Recent updates on our new developments on the ram farm.
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- Recent updates on our new developments on the ram farm. Things are starting to come together on the new ram farm. We have got it limed and all the old brush piles have been removed from the pasture. With our recent rains, the pasture growth is exploding with new green growth.
Cliff Honnas Regenerative Rancher & Equine Surgeon
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Did I miss cliff's link?
Thanks Greg! Here’s my channel:
th-cam.com/channels/meFwiDBnTPtzfw_3Z8VwxQ.html
Farm looks good! Grass is going to love the fertility and will explode at spring flush.
That's the plan!
Awesome job. This farm is going to explode next spring. Wish I had this farm. Blessings🙂
That place looks a lot better. I bet once you finish the woven and barb wire fence, Connor and Isaac will be happy working with high tensile fence. I know I am. I really don’t like to working with barb fence because it ruins clothes, gloves, and makes scars too. Thanks for an update on the ram farm. I get to go back to work on Monday October 18. I’m so excited but I bet I’m a little out of shape from my herniated disc. It will be a process getting back where I was. I’m going to do it slow because I don’t want to end there again. I’ve been off of work since August 10. Thanks again for all your videos!
Keep it up. Be thinking of you! Recovery is a slow process. You got time.
@@rlyman111 thanks!
You've done more in a couple months to that place than most do in a lifetime! You and your crews hard work is really going to pay off on that one!
Thanks for the update. This place is unrecognizable from before. Fantastic work and planning. Amazing what you can do when you get a little time.
So exciting to bring land back into production. I'm doing it on a small scale. Everyone wins .
Thank you so much for the shoutout Greg! You have inspired me to change the entire direction of my ranching operation through your TH-cam channel!! The grass production has exploded by following your principles. Thank you so much for all you are doing for the regenerative agriculture movement!!
That is awesome!
Here’s a link to Cliff’s channel -
Cliff Honnas Regenerative Rancher & Equine Surgeon
th-cam.com/channels/meFwiDBnTPtzfw_3Z8VwxQ.html
Do you think that solar charger would work to keep cows in with 1 strand. Inside a perimeter woven wire.
Yes it would work well.
Cliff Honnas' channel:
th-cam.com/channels/meFwiDBnTPtzfw_3Z8VwxQ.html
I've watched a couple videos of Cliff's and subscribed. I haven't got any livestock, grew up around 'em though, so I really enjoy watching you guys do ranching.
I remember watching the earlier episode about his farm, not that I can remember all that much about what it looked like back then but your word picture certainly showed how much you and all the people who have worked on it have accomplished in such a short time. That steep walk down to the crick is a nightmare I am sure that I would never have the nerve to ride up and down it in an open vehicle. I can hear Mum say do you want me to wrap you in cotton wool and put you in the China cabinet I think I would have said yes please if I can take my books with me.. I look forward to seeing the results of the foundation work that has been done. Thank you 🤷🏼♀️🍀☘️🍀🌟🖖🖖🖖🖖🌟👍👍👍👍🌟💞💝💞🙋🏼♀️
I've been watching Cliff. He's in Texas, so very different from Greg's places!
That fence is to keep invasive humans out.
i am already subscribed to his channel,, you guys sure did a lifetime of work on that place, you dont waste time
You love your work- Ecclesiastes chapter 3-
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime, moreover that every person who eats drinks and he’s good and all his labor-this is a gift of God.
Didn't know I could use a barbwire fence as a ground. This will save me a huge headache
Me either. Installing ground rods was holding back from adding more electric fence
Looks like there might be some good pond spots there.
I have one of those Patriot chargers but mine is next to the biggest, I think yours is the biggest. It has worked flawlessly and I really like it.
Hey Greg and Jan, another great informational piece. Thanks! Just a thought about the cedar and other tree specie that result from clean up or silvopasture development. I think there is a market out there for wood turners that would change a limb or off cuts of a corner post into works of art. I have no details related to price vs cost, but perhaps something to investigate. Maybe another revenue stream for the operation. Take care.
Great idea!
Greg… what would you consider to be a darn good fence for keeping rams in their own area like 20 acres but too close to the girls area like 60 acres.
Woven wire tight fence will hold rams.
Lot completed in a short time..
Have a good evening 🍁🍁🍁
How about digging a hole and making some bio char?
Greg, do you worry about stolen animals or disgruntled neighbors sabotaging the herd? May sound crazy to some, but I’m sure it happens. Do you have a need to put trail cams out for a while on newly leased land or sketchy areas?
No we are with our animals twice per day, this helps on keeping trouble makers off our farms.
Things are happening there! Looking great. A great team to work with! Wow
How about weeds and things that grow up under the fence? Do you have to keep it mown to keep Timeless fence hot?
No, just use a good charger.
Look great Greg, I love your channel. Greg you said you checked the current on that solar fencer but didn't say what it was. I sure like to know. God bless.
6000 volts
Subscribed to Cliff
No link to Cliff?
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Appreciate the shoutout Greg! Here’s my channel:
th-cam.com/channels/meFwiDBnTPtzfw_3Z8VwxQ.html
Can you still harvest fatwood from those cedar trees after they have been pushed? I remember cutting fatwood from the stumps of cedar trees with those red centers. But we always cut it fresh or after girdling the tree and letting it stand dead for a year. The theory was that the sap would run back down to the stump area thus making the fatwood better. I'm not sure that actually did anything though. I am sure that Greg would already be doing it if it was a viable income stream. I know it is a struggle to find a way to extract value from many of the "junk species" of trees. We did used to make a lot of cash from Fatwood though.
Nothing like Testosterone. It fights wars and climbs moutains.
Brilliant work. I keep thinking how the owners in that area must love renting out to you. You must've build up quite a legacy by now.
Looks great we keep hitting road blocks on our land but if God be for us who can be against us. It will eventually start to move forward.
no link
th-cam.com/channels/meFwiDBnTPtzfw_3Z8VwxQ.html
Thanks!
My dad made corner posts like that. Bore a hole with the 3 point post hole digger then drive it with his post pounder.
Crazy strong posts like that. The line posts were just driven.
up hill of the cottonwood tree would make a nice pond.but i think you mentioned in earlier vid there is a on the property already?
I am down to Just Two dogs…..
And I like it !
Cats, Snakes, Turtle and Fish are gone. Hallelujah !
Working link to cliff's channel?
I’d turn all that cedar into fence posts
what's your thoughts on the crazy fertilizer market for P & K? is a guy better off to just do it and pay the crazy price but gain more time the soil to improve and grow better forage or should a guy wait until things settle down. I got about 30 acres that i tested a month ago that only showed 25 lb. P so will be cashy to get us back to acceptable levels and let cattle do the rest over time. always have problems with broom sedge and lanceleaf ragweed and always figured it was a PH issue but PH was 5.9, wish the PH was the issue lime would've been a cheaper fix...
Lay down as much carbon as you possibly can followed by livestock eating, trampling and pooping on it.
Nice work, thanks for sharing
Do those red cedar got to be cured in order to be used and apparently it’s OK to leave the bark on them?
Yes you can leave the bark on them. Best if the post are dried 6 months or so before you put them into the ground.
In our Kansas Flint Hills as far as you can see there are very few shade trees. Plus they burn many acres in spring. Wonder if they have ever pondered doing it a little different.
Fire is a tool that can be overused. Animal impact that would trample the grass onto the ground and form a litter bank would allow them to grow soil instead of burning soil.
Nicely done!
Do you drive your wooden post ??? What driver do you use ???
We dig a hole and tamp in the dirt or loose rock around the post.
does the cedar and brush pile present any kind of fire hazard that needs to be dealt with later?
No hazard at all, rabbits love to built their homes in them.
Are your rams going to graze in that bush?
Yes they are cleaning up the brush.
I am curious what lime costs in your area? Where I am at in western New york it costs about $40 a ton custom spread. So it is about $120 per acre to put 3 ton on. Idle ground that hasn't had much done with it in this area is usually in the low 5ph range so it takes a lot of lime to make it productive land.
Lime a little at a time.
$44 an acre for 3 tons to the acre of lime spread. This farm is 3 miles from the lime quarry.
what kind of voltage are you getting out of that box?
6 KV
Are you going to put the cattle on this farm in the future?
Yes we plan on grazing some bulls on it.
Couldn't you bring in a wood chipper and make mulch out of all that brush? I imagine it could be good to spread over something somewhere.
Brush piles are necessary for wildlife management give shelter to game birds and rabbits.
A chipper would be ideal, but large logs would require specialized equipment not realistically available in many areas. It would also add huge unnecessary costs that I would choose not to incur. It’s too bad that chipping isn’t a job for someone to generate profitable enterprise.
I agree with you Tauna!
What does the persimmon tree say the winter is gonna be like???
For anyone that is confused:
Forklore says that persimmon seeds when split/cut down the middle will forecast the winter.
A fork is a mild winter, spoon is lots of snow, and a knife is lots of ice.
For whatever it’s worth, this is a banner persimmon year. Freezing up gallons of it this year. Nice and sweet fruit.
Yummy!
So why a ram farm? Most don't want but a few rams.
He has so many sheep that he needs more than a few rams:)
For Jews and Muslims to eat an allowed animal they have to be blemish free another words not castrated, not dehorned.
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I thought maybe it was like cattlemen raising steers for butcher. As well as those they would keep for breeding. As you would cull those not worth keeping.