Greg shows 2 grass finished steers on perennial pastures.
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- Greg shows 2 grass finished steers on perennial pastures. Go to our website: greenpasturesfarm.net to check out Greg's books for more profitable grazing tips. Finishing steers on perennial pastures is possible with good grazing management and proper levels of legumes.
I love your videos Greg!beautiful seeing ❤
Mighty good looking stock Greg! Thanks for the video buddy!
I have a hard time not feeling bad for harvesting animals I've put so much time and care into. What comforts me is knowing that most of that time and care has gone into propagating and ensuring the survival of their genetics/ herd/ flock/ species. I'm giving them a lot for no more than I take...I make sure they have the best life possible and live a pretty full life with all the good food they can eat, all the clean fresh water they can drink and all the protection from predators I can give them and their offspring. For all intents and purposes my animals are treated like royalty. I care for them more and before I care for myself. They live a life better by orders of magnitude than they'd ever live wild and they get to serve their purpose in life. It keeps me grounded.
Brent
you're also providing a clean healthy source of protein and if you're practicing regenerative grazing methods you're also a great steward of the land.
The picture of health and happiness. What more could anyone want ?
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Thank you so much for showing us the trees that you planted in between the pastures! Diversity is the name of the game! ❤️
It was nice to see all those trees you put in. Steaks😁👍
I love the idea to plant trees sin the perennial pasture, diversity is the key, they have so many benefits for the ecosistem. The steers look absolutely fantastic, enjoy your piese of ribeye 🥩
Man those are some nice lookin steers Greg. Plump! Greg, your places are all such beautiful pictures. Love em.
Thats some beautiful pasture and some beautiful animals! Thanks for sharing Greg and have a good one!
9:07 wow I guessed 10 years too young ... you're an inspiration in more ways than one
It's good to see alot of those trees we planted are doing well!
Some of the trees are really starting to hit their growth spurt. Thanks for the help Kevin in planting them years ago!
I'm jealous of people who are still connected to their childhood communities. I miss my trees...
Thank you for sharing about how you protect your trees! Looking forward to trying that on our place.
Place a hot wire around them
Very nice looking Meat on the Hoof makes Good Eats. Your pasture is beautiful. God Bless and Peace Be With You All ☮️🙏❣️
I like diversity-even in trees!
Yes, diversity!
Hence the flerd!
Thank-you!
That's a great idea about getting a rib eye and doing a taste test. I'm sure your customers appreciate the meat they buy.
When these steers are processed, it would be a good opportunity to have a look at the meat, discuss USDA grades of beef, differences with grass fed, visual markers of the enhanced value of grass fed meat. Done by you, or you may have another person make it, publish on your channel, or another you could link us to. Just a suggestion.
A great suggestion!
I've cut meat for 40 years USDA grading is not what was 30 years ago.
I would love to see as well.
@@davidhickenbottom6574 I only found out The Federal Reserve is a private corporation 20 years ago. In this Corona-panicking going on, I found that the CDC, and many local health agencies are private corporations. I fear we are destined to serfdom imminently, a total change to our way of life. I grieve for my great country, and for the people ready to fight for it.
@@tomcondon6169 the God of this universe is in charge the bible is his holy word. Jesus waits in heaven to come back and claim his church.
Wow those steers look great!, I second the idea of you showing the steak from these and talk with us about meat quality
Wild idea - how about you co-opping with local school kids who jointly own a cow, sheep, dog with you. They could follow the animal and its progress throughout its life and maybe even come to the farm to visit and help with their live stock. Come the end of its productive cycle, they could share in the profits generated by the animal. As you do with us on youtube, you could do with them, maybe even some livestreaming with the kids.
Looking forward to the class in Sept Greg!
Hi Greg,
Thanks for sharing all that you know!!
I've been researching pond management for the last couple of weeks, and you might not want catfish in the cattle pond.
They will keep the water pretty muddy.
Bass and Bluegill compliment each other very well.
Largemouth Bass btw.
( I didn't want to confuse the folks up North lol)
Thanks from Texas
Great video
Could you please show us the finished product sometime? I would like to see how the meat of a 100% grass fed cow/steer looks!! Cheers!
We plan to go into the locker cooler where they are hanging and shoot a video on the carcass attributes, then grilling the ribeye and eating it!
So cute !!!
Always enjoy your videos! How many steers do you have processed in a year?
What are the benefits of south poll over Angus? Is there a size difference? I am learning heaps from your videos. Thank you so much
In addition, South Poll were a very heat tolerant breed whose summer hide was slick, yet grew a nice coat in winter to be able to handle colder winters. This made them far more likely to breed back during the breeding season, which took place during the heat of summer.
As Angry recommended, visit the Southpoll.com website for information about the breed. There were numerous factors that Mr. Gentry and his associates bred for, that made for a cow that was ideal genetically for the hot summers and colder winters we have here in the U.S.
@@movinon1242 thanks, I'm in Australia and I can't find south poll but I have found red poll which seem to be very similar. I'm looking to purchase 20 heifers to start my herd. I haven't been able to find a milking cow near me. The dairy industry in NSW has been decimated be our 2 main grocery stores selling milk for less than bottled water. The world has gone nuts
South Poll are a breed specialized for beef raised on grass, and specifically high moisture grasses found in the American southeast. Dairy cows are not very often good on grass.
Additionally, I don't know if the South Poll is ideally suited to the weather and grasses in NSW or if you are going to engage in regenerative ranching/ agriculture, where the breed seems to thrive.
Here's the logic behind the creation of the breed:
rockin7branch.weebly.com/south-poll-cattle-history.html
Perhaps the Senepol might be more widely available and better suited to Australia and its heat and droughts. Red Poll do not have the high heat tolerance that you find in South Poll.
www.senepol.com.au
@@Macasmum Have you looked into Murray Grey? I'd also look into them if I were you.
Your forage amazes me everytime. If you had a lot of fog grass or mesquite grass (holcus lanatus) like I do, how would you manage that? It goes to seed pretty early (now) and the animals don't like it because because of the hairs on it.
Make them eat it or manage only for the well palatable grasses?
Always manage for what you want. Don't let the other stuff sidetrack your vision of what you are managing for.
Hi Greg, this year how many male calf's and how many female?
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How do you market your meat, I know you have talked about setting up the email list, but do you go to farmers markets and do you sell to any restaurants or anything like like.
Ben Ivey V have asked this too. It is hard to find quality grass fed beef without paying a crazy high amount at a specialty store.
Just wondering what you do with all your bulls? Are they sold as breeding bulls or do you have a market on slaughter bulls? Those steers look great.
We sell out every summer on seedstock herd bulls.
How long have you had that processing date? Texas butchers are booked solid. I have 4 calves ready but can’t get them processed until the end of August. How is it in your area?
What part of Texas are you in?
Cross Plains. Southeast of Abilene
Beautiful steers. At what age do you castrate? And won't you lose money if you turn the whole animal into ground beef? Thanks and have a great day.
He castrated them at a year old. It would be a sin to grind the whole steer as much as i like good hamburger. There is zero chance that beef is not going to eat good. Dry age for 28 days.
@@davidhickenbottom6574 Thanks for the info.
@@davidhickenbottom6574 Thanks.
@@LibertyGarden I'm a Greg Judy junkie
Mr. Greg, what race is your cattle?
What type of pasture is that
I wish to plant it here in Uganda
I have learnt alot am only 23years and I have a cattle and live stock farming background for 4 generations
I wish you could mentor me senior man
Johnson, there are definitely African breeds that are better suited for the climate, seasons and grasses native to your area. Do a search for "regenerative agriculture Africa" .
There are dozens of ranchers in southern Africa practicing the same type of farming that Mr. Judy does, but have adapted it to the unique challenges you face in Africa.s
Good luck!
Edit: the senepol is probably a good breed for your area.
But conventional wisdom is to stick with local breeds that have proven themselves to thrive in your local conditions. Then perhaps try to breed in variants specifically for traits you think would improve your herd for your environment. There is no single breed of cow that will be best in every environment.
How do you handle Dandelions ?? Save me 1 of those Rib-eyes .
I don't worry about dandelions, they are forage for our livestock
do you have many ticks in that tall grass?
Plenty of ticks to go a round for everyone!! The warmer and wetter it is, tick populations are high. Just make sure to check your body at noon and in the evening after a shower.
Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher would chickens help with the ticks? I have heard Ginny birds do but they are obnoxious and I have never heard of a market for them.
I would wager with the size of the highly mobile deer population in his area, any fight against ticks would be never ending.
Please tell us how many pounds of packaged meat you get from these guys unless you have sold them to some one else.
I thought you had said on a previous video that you kept all your males in tact as bulls because they gain better? Do you castrate some of your males then?
All males that do not make it into or bull program are banded at 12 months of age.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher ok cool , so the least desirable bulls get banded and left to fatten for butcher. I would have thought that banding at 12 months would be too late and cause complications. How old is too old to band?
Greg has commented before that American cattlemen castrate bulls far too early, then give those steers hormone supplements to help put on weight. Why get rid of mother nature's original weight gain supplement to just pay to replace them with chemicals/ hormones?
@@movinon1242 right on!!!
@@tammoilliet8683 we've banded at 12 months for 14 years.
Greg if those are 2 year olds the cow had 3 calves on her until now?
@@didierfertil6334 you didnt read my question
Each steer came from a different cow...both steers have been weaned for a long time. Their mothers likely both had calves last year also so at this point we're several generations out.
Brent's comment is correct.
@@Digger927 I realize they came from different cows. If those are 2 year olds and the mommas are calving now then they would've had a calf last year too. Thus that would be 3 calves.
@@adamhoffman6646 Yeah? These steers, last years calves and this years calves...3 but they are weaned within their first year so the cows have not had 3 "on them" which usually means unweaned calves on the cow...until this time. Each cow has had one calf on them at a time. (unless there were twins).
Where can we buy your beef ? And do you have an Instagram?
I was driving home today from the mountains to the city. All this nonsense about the Federal reserve creating currency to pay people, even children to sit home. All the while, there are millions of acres I drove past either just sitting fallow or unmanaged with cows left to degrade the land. Imagine if those overweight kids were moving cows everyday and healing the land. We would have more quality meat, healed land absorbing carbon, hydration of the land and healthy people outside instead of sitting inside eating chemically enhanced subsidized "food". This would reset naturally and land vales would comedown to market if we got the fed and government out of the way. I would buy land and get out of the city.
Wouldn't that be great if we could do exactly what you wrote. That would heal a lot of this countries problems!! Thanks for sharing Anthony.
The flip side is: with increased supply comes lower cattle prices, and higher land lease/ purchase prices.
Let that beef age 28 days. Then eat that rib eye.
Our locker plant is so busy, we get 14 days, they need the space after that.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher ours are a year out up here in Massachusetts. If I was a young man I would get back in the business. I really don't like having employees.