The timing of this clip was just amazingly perfect! I have decided to finally do a proper grazing plan for my farm this year, and to get a grip of how to do that was on my todo list yesterday evening! 😵 Thanks for saving me a bunch of hours trying to understand that just from the book.
Well worth the time to watch the whole session....... It offer a real and practical scope of how the planning and utilization actually works and flexes.
Richard, I had to stop what I was doing to say that you are a GENIUS! The bit from 14:00-15:10 is brilliant but also so many more gems in this and practically every video you've done. Thank you for your work!
The planning might be accurate for about 10 minutes - you will have to begin monitoring immediately and will likely need to replan almost immediately, we are after all working with nature who has not read our plan... As Allan Savory states in his Holistic Management book 'plan' is actually a 24 letter word: 'plan-monitor-control-replan' (page 67)
Hi Richard. We measure our pasture in Kg dry matter and run cows on grazing blocks or strips measured and with simple electric fencing. When the cows have eaten down the pasture to a measured quantity usually per day they are moved to the next block. The manure is left as fertilizer. The length of the round of grazing blocks depends on the season. Pasture is usually irrigated. Records are kept. Works very well for dairy cattle giving high yield in Tasmania.
thanks for going through that Richard =-helped me alot - ive got the aide memoire and have been recording my last 3 years grazing use but several parts didnt click with the rating system - so well worth the long watch.
Excellent! Just what I've been waiting for...I love both your books! Thanks for all the effort you put into sharing...just purchased some land so it is going to get real really quick now! 😁
Its a good idea to go through the process as a way to fully think out how you are going to utilise the grass you have in the non-growing season. The problem with these paper plans is that 10 mins after you finish them, something comes up which means you need to put your animals somewhere else, say moving to higher ground in the wet, eat out fire breaks, hard graze a paddock you are going to seed into, manage lambing paddocks, manage hay paddocks, manage low worm burden paddocks for weaners etc. These things largely depend on the weather in that year. Ive never had a year where my stock rotated with my plan, and every year is different, even if you try to do the same thing. The thing about these biological ecosystems is that they are very complex and simplified plans just dont work the way you envisage they might.
Dr. Elaine Ingham also is an expert of soil and grasses. Have you knowledge of/considered sainfoin for your pastures. Can you address in a future episode?
Richard...... Fantastic vidoe! Question: When you were speaking of the shoulder height growth just prior to drought and when the grasses were pushed over..... later the building of a deep top sil was the outcome. Did this same field receive any seeding or was this reviving and enhancing the existing seed bank?
Are you familiar with Gregg Judy? He seems to advocate gracing the grass with only taking the top of and then wait until the top is grown back. So I guess he goes for the keep grass in vegetative growth height. Or have I misunderstood things?
Greg Judy is also using the same grazing planner and is grazing in similar manner because he also learned it from the Savory Institute. Greg is taking the tops in the spring and trampling some as well. When he gets into stockpiling, he is also taking some and trampling some. Waiting until the grass has tips, as Greg says, is a visual way of saying the same thing that Richard is saying about letting the grass recover back to what was taken in grazing. These are slight variations of explaining the same thing.
Can we apply this to horses? How do we adapt, as horses tend to be out for space for movement more than pasture, right? (Not a horse person, but neighbor has asked to use our field).
Horse over grass worse than cows lol... wait for reactions but they love eating the same bit of grass over and over, so forcing them to move to different area each day is great for the grass and them
As a planning tool it will become cumbersome as observation + awareness of the impact on the forage will be required to optimise production. As a method of establishing stocking rates + forecasted seasonal weather it could provide the most value. Not being able to follow the cows with poultry is simply an engineering problem. The benefits should force some hard thinking. Perhaps someone could develop a variety of templates for Excel, etc. Paper becomes messy.
Is it possible to under graze? In other words, you only have a few animals and are lucky to have lots of room for them. Does it mean you're not allowing the grass to fully regenerate because it's not trampled or eaten at an 80% or so rate with your 10% or so left standing?
Yes, it is very possible to undergraze. Check Allan Savory's many talks on not having enough animals and having grasses die and slowly oxidize in "brittle environments". It can even happen in more humid environments and still have adverse effects. Undergrazing is what is causing desertification in the US western states.
G’Day Richard, you mentioned that you are try into set up a network in Europe. Is there any chance you would do that in Australia? Or do you know of someone of your caliber here already starting out?
Great video! These 3 days you talk about that the grass is dormant before it starts growth again, would that be the same for all sorts of grass and all types of climat? Or would there be a longer/shorter period in another type of climat or with another type of grass?
That's rotational grazing to me. Holistic management is literally rotational grazing with focus on grass hight which is common in many professional grazing system in many places around the world. What's the difference?
Most rotational grazing plans are not considerate of recovery times for the forage. They just mathematically even out the acerage and divide by number of animals. The typical sad result is overgrazing which slowly leads to reduced root depth over time and eventual desertification. It takes a long time to see this decline and the eventual loss gets blamed on global warming or drout or other factors. Holistic managemant is about the soil/plant first, then the animals are used to manage the forage growth and soil health.
You can think of it as "Adaptive" rotational grazing. You are rotating, but you adapt to weather (inclement and good), grass cycles, wildlife/bug cycles, your life/plans, and anything that you add or change about your farm (like adding chickens following cows).
Romans 10:9-10 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Ephesians 2:8 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: John 14:6 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Philippians 2:10-11 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The timing of this clip was just amazingly perfect! I have decided to finally do a proper grazing plan for my farm this year, and to get a grip of how to do that was on my todo list yesterday evening! 😵 Thanks for saving me a bunch of hours trying to understand that just from the book.
Great video. Having the rest of the crew there to ask questions was a great idea.
Well worth the time to watch the whole session....... It offer a real and practical scope of how the planning and utilization actually works and flexes.
Richard, I had to stop what I was doing to say that you are a GENIUS! The bit from 14:00-15:10 is brilliant but also so many more gems in this and practically every video you've done. Thank you for your work!
I love how this has been worked out mathematically. Right up my street, I love things being planned and accurate
The planning might be accurate for about 10 minutes - you will have to begin monitoring immediately and will likely need to replan almost immediately, we are after all working with nature who has not read our plan... As Allan Savory states in his Holistic Management book 'plan' is actually a 24 letter word: 'plan-monitor-control-replan' (page 67)
Hi Richard. We measure our pasture in Kg dry matter and run cows on grazing blocks or strips measured and with simple electric fencing.
When the cows have eaten down the pasture to a measured quantity usually per day they are moved to the next block.
The manure is left as fertilizer. The length of the round of grazing blocks depends on the season. Pasture is usually irrigated.
Records are kept.
Works very well for dairy cattle giving high yield in Tasmania.
I can't watch it now but I am really looking forward to watching later.
1h20min video.... nice! Greetings from Poland Richard!
What a wealth of information in one video just through conversation. I had to pause and rewind a few times but It was great.
thanks for going through that Richard =-helped me alot - ive got the aide memoire and have been recording my last 3 years grazing use but several parts didnt click with the rating system - so well worth the long watch.
Wonderfull real life information! Very useful. Thank you!
Excellent! Just what I've been waiting for...I love both your books! Thanks for all the effort you put into sharing...just purchased some land so it is going to get real really quick now! 😁
Great video! Did my grazing plan tonight! Super exited to put it in practice! Thanks for the huge amount of information
This was an amazing sharing of content/knowledge base. Thank you! Wow.
Great video as olways. Thanks so much.
Its a good idea to go through the process as a way to fully think out how you are going to utilise the grass you have in the non-growing season. The problem with these paper plans is that 10 mins after you finish them, something comes up which means you need to put your animals somewhere else, say moving to higher ground in the wet, eat out fire breaks, hard graze a paddock you are going to seed into, manage lambing paddocks, manage hay paddocks, manage low worm burden paddocks for weaners etc. These things largely depend on the weather in that year. Ive never had a year where my stock rotated with my plan, and every year is different, even if you try to do the same thing. The thing about these biological ecosystems is that they are very complex and simplified plans just dont work the way you envisage they might.
Just what I was looking for thank you
Greetings from Ecuador mate...!!!! You are the best
Nice video. My favorite part of Richard’s videos is when he dunks on his neighbor’s grass 😆
I laughed out loud
Down the rabbit hole. Love your thinking and insight.
Great explanation. Thanks a lot
Dr. Elaine Ingham also is an expert of soil and grasses. Have you knowledge of/considered sainfoin for your pastures. Can you address in a future episode?
This stuff is brill.
Great video, I leant this chart with RCS in aus, and it’s in the holistic management book.
where did you get the Grazing Chart from, can. you provide a link to the Manual you mentioned
Hi Richard, thanks for the great content. Where can I get the grazing planner chart?
Much appreciated as always !
I really like this .
I hope you will relese an simpler video of "Why you shuld Grazing" so i can recommend this to frinds
I have been looking for the this type of Content. Thanks for posting
Will really appreciate if one can recommend more resources on this topic.
Looked great would be awesome to see a presentation on this system :) Hard to truely follow when it was upside down haha
Great video, thank you.
Do you rotate so the cows go from your best field to worst field to try and boost your lesser fields
Hello! Is the chart and instructions for completion available? With thanks!
Richard...... Fantastic vidoe!
Question: When you were speaking of the shoulder height growth just prior to drought and when the grasses were pushed over..... later the building of a deep top sil was the outcome. Did this same field receive any seeding or was this reviving and enhancing the existing seed bank?
Are you familiar with Gregg Judy? He seems to advocate gracing the grass with only taking the top of and then wait until the top is grown back. So I guess he goes for the keep grass in vegetative growth height. Or have I misunderstood things?
Greg Judy is also using the same grazing planner and is grazing in similar manner because he also learned it from the Savory Institute. Greg is taking the tops in the spring and trampling some as well. When he gets into stockpiling, he is also taking some and trampling some. Waiting until the grass has tips, as Greg says, is a visual way of saying the same thing that Richard is saying about letting the grass recover back to what was taken in grazing. These are slight variations of explaining the same thing.
Can we apply this to horses? How do we adapt, as horses tend to be out for space for movement more than pasture, right? (Not a horse person, but neighbor has asked to use our field).
Horse over grass worse than cows lol... wait for reactions but they love eating the same bit of grass over and over, so forcing them to move to different area each day is great for the grass and them
Yes, horses can be done just the same and now there are many examples showing up of how to incorporate or just graze horses regeneratively on YT.
Where can I get this template?
do you sell these charts for printing or?
They are available on holistic management website
Savory institute
As a planning tool it will become cumbersome as observation + awareness of the impact on the forage will be required to optimise production.
As a method of establishing stocking rates + forecasted seasonal weather it could provide the most value.
Not being able to follow the cows with poultry is simply an engineering problem. The benefits should force some hard thinking.
Perhaps someone could develop a variety of templates for Excel, etc. Paper becomes messy.
This is what I needed. Thank you mate p.s. love the book as well!
Is it possible to under graze? In other words, you only have a few animals and are lucky to have lots of room for them. Does it mean you're not allowing the grass to fully regenerate because it's not trampled or eaten at an 80% or so rate with your 10% or so left standing?
Yes, it is very possible to undergraze. Check Allan Savory's many talks on not having enough animals and having grasses die and slowly oxidize in "brittle environments". It can even happen in more humid environments and still have adverse effects. Undergrazing is what is causing desertification in the US western states.
@@leelindsay5618 very cool, thank you !!
G’Day Richard, you mentioned that you are try into set up a network in Europe. Is there any chance you would do that in Australia?
Or do you know of someone of your caliber here already starting out?
Did you find anyone is australia?
Great video! These 3 days you talk about that the grass is dormant before it starts growth again, would that be the same for all sorts of grass and all types of climat? Or would there be a longer/shorter period in another type of climat or with another type of grass?
jorian1107 he says it’s different for every place and you need to observe maybe for a year.
See for yourself! Generally 3-4 days in our sort of climates
Has anyone made an app for this yet? :)
Jim elizondo
Your camera is upside down
It would have been a lot easier for us if you had just flipped the video. :)
That's rotational grazing to me. Holistic management is literally rotational grazing with focus on grass hight which is common in many professional grazing system in many places around the world. What's the difference?
Most rotational grazing plans are not considerate of recovery times for the forage. They just mathematically even out the acerage and divide by number of animals. The typical sad result is overgrazing which slowly leads to reduced root depth over time and eventual desertification. It takes a long time to see this decline and the eventual loss gets blamed on global warming or drout or other factors. Holistic managemant is about the soil/plant first, then the animals are used to manage the forage growth and soil health.
You can think of it as "Adaptive" rotational grazing. You are rotating, but you adapt to weather (inclement and good), grass cycles, wildlife/bug cycles, your life/plans, and anything that you add or change about your farm (like adding chickens following cows).
Astounding low-tech thinking that could change everything. No expensive equipment required.
Romans 10:9-10
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Ephesians 2:8
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
John 14:6
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Philippians 2:10-11
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
idk what your doing 🤷🏾♂️
whats up with his teeth ? No Judgment just an honest question... Is it genetic or an illness ?