Discover Greg Judy's #1 Mistake that Could Ruin Your Farm!
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- In this video, Greg Judy exposes my #1 mistake and points out the biggest mistake I am making in managing my cow herd. This video will help me to change my behavior and improve my herd management skills.
If you're looking for tips on how to manage your cow herd, then watch this video! Greg Judy has some great advice on how to deal with common problems in cow herd management and how to improve your herd's overall health. After watching this video, you'll be able to make better decisions when it comes to managing your cow herd!
So, watch till the end and you can ask or share your thoughts in the comments.
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This is one of the best interviews I’ve seen. Thank you for using your farm as an example. Well done 👍
Loved this interview. Takes guts to ask Greg Judy what you're doing wrong. His answers and your responses are a great example of learning. Thank you for that. Blessings
Guts or determination to find the answers necessary to be successful at your venture in raising livestock on your property and being profitable.
Motivated to Learn.
There’s no better way.
I only have 2 cows (due to calf in 3 weeks) and 2 heifers on 10 acres...I am always questioning my self, am I moving them too slow, too fast, is the paddock too big...etc. I wish someone would come visit my tiny farm...yes I need "No brainer" help.
I've been watching Greg Judy's videos as well as many other regenerative farmers...always learning. Thank you for this video!
Always good to learn I’m doing 4 head on 6acre field and I cut my 1.8 acre yard for hay all year I’m hoping I’m not going overboard I spent a year planting covers and letting them go to seed to promote better forage
I respect the humility to ask a difficult question, especially one calling for direct criticism. Greg is clearly a gem of a man and this video was fantastic to watch. Thank you for sharing this.
Water points so important. I move my water every move except in winter on frozen ground. I'm very a very small farm.
Great interview! I appreciate your teachable spirit. Thanks for sharing.
I'm in new Zealand here we measure our pasture in kg of Dry Mater per Hectares so (kg DM per Ha)
The tools we use are plate meters that you would sample your pastures using the same number of samples per Hectares to get a good estimate of your grass.
Total grass - expected residual grass = available grass
Then you take the Total weight of your herd X 3%
Exemple
3000 kgDM/ha - 1500kgDM/ha = 1500kgDM/Ha available
(10 cow @ 550kg each) x 3% =
165kg needed
(165x10000) / 1500 = 1100 m2 so 0.11 Ha per day
The question now is what residual does Greg leave? That’s what I want to know.
Very helpful measuring technique
Simple and concise !
Basically what Greg is explaining.
Your problem or your question at the end of the video has a simple answer. If you're not able to leave enough forage when you are done grazing a paddock because the next paddock you would move to has not regrown enough, then you have too many cattle, preg check your cows and sell the cows that should have been bred, but are open. On the other hand if you have too much grass, then as greg said it's like a savings account
If you have too much grass maybe you could keep some calves after weaning, or it's always a good thing to have plenty of grass, when most other people in your area are short of grass, then you might be able to buy some younger cows, that are already bred and when it doesn't rain, sell older cows.
The whole discussion falls under the heading of "adaptive grazing"
You just never will be able to use a mathematic equation to determine the amount of cattle you should have, pretty much because you can't predict the weather.
I will tell you this, one of the most profitable things in a cow herd you can measure is the percentage of cows bred back after calving. And that is really dependent upon the amount of nutrition that a cow receives after calving, so think about 2 cows for example one cow calves on march 1 and the other cow calves on march 22, thats heat cycle later. Most cowmen would say the calf 21 days older would weigh 45 lbs more at weaning. If the weaned calf is worth 2 bucks a pound that is 90 dollars difference, so how much grass would you want those cows to have the next time they have a calf?
Then there is another item to consider too. The cattle being grazing animals, with a history of grazing since the beginning of time, how many generations is that? The fact that you should know is that they will eat tge most nutritous plant material 1st, so the more grass they have, the more particular they can be.
As Greg said the grass they don't eat is not ever wasted, the grass shown in the video, is not wasted even if it goes dormant, falls to the ground, and becomes organic matter, and eventually carbon, it's not wasted!
So, if you have too many cows, you dont have the option of keeping your calves past weaning, and you dont have the option of buying younger cows, and you don't have the option of keeping all the rain that falls, because more of it runs off, and you dont have the extra carbon going into your soil too
This was a great question & answer. I knew about rotation but not exactly how to know when to do it & still have grow back.
Greg Judy is great, however, a lot of his methods relate to the dryer climate in Missouri. And in East Texas my problem is that the grass grows too fast in recent years due to our heavier, rainfall and soil fertility. so as long as it is wet, I’m going to let them graze a little shorter, otherwise I have to mow even when I mow when I come back to that spot 45 days later, the grass is 2 foot tall
Excellent video - Thanks! I'm a new subscriber.
Great interview and info! Getting the right sized paddocks for various sizes of herds and animals is a constant learning experience 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
I have a terrible time figuring out paddock size and how much to leave behind
Such great info on the calculations
You are asking great questions, friend!
Great interview and information. Experience is a harsh teacher, as you start with the exam and then receive the lesson. I would love to know how you are dealing with "weeds", as I am struggling with that issue. Love the video production enhancements, also.
I think adding a goat(s) in there could help with that
Keep a small number of goats.
Gregs the man , very key points
good stuff, who is doing the guitar music on the end that is real good wish i new who they were
Greg you had a video back in January 2023 where you calculated the needed amount of forage for your bull mob at the new bull farm. Now grant it, this was daily requirements of stockpile in the winter but you scribbled down your calculations on paper for us viewers to see how you figured it? I stopped the video and took pictures of the TV screen with my cell phone. Greg you walked off 54 feet wide (18 steps wide) x 366 feet long = 19,764 ft An acre is 42,560 ft. your grazing calculation was 5 inches to graze for that day. Your bull mob weighed 36,900 lbs x 2.5 body weight required = 922.5 lbs (400lbs/acre available x 5 inches graze) = (2000 lbs/acre available x .46 acre = 920 lbs available. I hope this calculation is right because I'm going strictly off Greg's pics and trying to make sense of it so you have a clearer understanding of it?
great topic
I would love to see Greg write a book with all of his best thoughts. I would like to have hard copies of Greg's vast experience that I could hand over to other learners.
he wrote 3 books
Yep he’s written 3 books
How do I figure out how much area to give my 4 cows on a 9 acre rotation consisting of primarily fescue during the summer and ryegrass during the winter months
Only give what they eat in half a day. Move them twice a day
I like what Greg does, not everyone can do it as efficiently. Greg’s advantage is he has a few thousand acres to graze.
Can you give us your facts of numbers of livestock and total number of acres used in one year thank you greg
I don't see a pinned comment.
Short answer… need more land🤣🤓. 🌱 = 🐄
Or better management of land and livestock
U need lots of land or get out
In a dry year mob grazing does not work grass will not regrow in summer
@@arthurdewith7608 it works better than set stock grazing. But hey nature must be wrong. Why Move Your animals? Nature does.
@@Underground-Electronic-Music ha yep you are spot on! I love to say that they can keep complaining while my grass is taller, land healthier, cattle fatter, and profits deeper.
Lighten up 😊
Hi kitty I’m sorry for the delay
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Move your pinned to universal location....if you get this
Be careful exposing yourself! 😮😂 I think you can go to jail for that!😂
I am going to be very blunt.
Every piece of land is different. I can drive in any direction from my house or farm and find that you don't have to go far and the land is different.
Even on large operations there or different topography and soil conditions.
So for these so called experts to tell everyone that this is how it should be done is bullshit. I'm glad you did your thing and it worked out for you. But what work for you can't and won't work for the rest of us.
Well said!
What are your goals for your operation and are you exceeding them more than not. At the end of the day are you able to meet your personal goals on your farm.
Sure there are variations, and thus there will be variations in how you apply these principles, but everyone has dirt, the sun shines, and plants photosynthesize. I don't mean to be overly simplistic, but from what I've observed, the principles are the same, that you need armor on the soil and through strategies of cover crops and grazing, you can, over time, improve the soil biology and water infiltration of the soil.
The hard part about Cali is we have to burn our litter bank every 4 or 5 years.
Why do you have to? Why not just brushhog the woody vegitation or incorporate different grazing animals?
@@leelindsay5618 We have no brush issue we have goats. We try and keep rivers some what brushy and go in every other year and guard some of the willows and beaver friendly spieces from the goats. The reason why we fire in Cali is because some of the native grasses need fire for reproduction. We no longer had the cheatgrass issue which causes more fires. If you don't burn it also messes with the native wildlife life cycles as well. You should really be firing more supposedly but we have a strong grazing program so instead of 3 years like most folks do we do it every 4 or 5 sometimes 6 years.
@@MistressOP yeah I don’t buy that.. sounds like something the government would say. How did the native grass survive before people were there to burn it all the time
@@Ryan-dr5cr prescribe burn is important to native grasses. And you want mostly native grass for grazing program because they are the most adapted to your area. And the government didn't tell us that at first. They were against burns for almost 100 years. Native Americans told us that. It's how almost all grasslands work in America. Rotational grazing and burning from time to time. The reason why we do it is because the fire will cross a grassland and then reenter a second part of the forest. Although our forest are slowly recovering from long term fire suppression. Control burn is better than wildfire burn. You are able to look up information about how some native grasses and flowers need fire. Also, certain mushrooms in Cali need it to.
@@Ryan-dr5cr California used to burn before people started putting out the fires…
Thats a mis-leading, click-baity title. The title suggests Greg Judy is making the mistake, while the description points out it is a mistake YOU are making, which Judy points out.
Lighten up😊
Ha, I had to re:read the Title
It’a cleverly written. Catches your attention.
I think it is a second language issue, not clickbait
Hi
Looks like a ranch to me.
Trusting the people who buy what you grow is the biggest mistake I ever made so I quit.
please dont interrupt greg while hes answering
Don’t like the title
3:30 to get to the point of your question? that is the no1 mistake you make. stop blabbering and get to the point, mate.
Greg Judy makes lots of mistakes. He really should get a mentor if he wants to have cattle. He is a salesman. If you want to have cattle, you should talk to a farmer/rancher, not a salesman.
Greg Judy doesn't take enough grass. He grazes very inefficiently (25% efficiency going by his numbers). Trampling wastes grass, and doesn't help carbon as much as grazing. Greg Judy has less than 1/4 stocking density of continuous grazing.
Greg Judy is famous for claiming he is in a drought when he isn't. He said he pays attention to rainfall, but apparently he doesn't.
Weight of each cow doesn't tell you about efficiency or nutrient requirements. According to Greg Judy, his 1,000 lbs. cows eat 4X the grass my 1,200 lbs. cows do.
You will continue to struggle if you don't talk to someone knowledgeable. There are resources out there. The rule of thumb is one 1,200 lbs. cow and calf per acre continuous grazing. That is a good starting point.
Greg Judy doesn't seem to spend time with his cattle, and doesn't pay attention to his grass.
You’re unbelievably ignorant lmao
Are you as successful as he is? Are you as successful as Gabe Brown? If not then I don't think you have many room to criticize.
@lorettarussell3235 what do you consider successful? I have been doing it longer than Greg Judy, have more efficient cattle, etc. According to Greg Judy's numbers, my cattle are four times more efficient, and are heavier. I don't take advantage of others.
I would like to see how you are doing better than Greg Judy 😜
@fataidamilola8522 what would you like to see? What are you wanting to learn?
Very easy mistake to make (over grazing) we moved on to 20 acres, purchased 8 heifers very young, that was all fine when they were young but were down to 4 and strip grazing over 4 x 5 acre paddocks and I'm just hanging in there. Were in a good rain zone in Aussie but I suspect we will be having to buy some hay for winter, simply too wet and cold for the pasture to grow much, we can go a good month without sunshine which doesent help.