Between you, Justin Rhodes, Joel Salatin, and now a long line of many others we now have wonderful inspiration for how we want our food made. You guys are great role models. I want my kids watching this stuff. To teach about farming is to teach about how to live life. Live with a budget. Live with a plan. Live with nature. Its what I want my kid to learn because I think some things about this lifestyle could translate to any other business or career.
Hi Greg. I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for all you're doing. I grew up on a farm and moved away when I graduated from high school to do my dream job of being a state trooper. I did that job for 26 years. The first several years were great. I would go on vacation and would be counting the days until I went back to work. This lasted for about 5 years and suddenly I found myself coming home from vacation and counting the days until I could take another one. I talked with my wife at the time about buying a farm and growing alfalfa hay. She was a city girl and liked to spend everything we earned and more, so I never had the chance to buy a farm. A couple years before I retired I ended up getting a divorce. Other than being able to keep most of my retirement any assets I had acquired were wiped out and I was saddled with a lot of credit card debt I had no idea was there. As I said I retired when I after 26 years and moved to south central Texas. After I married my now wife and after living in Texas for a couple years we bought a small farm of 13 acres. I tried to start a business doing 3D laser scanning and after 5 years of struggling I'm closing it down this year. I looked around at our 13 acres and asked myself why I wasn't doing more with it. We had a 5-acre pasture out front that was being taken over by mesquite (it was there when we bought the place) and was over grazed. We had about 5 sheep, a donkey, and a steer on it continuously and it wasn't working. I had never heard much about regenerative agriculture and stumbled onto a video about it one day. (I think I was watching a video on woodchip gardening.) From there I started watching all I could about it and no-till. (Growing up my dad had described no-till as a farce.) By the time I had become interested in no-till and regenerative agriculture I had already purchased a used tractor, a rototiller, and a root plow for the mesquite. I had also started putting in irrigation on our 5 acres. I'm going to work the soil a little more to remove ridges that had been placed for flood irrigation and then seed the land; never to till it again. We're going to divide the 5 acres up into small paddocks and run a couple cows, followed by some sheep, and have some chickens coming up the rear. I figure (depending on the size of the paddocks we can move the animals every day and give the area at 45 to 90 days rest before the animals are back on there again. I'm eagerly looking forward to being back into farming again for real. Thank you, Bill
I appreciate your story. Mine is not much different, but that is not the point. You decided to make a stand and did. Congrats! Now keep moving forward. The past is the past. Tomorrow is a new pasture. I'm excited to get my farm started too. Farm Life!
Yeah, I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid! I'm not going to jump right into this business until I have a lot more experience! I was the caretaker of a 110 acre ranch for a few years in my early 20s just over the hills from Berkeley, Ca. It was AMAZING! 10 minutes from millions of people and their markets & resources but for all practicality, living in the howling wilderness. To the east there was miles and miles of watershed... and beautiful, protected lakes... so yeah, PARADISE on earth for a young man! There were a few cows and horses (which we would ride up to Tilden Park now and then :) but frankly I did not give a damn about those cows. Thinking back now, I realize those pastures were horribly over grazed (pool tables) and I wonder NOW how those poor cows even survived! I think Dick, the lawyer owner (the 'ranch' had been in their family since '45 when dad bought it as a hobby ranch- complete with miles of 'hog-tight' fence for a song... :) brought hay over for them and I do remember slinging hay around with hay hooks (which was a lotta fun! Heh) But I didn't feed them. Must've been Dick. That ranch was his escape from the insanity that lay just over the hills... I don't remember. It was a long time ago! I do remember Dick plugging one in the head with a .22, stringing it up with a block & tackle under a big ol' tree and us skinning, gutting and cutting it up to take to the butcher. That was a great experience! I also remember the cows MOURNING their loss after everyone had left. My girlfriend and I sat in the old pioneer house watching them for a long time. They were beside themselves with grief and making a lot of noise as they sniffed the blood and gore for a very long time. When I told Dick about it, he didn't believe me. We all blind ourselves to inconvenient reality..... They do feel and mourn and are a LOT smarter than most people give them credit for. Cows are not a punch line in someone's joke... I will still kill and eat them because it is the ancient and natural way, but I will respect them and give them the best life possible because of what I know about the hearts & minds of cows... :) But I also less than fondly remember FIGHTING off the meat bees (Yellow Jackets!) during the whole process! All part of the experience and strangely primordially gratifying like harking back to my ancient genetic past........... Anyway, like you say about what others tell you all the time, I had no intention of making a business out of cattle ranching when I started watching your vids, but now that I've read your two books and watched about 2/3 of your videos I've really got the bug!!! And I feel it in my bones....! HeH! Truth is stranger than fiction. My intention was to run a few Dexters only for meat for my own family on a self-sufficient homestead. I still have that goal for initial experience while I read a bunch of books on the subject and get my head into the game and go to workshops and stuff. But now I have become quite serious about probably getting a bunch of South Polls after I know what the hell I am doing and making a go of it! The whole lease thing is quite exciting too!!! I have other ways of making money and the homestead was originally only about growing personal food but dang, Greg! You have INSPIRED me to be a Rancher!!! As I look back though it is another one of those least expected major turns as God shepherds me all the days of my life. So THANKS Greg! I was strongly organic before with old and new technology combined but now I feel like I am even more a part of a huge, growing and dynamic MOVEMENT. A necessary and successful movement back to the land from whence we were all ejected by big ag! Down with big ag and UP with the small farmer and rancher!!!!!! You know, you could start an ag cult Greg, if you wanted to... LoL... This movement is a lot more wholesome than that but even MORE powerful! All The Best, Greg Judy and friends and family!!! Sorry for the length but it's all your fault. You stimulate my dreams and that in turn makes my fingers fly! It's the personal plague that I am assigned with by the powers that be to inflict upon the internet! And I take my job very seriously............ LoL..........
Thank you so much and greeting from Moscow, Russia, suburbs! I started earlier this year with meat chicken, adding eggs and herbivores next year. And I can't tell how spot on your videos are and what value it has for me.
Stocking rates are crucial. Profit/animal gives you bragging rights; profit/acre from stocking rates gives you $ in the bank. Greg has it right on the money again!
Hi Greg! Greetings from Russia. You inspired me and proved that I'm on the right track! I have been looking for a teacher in sheep breeding for a long time and finally I have found you! Thank you for these wonderful lessons!
As someone who grew up in agriculture and eventually left that life behind, videos like yours make me want to go back to it. Now I just gotta find some land 😂
Excellent advice , my dad always said that there is no bull too good for your cows , no ram too good for your ewes and no seed too good to put in the ground. Quality beats quantity and if you haven't got your word you've got nothing.
I was raised a rancher but grandpa always said theres no money in cattle so I didn't go into ranching but after making tons of money in town now I want out and see I can still ranch and make money
I’m a 56 year old woman living a normal life in the UK. I love watching you with your animals and learning the minutiae of how your business works and comes together. Very interesting. Looks like a beautiful life and you’re living the dream.
The kids and I just spent all morning putting up fence on our new farm haven’t even bought A cow yet I’ve been watching TH-cam for the past three months so happy I just found you today definitely helping me in the right direction
You changed our goals as well. We got a few sheep to eat the yard....then saw one of your vids and changed to fencing in the entire property, doing selective logging to get some silvipasture going and are talking about leasing the neighbor's field for more grazing.
Amen Greg. We are with our critters from 6 to 9am. Then 3:30 to 6:30pm 7 days a week. There is no greater feeling than being with your animals watching them flourish. Their different personalities and their antics are so much fun. I wouldn't trade my life for anything. Your channel has been such an inspiration for us. You are truly doing God's work.
Loving the content and information! I've seen several of your videos and have heard a lot of your information! Just don't comment a lot. Small startup farmers like me who are doing pasture management really respect you and your ideas. In today's market, more and more farmers really need a creative edge. That's why your channel is so important for giving out creative and innovative ways to do that. And they're usually not even that complex. It just takes the right person to come up with a way simple way to fix a common problem or hole in your operation. Keep up this great work and have a great rest of the day - Everett
Generating Cash Flow is the name of the game sa farming, kaya hesitant yong ibang mga OFW na farmers lover na bumalik sa Phil at mag focus sa Agri-business dahil long term bago magkaroon ng income sa farming, seasonal pa, at takes a year or more bago mag-ROI, tulad ng farm ni Buddy 1-year na hindi pa naka ROI. Sana maging topic yong different types of activities para makapag-generate agad ng income sa farm.
Thanks so much for the inspiration. Even in this sellers market, we’re getting a small homestead on 2.5AC of old rowcrop field and we’re going to regenerate it because there’s a huge untapped market for grass fed dairy & cowshares... thanks for the inspiration!!
I love talking to people. I'm going to do all i can the rest of my life to produce the very best. Shout out to Doc I'm up here in Mass. Your welcome to visit any time. I'm in The city once a week normally. Would be happy to meet you some time.
Greg, your videos are great! Been watching them for about a year now. I have your books too. I really appreciate how much of what you've learned you've shared. My biggest issue, which isn't spoken of much, but was mentioned here, is getting the darn animals. I have the land and infrastructure but I can't find the cows.
I started watching you on TH-cam before you started your channel. I first saw you doing talks a couple years a ago at regenerative events. I’m glad you made the jump and started a TH-cam channel. Hopefully some of the other guys will as well that were giving talks at those events. Now days a guy should start up small town meat lockers. Dad bought a steer the other day and it’s going to be December before the locker can get it in.
Hi Greg, love your vids ! I have horses and sheep on about 100 acres and your vids are great inspiration for me . Before i was doing continuous grazing , now the animals are in smaller lots and being moved . Would you do some video about horse grazing ? .... thanks and greetings from Czech republic !
We are seniors (69) and just in our 3'rd year of homesteading...we have 27 acres but we also have 8 rescue horses that we cannot sell or part with....we have a bred cow, a blind heifer calf we bottle fed and she will be 2 yrs old just before T.G. this year...we have a bull calf from said bred cow (neighbor re-bred her from his bull as payment for help from us), we have goats now and babies we sold...we didn't charge market prices as we weren't sure on what to charge, we raise meat rabbits, mostly for our meat, but will be selling for small profit...we raise laying hens and sell some of our eggs...we also raise meat chickens and save some for our meat and will be selling some for profit. It's just two of us...we only live on SS money and had raised pigs prior years for pork...
Finally, people are waking up to the economics of big business and their friends in big goverment. Creating hurdles and unemployment for the small producers. Talked to a producer yesterday who typically sold few of her 60 or so beeves to custom buyers, halves and quarters and the rest through sale barn. This year... they're all committed to buyers. One lady bought 4. That's a lot of beef. :)
Wow Greg lots of great information there. You are helping so many of us. After finding you a couple years ago and reading both of your books ( also happy to hear there is a third one on the way) I decided to start raising hair sheep. This is our first year selling and I am not sure at what age I should sell them as "finished lambs". Thanks again.
The Best! Thank you so much. Your video/bookss are really, really, really helpful. Greetings to Jan, Ben and Issac. You make lives better. We are grateful.
Hello from Brooklyn!!! The hat looks great on you Greg. I love the show. Can't wait to move out of the city and get back into the fresh air. Keep up the good work - DO'C
Greg, you seem like a hell of a guy. I have been watching your videos for a long while and I started my own farm off of your techniques. Keep up the AWESOME content! My wife and I would love to come to Grazing School at some point.
Our journey trying to get back to the land has been a crazy roller coaster! Selling our house and trying to get loan for our next has had ups and downs.
Thanks again Greg. In Alberta looking at the back side of the Rockies. Hard weather, sheep can be buried in snow and the hardest cold, fine on good hay.
Love your channel so much! Ass someone moving towards sheep farming most of my questions are about processing and selling the meat. Can you talk about that part of the business?
Please remember to make it clear, that this is how you do it and what fits your personal context and might or might not work for others. People has to find the best possible actions available that are within their life context since this world and life upon is very complex.
Well, so far I have goats, guineas, Muscovy ducks, and chicks. All with the intent of generating cash flow as well as food for my family. I have not seen a plug nickle come in so far, I am just beginning. I had one buckling and one doeling born on my farm this year. Then I lost the mother to the little doe. I purchased 2 more young does and a young buck. That will give me 4 breeding does this fall. The little buck born here was banded because at the time I had no way of separating him from the rest of the herd. Debating on whether to sell him or just leave him to help eat down all my brush (I have plenty!). How much does it cost you to have a website? I feel like I am in a catch 22 situation of having to put money out when I don't have money coming in yet.
Try free options before spending money on a website - First - claim your business on Google Maps. Fillout the info - save your password so you can come back to it later. (Always keep a copy of your passwords) Second - if you want a website - do a simple Free Website (wix, weebly, wordpress, whatever you can search for that is free) with basic info like a business card - Biz name, biz address, how you would like to be contacted - email/phone/form on the website that sends you an email without giving away your email. You can also put purchase info on there & potentially sell from website later. Third - FB, Twitter, Instagram - link your website - inter-link Fourth - go back to your google maps and update info from website, social media.
He is so committed to helping people. im Massachusetts I just have a tiny silvo pasture it's absolutely beautiful. I just checked out your channel that answers my question. Go get you one of Greg's bulls and get started. I've passed through that part of the country. I stayed in Jackson one night many years ago. I think that's the name of the town. Good food I remember that.
We run old, high $EN genetic angus cattle that stay around 1,000 pounds and it’s the only way to do it. Went from 1 cow every 2 acres to 1 cow every 1 acre. Trust Greg on this.
Hey Greg I wanna say thank you for the videos the wife and I love them. I am currently deployed with the military and your videos have passed alot of time. Also you have convinced us to buy some land and give this a shot. Could you possibly do a video on a small farm we are buying around 6 acres of pasture to start out on with hopes to expand. Anyway you could give us some info how many head we could have if we rotational graze and how small we should break the fields down abd how many days to leave them on it. Thanks so much
To start with it depends on how much grass your acreage has on it, see what the animal units for your area would be in your area, a lot are 1 cow/calf pair per acre. And it depends on your stock. If you do standard size stock, it'll be less then if you do mini or mid size. In the summer, we ran 2 Aberdeen Angus cow's, 2 yearling heifers, 2 calves & about 10 goat's on 4-acres & normally the grass outgrows them, my dad rotates them every 7 day's between 3 paddocks when he water's that are abt 1.56 acres each (maybe a bit less). When they're at home, they're on 1 1/4 acres, until we get more fencing done, but we're going to put the cow's & yearlings in a different field then the goat's this year & wean the calves in a separate area & 1 of the yearlings is still nursing, so the 2 will hang out with the goat's. We've got 6 acres, abt 3 1/2 in pasture. So, I'm hoping to get my rotation going the way I want by next yr. But hubby's health has caused a hiccup. But the way we're doing it, the cow's haven't dropped weight. Their previous owner had hay constantly in front of their face as his field was beyond overgrazed. Hope this gives you an idea of where to start, Greg's the expert, look at his other video's for more idea's if you haven't by now. Thank you for you & your wife's service & sacrifice.
What do you think about grass fed Dexter cattle? We have a 10 acre property, with 5 acres of pasture, and 5 acres of woods that slope down to a small creek. We want to reclaim some of the woods for pasture. We are both retired, (a fireman and a nurse) starting our second career. Your videos are very helpful. Thank you very much for the time you have invested in the education of others.
Thank you Greg! I have been hoping for a video on this topic and have a learned something new! I still wonder how accessible the overall market is in this business and how saturated it is, if at all. I am still too unfamiliar with the marketing of live animals vs. direct selling or whole selling the finished packaged meat.
Greg, You stated that grass can sustain cows, sheep, and goats. You also said that pigs would need the addition of grain. Yet when sailors came from Europe they would release pigs on the islands for future food resource. I also heard that in the 1700 and 1800's hog meat was different the color. It was "red" (vs "white") and preserved better. Have you done any research on these topics? Are we missing something from history that are forefathers had that is not present today? It would be a great idea for a video and could possibly lead to a different way to raise hogs without grain. Please comment Thanks.
I think it depends on the pig stock. If you raise heritage breeds, I don't think they are as reliant upon grain as the more "modern" breeds are. We raise red Wattle Mulefoot crosses & while their diet is predominantly grains, they can flourish on pasture as well. Their meat are red & you don't have to add anything to make it taste good like you do store bought meat, not even pepper.
Thanks for a great video. I live in south MO as well and have about 4 acres or so fenced for some sheep, but the ground has been neglected for a long time. This summer, someone is going to come out and lime it. I was thinking of getting a few ewes and a ram to get started and just let them breed to build up the herd. Should I wait until the pasture is better to get the animals or should I get them know and let them just eat whatever they can find and supplement it with some additional feed as necessary?
We received a 400 mile bull. Showed up with no ears and no tail. A few years later the smart ass that sold him to us was charged with fraud. He and his wife ripped off the feeder co-op.
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Between you, Justin Rhodes, Joel Salatin, and now a long line of many others we now have wonderful inspiration for how we want our food made. You guys are great role models. I want my kids watching this stuff. To teach about farming is to teach about how to live life. Live with a budget. Live with a plan. Live with nature. Its what I want my kid to learn because I think some things about this lifestyle could translate to any other business or career.
you know Greg there are thousands of us out here who just appreciate you the info with such enthusiasm, energy and drive-
Greg Judy is a living legend in the grass fed regenerative cattle business.
Hi Greg. I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for all you're doing. I grew up on a farm and moved away when I graduated from high school to do my dream job of being a state trooper. I did that job for 26 years. The first several years were great. I would go on vacation and would be counting the days until I went back to work. This lasted for about 5 years and suddenly I found myself coming home from vacation and counting the days until I could take another one. I talked with my wife at the time about buying a farm and growing alfalfa hay. She was a city girl and liked to spend everything we earned and more, so I never had the chance to buy a farm. A couple years before I retired I ended up getting a divorce. Other than being able to keep most of my retirement any assets I had acquired were wiped out and I was saddled with a lot of credit card debt I had no idea was there.
As I said I retired when I after 26 years and moved to south central Texas. After I married my now wife and after living in Texas for a couple years we bought a small farm of 13 acres. I tried to start a business doing 3D laser scanning and after 5 years of struggling I'm closing it down this year. I looked around at our 13 acres and asked myself why I wasn't doing more with it. We had a 5-acre pasture out front that was being taken over by mesquite (it was there when we bought the place) and was over grazed. We had about 5 sheep, a donkey, and a steer on it continuously and it wasn't working.
I had never heard much about regenerative agriculture and stumbled onto a video about it one day. (I think I was watching a video on woodchip gardening.) From there I started watching all I could about it and no-till. (Growing up my dad had described no-till as a farce.) By the time I had become interested in no-till and regenerative agriculture I had already purchased a used tractor, a rototiller, and a root plow for the mesquite. I had also started putting in irrigation on our 5 acres. I'm going to work the soil a little more to remove ridges that had been placed for flood irrigation and then seed the land; never to till it again.
We're going to divide the 5 acres up into small paddocks and run a couple cows, followed by some sheep, and have some chickens coming up the rear. I figure (depending on the size of the paddocks we can move the animals every day and give the area at 45 to 90 days rest before the animals are back on there again. I'm eagerly looking forward to being back into farming again for real.
Thank you,
Bill
Bill, thanks for sharing your life with us. It sounds like you have a great grazing plan set for your land. The best of grazing to you!!
Awesome Bill, way to go! I think it’s interesting how people find information on TH-cam and it can change their lives.
I appreciate your story. Mine is not much different, but that is not the point. You decided to make a stand and did. Congrats! Now keep moving forward. The past is the past. Tomorrow is a new pasture. I'm excited to get my farm started too. Farm Life!
Way to go, Bill, a real champion, give the animals a pat from me. 😃👍
Amazing story, thank you! Godspeed
Yeah, I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid! I'm not going to jump right into this business until I have a lot more experience! I was the caretaker of a 110 acre ranch for a few years in my early 20s just over the hills from Berkeley, Ca. It was AMAZING! 10 minutes from millions of people and their markets & resources but for all practicality, living in the howling wilderness. To the east there was miles and miles of watershed... and beautiful, protected lakes... so yeah, PARADISE on earth for a young man!
There were a few cows and horses (which we would ride up to Tilden Park now and then :) but frankly I did not give a damn about those cows. Thinking back now, I realize those pastures were horribly over grazed (pool tables) and I wonder NOW how those poor cows even survived! I think Dick, the lawyer owner (the 'ranch' had been in their family since '45 when dad bought it as a hobby ranch- complete with miles of 'hog-tight' fence for a song... :) brought hay over for them and I do remember slinging hay around with hay hooks (which was a lotta fun! Heh) But I didn't feed them. Must've been Dick. That ranch was his escape from the insanity that lay just over the hills... I don't remember. It was a long time ago!
I do remember Dick plugging one in the head with a .22, stringing it up with a block & tackle under a big ol' tree and us skinning, gutting and cutting it up to take to the butcher. That was a great experience! I also remember the cows MOURNING their loss after everyone had left. My girlfriend and I sat in the old pioneer house watching them for a long time. They were beside themselves with grief and making a lot of noise as they sniffed the blood and gore for a very long time. When I told Dick about it, he didn't believe me. We all blind ourselves to inconvenient reality..... They do feel and mourn and are a LOT smarter than most people give them credit for. Cows are not a punch line in someone's joke... I will still kill and eat them because it is the ancient and natural way, but I will respect them and give them the best life possible because of what I know about the hearts & minds of cows... :) But I also less than fondly remember FIGHTING off the meat bees (Yellow Jackets!) during the whole process! All part of the experience and strangely primordially gratifying like harking back to my ancient genetic past...........
Anyway, like you say about what others tell you all the time, I had no intention of making a business out of cattle ranching when I started watching your vids, but now that I've read your two books and watched about 2/3 of your videos I've really got the bug!!! And I feel it in my bones....! HeH! Truth is stranger than fiction. My intention was to run a few Dexters only for meat for my own family on a self-sufficient homestead. I still have that goal for initial experience while I read a bunch of books on the subject and get my head into the game and go to workshops and stuff.
But now I have become quite serious about probably getting a bunch of South Polls after I know what the hell I am doing and making a go of it! The whole lease thing is quite exciting too!!! I have other ways of making money and the homestead was originally only about growing personal food but dang, Greg! You have INSPIRED me to be a Rancher!!! As I look back though it is another one of those least expected major turns as God shepherds me all the days of my life. So THANKS Greg!
I was strongly organic before with old and new technology combined but now I feel like I am even more a part of a huge, growing and dynamic MOVEMENT. A necessary and successful movement back to the land from whence we were all ejected by big ag! Down with big ag and UP with the small farmer and rancher!!!!!! You know, you could start an ag cult Greg, if you wanted to... LoL... This movement is a lot more wholesome than that but even MORE powerful! All The Best, Greg Judy and friends and family!!! Sorry for the length but it's all your fault. You stimulate my dreams and that in turn makes my fingers fly! It's the personal plague that I am assigned with by the powers that be to inflict upon the internet! And I take my job very seriously............ LoL..........
Thank you so much and greeting from Moscow, Russia, suburbs! I started earlier this year with meat chicken, adding eggs and herbivores next year. And I can't tell how spot on your videos are and what value it has for me.
Stocking rates are crucial. Profit/animal gives you bragging rights; profit/acre from stocking rates gives you $ in the bank. Greg has it right on the money again!
Amen! In 2019 I checked out from the grid. Now I have chickens, goats, and pigs.
Hi Greg! Greetings from Russia. You inspired me and proved that I'm on the right track! I have been looking for a teacher in sheep breeding for a long time and finally I have found you! Thank you for these wonderful lessons!
Your welcome! Thanks for watching.
As someone who grew up in agriculture and eventually left that life behind, videos like yours make me want to go back to it. Now I just gotta find some land 😂
Excellent advice , my dad always said that there is no bull too good for your cows , no ram too good for your ewes and no seed too good to put in the ground. Quality beats quantity and if you haven't got your word you've got nothing.
This is the ONE VIDEO I was waiting for! Cash Flow keeps in the game and on the farm instead of in town. Thanks Greg!
“Honesty and an excellent product” 👍🏻
This was a great video. I just retired and I'm getting ready to purchase 65 acres to raise beef cattle. Your videos has helped me out a lot. Thanks
Hope your 65 acres is working out man, keep winning
Godspeed!
I was raised a rancher but grandpa always said theres no money in cattle so I didn't go into ranching but after making tons of money in town now I want out and see I can still ranch and make money
It takes good management and you can make a good living grazing.
And less overhead.
Hey Greg! I think you have the whole world watching right now! And you do a great job!
Broderick Farms -were a new 5 acre farm in indiana and between you and joel salatin you guys are my hero
I’m a 56 year old woman living a normal life in the UK.
I love watching you with your animals and learning the minutiae of how your business works and comes together.
Very interesting.
Looks like a beautiful life and you’re living the dream.
Thanks Jill for watching our videos. Happy New Year to you!
Hey, Greg! Just found your channel. I'm 18 months out from retiring from the Army and I really want to get into cattle. Just ordered your book.
What did you end up doing?
Livestock farming is true freedom
The kids and I just spent all morning putting up fence on our new farm haven’t even bought A cow yet I’ve been watching TH-cam for the past three months so happy I just found you today definitely helping me in the right direction
You changed our goals as well. We got a few sheep to eat the yard....then saw one of your vids and changed to fencing in the entire property, doing selective logging to get some silvipasture going and are talking about leasing the neighbor's field for more grazing.
That is awesome!
Amen Greg. We are with our critters from 6 to 9am. Then 3:30 to 6:30pm 7 days a week. There is no greater feeling than being with your animals watching them flourish. Their different personalities and their antics are so much fun. I wouldn't trade my life for anything. Your channel has been such an inspiration for us. You are truly doing God's work.
Mr. Greg Judy, may god bless your soul.
New tenant farmers out in the Willamette greatly appreciating your encouraging words! Grass farming at it's best! Thank you for your content! 👍
Loving the content and information! I've seen several of your videos and have heard a lot of your information! Just don't comment a lot. Small startup farmers like me who are doing pasture management really respect you and your ideas. In today's market, more and more farmers really need a creative edge. That's why your channel is so important for giving out creative and innovative ways to do that. And they're usually not even that complex. It just takes the right person to come up with a way simple way to fix a common problem or hole in your operation. Keep up this great work and have a great rest of the day - Everett
Thanks Everett
What unique tips! I would never have thought of things like long legs and think per acre not per head. Thank you so much for sharing this advice 👍
Absolute amazing! The best of the best lesson! Thank you for the time and effort to share with people the beautiful and safe way to farm with nature
Generating Cash Flow is the name of the game sa farming, kaya hesitant yong ibang mga OFW na farmers lover na bumalik sa Phil at mag focus sa Agri-business dahil long term bago magkaroon ng income sa farming, seasonal pa, at takes a year or more bago mag-ROI, tulad ng farm ni Buddy 1-year na hindi pa naka ROI. Sana maging topic yong different types of activities para makapag-generate agad ng income sa farm.
Thanks so much for the inspiration.
Even in this sellers market, we’re getting a small homestead on 2.5AC of old rowcrop field and we’re going to regenerate it because there’s a huge untapped market for grass fed dairy & cowshares... thanks for the inspiration!!
Your welcome!
Always enjoy the fresh outlook you bring, thank you!
I love talking to people. I'm going to do all i can the rest of my life to produce the very best. Shout out to Doc I'm up here in Mass. Your welcome to visit any time. I'm in The city once a week normally. Would be happy to meet you some time.
Thanks Greg you are a authentic inspiration.
These types of videos give so much good information that it makes my heart race!
Haha, the rush of farming adrenaline XD
Greg, your videos are great! Been watching them for about a year now. I have your books too. I really appreciate how much of what you've learned you've shared. My biggest issue, which isn't spoken of much, but was mentioned here, is getting the darn animals. I have the land and infrastructure but I can't find the cows.
The first two books were great! Will buy the third for sure!
I started watching you on TH-cam before you started your channel. I first saw you doing talks a couple years a ago at regenerative events. I’m glad you made the jump and started a TH-cam channel. Hopefully some of the other guys will as well that were giving talks at those events. Now days a guy should start up small town meat lockers. Dad bought a steer the other day and it’s going to be December before the locker can get it in.
Mr Judy, I can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge. You are changing our world. Watching from Willamette Valley Oregon.
Thanks Judy, you’re very inspirational.
Hi Greg, love your vids ! I have horses and sheep on about 100 acres and your vids are great inspiration for me . Before i was doing continuous grazing , now the animals are in smaller lots and being moved . Would you do some video about horse grazing ? .... thanks and greetings from Czech republic !
I want to do horses and sheep in Bali.
Thank you Greg and Jan Judy!
Thank you for all the help Greg! 🙏❤️😊
We are seniors (69) and just in our 3'rd year of homesteading...we have 27 acres but we also have 8 rescue horses that we cannot sell or part with....we have a bred cow, a blind heifer calf we bottle fed and she will be 2 yrs old just before T.G. this year...we have a bull calf from said bred cow (neighbor re-bred her from his bull as payment for help from us), we have goats now and babies we sold...we didn't charge market prices as we weren't sure on what to charge, we raise meat rabbits, mostly for our meat, but will be selling for small profit...we raise laying hens and sell some of our eggs...we also raise meat chickens and save some for our meat and will be selling some for profit. It's just two of us...we only live on SS money and had raised pigs prior years for pork...
Watching from Long Island NY- Love the Ozarks of Missouri
Former Long Islander here. 3 months ago I moved south to pursue a career in farming, and I've never been happier.
Austin Miller can you tell me more about your story ?
Finally, people are waking up to the economics of big business and their friends in big goverment. Creating hurdles and unemployment for the small producers. Talked to a producer yesterday who typically sold few of her 60 or so beeves to custom buyers, halves and quarters and the rest through sale barn. This year... they're all committed to buyers. One lady bought 4. That's a lot of beef. :)
Thanks Greg, as I said back fueling up the positivity tank as I’m fulltime tending my cows now and I need to make sure I get it right 👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺
Youre a super hero brother one love!
Wow Greg lots of great information there. You are helping so many of us. After finding you a couple years ago and reading both of your books ( also happy to hear there is a third one on the way) I decided to start raising hair sheep. This is our first year selling and I am not sure at what age I should sell them as "finished lambs". Thanks again.
Thank you very much Greg. We are inspired by the education you provide.
The Best! Thank you so much. Your video/bookss are really, really, really helpful. Greetings to Jan, Ben and Issac. You make lives better. We are grateful.
Hello from Brooklyn!!! The hat looks great on you Greg. I love the show. Can't wait to move out of the city and get back into the fresh air. Keep up the good work - DO'C
Greg you are awesome, like the hat.
Thanks for all your free advice, serious ranchers should take your class, well I would.
Greg, you seem like a hell of a guy. I have been watching your videos for a long while and I started my own farm off of your techniques. Keep up the AWESOME content! My wife and I would love to come to Grazing School at some point.
4am crew here.
God bless you are the best!!!
Our journey trying to get back to the land has been a crazy roller coaster! Selling our house and trying to get loan for our next has had ups and downs.
Hey Greg love your channel. Watching you down here in New Zealand. We are just starting out with our beef herd and this is great stuff.
Best of grazing to you. Stay focused on feeding the soil!!!!
Just what I’ve been looking for. Thank you! We are moving to southern MO this summer
“There is no other business or occupation in the world that can measure up to it”
- Greg Judy
It's 04:27 here and I'm watching this. I want to get out on the land.
Greg, I hope you get BIG dividends for sharing your story with the world!!
Love your content Greg and hi Jan. Yes please and thanks in advance for future vids regarding cash flow. A penny saved too. Keep it up brother. 😁
Thanks again Greg. In Alberta looking at the back side of the Rockies. Hard weather, sheep can be buried in snow and the hardest cold, fine on good hay.
Leaving Calgary at the moment. -16 below in Edmonton on Monday. I’m ready for Missouri weather!!
Greg you're awesome love the channel and all of the information
Thanks Darrell!
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher do you have any bulls for sale and if so how much
Can't wait for the abattoir video....and the new book!
I loved your take on things. Crazy times indeed ☝
I can't wait for another Greg Judy book!
Rib-eye! Medium rare for me (bone in ALWAYS!) , thanks Greg!
Thank you so much for your information Sir 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks Greg.
I love watching your video
i never considered animal other than chickens until I saw your videos, were planning on adding some of your sheep next spring hopefully.
Love your channel so much! Ass someone moving towards sheep farming most of my questions are about processing and selling the meat. Can you talk about that part of the business?
Please remember to make it clear, that this is how you do it and what fits your personal context and might or might not work for others. People has to find the best possible actions available that are within their life context since this world and life upon is very complex.
I will have to come to visit your once the pandemic lesson! your cows look beautiful! I'm from Miami, Florida.
Greg Judy is a national treasure.
Well, so far I have goats, guineas, Muscovy ducks, and chicks. All with the intent of generating cash flow as well as food for my family. I have not seen a plug nickle come in so far, I am just beginning. I had one buckling and one doeling born on my farm this year. Then I lost the mother to the little doe. I purchased 2 more young does and a young buck. That will give me 4 breeding does this fall. The little buck born here was banded because at the time I had no way of separating him from the rest of the herd. Debating on whether to sell him or just leave him to help eat down all my brush (I have plenty!).
How much does it cost you to have a website? I feel like I am in a catch 22 situation of having to put money out when I don't have money coming in yet.
Try free options before spending money on a website - First - claim your business on Google Maps. Fillout the info - save your password so you can come back to it later. (Always keep a copy of your passwords)
Second - if you want a website - do a simple Free Website (wix, weebly, wordpress, whatever you can search for that is free) with basic info like a business card - Biz name, biz address, how you would like to be contacted - email/phone/form on the website that sends you an email without giving away your email. You can also put purchase info on there & potentially sell from website later.
Third - FB, Twitter, Instagram - link your website - inter-link
Fourth - go back to your google maps and update info from website, social media.
I think your key is in getting the animal husbandry down first
Greg using TH-cam to help generate more income for his farm, and providing useful information to improve the land, community, and the world.
Love your videos. Thanks for replying to my email also and i can't wait to implement your system on our farm.
He is so committed to helping people. im Massachusetts I just have a tiny silvo pasture it's absolutely beautiful. I just checked out your channel that answers my question. Go get you one of Greg's bulls and get started. I've passed through that part of the country. I stayed in Jackson one night many years ago. I think that's the name of the town. Good food I remember that.
Mind blown!!!. Keep up the good work!
Awesome! Can't wait for the beef vid.
Marketing strategy is key. Sell online or to your cattle raising friends. Culls go to the sale barn.
We run old, high $EN genetic angus cattle that stay around 1,000 pounds and it’s the only way to do it. Went from 1 cow every 2 acres to 1 cow every 1 acre. Trust Greg on this.
Great stuff!
Hey Greg I wanna say thank you for the videos the wife and I love them. I am currently deployed with the military and your videos have passed alot of time. Also you have convinced us to buy some land and give this a shot. Could you possibly do a video on a small farm we are buying around 6 acres of pasture to start out on with hopes to expand. Anyway you could give us some info how many head we could have if we rotational graze and how small we should break the fields down abd how many days to leave them on it. Thanks so much
To start with it depends on how much grass your acreage has on it, see what the animal units for your area would be in your area, a lot are 1 cow/calf pair per acre. And it depends on your stock. If you do standard size stock, it'll be less then if you do mini or mid size. In the summer, we ran 2 Aberdeen Angus cow's, 2 yearling heifers, 2 calves & about 10 goat's on 4-acres & normally the grass outgrows them, my dad rotates them every 7 day's between 3 paddocks when he water's that are abt 1.56 acres each (maybe a bit less). When they're at home, they're on 1 1/4 acres, until we get more fencing done, but we're going to put the cow's & yearlings in a different field then the goat's this year & wean the calves in a separate area & 1 of the yearlings is still nursing, so the 2 will hang out with the goat's. We've got 6 acres, abt 3 1/2 in pasture. So, I'm hoping to get my rotation going the way I want by next yr. But hubby's health has caused a hiccup. But the way we're doing it, the cow's haven't dropped weight. Their previous owner had hay constantly in front of their face as his field was beyond overgrazed.
Hope this gives you an idea of where to start, Greg's the expert, look at his other video's for more idea's if you haven't by now.
Thank you for you & your wife's service & sacrifice.
Hi Greg, my husband is interested in seeing your day planner so he can put something like that together for our homestead. How can we do that? :)
Enjoyed your video Greg, some of your buisness principals apply to fishing guides as well as glaziers. Thank You
What do you think about grass fed Dexter cattle? We have a 10 acre property, with 5 acres of pasture, and 5 acres of woods that slope down to a small creek. We want to reclaim some of the woods for pasture. We are both retired, (a fireman and a nurse) starting our second career.
Your videos are very helpful. Thank you very much for the time you have invested in the education of others.
Nothing wrong with Dexter cattle as long as you have a market for them.
"...eat your channel"---your channel IS like rich grass grown in fertile soil. :)
great info thanks
Thank you Greg! I have been hoping for a video on this topic and have a learned something new! I still wonder how accessible the overall market is in this business and how saturated it is, if at all. I am still too unfamiliar with the marketing of live animals vs. direct selling or whole selling the finished packaged meat.
Greg Judy the legend !!
Greg, You stated that grass can sustain cows, sheep, and goats. You also said that pigs would need the addition of grain. Yet when sailors came from Europe they would release pigs on the islands for future food resource. I also heard that in the 1700 and 1800's hog meat was different the color. It was "red" (vs "white") and preserved better. Have you done any research on these topics? Are we missing something from history that are forefathers had that is not present today? It would be a great idea for a video and could possibly lead to a different way to raise hogs without grain. Please comment Thanks.
I think it depends on the pig stock. If you raise heritage breeds, I don't think they are as reliant upon grain as the more "modern" breeds are. We raise red Wattle Mulefoot crosses & while their diet is predominantly grains, they can flourish on pasture as well. Their meat are red & you don't have to add anything to make it taste good like you do store bought meat, not even pepper.
Good stuff right here. Thanks
Great job 👍
Greg! New subscriber here. Thank you for all your knowledge!
Keep up the good work sir
Thanks for a great video. I live in south MO as well and have about 4 acres or so fenced for some sheep, but the ground has been neglected for a long time. This summer, someone is going to come out and lime it. I was thinking of getting a few ewes and a ram to get started and just let them breed to build up the herd. Should I wait until the pasture is better to get the animals or should I get them know and let them just eat whatever they can find and supplement it with some additional feed as necessary?
Just start with a few so that you are not overstocked.
Thank you Greg
Thanks!
We received a 400 mile bull. Showed up with no ears and no tail. A few years later the smart ass that sold him to us was charged with fraud. He and his wife ripped off the feeder co-op.