Scottie Westfall You mean a “dawg” 😊

Many thanks to you Tam for watching!

Tam M - Greg is my favorite person to watch. Positive and upbeat, cause he understands what he’s doing. Too few ppl like that today.

I hate flies sucking the blood out of my animals so any natural way to get rid of them it's more than welcome, plus the animals look so happy that I do enjoy watching the videos.

colorado/ utah border, the Ute tell me the same thing, seems to hold true, the Elk not so much

Good luck!

You need more carbon trampled onto the ground.

Yet. ;)

They were.

Bushog seed stems off after the second grazing pass of spring. This promotes more new leaf production.

yes it all ends up as soil microbe food

Cattle trampling carbon on the soil surface will bring diversity into your pastures.

We don't mow to spread seed. We mow to remove seed heads and stems to promote more leaf production.

Hard ground is the best seed bed there is for grass seed. Fluffy seed bed is a recipe for failure on grass seed. A dozer track on a new pond dam is the best seed bed there is!

Except you're not seeding barley or oats or corn on that, James. Those annuals can be sown at a much deeper seed depth than most forage grasses, which only need to be sown at around 1/4" deep (corn and barley can go as deep as 1 to 2 inches). As Greg said, too loose and fluffy a seed bed spells trainwreck because it just makes forage seed much, much to susceptible to be put down at a deeper depth than needed for good germination. I've talked to producers with a similar question like that, and I've always had to let them know that a *well packed* seed bed is a must if they're going to sow down a forage stand, regardless if it's for hay or pasture. By well-packed I mean packed so that when you walk out on the soil, you only see the toe and heel of your boot, not your arch or, if you're using a tractor tire to compare, that you're only seeing the treads and not the arches in between the treads. If a person is seeing the arches, then they need to get out there with roller and pack it better.

We focus on clipping off the stems, stay out of the leaves.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thank you :)

Just covering it with hay will work. You will get new plants. We had some old seed that we wanted to get rid of, that was the only reason we put it down.

Four hooves, i.e. a livestock animal

Really? Well tell that to my 14 first year ewes that are all dropping lambs after grazing red clover infused fescue all last fall.

Any kind of straw will work

Any feed store not tractor supply. Local ag store will have bulk seed you might have to ask them. Won't be on display inside

We never do anything with the manure. Our soil critters eat it and turn it into valuable rich soil that grows more grass.

Great question welcome to the channel.

So far we have not clipped this year. When we do clip it is with a brushog and we clip at 8-10" high.

Martin they are use to each other.

Mine get along just fine

some folks plant soybean to kick start a field or another annual. but this is a better idea long run if you have a transitional first or second-generation herd of pasture finish cattle. Just remember that you have extra protein in the field and keep transition your heard away from old genetics even if you got cattle who are doing well because of these types of fields.

Earthworm castings are a 7 ph that's perfect. I'm using lime to jump start. I have no worms its an old pine forest.

You may want to look up Allan Savory. He is from Africa.

Thanks Nate, will check him out 👍

It should be possible. In northern states like North Dakota and western provinces of Canada like Saskatchewan and Alberta, the annual precipitation is about the same or less, and the growing season is probably much shorter than you have in Namibia. You should check out some videos by Gabe Brown to see what can be achieved with a 3-month growing season and 14-16 inches of rain. As he says, it isn't about how much rain you _get_ -- it's how much you _keep._ With good soil infiltration to minimize or eliminate runoff, and a layer of ground cover or mulch (Greg's "litterbank") to *always* keep the soil cool and retain moisture (no bare soil!), 16 inches is enough to do this.

Add Geoff Lawton to your research. He specializes in regenerating deserts.

@charles Urinavi I have the same question as I am situated across you in the Kalahari. Allan Savory is from Zimbabwe but you have to buy the material to read on. I have not bought it yet. I have been reading the net for regenerative or as others call it Ultra High Density but have not found a clear successful study that can be repeatable. Checkout Zimbabwean cattleman Johann Zietsman. You can visit grainsa.co.za on the subject. If you get in touch please do share. I also believe Greg do grazing course together with Ian Mitchell-Innes from South Africa.

If you put it in the ditch, it’s like we are going to eat it because we are not supposed to😊

Buckwheat without the seed head on it would be good grazing

​@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thank you for the information. Right now i have buckwheat testing on a manual fodder system to see how well it might do. Currently doing barley and holding off on peas and oats because i was wanting to sow peas and oats in the field come seeding time. half tempted to disc in buckwheat in fall and find something that will seed/germinate in the winter if i can or i might just crimp it down if i can without breaking soil and use it as a mulch barrier.

We never cut or bale hay.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher yes I was asking why not if you have extra grazing at peak growing why not cut your own hay to either save buying or sell surplus for added income?

Selling hay off your farm is a great way to bankrupt your soil. We buy hay from hay contractors, they have the machinery to put it up, we don't. It is always more economical to buy hay than to bale it.