how MOB GRAZING results in amazing pasture growth: it's cattle psychology!
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- Do you want lush, high energy pastures? Then mob grazing is the answer! After a spring spent grazing large paddocks, the grass has gotten ahead of us, and we're starting to mob graze our Dexter cattle. In this video, I explain the benefits of mob grazing and how to set up mob grazing paddocks, and how mob cattle psychology works. I also discuss the pros & cons of other grazing methods, including whole-field, rotational, and strip grazing.
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73yo and learned something new today, thankyou.
It now makes sense to me. There is a difference between mob grazing and rotational grazing. Think you are the first video I have seen that articulates that. 👍
You need to check out Greg Judy at Green Pastures farm.
@@jimmyjohnson7041 money what. I thought he was non profit I'm done. Thanks for your insights.
Agreed
Pete, I am a suburb dweller 25 miles east of Atlanta and just discovered your EXCELLENT channel. You are so knowledgeable and articulate, it is a pleasure spending 10-20 minutes with you!
You are absolutely right about the welder! I have had mine for years and have run 5, 10 pound spools with no problem. Love the videos and hope you keep up the great strides in the small farm world.
I always learn from you. Today I learned why it is important to move the back fence when you are strip mob grazing.
PETE, i,m back to the land of the living,, last month i suffered no.5 widow maker heart attack,, thank you for a great video and showing your cows,, be strong, be safe, be free, be blessed
Hi Russ, you are one TOUGH guy! So glad to hear from you and that you're alright.
Dont you just love Sammy. There are always some who have a friendlier and placid temperament .
Great film, gives me food for thought about my 32 acres where I have ( usually ) about 23 cows for 5 months. The main planning issue is having water easily available. In one of my fields the trough is about in the middle and so I can use electric fencing to make segments like orange segments but where the trough is at the edge it isnt so easy.
My Hobart 210 mvp and Lincoln dialarc portable stick welder are a godsend on are farm. Made a custom manure bucket with the Hobart the other day
Thanks for another informative video Pete.
Pete, Thank you so much for all the knowledge you are sharing.
Very interesting...... enjoyed the video. Always learning something new. Thanks for all you do.
Great video! Very informative! Keep up the good work!
G'day Sir, just found your channel and found it informative and refreshing, i take my hat off to you.
I am a third generation beef farmer from Australia, i had it easier than you, i had the influence of my grandfather and father to guide me to where i am today and am thankful to these great men.
I can see a great future to you and your family if you continue in the path your following.
Thanks John!
Your presentation style is awesome! Great blend of well explained theory with the ever necessary practicality of experimenting, observing, adjusting and remaining flexible. Thanks so much. I have a German short haired pointer just like Sammy. A fantastic animal with a job but wants nothing more than to be with the boss.
excellent presentation, really like your videos.
Thanks for concise clear explanation.
Your videos are just stellar!
I really enjoy your videos and have learned so much. I raise Dexters in northeast TN.
Love that welder. Nice job on the mob grazing.
These are great videos
Just found your channel and really like your content
Good stuff man! Dial it in. Learn the art as you go. Love it! :)
Wow very interesting I have not heard of this really cool and so great i love your videos therr amazing
Thanks Jeffrey!!
appreciate your videos, so helpful.
Thanks for another great video. Are you hoping to eventually be able to keep your cattle on pasture through winter or any part of winter as well?
good looking cows
Hello Pete, new sub here and I wish I had forty or fifty acres next to your farm! I’d love to be your neighbor or your student farmhand. I love the lifestyle you have! Thank you for teaching me some good practices for grazing and haying on a small scale.
Hi Micheal, thanks for subscribing!
Learned a lot from this, thank you! New to our property and trying to figure out how much permanent fence to build before jumping into large animals. Seems like you do almost everything with temporary wire?
Our "permanent" perimeter fences are T-posts with 2 hot wires. Nothing more is needed if your animals have good temperaments, and this type of fence can be easily reconfigured if needed. If you look back at our past videos there are several that discuss it.
Love the info Pete one question, what would you suggest for graze technique starting out with 2 cow/calf pairs?
Science hard at work! All we did was let cows out on the back 40 (and it was literally 40 acres behind the house and barn yard) in the spring then round up the herd in fall to separate the animals going to auction. We could have done so much better.
Learn something today.
Boy are they complaining you could have a riot on your hands or a MOB throwing poo at you so i think get ready for the worst ,haha love your videos and your relationship with those Dexter's..i wonder could i get my wife's family my in-laws into mob grazing when i do the cooking clean plates at last.
Just helping the algorithm
Please do a follow up to this video to show results of the grazing.
Will do!
"mob"? Might get some confused new viewers with that title on 6/2/20.
Cheers and I seeing new post from JFAF always provides a smile that I have something to look forward to viewing
Lol mirrored window, I didn't think of that!
here some people use the "BRS Capiaçu" to feed the cow.
I wish you could have drawn it on a dry erase board.. I think I understand though. Thank you for the video!
If you give the cows a smaller area to graze in, they will eat some of the less desirable forage so you get a better result.
Never knew this could be so complex. I guess if you have a limited resource you need to protect/conserve it.
Hi Vincent, like many things, the more you do it the less complex it seems.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm I wish I could remember how to weld, which I learned in high school. It was arc welding back then. Welding is a skill any homesteader type can use. I should at least get a torch set to unbend everything I seem to bend working my dirt.
@@VinceEspositoJr Wire feed makes everyone an expert. Stick welders are more challenging to learn.
Hello Sir. Did you try Ultra high density grazing?
How do they get water? or do they need water when they eat field grass?
i have one
Open graze with just a few of AGH's wrecked my field. Clover first, then dandelions, then crabgrass, it let the fescue take over. My pigs are so picky on what they ate on that big of area. Great organic way to de-weed your lawn but they don't care for fescue. You got some good content on this channel, keep it up!
Hi Sweet Pig Farm, we have the same problem with our cattle. They'll eat the clover right down to the dirt if they're left on too long.
How about the water? Did you not have to move it?
How do the cattle get water or is just from the moisture in the grass?
He has to provide water, a round shape works better than a squared shape container
All that green grass makes us jealous
How are you watering the cows in this mob grazing system?
Hi Belding Hill Farms, we have a shaded area that is central to the pastures with a stock tank. Our temporary laneways run back to this area. Luckily our farm is small enough to not have to move the water around.
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We have your book coming today. How many dexter do you recommend for two 2 acre pastures. We have a barn on one and a shelter on the other. Flat pastures that have had cattle on them for years.
If you are planning to divide those 2 acres to 10-12 paddocks, you can get up to 4-5 adults Dexter, assuming you have average weather and rains about once per week or so.
If you are in Arizona, you can have a goat:))
Hi nein, thanks for ordering my book! Agree with Crazy Coyote; in our climate we figure 1/2 acre per animal for grazing, 1 acre if you are also making hay.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm there is a book?
@@karenbarger6642 yes there is a link to it in the video description
Your forage got ahead of your grazing. Up until yesterday 6/6 we have been bone dry in Mass. Where is your water points.
Yes it did. Been pretty dry here too lately. Stock tank is at the end of the laneway we built.
Sammy seems to want to upstage you!
Nice video. Seems you could subdivide the strip with a wire at the midpoint and rotate them twice a day to get even more cow psychology going.
Boy was that timely!!! I just started using the same reels you are using...just now starting to get the mojo going. I've been letting them graze it too short, 2-3"! And, we weren't sure what to do about the seedheads, if would founder them or what, and, is it GOOD for the seeds to pass through them for reseeding via manure...I believe my pastures are in coastal Bermuda, and I'm in the Florida panhandle....
Hi Karen, I have read that with weeds & seeds, it's mostly a texture thing with cattle. They just don't like the way they feel in their mouth (and that it takes more work to chew them up).
I love my Hobart, but convert it from flux to gas. That flux doesn't hold up very well in my opinion.
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Sammy is the biggest puppy I've ever seen. (-:
LOL he sure is!
pasture has gone to head, increase stocking rate or cut for silage!
dont forget a follow up application of urea, if the extra grass can be utilized and if suitable soil moisture is available!
Eat [therefrom] and pasture your livestock. Indeed, in that are signs for those of intelligence.
Holy Quran 20:54
I must stop watching grazing videos from Americans. My properties are in south Australia and grass grows in the paddocks winter only 😆