“We don’t need more grain, we need better management on the land”. Simple yet perfect statement.

This guy gave me chills when he talked about reaching someone every day... and eventually "getting there".

It’s gonna be great when the whole world adopts this way of ranching.

@raybankes7668

3 жыл бұрын

Dow, Monsanto, and others do not what this to happen.

@C.Hawkshaw

Жыл бұрын

@@raybankes7668 I know but Dow, Archer Daniels Midland, etc. used to be able to sell stuff to farmers who just didn’t know how much money they could make by ranching this way. People are finding out the way to do it to make money .

@renaissancestatesman

5 ай бұрын

​@@raybankes7668they can want in one hand and spit in the other.

@susanls2909

3 ай бұрын

Re: Dow, Monsanto, etc. Eventually we won’t need them and they will have to change to stay in it.

@EthanPDobbins

2 ай бұрын

They used too, and they had mass die offs because of it. Just like how when all farming was organic corn crops were 25bu/acre vs 150-200 bu/acre today. Applying a locally successful farming techniques to ALL land is unwise. Different practices are necessary for different land. In parts of montana, utah, ect where the precipitation doesn't support much grass with only 8-12 inches per year they might need anywhere from 25-100 acres to support a cow-calf pair for the year. They may only be able to pass cattle over the same ground once or twice. They would stockpile forage back in yehaw days for the winter and turn cattle out on winter pasture and when big snow would come cattle would starve. That's actually what made haying become popular, mass die offs after a blizzard. They can only get one cutting a year in those places and they may feed in the same field it was cut from but having the hay packed away where you can give it to the animals can prevent 100 cows from becoming 10.

I love the end:”We’re gonna get there.” - Seeing something done right is already satisfying to watch, but can you imagine how good it must feel, when you are the one doing it? - Men like him, doing the right thing and sticking to their word, might really be all it takes to get us there. - He is a blessing.

I told my friend one day that I prefer to live off sunshine and water and I blew their mind when I explained.

Beautiful. The land is fruitfull and providing when we treat Nature with respect.

@vivalaleta

Жыл бұрын

We aren't farmers. We come here for comfort.

Excellent videos and excellent insights. Thank you from Greece

About 7 years ago I started covering my garden with wood chips and that made so much difference. It's the first of February and I dug down under the wood chips yesterday and there's earthworms as big and long as a pencil. Where I used to live this method turned red clay into black soil and where I live now, it's turning sand into black soil. I just need to figure out how to get rid of the moles. God bless y'all...

@oldauntzibby4395

3 ай бұрын

The moles are playing their part in the ecosystem. They come because you have healthy soil full of the nutrition they need. They'll aerate and consume insects then move on. Tramp down their runways and water them so pests like mice and voles don't take over and so roots don't dry out.

Wonderful story!

Wonderful. Just wunderful. This is sowing the seed of hope we need so badly.

Beautiful video. He sells sunshine, water AND CO2 ;-)

May the LORD watch over, protect, and bless you, your family, your farm and your community. Be safe, well, free and blessed. Bob. Australia.

Very simple! We search so hard sometimes we miss the Simple Answer that's right in front of us!

Outstanding presentation

Good video brother keep it up

Something new to be learned ever day. I admire your observations and management 👍

Excellent presentation

Thank you your Dad is awesome

Dad reminds me of a good friend of my father's. Just sat there stoically and never said much, but when he did, every word was a pearl.

What is interesting is that this concept mirrors bodybuilding. If you do a workout with maximum intensity, and then you do a maximum rest period (1-2 days break), then when you come back again for another workout, you have sufficient rest to over-compensate and grow. If you workout too frequently, you won't recover sufficiently, and then your workout will suffer. Your body will feel run-down and tired. So the principles are: optimal stimulus (eg. strip grazing) and optimal rest. And finding the sweet spot in those is what these guys are doing. It is pretty basic stuff but this requires a sensitivity to biological indicators and really paying attention.

Last words you said perfect

This guy is awesome. Loved this clip

This is fabulous ❤🇨🇦

Appreciate thisencouragement segment and the passion plus the practical application. Most folks I talk with want to do better but dont know how to transition. Theyare dont trust theother government and cant see taking on more work. Appreciateyour this movement

Fantastic

@carboncowboys

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Love this :)

This Sounds VERY MUCH LIKE DR KEN BERRY... Going back to how thing used to be and worked.. He would love to see this video...He is into sustainable Farming.. Dr Ken Berry is the number one on the proper human diet..

@renaissancestatesman

5 ай бұрын

Until he says something goofy about people drinking milk. Neglecting the fact that we're also the only species that cooks out meat. But overall he's solid.

Thank you. You have reached me today.

You reached me

And the hay farmers can produce something else that benefits all … no more “dust bowls”!

Trying to convince someone they are causing their own grasshopper problem with haying every year...nothing is sinking in yet.

It’s just good common sense!

❤

It would be better had you shared the size of lots . Then the volume of cows ,as well as annual rain fall. Each one of these videos need this information so that people can learn potential stocking rates.

@renaissancestatesman

5 ай бұрын

Email them if that specialized information is useful to you.

Reached one

What is approximate acreage on this property?

So what does he do for food during the winter months?

I've always sprayed carrot weed, but you seem to leave this for feed. Do your cattle eat it?

HOW DO I START A FARM?!? I wamt to do this so bad..

I'm not a farmer so I don't know. How do you feed the cows in the winter? Aren't the fields snow covered & the grasses dead at that time? Don't you need hay for the winter?

@EthanPDobbins

2 ай бұрын

They stockpile grass in the field. Just let it grow then graze it when winter comes. This provides less protein & carbohydrate and is not as good of a feed source but it's cheap and low effort. Only problem is big snow used to cause mass die offs from starvation. That's why people started making hay. Then they found out that hay actually grows them better because it's not had nutrients leeched by rain and sun. A combination of the two methods would be safest. Stockpile enough for the beginning of winter and let it get eaten while it's still at better quality then feed hay through the worst of winter. You can only get away with stockpiling if you've got plenty of land and low snowfall. Stockpiling you get the equivalent of one cutting of "hay" but cutting hay all summer you can get 2-3. So instead of 200-300 bales you may only get the equivalent of 100 off the same ground. So you need to stockpile 2-3x as much

Man the USDA needs to do better PR. This is the stuff the federal government is doing to help the small farmer be successful and keep their family farms.

We all have to forgo the cheap $2 burgers from the mega fast foods conglomerates, the cheap chicken sandwiches as well. Once we stop supporting the gross, greedy fast food can we help get rid of the factory model of cow farming.

@EthanPDobbins

2 ай бұрын

There's no such thing as factory farming especially for cattle. 97% of farms are family owned and operated. All cattle except for some dairy animals spend the majority of their life on pasture. Steers only get a few months on hay + grain in a feed lot to fatten them for slaughter.

he was told one couldn't change the land? who told him? USDA teachers? we knew one could change the fertility of the soil for centuries. We "farmed" on an asphalt parking lot in my university level farming class back in the early 1870's I farm in Chad and Cameroun, the grazing CAN be improved. I hope people don't follow what the USDA says, they are NOT for the people.

Paying for water & air...capitalism...

@renaissancestatesman

5 ай бұрын

Go produce your own clean water. Get back to me on how much capital you must invest to get it. Clean water is not easily and readily available.