Thanks Philip for your kind comments, glad I was able to help you!

I will have to do that. We are putting in more this summer.

That Llama needs to find another home.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I'm between two counties and both sheriffs called me and said it was $100/day fine both counties) if I didn't stop it from sleeping on the road. I had to shoot it.

A neighbor of mine with about 250 ewes took a free llama. The owner said he'd protect the sheep, and I'm not sure he did, but he was very popular with the lambs, and lived to be almost 20.

@@swamp-yankee I have heard a lot of good things about lamas. Just wish my personal results were better.

1-2 joule charger

Thank you Mr. Judy

Been putting down hay the last two years now. Got a application of nitrogen last summer. No rain until after the growing season. Hope to have an appreciable turnaround in my brooms hedge situation this year.. will also benefit from a seedling from the hay laid down. My question is for the winter. I have minimal fescue. Most of it, as well as my neighbors farm’s fescue is from what the county laid down along the road with some gradual encroachment from there. My question is two years into the process will some broadcast frost seeding be of benefit? And if I choose to seed by this method would something like Kentucky 32 Fescue be better, perhaps a way lot better?

Cattle dont need a barn but in South Africa they need a kraal and security otherwise you cattle wil be gone next day . Difficult to try and farming in this country not like there and left cattle in the field

@@true5188 yes that is a tough way to ranch.

What about water??

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I have a well and a seasonal creek but it’s been very dry lately in California, we haven’t gotten more then 15 inches of rain over the last 10 years vs the 27-30 that we need to not be in a drought. It’s very difficult to get permits to build a pond in Napa, CA therefore I was thinking of putting water tanks in strategic locations and running poly pipe around the perimeter fence in order to get water to various locations. My property burned in 2020 as well in the LNU fires and that’s why I worry about using timeless fence posts because I don’t want them to burn and melt and I lose my fence. I am trying to regenerate the land and build a connection with the county to show them that we can fight the fires and the drought with good animal management and regenerative grazing but I have to figure out the fencing first because of the fires and the water need.

We use 5 hi-tensile electric wires on Timeless Fence posts. Never use steel T posts for electric fence. That is like wearing a thorn in your shoe!!!!!!!

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher we used plastic insulators on the posts so it worked well but it gets expensive

Plastic insulators get brittle with the sun over the years and now you have a wreck on your hands. All you have them is steel post ground rods covering your whole farm. Use Timeless non conductive Fenceposts and enjoy life with no electric fence shorts on your farm ever again. We leased a farm that had steel fence posts and plastic insulators on it. This system had been installed for 8 years. Every single night I was out there with my headlamp chasing down the latest insulator to fail and found the wire resting against a steel post.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher this is great advice. I know exactly what your talking about. It was a pain in the ass when the cows would get out due to broken insulators. They always knew where the weak points were. I’m going to look into timless. We’re gonna have our stockers on a 500 acre plot.

You won’t regret going with Timeless Fence posts. They are durable, easy to install and the best part is they are non conductive!!

Absolutely not, great way to go broke. You need to direct market every quality animal you produce.

Why will you run elec boundary fence if existing barbed wire perimeter fence is in good shape? I'm missing something

Run an offset hot wire 8” away from barb wire fence. This will give you a power source around your whole farm to hook to when erecting your poly wire paddocks.

Good stuff and your gut will not be upset after eating it.

Much better nutrition esp. healthy fats

Fences and guineas.....lol!

Wells are expensive and isn't a guarantee to actually hit water. Once you start drilling you just kinda got to go til you hit it. Cuz you can hit at 30 feet, 300, or 1000. 😳

A guy who recently built a house near one of our farms drilled 5 bores to hit water. In my neighborhood spring boxes, shallow wells, and ponds are best. Personally I love a spring box. I fill my water bottle with spring water at the farm because it's so much better tasting than the iron rich well water at our rental house.

Thanks. I suppose it depends where you live. Our farm is on a sandy ridge. Ponds don't hold water. We can find good water with a well at about 80 to 100 feet.

@@french-canadianfarmer5049 Our soil conditions couldn't be more different. We've got stony clay and ledge. The old dairymen built ponds all over, so we don't have to, but there are a few around I'd like to fix. Some have HDPE and PVC plumbing, but many have problematic rusted out iron plumbing. It's not uncommon for folks to drill two or three hundred feet to hit water, but it's all over on the surface.

@@french-canadianfarmer5049 One thing you may try is using pigs to seal the pond. If you feed them in the pond Basin and they root around very often they will seal up leaks. Not sure how long that would take if the whole Pond is a leak though.

We direct market our beef and are sold out.

Get goats

Start clearing, cutting burning. Clear out your perimeter first. I'm 59 I cut over 100 huge white pines all I had was a ms 250 chain saw and a garden tractor. Was it hard yes hardest thing I've ever done and I'm no stranger to work. My buddy came and stacked logs with a skidsteer. I'm still building new pasture now.

Mr Gasoline, please meet Miss Match....

Get a soil test

Please ignore this "advice"

@@willbass2869 I was being sarcastic. 😂

It's amazing how many people have KZfaq channels based on "we don't know what we are doing but we will act like it" and people act like they are experts when those bloggers are making 90% of their money on selling their lack of knowledge.

Wait years for NRCS funding and plan approval to proceed with that cost share stuff. Watch out for 'good ol' boy' county politics whereby same small clique of farmers/ranchers 'miraculously' vacuum up the available NRCS funds in that district/county. Your application just happens to arrive after closing date or after all funds locked down. Best advice, skip the cost share. Just dig the darn stock tank and move forward....

@@willbass2869 WIll I agree. We are waiting to see if we get NRCS funding, but it doesn't look too promising.

You can call NRCS all you want for perimeter fencing but they don't do that. They will only help you out if you already have perimeter fencing installed.

@@FantaLaStrada there is a website (USDA?) that lists who got how much for various nrcs projects. See the same circle of names yr in-yr out getting lion's share of funds. Infuriating. Then various usda/nrcs types want you to attend this or that 'meeting', which ALWAYS have sign-in sheets. They get 'graded' on outreach and local turnouts. So much petty corruption....

Cattle don’t get out if you move them and don’t let them get hungry. Follow this with a 5 strand hi-tensile electric fence with 9000 volts in it. This combo works well and let’s you sleep well at night.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I was just expounding on the dangers of a bad perimeter fence 🤷‍♀️. New stock people don't realize what happens when stock gets out til it happens.