out?
3) Is it safe for the sheep to be grouped with the cattle at such a high density or will they get injured by the cattle and/or try to escape the paddy? Thank you.
The sheep love eating it. They weigh so much less than cattle I struggle to achieve the same level of density. The lambs tend to creep graze when the paddocks are very small. The dogs don't like being in such small paddocks either. All things that can be overcome.
It was being grazed prior to putting on seed. Its putting on seed now.
Great follow up was wondering about the results would the same technique work on nettles and thistles have used herbcide on them seems to make them grow better the following year they come back with a vengeance going to try it next growing season see what happens
That's awesome Greg congratulations to Issac's grass management! Isaac is using his tools in his toolbox with his creativity, knowledge and experience by applying livestock to the mix. Here's the proof in this video showing the side-by-side comparisons. Greg or Isaac the remanent's of the Sericea Lespedeza would it be a good time to graze these pastures now with the goats you have acquired? Wouldn't these animals prefer eating this less desirable forage and this would help stunt new growth for next year?
I know you got it worked out without chemicals, but for anyone that can't get their cattle to eat it or can't graze where it's a problem (CRP etc), Triclopyr works well on it and doesn't harm the grass. I have some spots in CRP that I treat every year to allow the native warm season grasses to compete with it.
I roll out hay on top of weeds and only gave them enough to eat for 30 minutes, but leave them there and an extra 15 mins to trample it all down. The hay seed replaced the weeds within 2 seasons. All fescue, clover, and alfalfa now. Sward gets 2 to 3 feet high now😂
Eeeeuwww...
I've heard good things about having large deciduous trees in the pasture?... apparently grass grows better around its span but the show i saw was out of Australia...
Mr. Judy quite likes them. You can see his videos about them. Type "greg judy silvopasture"
So next year you can vary the paddocks but same idea and it ought to improve more?
Yes, but it won't require such impact. The grass rebound is so strong that barring another hard year on grass-the SL should be stunted by the shade that the grass will cast on it.
Weigh to go!😂
Liked that training them to eat it. Sometimes when they wont we give up..... but this is a great idea. Yeah D3 has been no fun
Tremendous - was waiting to see the results - and just what I hoped
I think their hooves have a hell of an effect on some brittle weed species - we’ve been trying similar here
It is a remarkable result, that animals bunched tightly together with frequent moves can have such a powerful positive result. Why are our higher learning institutions teaching, spray, spray, spray, kill it. Using animals leaves dollars and cents in your billfold while building soil health.
Great idea, great result, great guy (and great boss)! :) Maybe you should have mentioned that after that stressful day with 15 moves and all that density you gave the herd a normal sized paddock to relax again ;)
I have a question: with all the math to create the desired density, how important is it to create a paddock of the calculated size? Is it just guessing or do you want it to be as exact as it can get? Golf players use laser range finders that can measure the distance to the pin (or a fence post) with an accuracy of +/- 1 yard. They cost a couple hundred bucks, but maybe you can borrow one to try it out.
Could you use a final knockout punch with sheep a couple or weeks from now?
Pacific Typhoon will be injecting some moisture into our part of the world, Kansas, Missouri by mid week. Can’t wait for my pastures to pop. Good information on lespedeza as a worming agent!
Do you think part of the reason this was so successful was because of the timing of the lespedeza being at least somewhat at a palatable stage?
It certainly helped with getting some consumption
Will the new goat herd help with the Lespedeza?
Would following up with the sheep hurt the Sericia even more?
Good question
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I do not like sericia but during droughts it is still growing and cattle will eat the tops of it. Just before it goes to seed I bush hog it to keep it from going to seed.
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will high density help with wetter areas?
IN my mind: Not if you graze it when it's wet, which would likely create compaction issues and bare spots. Also depends on the size of your stock. But I see what you might be thinking-that the dampness could be alleviated/improved by better soil biology as a result of impact grazing. It might very well if you can graze it when it's suitable (not wet) to put down the impact and residuals that combine to create the magic. Did you know that grasses recognize the difference between being mowed and being grazed? Maybe not the plant, but the bacteria on the plant detect the saliva/mucous of the grazer and for that reason the plant will re-grow faster than if mechanically clipped. The microbiology that empowers the pastures is fantastic. And that's why cows have big fat _wet_ noses!
High density creates more intense impact (and gets the to eat more of their less favored, but still perfectly good for them, plants as a means to control those plants. In the end it's another win/win where the cattle get to eat more desirable forage only months later for nothing more than eating rough stuff for a short while AND thereafter the rancher has a better patch of green or stockpile to give 'em. Hope that helps.
Greg, your comment about herbicides killing soil biology is an overstatement. Some commonly used herbicides do have a limited effect on soil microbes. It has been demonstrated that the affected microbial populations rebound rather quickly. While I agree with you that being able to avoid herbicide use is best, from an economic perspective, I think you should not feed into the misinformation surrounding pesticides.
Why give the a chemical companies money when you can keep it on your farm? Best to avoid herbicides and pesticides unless absolutely necessary.
@danmurphy4249 Maybe it was a mistake but you interchange herbicides and pesticides. Neither are good but one kills plants, the other kills bugs. They both cause nerve damage. You want to spray an agent orange type of compound on your soil, where you grow food? That’s nuts. Agent Orange is what the army sprayed in Viet Nam to defoliate the jungle. The damage it did to soldiers was long lasting and severe.
Why don’t you stop with your misinformation that man-made chemical bug and weed killers are “OK”. They’re not OK. If they are OK, put some on your cereal tomorrow morning.
I doubt it. Show us your sources. You'll recall what chemical conglomerates' assurances have been worth in the past.
Do you work for them, or someone who works for them?
Another point about not spraying is you have no part of producing the ghastly byproducts of these poisons. Yet another good thing is you're not giving your money to evil people who made it their business to poison our world.
By evil i mean many of the biggest companies (owners) were nazi collaborators and sponsors who made poisons that were sprayed on our guys. Later they got this same chemistry sprayed all over our land and food supply(!) Now cancer and many other diseases which were rare before this are no w common, even in our children. Members of this same motley crew put lead in the gas ( so i us and our children ) and founded the ama, nci, and the aci. Their evil and influence was so great, that in 1911, they were able to shut down half the medical schools, making sure we would never have enough doctors, and the ones we did have would just push petroceutical drugs on us, and seem to choke on the word 'cure'. So i don't wish to give them money.
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