On our small Welsh farm on brown acid soils, liming every 4 to 5 years is paramount. We are both nearly 80 and no longer keep our own stock. Just to keep us active we have dairy heifers to feed daily from our trailed sheep feed hopper that leaves small piles of feed on the pasture. Apparently the heifers always go back in best condition. The stock show the difference in making good frame and growth. Our own stock always stood out at market. We also make round bales of haylage which our dairy farmer feeds to his dry cows, which do very well on. Again the calcium in the grass does them well. Like yourself, we mulch top to keep the noxious weeds in check. When it comes to garden work, we mulch mow and never feed our lawns. If you don’t do anything else, as you say lime. We also tend to lose phosphate from taking off grass crops. I shall watch with interest how you progress. . O

@tickcreekranch

Жыл бұрын

Wendy, how many acres do you farm? How many tons per acre of lime do you apply? Love to hear that you two are still staying involved with it. I’ve never been to Wales but, I hope to some day. Cheers from your new friends across the pond!

@wendyrowland7787

Жыл бұрын

@@tickcreekranch I kept sheep on other people’s land in England having only 2.5 acres of our own. My seafaring husband took early retirement and our property bought us a 50 acre farm in Wales. My husband also had 2 years experience in his brother’s agricultural contracting business. We were in our mid fifties, some experience and enough capital to buy the farm, build modern sheds and improve the pastures while planting trees on the margins to help wildlife, create stock shelter and generally give some pleasure. One thing I would advise anyone doing this is to try not to work for the bank in achieving their aims.

@tickcreekranch

Жыл бұрын

50 acres is a nice piece. Sounds like you two have been living your best lives. Amen to not making the bankers any richer! We have been extremely blessed and we’re doing all of this debt free. We might run out of funds before it’s all done but, we own everything on our ranch. I couldn’t be happier about it especially in these crazy political times.

@ruthwhite4272

Жыл бұрын

I’d like to see those horses!

New to your channel and I have to say what a turn around on your pasture. Love to see that. I am 2 years into hobby livestock on the family farm that has been sitting with out an animal for 18 years! I love seeing first hand what I should be doing to reach its full potential, have you or have you thought of broadcasting or drilling in new blend of grass/legume seed in any of your pastures? if so what was the success? Thanks!

@tickcreekranch

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! I did seed some clover at 3 lbs an acre with mixed results. We had clover come in where we didn’t seed and had no germination in others we did. Most of the seed that you’ll need is already in the seed bank. Your duty is to promote an environment that desirable species with grow. My take away is get your soil tested and then amend it to at least correct the ph. Intensive grazing works well but, it’s fairly slow to obtain that end goal. I’m of the mindset to jumpstart your land so a guy has enough forage to intensively graze. It’s the chicken and the egg concept imho. It’s difficult to trample grass and build ground litter if you don’t have any grass to begin with. We have allowed all of our fields to over mature this year in an attempt to create “ground armor”. It’s the first we’ve been able to get a good trample since we’ve purchased this place. Thanks again

That is a very nice pasture you got going there. It's funny how i too want as much carbon on the ground, but the solve the oppositethat is flooding. Hard clay soil in the middle of Europe. Opposite problem same solution heh.

@tickcreekranch

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Carbon additions seem to fix a multitude of problems.

@tickcreekranch

Жыл бұрын

What country do you live in? How many acres/hectares are on? I like what you’re doing there.

@caprahomestead8449

Жыл бұрын

@@tickcreekranch Thank you, I live in Belgium(comparative to english weather with allot of rain). We have 11 acres or 4,5Ha. We grow our family supply of vegetables and goat meat. At the same time i accommodate wildlife as best as i can by creating habitats like ponds, brush, dead trees, ditches and so on.

How can you get rid of that gd damn fox tail

That’s redtop. Broomsedge doesn’t like disturbance or fertility

@tickcreekranch

11 ай бұрын

The Redtop and Grease grass has really come on. The broom sedge is almost eradicated from the majority of our pastures. Just this week I discovered our first Big Blue Stem! Pretty excited to see the transformation in such a short period.