Thanks. I have a bunch of videos I recorded over the summer I need to edit but they are coming along with some current material. My problem is during the summer months I hardly have time to edit videos, the farm keeps me busy!
Congratulations on your new babies! Have you thought of the cattle fence/panels made bent over and a tarp on top with plywood on the ground with so me nice hey put on top to keep the fellers and gals warmer? Be blessed you and yours!
Good luck :) I have beef cattle to watch on big pastures out back that belong to my neighbor. I hope someday we too can have a few to start with. Meanwhile I'll learn from your adventures o.- God bless you & give you a prosperous 2017.
Thanks. I hope it all works out. I plan to share as much information as I can about them. I am sure the videos will help someone following the same path I am taking. Cattle are very relaxing and enjoyable to be around. God Bless you as well and Happy New Year!
Thanks John, I have a lot to learn about cow-calf operations but I'd love to one day sell feeders to the guy I manage for. Then I would finish them for him. I also have plans to market some beef myself. A lot going on and never enough time! :)
Grazing Acres Farm That sounds like a good plan. You would be a value add to his operation and you could just "tag along" for much of the year. Keep cost and risk low and build slow and consistent. Good Luck!
It's a great time to get into cattle, the market is down lower than it's been in years. Just remember that only those that keep cost down to maintain the herd will survive the long haul. We are grass fed so that saves a huge expense right off the bat. I am very excited about where this is heading. I already had our egg restaurant ask about beef in the future. I hope your adventure goes just as well as mine has so far and grows into something wonderful! Good Luck!
In a way I'm not too excited just because I have next to zero experience with cattle but I am excited about it in other aspects. Cheap cattle to buy into mainly. I will also be 100% grass fed except for a little crop residue under cool season cover crops. I have a ton of room for growth and it's an opportunity to utilize a lot of land that cannot be cropped anyway that's not being utilized now. I farm about 600 acres and am doing it all in cover crops that are grazable so I should only be limited by my experience, labor and water. Plus we have about 170 acres of prime native warm season grass that comes out of CRP in a couple years so about the time a cattle operation is ready to expand, that should open up.
Like you I had very limited experience with cattle until 4 years ago. I kinda just fell into this job. I had so much to learn and still do about certain things. I have gotten fairly good at grazing and paddock setup, it's more then cow-calf side that I need to learn more about. Cover crops are great. I planted some winter rye that we will be grazing in a couple months. I planted around 15 acres of it. 600 acres, huh? Wow that is a lot. Where do you live? If you have any questions or concerns about your new adventure, just ask I may have an answer or a place to get it. When do you get you cattle?
Grazing Acres Farm Thanks, I sure appreciate that. I live south of KC on the Missouri/KS state line. I manage a ranch that has ~2000 acres and then I have my own ground that's another couple hundred outside the ranch. The amount of farm ground fluctuates between 600 and 730 depending on rotations. I'm not sure when I'm going to get my cattle. I'm working on developing a 350 acre parcel of the ranch to accommodate cattle now to start with. The ponds are all silted full and nasty so I'm building new ones with frost free tanks and fencing the ponds. About 130 acres of it is in native grass CRP until 2020 and the rest of it I'm taking the overgrown brush off of now and working on perimeter fence. I'm hoping to have it prepped for cattle by this fall with full ponds for winter. I'm planning on using Red Polls, I think that breed fits exactly what I need and want plus I personally prefer the cherry reds over other colors. Aesthetics of how they look isn't a big concern but I think our summer heat is a little gentler on non-black cattle and white faces can have more problems with pink eye and cancer eye from what I've read and been told by stockmen. I'll never stop learning, I just hope I can learn enough in time to be a more responsible owner than many locals I see. The guy that ran this 350 acre pasture before the ranch bought it just ran it into the ground literally. There was no grass at all on it except the CRP he couldn't touch, everything else is hedge, locust, cedar and weeds.
Jason, are you taking Stockman-Grass Farmer? About 5% of the cattle and related Ag biz has a whole new way of thinking that is making ranches profitable so families keep their farms. stockmangrassfarmer online
It's all in the cattleman's skill. Nobody can afford malnourished animals, the profit is in offering beautiful healthy ones. You need full information before you state such a thing.
Jamie Parkes you have know idea what your talking about sorry. There are types of grasses that have iron in them such as red clover also most Farmer's fertilize their pastures with manure witch composes and naturally gives iron Bach to the soil along with so many more nutrients:)! If you do it right you can have beautiful full healthy organic grass fed cattle it's all about pasture management and getting good quality hay for winter months. I work on a small all natural grass fed Black Angus farm. My buddy runs it. It's tender and lean and clean baby. So tasty good and healthy.
Good for you on the purchase and new business venture! Glad to hear you are planning to make more video's in the future!
Thanks. I have a bunch of videos I recorded over the summer I need to edit but they are coming along with some current material. My problem is during the summer months I hardly have time to edit videos, the farm keeps me busy!
Thanks a bunch for the video. 😇
Beautiful cattle
Congratulations on your new babies! Have you thought of the cattle fence/panels made bent over and a tarp on top with plywood on the ground with so me nice hey put on top to keep the fellers and gals warmer? Be blessed you and yours!
Good luck :) I have beef cattle to watch on big pastures out back that belong to my neighbor. I hope someday we too can have a few to start with. Meanwhile I'll learn from your adventures o.- God bless you & give you a prosperous 2017.
Thanks. I hope it all works out. I plan to share as much information as I can about them. I am sure the videos will help someone following the same path I am taking. Cattle are very relaxing and enjoyable to be around.
God Bless you as well and Happy New Year!
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Good news. I hope that they stay healthy, grow big and sell for big profits.
Thanks John, I have a lot to learn about cow-calf operations but I'd love to one day sell feeders to the guy I manage for. Then I would finish them for him. I also have plans to market some beef myself. A lot going on and never enough time! :)
Grazing Acres Farm
That sounds like a good plan. You would be a value add to his operation and you could just "tag along" for much of the year. Keep cost and risk low and build slow and consistent. Good Luck!
I'm getting ready to do the same thing. Good luck man!
It's a great time to get into cattle, the market is down lower than it's been in years. Just remember that only those that keep cost down to maintain the herd will survive the long haul. We are grass fed so that saves a huge expense right off the bat. I am very excited about where this is heading. I already had our egg restaurant ask about beef in the future.
I hope your adventure goes just as well as mine has so far and grows into something wonderful! Good Luck!
In a way I'm not too excited just because I have next to zero experience with cattle but I am excited about it in other aspects. Cheap cattle to buy into mainly. I will also be 100% grass fed except for a little crop residue under cool season cover crops.
I have a ton of room for growth and it's an opportunity to utilize a lot of land that cannot be cropped anyway that's not being utilized now. I farm about 600 acres and am doing it all in cover crops that are grazable so I should only be limited by my experience, labor and water. Plus we have about 170 acres of prime native warm season grass that comes out of CRP in a couple years so about the time a cattle operation is ready to expand, that should open up.
Like you I had very limited experience with cattle until 4 years ago. I kinda just fell into this job. I had so much to learn and still do about certain things. I have gotten fairly good at grazing and paddock setup, it's more then cow-calf side that I need to learn more about.
Cover crops are great. I planted some winter rye that we will be grazing in a couple months. I planted around 15 acres of it. 600 acres, huh? Wow that is a lot. Where do you live?
If you have any questions or concerns about your new adventure, just ask I may have an answer or a place to get it. When do you get you cattle?
Grazing Acres Farm
Thanks, I sure appreciate that. I live south of KC on the Missouri/KS state line. I manage a ranch that has ~2000 acres and then I have my own ground that's another couple hundred outside the ranch. The amount of farm ground fluctuates between 600 and 730 depending on rotations.
I'm not sure when I'm going to get my cattle. I'm working on developing a 350 acre parcel of the ranch to accommodate cattle now to start with. The ponds are all silted full and nasty so I'm building new ones with frost free tanks and fencing the ponds. About 130 acres of it is in native grass CRP until 2020 and the rest of it I'm taking the overgrown brush off of now and working on perimeter fence. I'm hoping to have it prepped for cattle by this fall with full ponds for winter. I'm planning on using Red Polls, I think that breed fits exactly what I need and want plus I personally prefer the cherry reds over other colors. Aesthetics of how they look isn't a big concern but I think our summer heat is a little gentler on non-black cattle and white faces can have more problems with pink eye and cancer eye from what I've read and been told by stockmen.
I'll never stop learning, I just hope I can learn enough in time to be a more responsible owner than many locals I see. The guy that ran this 350 acre pasture before the ranch bought it just ran it into the ground literally. There was no grass at all on it except the CRP he couldn't touch, everything else is hedge, locust, cedar and weeds.
I knew she was a bottle baby so tame. I have 3 myself
I could never kill those sweet faces!!
Trust me, I completely understand that. It doesn't take long for them to grow on you.
I like the dig at Miley Syrus. Lol
Aussie cattle are very expensive at the moment beef has gone up alot
Loved the video💕 new subscriber here. I also just started vlogging home school mom of 8, frugal living with backyard chickens🐔🤗
Cow market is so low right now that it's killing me. I'm trying to sell some bred cows and the price is painfully low
I heard the market was down. Best of luck!
I’ve got a question, what cows can be in the same field as baldy cows?
Not sure I understand? I don't restrict any cows from my baldies except the bull at certain times of the year.
How many akers do you have
We lease 176 acres.
How much did you pay for them?
Which ones?
@@GrazingAcresFarm The first 2.
I had $1600 in the 2 bred cows, $800 a piece. I think the bottle calves were $200 each.
Jason, are you taking Stockman-Grass Farmer? About 5% of the cattle and related Ag biz has a whole new way of thinking that is making ranches profitable so families keep their farms. stockmangrassfarmer online
Organic cattle become skinny and lack iron
Don't you still feed them grain n hay like normal?
Being skinny != unhealthy. In nature cows would eat mainly grass. Grain is not good food for them.
Not if they are eating good grasses.
It's all in the cattleman's skill. Nobody can afford malnourished animals, the profit is in offering beautiful healthy ones. You need full information before you state such a thing.
Jamie Parkes you have know idea what your talking about sorry. There are types of grasses that have iron in them such as red clover also most Farmer's fertilize their pastures with manure witch composes and naturally gives iron Bach to the soil along with so many more nutrients:)! If you do it right you can have beautiful full healthy organic grass fed cattle it's all about pasture management and getting good quality hay for winter months. I work on a small all natural grass fed Black Angus farm. My buddy runs it. It's tender and lean and clean baby. So tasty good and healthy.