Plus the whole benefit of parasite reduction. They dont have to eat where they poop anymore. Over here it rains all the time and my pasture is just destroyed and turned into a muck hole. I just have 4 cows, and a tiny bit if land and a zero grazing system is top in my wish list.

If you’re destroying your fields then the cows are either too large of a breed, you have too many in a given paddock, or you aren’t rotating enough.

@@jesserahimzadeh4298 I'm a poor person, with little land and big cows. I inherited land and split between siblings so only have less than an acre.

@@jesserahimzadeh4298 you haven't been to the west of Ireland?😅 I have sheep n they plough some of the ground I have, very few cattle are out over winter it rains a lot here, November to March the ground is saturated. Doesn't matter what breed cattle u kept they would make shit of the ground here

@@s00045732 I believe you but I've seen 300 head of cattle (under 1000lbs each) in a wet field for a short time and there is very little evidence they were there. The key is frequent moves. It takes some improv and observation skills but greatly cuts down on the need for infrastructure and moving grass and manure.

Yeah they think they lose weight if they're out ? Lol seems logical but unnatural I don't know

We all would like that. Its scarcity that makes us make the choices of how we do things. Do you have enough pasture to feed the flock? Its the alternative of getting three cuts of pasture that you can store and feed the flock through the 9-15 months of the year when the weather maybe too crude to and pasture be covered in snow or ice. Farming approaches vary because of constrains so while it might work for you. Limitations guide what we can and able to do. As they say "Gat to what you gat to do"

pasture grazing is good if u get regular rainfzllls and the grass grows well all summer but I have never seen consistent grass growth ever

to people imagination only, not to the cows when the weather turns to mud. Listen to what he's saying.

@@coffeehugger ...and that smaller portion of the year they can be moved off the pasture...so not sure what your point is...

@@simonspeedo8122 if you watched this guy talk which I'm guessing you didn't, he talked about nonstop rain and mud, ruin of the greasy pastures. He may have rotational grazing, but that would not fix such a season. But I know you don't have that where you live so that's my point.

@@coffeehugger really not sure why you thought I had not watched it as not suggested anything that indicated that. Your dismissal of rotational grazing is based on you not even sure if he had tried it or not. So undermines yr point really, also you are also way off cue if your suggesting that any farm is excessively too wet to graze in the summer time ,even in a one off wet year there are still periods where provisions can be made to enable cows to graze. This leads onto the other point , which is contradictory, your implying that it can be too wet to graze cows but is ok to run a tractor and a heavy zero grazing machinery set up across the ground... Have a think about what you are saying here....

@@simonspeedo8122 Simon, if you are able to finish, not just graze, but actually finish 80 beef at 2lb a day gain on 20 acres of forages then you have it all over me. If he was grazing 80 head, would need close to 80 acres. This isn't a cow/calf, not a dairy. He's finishing beef at zero concentrate and LOOK at those animals. He isn't hating on pasture, he's just talking about the end product. If I had the building to feed with this thing, would do it today. But to save the pastures we just use a flail chopper or chopper/ box and feed green chop. This guy's outfit looks way better. To finish beef he has no fences to fiddle with and move all those animals, no weather issues, no flies, no water to hook up. Saves time and labor with great results, if what he is showing us is true.

He would probably have bough in fodder and changed their diet as winter came in. Beef prices rise and fall so some you win and some you loose just like all investments.

Also grazing saves manure nutrition as not so much is lost to volotulation

For small farmers it’s probably ideal

yes and compaction from heavy equipment. The hooves do so much to add trampled grass to the soil health. This zero grazing is bunk. just an ad for big ag.

Lolol. Youre not too far off.

What Accent

I only understood about 50% of what he said.

tmgbennett I’d agree but we consumers demand all this from farmers and want to pay them little for their toil. So the farmers adapt to the harsh financial climate that we consumers put them through. We can’t have it every way. It’s either pay top prices for it or accept that they have to produce it in non ideal conditions. One or the other it is a binary choice.

@@jonathanmcaleece9834 thank you!!!!!! So very well said! I would have never thought of feeding our cattle that way, but it actually looks like a good deal, we can only pasture from April (if we are lucky!) To basically October, but October into November, the grass is mostly gone, done growing for the year and has very little nutrition in it.. as we run a cow/calf oporation, on ground not suited for the equipment to work on, we will pasture... But under different circumstances, I would definitely be looking into this way of providing feed for cattle!!! A lot less waste=money in the bank!!

Jonathan Mcaleece this is why I get my meat from my local farm shop. And milk as well. I like it because I know where my meat has come from and how it has been reared.

@@tmgbennett good plan... As long as it's all on site, you know. Lots of shops are not USDA inspected, so in order to sell meat, they have to get it from a USDA inspected facility...

You see it all over Europe farmers sick of it all. How stupid are we general public treating our farmers like second class citizens. If it’s not air pollution it’s water, if it’s not animal cruelty it’s the chemicals they use to produce our food. Everyday I thank farmers for their toil. Let just see how the public would react if all farmers stopped producing our food, in a matter of a few weeks the world would starve then you’d soon see the thankfulness for the farmers. You can’t eat money,fancy houses, nice cars. Food production is the number one thing that’s needed and we just take farmers for granted and frankly treat them like shit. Stuck behind a tractor on the road always makes me think how lucky we are to have them.

made by hand engineering and sold under the Zero Grazer brand

Well said.what happened to the slogan compassion in farming.god forgive these farmers

Here’s a bazaar truth: Feed developers have “fermented grass” products. Not only is it already chewed it’s halfway digested!!!

This is only the final step of the cow cycle. Letting cows grazing only allow them to reach around 300kg when the finishing process in an enclosed areas put here weight at around 500 kg. The goal is to reduce their energy waste so they convert as much food as possible into meat and fat. Before in their lives those cows had been grazing for around 2 and a half year. This process takes only around six months. I recommend you the book "Should we eat meat" by vaclav smil. It's not a book about not eating meat but it's a review of the industry using academics paper and latest research and numbers. The book is a bit dry but short and gives a much better comprehension of modern farming. For the ethical side of this last process, I would insist on the minimization of unnecessary suffering and ask you to put the gains ( more people feed, less land used, concentration of waste allowing their recycling) in contrast to this practice. It's then up to you to judge this step but remember that at the end, you not only need to find an ethical solution but also a realistic one if you decide to change or ban it.

They look like pigs that just crawled out of a wallow. This is what healthy, humanely-raised cattle look like, in case you forgot: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z5mUfJeUl569YaM.html

His only real justification is the ground being cut up when overly wet. Well that is an Ireland/UK problem. Not applicable to the US. Anyhow, cutting grass 2-4 times a day is 1. expensive 2. Completely ties you down every day. 3. Other climates don't have lush grass like that, sometimes ever!!!

@@KB4QAA my opinion: the best milk comes from cows grazing in the field. But you have a point, the UK is wet and have a terrible water system to make the fields dry. I live in the Netherlands. Similair weather and as you know we farm under the sea water level. But i forgot that we exactly dominate the water. When its wet, we pump it away. If its dry we pump water in. But the UK, wet is wet thats true

Like all livestock kept indoors, they are constantly getting sick. It's a great way to make veterinarians and drug companies rich, though it won't do the farmer much good.

@@andreafalconiero9089 or the consumer. Id like meat from a healthy animal.

​@@andreafalconiero9089that's not really true.

​@lol-vz8kd that's not true at all,they are perfectly healthy in closed areas :D

Tomas Körmark yep l know l subscribed his channel

Greg's cows are 1000lbs this man's cows are 2000lbs it's wet in march so that is why he brings the grass into them

Plus Greg Judy works with 100s of acre of land this gentle man only has just over 20 and Ireland can be very wet

@@martineamonnugent8378 Then clearly he's finishing the wrong type of steers (not cows) on his land. He should get some that are half the size.

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It seems to me that this uses a lot more petroleum and machinery than a more rigorous rotational grazing program would. Seems a little self defeating to be watering down slurry to put it on land that is too wet. It is also a lot of fancy housing for beef cattle. Perhaps if the farmer looked at a heritage breed that would give him hardier stock?

Now instead of employing farmhands and allowing stock to get the necessary exercise to prevent muscle atrophy and sores, farmers with limited liquidity can purchase these cumbersome machinations that will probably require a lot of fuel and maintenance, and well as reseeding costs, fertilizer and getting the herd hooked on a continuous supply of antibiotics, as any short-term benefits are outweighed by the long-term accumulation of debt. Sunk costs and whatnot. Guess some big-time agricorp will be only too happy to buy your land real cheap when the time comes.

@@Nembula bet he knows more about what makes product and money in his operation than you do.

What all of you didn;t not understand from the damn title.. is that these caw's are inside the damn shed for finish them off .. that means.. is the last damn stage in preparations before sacrifice them.. You comment about something you have no idea about. It say in the damn Title that this way is FOR FINISHING CATTLE. That is the last stage before they become MEAT for supermarket. Finishing is where the damn Marble stakes come from. So stop with your stupidity will you?

@@gattonpc What difference does it makes whether they're eating grass under a roof or on the pasture? Even when finishing?

It depends on how you define efficiency. Using huge, fossil-fuel powered machines to cut and move grass to grazing animals that are cooped up in barns is not efficient in my book. What's _actually_ efficient is using the solar-powered legs of ruminant animals that allow them to move by _themselves_ to where the *grass* is, and cut it for themselves using the teeth and hooves that have been refined by 100 million years of evolution to do just that. A food production model that turns _mobile_ organisms (animals) into stationary ones, and _sessile_ organisms (plants) into mobile ones is completely ass-backwards, and grossly inefficient by any proper method of cost accounting. This farming method simply isn't accounting for all those costs, which is why from a certain myopic perspective it might seem _efficient_ to you.

@@andreafalconiero9089 by efficiency I meant you are able to keep more cows on smaller areas of grass. Most of the time cows will walk on nearly as much as they actually eat

​@@DaveWuzHere Farming is a business, and the efficiency he should be pursuing should be net profit/acre, not cows/acre. Seeking to maximize the wrong thing is a good way to go broke. As is the idea that cows _trampling_ a portion of the grass is somehow a bad thing! That trampling is what feeds and thereby builds healthy soil -- it isn't _waste_ -- it's an _investment_ in healthier and more productive soil. The underground livestock (earthworms, etc.) need to eat as well! The whole reason this farmer's pasture turns into a mud-pit every time he puts his oversized cattle onto it is because it is constantly being hayed. There's no sod or litterbank built up to support the weight of his animals. The problem he's trying to solve with this stupid feeding system was one he created for himself. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7R-lJWLrpebg2Q.html

@@andreafalconiero9089 If you look at agriculture as a business, considering the climate and level of development of agriculture in Ireland, Greg Judys approach is not the way to go from a financial perspective in Ireland. His system is low stocking rate, low productivity and low costs; and this works fine in the US, where land prices to buy and rent are exponentially cheaper (Ireland has the most expensive agricultural land prices in the world, meaning you cannot just acquire enough land to make a low profit/acre system work) and you have consistent drought as a limiting factor in most of the areas he is consulting on/working with (meaning it is impractical to attempt to maximise the productivity of the land at other times of the year, it would be pointless as you would have to buy in feed mid summer to sustain your animals). On top of all of this, one of the dominant reasons his system works and is profitable in the areas that it is implemented is that it allows the ground to conserve moisture, reducing the impact of droughts; which effectively do not exist here. You can see this most clearly in the differing dominating grass species used; endophyte infected tall fescue Vs perennial ryegrass. The US system is attempting to gleam as much as can be out of marginal land and a marginal climate (atleast as far as year round grass based grazing systems go). The Irish system is attempting to maximise the productivity of one of the best environments globally to grow grass consistently throughout the year.

@@kwoltekublai3337 Nope, not sustainable.

Zack Scott but if there on the field when it's only slightly wet cows with plough the hell out of it costing that farmer a lot of money reseeding the field every farmer I personally know being a farmer myself keeps cows or other cattle inside when it's bad weather it's better on the health of the animals just because there so called wild animals doesn't mean they don't need shelter

look up permaculture practices. also, learn proper density. you know what season you're in lower your density move more. it works for a lot of farmers because it takes a lot of understanding a practice. this.. this is just a really bad idea and will probably wreck the water table

He only bought the zero graze grass harvester so probably 60,000Euros? or $60k. No more manure as he finished beef stock inside so the manure is just the same amount. So you are quite wrong!

Firstly euros. Secondly zero grazers of that model start @ 30k€. Slurry spreading expenses are not really even a factor. Neither is the initial cost of the zero grazer if on a relatively large farm. The 3 considerable things with zero grazing are a) fuel cost of driving the machine - I think I read somewhere that the break-even point of zero grazing over grazing is 60% grazing utilisation Vs 90% zero grazing utilisation. b) maintenance costs - will be pretty low but from what I understand these machines can be prone to failure. c) (the biggest) the labour. This guy is cutting 20 acres - imagine the guy cutting 100? (That's still a medium sized farm in Ireland). That's 5 round trips assuming his machinery is identical - and there is a point at which you can't get any bigger. (20)(X)+(X) starts to add up when you get to a bigger scale - that's 105 mins + fuel + repairs for my example. But yeah it has its uses its not the perfect tool tho.

Some people like to work their asses off.

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What do you expect people to send you? A job interview 😂😂😂

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Navan(T), Glenroyal, Clanrye, Crusader would be a typical graze/silage mix here or Nifty, Carraig(T), Moira, Dunluce(T) for more silage mix

You dont have a fucking clue

Wtf did you just say?

If you have 20 acres just get 20 bulls ffs

No shit, these arent cows they are steers, this is how its done everywhere contrary to your believes of them grazing on a beautiful pasture the whole day

a few months