Death by a thousand hooves.

Alright Willie!

😁

Ha, clever but healthier.

Your welcome!!

Fantastic!

I’m flying out of your area this morning. Greensboro, been here 3 days on a farm consulting job. Pretty country around here.

I believe the tree swollow flock has migrated.

We did not have hardly any flies until we had 11 days in a row of rain. I will take the flies over the drought though.

Keep them doggies rollin… rawhide.

How 'bout spray with strong vinegar?

I think one benefit to do it this way is to not have man-made chemicals on your property.

No this is not the area that we snow plowed and unrolled hay. This area has been like this for around 15 years.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher oh I hope this really takes care of it then.

Wouldn’t be available to plant if someone wasn’t making a profit off it, too bad.

@@SolarSolaceFarms nobody but a few goat lunatics sowing on purpose. Plenty of natural seed bank in the dirt on CRP land because it just pretty much goes to heck for 10 years with every new CRP signup and its free to just take over

Interesting. A lot of plants are like that.

OH thanks me. 🤣🤣🤣

@tritchie Make it happen! Any place you look could use another species on it. Knock on doors… lots of folks would welcome that kind of offer, probably for free too.

Ants are industrious for sure 🤔🐜🤣

or was that a typo? ; )

@@user-fx7wg6iv3f Yes! This is what happens when I don’t have my reading glasses on. Although, I imagine the ants love living in Greg’s fields, too, along with the earthworms, dung beetles, etc.

Stop nursing other cows.

I will give you mine if you want it. Tends to take over fields and crowd out other forage species. No winter stockpile can be taken from it. Once the leaves fall off in the fall, your left with a field full of worthless stems and bare ground. Nothing to feed your livestock.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I was wondering the same thing! I also heard about the anti-parasite properties for sheep so I bought a pound of Sericea Lezpedeza seed (called "AU Grazer", bred specifically for this purpose) to introduce some into my pasture in small areas for our sheep and goats. I have a few plants growing in pots that I was going to plant out in a few places. I'm wondering now if that is a good idea....I will need to pay close attention to it so it does not take over!

The seed is still immature

​@gregjudyregenerativerancher Greg, can you recommend a central Missouri cattle pasture seed mix or individual seed varieties for a good mixture of cool and warm seasons? Also, name of trusted seed supplier?Thank you!

Yes the fence needs to be hot or they will push through it.

I may not understand your circumstances, but farm area vs. stocking density in this case doesn’t matter at all. You can take any size farm and any size herd to get this result, just need to make the paddocks that much smaller. I’m trying it with 20 sheep, and I have to give them so small a paddock that they can barely walk around to get the weight/area ratio right.

I don’t have the manpower to move them that frequently throughout the day. Our situation is just for our family, not a business.

Yes, mowing it after they graze it definitely keeps it more vegetative for the animals when they come back on their next rotation.

One thing im experimenting with is remineralizing areas to discourage certain woody species, or invasives. Had an agronomist tell me that upping phosphorus levels will enhance grass growth that will discourage woody plants. He recommended the commercially (very high) chemicalized version of phosphorus, but im using soft rock posphate ( ie idagrow phos) paired with microbe application. With animals being your microbe factory, you may not need it additional microbes added. I dont have any livestock yet. My agronomist buddy knows ive had health problems using glyphosate in past. I avoid it like the plague now.

tell me that upping phosphorus levels will enhance grass growth that will discourage woody plants. He recommended the commercially (very high) chemicalized version of phosphorus, but im using soft rock posphate ( ie idagrow phos) paired with microbe application. With animals being your microbe factory, you may not need it additional microbes added. I dont have any livestock yet. My agronomist buddy knows ive had health problems using glyphosate in past. I avoid it like the plague now.

Good question. Horses spread garlic mustard seed weve seen that, but the cows are ruminants. Maybe that processes the seed beyond viability. 🤔

Ruminants are seed spreaders

The South Poll breed

Yes, both fences are hot.

We had a couple here that ran 600 laying hens. They moved on, they lost money every year they were here. Tremendous amount of work and investment for no return.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thanks so much for replying !!! I am very interested in starting my own place and what you’ll r doing and sharing really helps !!! I watched another video on a place you’ll leased that had sage brush all over it and you’ll said to roll out hay and lime the ph was low but anyway is there a particular kind of hay that u would want to roll out ????

@mikewatson2289 any grass hay would work

Total grazing normally takes everything to the dirt.

No. Total grazing is crazy, even crazier than zero grazing. This is called animal impact

You cant do something like this all the time, but as a tool on occasion for sure.