"Grass growing out of rock" you say, you just described the Ozarks.

Cry out from the south of France. We're going into our 4th month of 30°C with 50mm of rain. Your green grass brings tears to my eyes!

@stefanschmidt3069

Жыл бұрын

There is another cry from east Germany too, Missouri is such a blessed Place to run Cattle.

@treenopie

Жыл бұрын

@@stefanschmidt3069 Sure, climate is a factor, but Greg's practice is what results in the luscious cattle and land. I'm in the same area and there's nothing else like Greg's property. We are devastating our land and have been for a long time. Seeing how Greg has restored land and cattle restores my hope in humanity.

@treenopie

Жыл бұрын

A side note. I'm not talking about the "man is destroying the planet" BS. We are making our land human-inhabitable. Nature can handle anything we can dish out, but we suffer when we ignore her.

@stefanschmidt3069

Жыл бұрын

Jay Scott ANDERSON I absolutely agree with you, Greg’s Method is Key for sustainable Agriculture….. BUT, when you have 350mm per m2 TOTAL Rain/year instead of 550-600 ….and in Summertime 8-10 weeks with not a single drop plus 30-35 Celsius….. there is no Greg who can bring you some Gras ….. it is horrible 🙁

@rachelholdt6840

Жыл бұрын

@@stefanschmidt3069 that's similar to the weather we've had in Nebraska this year. I'm running my chickens through the pasture after goats and sheep have been through, and I was seeing a difference already even with the drought. We've only had a few decent rains the whole summer with temps of 30-35C the entire summer coming off of a very dry and mild winter. We also have very sandy soil that drains quickly. Running animals like Greg Judy does absolutely helps the grass be more resilient in drought and helps the soil hold water better as well.

Thank you for what you do!!

I don't have my hearing aids in yet and the bawling I hear sounds like no instead of moo no problem hearing you though. Wow they stopped for a moment while you thanked them for the good job that brought a smile still smiling. Have a great weekend and see you later perhaps down some road who knows.🌟☘️❤️🍀🖖🖖🖖🖖🍀❤️☘️🌟🤗🙋🏼‍♀️

Mr. Judy, That was an impressive move with the cattle. Very well controlled and waayyyy better than using a lawn mower!

Just amazing landscapers. 👏

Great video

"Nothing there is hot" ZAP! (famous last words. LOL)

Thankful for the rain! It was so tough without it! Greened back up. Notice farms ate to the ground take quite a while longer to regrow than farms that are not overstocked.

I just got my first rain that actually got the ground wet since about March out here in northern NV. We probably got about a third of an inch. They’re claiming we’re gonna get another half inch later today. I hope they aren’t wrong as usual… I’m hoping some warm season grass will start growing on the areas I mobbed in the last couple months…

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

Hope you get your rain and grass growing. That is some serious dry weather you have there!

beautiful heard of cattle , land , and pond love the video

Rollin', rollin', rollin', . . . Rawhide!

That was fun to see!

Wow! What a fantastic herd of cattle you have! Such a welcome sight in the midst of so many cullings ! I pray you continue to prosper and thrive! Thank you!

awesome land with abundant grass & beautiful Red South Pole cattle #❤️❤️👍

This is some high concept farming! I'm just glad to be in the basics right now lol

Job done properly! Looks you have the most beautiful herd!

Cow #166, Greg we want to grass you a question. What the Hay !

What about putting the sheep on that area? Love your Videos. I'm 63 and learn so much from your videos. I share with my Farmer friends also. Peace from WV

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

Our guard dogs would kill the neighbors dogs when they come out to harass our sheep. You have to respect your neighbors!!

@flyingpigpreserve8562

Жыл бұрын

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Yes must respect the neighbors. Wasn't thinking about Guard Dogs killing the other dogs coming to harass the sheep. Peace from WV

Sheep could finish cleaning up that hill nicely. Love the cattle moves even if its just across the road.

That’s being a good neighbor. In a previous video you had talked about how your land owner would like you to do that very thing. I’d love to see the result. Thanks for showing us a herd of well trained livestock who trust their caregiver.

Wow that’s awesome Greg! I have let our cows mow our “ yard” area twice now , and I had the realization how versatile and powerful it is to have the cows trained to hot poly braid. I can do exactly what your doing here and they will eat a foot or so past the wire

That is just the coolest thing ever!

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

Elizabeth you need to do this with your sheep flock😊

I was hoping to get a close look at the impact on that hill. Plus a follow up how nature responds to the pressure helps round out the lesson.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

Hope to do a follow up video on that pond dam

You got them worked up real good, they know immediately if you're trying something. Good thing you have plenty of good forage to make it up to them. Thank you and have a wonderful day.

You're teaching a 70-yr-old city girl to recognize good cattle. I've been looking at cattle pictures back in the 40s/50s/60s. when "belt buckle" cattle were in vogue. Those poor babies back then! Heck, even I know they're fat. Thanks to that fad, whole herds wound up with dwarfism that nearly decimated the Angus and Hereford breeds. I just love your channel!

@markjenkins9640

Жыл бұрын

This is great he is walking with the heard!

@wendyrowland7787

Жыл бұрын

The Angus and Hereford breeds began their existence as belt high cattle which could thrive on marginal land in my native British Isles. They were then selectively bred to become bigger. Likewise breeders who want small cattle simply bred them down into miniatures, popular with hobby farmers and small holders. Greg’s cattle appear to be showing throwbacks from their original composite breed. A 79 year old retired farmer.

@robinwhitlatch4497

Жыл бұрын

There are 2 types of Black Angus. Low line and High Line. Low line are the smaller frame short and square 800 - 1000lb cow that do very well on grass, High line are the large frame, taller, 1500+ lb cow that you see most of today. High line didn’t use to be as large as what they have been bred to be over the last 50 or so years. There are a very few farms in the USA that raise Low Line Black Angus and they are very expensive to buy in todays market. Herefords use to be medium frame breed as well. The late 60’s and 70’s is when the beef cattle industry decided beef cattle should be bred for larger birth weight, higher weening weight and to grow and mature into small elephants on silage / haylage & grain in feed lots to feed people. It is not easy to find smaller framed Black / Red Angus and Hereford cows and bulls that perform well on grass, mineral, no grain, maintain good weight, breed back, easy calving & 55 to 65 lb birth wt. calves, and etc., everything one looks for in a grass fed rotational grazing operation herd. High birth wt = problem calving. I for one never enjoyed having to pull a big calf with straps and or a calf jack and deal with the aftermath. So, really liked my medium framed cows and bulls that produced a smaller calf that the cow could easily push out.

@wendyrowland7787

Жыл бұрын

@@robinwhitlatch4497 bigger birth weight, more problems. The Angus has the advantage of smaller calves, shorter gestation and great to put on dairy heifers.

@tow5384

Жыл бұрын

@@robinwhitlatch4497 Read up on the lowlines - they're a fairly new version of Angus, a result of controlled breeding from the 70s to the 90s. The "belt buckle" cattle of the 40s & 50s were a fad as judges began awarding ribbons to very short and very fat cattle for reasons known only to them; compare them to cattle before them that were basically medium framed per their pictures. It exploded in their faces when those "pig cattle" (yes, they were called that) began developing severe health issues due to dwarfism, decimating entire herds. The smart breeders never bought into that fad, or into the new fad that started in the 60s - massive, oversized cattle weighting up to 2000 pounds. A fad that's still continuing, and like it's short cattle predecessor, is resulting in dead calves, health issues, etc, as Greg and others are saying. People never learn, do they?

What a beautiful herd, all working like a well oiled machine 👍

It’s such a beautiful location. It was very inspiring for me when I attended the grazing school. It’s what I want for a home site. Have fun at the grazing school!!!

I need to start writing down my questions for grazing school.

Watched this whole vid while getting ready for work. Loved it.

most instructive. thanks

Thanks for the video. I really enjoy your videos. Keep doing what you do.

I love this

I was expecting to see John Wayne ride up on a horse over that dam. Calfs are beautiful.

Good to see the grazing school setting! Nice tosee be able to relate exactly what is happening. Yes thateasy grass.Glad you are managing the drought!

Greg Judy for president

Thanks for the demo on million pound stocking and the explanation!

Read your title worked out mine We run 127 000 pounds a hectare in New Zealand with dairy cows

Now picture Thousand and thousand of Buffalo trampling the prairies. Way back when the buffalo had never seen a fence and just roamed. This to me is what rotational grazing is at its base level. Ruminants doing what ruminants do.

I enjoyed this video. Thanks

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Julie.

Belgium, 3 months and 10inches short in rain. Waterbassins been empty for well over a month, the field are dry, just as the plants.. Next week we are expecting an other few days of 30°C weather! I hold my hart for what is to come still. Europe is turning into the steppe climate, with all this climate change

I could tell in your voice seeing those cattle working for you made you happy and proud. Feels good to use tools in one’s tool box like that. Great video!

That was really interesting, you keep saying that’s a good looking cow, Bull, calf etc. heck they’re all good looking cattle. You have a beautiful herd. That last one was a real piece of work tho, dark around the head and shoulders and kinda faded back a little lighter.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

There are some real beauts in there for sure.

Greg's Cattle and Lawn Care😂

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

Oh I like that! Mow and fertilize with one pass and leave the customer a pound of grass-finished beef!!

That pond dam is going to look very different after all the impact on it. If any h2o was seeping through it may be sealed up now. The looks some of the cows were giving you. 🤣 Lead cow decided that grass was not fit to eat, she was outta there, left and took 1/4 the herd with her and bulls chasing. Didn’t know where they were going but they were just going. 🤣 Lots of herd dynamics going on in there. I really miss having cows!

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

Your right, 160 lead cow said that was enough!!!

Cool experiment mate. They look like their in moving mode, im surprised their not trying to chew it out - well fed cows eh!

Those cows never work a day in their life. Because they do what they love

@seandoherty4236

Жыл бұрын

Cows, no. But steers store all their labor into their day of retirement.

Thanks for the video! It’s amazing what cattle can do. I hope the cattle find the leak and fix it for you all. How big do you think that pond is? I want to build a pond on the back of our property just for our animals and maybe a little fishing too.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

It is 1/2 acre

@marvinbaier3627

Жыл бұрын

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher thanks!

great video, please follow up with how this impacted the dam and if it had any effect on the seepage.

Move them out, rawhide!

Awesome stuff Greg! Thanks for the idea to get my weeds trampled in some of the newer pastures that have alot of dog fennel

Loved this, I'm always spreading your name out there Greg.. whenever there's a cattle causes climate change doom mongerer or vegan cultist, they get G Judyfied!

Do you make your own hoses custom lengths?

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

We have a hydraulic shop make them for us. Not cheap to make, but we never have a $150 water bill anymore from a cheap hose blowing up on a hot day!!

They're hollering for their union rep, "that dang farmer with a camera glued to his face is making us work for nothing, not even a half a bite to eat, no water either, why don't he head back to his day job?"

What was going on with that black one limping about the 7:30 mark in the video? Have something in her foot?

BTW, how did lasy year's "parasitic wasp" experiment work out?

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

It had no effect at all on flies. Waste of time and money. On a single smaller farm where the cows were not being moved long distances, it might work better

How is the "lead cow" determined? Age or a small battle between matriarchs?

@markjenkins9640

Жыл бұрын

I would leave all the bulls and let them fight for dominance

@markjenkins9640

Жыл бұрын

Lead Bull

@davemi00

Жыл бұрын

Lead Cow is determined by the herd. It’s Not a Bull or Steer.

@adolthitler

Жыл бұрын

Whoever gets in front.

@seandoherty4236

Жыл бұрын

Greg just calls tje cow that is always the first to follow him his "lead cow". The rest of the pack eventually follow her. She's the smart cow that recognizes Greg + "Whoop whoop!" = acres of fresh, tender grass! Cows being herding animalsn they all just end up going the direction the lead cow dictates. Ultimately, cows HATE the idea that some other cow is going to get better feed than herself. So if one cow sees another move to a new spot, even 10 feet away, it MUST be because there is better, greener grass that way! And that rotten @*÷×@ is not going to eat grass that I deserve, so I am going to follow her and get ahead of her! Boom: herding animals.

With twice a day moves (your program), what is your approximate stocking rate range, e.g., 40,000lbs. to 80,000lbs. or 100,000lbs. to 200,000,lbs. etc. per acre? I’m assuming the range varies due to weather and rainfall.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

It is stocking density, not stocking rate.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

It is stocking density, not stocking rate.

How many cattle on your farm?

@seandoherty4236

Жыл бұрын

I heard him mention he is up to about 400 right now. Same amount of sheep as well.

Just one water source for 400 cattle?

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

Yes a pressurized water source with 45 psi supply. The key to one source is that the cattle did not have to walk more than 600 feet to get a drink.

What breed of cattle do you run

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

South Poll

I think you should increase your herd and flocks to 1000 head each.

@seandoherty4236

Жыл бұрын

I think Alan Savory or Ian Mitchell Innes has challenged Greg to run 750 head on his property and leaseholds. But a farmer is naturally conservative, and so long as he is doing well and makes a good profit at 400 head max, why risk it?

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

When we were not growing back any regrowth 2 weeks ago due to extreme hot dry weather, we were certainly stocked correctly. If you always stock your farm like your in a drought, you will never run out of forage for your animals.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

When we were not growing back any regrowth 2 weeks ago due to extreme hot dry weather, we were certainly stocked correctly. If you always stock your farm like your in a drought, you will never run out of forage for your animals.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

When we were not growing back any regrowth 2 weeks ago due to extreme hot dry weather, we were certainly stocked correctly. If you always stock your farm like your in a drought, you will never run out of forage for your animals.

Why not leave them a bit longer and let them graze it?

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

Жыл бұрын

The dam has a water seap in it, did not want to make a mud pit out of it. Trampled it good, that was the goal.

not a fan ....try making me one

Confused but totally understand now! 🐊🏌🇺🇲❤️

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