Greg shows the perfect grazing stockpile residual to leave for spring green-up.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ม.ค. 2024
- Greg shows the perfect grazing stockpile residual to leave for spring green-up. With a daily rotation of 300 cattle onto a strip of fresh stockpile accompanied by 1 bale of unrolled hay made a perfect smorgasbord for our soil microbes. This field has never seen this kind of animal impact and fertility applied over the entire field. Can't wait to see what this field looks like by mid-May.
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Greg, Would you kindly expand on adding an innoculant to your clover seed? What is it, how does it work, why it’s important to use, etc.? Thank you.
I was in the farm supply business nearly all my life. I always encouraged people to inoculate any legume. Legumes draw their nitrogen from the air. When you inoculate, you are putting live bacteria on the seed. Those bacteria can take that nitrogen that the plant has pulled from the air and fix it in the soil, making it available to the grasses that do not have the ability to pull the nitrogen from the air. Once inoculated, subsequent legume (clover) crops will self inoculate with the bacteria that remains in the soil. Nitrogen is the most limiting factor in grass production, and using inoculated legume’s provides all the nitrogen that the crop needs from the air.
@@alancummings5008 Thank you for giving your time to share your knowledge! I appreciate the original question-I had the same one @triciahill216
Wonderfully explained sir. Thanks for that!!
@@alancummings5008Thank you very much for your thorough answer!
Greg I appreciate how much you have taught me. Ide bet your fixing more land than you even realize following your lead i have completely improved my farm. Now I'm grazing my neighbors and I got another neighbor that stopped and asked if ide want to graze his place FOR FREE cause of my management now. Its awesome!!!!!!
Amen so many acres changed for the better what a legacy!!!
Wow that is fantastic!! Good job sir and keep up the great work. Your cranking!!
Yup same here
Good Morning grass people.
Too big a darn cows! Another one for the quote book. Have a wonderful day Greg.
Love the soapbox, hard-hitting honesty.
Looks really good. I'm learning a lot.
Thanks for the video.
Robins love those cedars!
Yes Greg they are Robin's. Up here in macon county they where here up till the artic blast an as of Sunday I walked out an heard them again. Yesterday they seemed like they where everywhere
We're here in Southern New Jersey just a few weeks ago we had about a dozen ROBINS in our yard it was weird.
I especially enjoyed the soap box rant. Spotted a Red-Winged Black bird over the weekend (it is usually March).
Saw a robin yesterday. January 29. I was shocked. Rarely see them before end of march. Central Indiana
Greg - Maybe you have already done this but it would great to see a video of before and after. Go back in the spring and do a side by side in your video to prove how your method pays dividends.
Thanks for the video! The best hay to feed for me is clover and grass hay. The hay I bought with 5-10 percent red clover with flowers in the hay makes the difference of adding clover without buying a bag. I did buy some hay with 50 percent clover and I’ll say look out the following years. There was so much clover in the pasture it made me a little nervous with bloating but they did just fine though. I waited until most to all the clover was blooming. It sure did look pretty. The funny part about my animals they really don’t care for alfalfa.
Greg, I know for a while you said you had about 1600 acres total with about 750 in grass. It appears that you have been adding land. Is your total amount of grass up by a lot of acres these days?
Yay!
I was thinking it would be great if Issac could get that 145 acres near you if he wanted it.
Hi Greg,
What is your stocking rate on your grazeable acres?
Keep up the good work!
Alan D. Henning
I did hear how many head over how many acres you wintered over. I see how removed the gates, but how long did you leave how many cows on how much land. I get it...depends on the grass.
Red wing Black birds true spring.
Amazing manure and urine distribution..Great natural fertility. We need put out some clover seed in Feb. Does some of it come with the inoculent coating already on there
Check to make sure the coating is not neoniconods ( spelling is probably wrong)
With all of your clover and forbs in your pastures, have you considered expanding into bees for honey and to increase the seed yield of your legumes?
My wife Jan has bees!!
Does it help to spread to manure out? With say a four wheeler and drag?
I tought you should only graze the tops of grass and move the cattle. Leave the grass around 4 inches tall so that there is always a big enough grass blade/solar panel for fast regrowth? The taller the grass, the deeper the roots which function as a sponge for rain, break the soil, pull up minerals, and provide food for microorganisms. Ideally have stockpile at around 12 inches tall and have cattle graze 8 inches to leave 4 inches behind?
In the winter dormant non-growing season we try to leave 2-4 inches. If you pull up the grass that is trampled flat on the ground, some of it is 6-8” long. Wherever you leave it like a putting green, that particular paddock will be slower to recover in the spring.
No kidding on the soil loss - clear cut the virgin timber and start plowing - then down the river goes 10,000 years of soil building.
Stupid is such a strong word. There’s got to be another reason to no spread clover in January. Is it the birds the run off? What if your schedule won’t allow for it.
*Frost seeding* is nothing more than broadcast scattering seed across a piece of land during the cold winter months with the intent that when spring temperatures and the longer hours of sunlight arrive it will encourage those seeds to sprout, take root, and begin to grow into what will hopefully be mature plants. Frost seeding is generally performed on land that has been cropped, subsequently harvested, and that has some amount of leftover crop residue that will protect the seeds until they sprout.
To further answer your question, the pasture residues on the fields being showcased in this video of Greg's are just about as perfect as one could hope for in order to frost seed. The residue grasses have been reduced to approximately 2" long by the cattle's teeth, and what's left has been trampled down into a loose mat of vegetation that is lying, more or less, parallel to the soil's surface.
This allows the seed fall from the sky, bounce off of the pasture residues, to hopefully fall as closely as possible to rest on the surface of the soil and not on the residual vegetation itself. So that when it spouts, *IF* it sprouts, the roots are in immediate contact with the soil. I don't recall the distances, but when sprouting, every seed has a maximum distance that it can rest on top of vegetation and *NOT* be touching the soil and still grow viable roots that will reach downwards, find the soil, anchor itself, and survive to grow into a fully mature adult plant.
This is where Greg is referring to the stupidity of frost seeding too early in one's season. The longer that a seed sits exposed to the weather on top of a vegetative soil covering, the greater the chance that a bird, insect, or animal will eat it and the greater the chance that its seed coat will be compromised and it will no longer sprout. There are tables and information available online from most of the land grant agricultural colleges for each state that should help in determining the optimal window of time to frost seed in one's specific location prior to springtime conditions arriving to start the sprouting process.
Hope this helps.
some Robin's are resident Robin's
It would be an interesting experiment to put down only one acre of clover seed and see how long it takes to get clover clear to the other side. For an experiment, it would be interesting, but if you don't have to or you aren't trying to record the data, it wouldn't make sense.
Lol...here Greg is advising people to be "woke". Well, that is the whole point. If you aren't paying attention, the politicians pull the wool over your eyes. A good rule of thumb, if a politician is trying to scare you about "being woke" or about other people "being woke", that's because that politician is trying to pull the wool over your eyes. Keep being woke and questioning "traditional practices" because if you are doing something "the way it was always done", that isn't a good reason to continue it. Regen Ag is the perfect example of that. Questioning is such a great way to learn and understand. Don't trust anyone that tells you not to question "how things are" or even "how things were".
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I've always loved your channel but these "soapboxes" you're getting on these days have gotten pretty annoying. Everyone loves the knowledge you bestow, but i can't imagine very many like listening to a judgemental old man whine, criticize, and call so many other folks stupid.
Just my $.02... maybe you haven't realized how negative your videos have become. I still enjoy the channel, I just have to mute it most of the time.