What Can East Texas Ranchers Do About The Drought | Sell Your Herd Or Change Your Management?

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What Can East Texas Ranchers Do About The Drought | Sell Your Herd Or Change Your Management?

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Counter Culture Farms

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@vitaeve Жыл бұрын

Don't have any livestock right now, but my neighbor's top soil is about 3 inches lower immediately at the fence line because they had too many cows that they weren't moving; this wasn't even during a drought. The soil here in the blackland prairies is plenty good for pasture and holds water pretty well if it doesn't all run off or get baked out of exposed dirt, but I'm amazed at how people can watch their land turn from tall fields and woodlands into junipers and bare dirt and not think to give any part of it some rest until they have no choice.

@tickcreekranch 2 жыл бұрын

Amen! We are over here in southern Missouri and just started running South Poll cattle. We have been terrible dry here too. We’re one of the only farms around that still have grass. Barely a blade of green anywhere but, our soil is still covered up and we just got 2” of rain tonight! Hallelujah! Praying for y’all Subbed…

@counterculturefarms 2 жыл бұрын

Congrats on the rain and thanks for the prayers!! Keeping the soil covered is huge especially when we get the rain. You caught a WHOLE LOT MORE rain than your neighbors just by having the soil covered. On that bare soil, it just runs off.

@jedau9220 2 жыл бұрын

Good advice but it’s still got to rain more the 1” in 12 months

@counterculturefarms 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah you've got to be ahead of the curve for sure. Got to cull before most people and cull before the grass goes away. We graze in preparation for drought so when the neighbors pastures are brown, ours are still green. If you only take a small bite, there will be leftovers on the next rotation. We're holding on here where I'm at. If we only got 1" in 12 months then we would all be hurting where I'm at we get around 40" a year. Different places, different forages, but the management is still key.

@masonbaylorbears 2 жыл бұрын

wish i could move them more often. its a 1.5 hr drive to my property so i end up doing every 3 to 4 days. Im looking into bat latch systems and Teeter gates to see if there is an automated move i can do between

@counterculturefarms 2 жыл бұрын

Thats pretty awesome that you move that often with it being such a long drive! Gotta start somewhere and it looks like you have good job 👍

@rozenstarzfallz 2 жыл бұрын

Plant trees with edible leaves and flowers.

@nandisaand5287 2 жыл бұрын

Tell em!

@scottpoet 2 жыл бұрын

Standing pools of water within camera shot, virgin green grass everywhere, a thick canopy of trees nearby, and lecturing others on how to deal with drought. Not tone deaf at all.

@counterculturefarms 2 жыл бұрын

You should see the other ranches around here. This place looks the way it does because of good management. Half of our bottom land ponds have dried up. We still have grass because of good grazing management. Others in this county have been out of grass for 2 to 3 months. I wouldn't listen to people teach about how to do well in a drought if they had no grass and no water. We have grass and water when Others in our area do not. We also manage our land different than most other people. Counter Culture. Learn to think better. Use your brain.

@rozenstarzfallz 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't there edible tree leaves

@tailfire09 2 жыл бұрын

I swear you sound just like a guy here in Missouri. His name is Greg Judy.

@counterculturefarms 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he sounds like me 😉

@lukeryuzaki2328 2 жыл бұрын

@@counterculturefarms How is your Dorper flock doing?

@counterculturefarms 2 жыл бұрын

@@lukeryuzaki2328 they're doing great they have adapted well. They've been bred to a really easy fleshing royal white ram.

@lukeryuzaki2328 2 жыл бұрын

@@counterculturefarms Thanks for the update. A video update in the future would be great. I heard they're very prone to parasite. Dorper flock with natural parasite resistant would be absolutely wonderful. Wish you luck.

@karenbartlett1307 2 жыл бұрын

@@counterculturefarms No, Greg Judy is older than you and has been rotating stock for years: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/htiAndmGudrLp58.html