Hello ..am Nicholas from Kenya .. a young man who has a great passion for farming specifically cattle farming .. I am really encouraged by your vedios ..I just wanna be like you man and be doing this amazing job ..God bless

Wouldn’t be for me like I like cows out to pasture but I can see the benefits

@curiousgeorge6921

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah they think they lose weight if they're out ? Lol seems logical but unnatural I don't know

@ndimec2117

3 жыл бұрын

We all would like that. Its scarcity that makes us make the choices of how we do things. Do you have enough pasture to feed the flock? Its the alternative of getting three cuts of pasture that you can store and feed the flock through the 9-15 months of the year when the weather maybe too crude to and pasture be covered in snow or ice. Farming approaches vary because of constrains so while it might work for you. Limitations guide what we can and able to do. As they say "Gat to what you gat to do"

@arthurdewith7608

3 жыл бұрын

pasture grazing is good if u get regular rainfzllls and the grass grows well all summer but I have never seen consistent grass growth ever

Great system! If I had a farm I would do this but I only work in farming. So many misinformed and unpleasant comments on here from people who do not know what they are talking about. His grass must be good enough quality in order to avoid not supplementing with minerals or a concentrated feed. well done that farmer!

@suchandradasi

4 жыл бұрын

Plus the whole benefit of parasite reduction. They dont have to eat where they poop anymore. Over here it rains all the time and my pasture is just destroyed and turned into a muck hole. I just have 4 cows, and a tiny bit if land and a zero grazing system is top in my wish list.

@jesserahimzadeh4298

4 жыл бұрын

If you’re destroying your fields then the cows are either too large of a breed, you have too many in a given paddock, or you aren’t rotating enough.

@suchandradasi

4 жыл бұрын

@@jesserahimzadeh4298 I'm a poor person, with little land and big cows. I inherited land and split between siblings so only have less than an acre.

@s00045732

4 жыл бұрын

@@jesserahimzadeh4298 you haven't been to the west of Ireland?😅 I have sheep n they plough some of the ground I have, very few cattle are out over winter it rains a lot here, November to March the ground is saturated. Doesn't matter what breed cattle u kept they would make shit of the ground here

@jesserahimzadeh4298

4 жыл бұрын

@@s00045732 I believe you but I've seen 300 head of cattle (under 1000lbs each) in a wet field for a short time and there is very little evidence they were there. The key is frequent moves. It takes some improv and observation skills but greatly cuts down on the need for infrastructure and moving grass and manure.

drop a sheet metal (or plastic) vee plow in front of that boom to push the grass in one straight drive-through...should save all that fussing wearing stuff out.

For high rainfall areas definitely the way to go, pugging destroys paddocks. The only criticism is that Regenerative Agriculture is based around animal impact (in grasslands) so the soil in the cutting paddock may eventually get depleted of the sustaining nutrients because it's not just the manure, but also the urine, and the manure in proper form that maintains the dung beetles that soil needs and so on. If you say 'fertiliser' you aren't on the right page. Because after the recovery stage (turning dirt back into soil) the aim is to not buy any inputs from the Ag-Tech-Business who want to destroy the farmer. Maybe if he has a really good compost-making system. On that paddock the only suggestion would be to lightly seed it with herbs and legumes so the plant roots can support each other.

We have always, always, Alway's finished the live stock on our farm at the end this way since 1804... No matter the animal or the bread that is the way they were finished, we had no other chose of "Heart." We did so much for them but all they did was give us "Life and Love" how else should you finish them ???

makes common sense early tunrout can be trickety i am 700 ft above sea level thanks for your honest input even in dry weather

A good rotational grazing setup is far more satisfying

@coffeehugger

3 жыл бұрын

to people imagination only, not to the cows when the weather turns to mud. Listen to what he's saying.

@simonspeedo8122

3 жыл бұрын

@@coffeehugger ...and that smaller portion of the year they can be moved off the pasture...so not sure what your point is...

@coffeehugger

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonspeedo8122 if you watched this guy talk which I'm guessing you didn't, he talked about nonstop rain and mud, ruin of the greasy pastures. He may have rotational grazing, but that would not fix such a season. But I know you don't have that where you live so that's my point.

@simonspeedo8122

3 жыл бұрын

@@coffeehugger really not sure why you thought I had not watched it as not suggested anything that indicated that. Your dismissal of rotational grazing is based on you not even sure if he had tried it or not. So undermines yr point really, also you are also way off cue if your suggesting that any farm is excessively too wet to graze in the summer time ,even in a one off wet year there are still periods where provisions can be made to enable cows to graze. This leads onto the other point , which is contradictory, your implying that it can be too wet to graze cows but is ok to run a tractor and a heavy zero grazing machinery set up across the ground... Have a think about what you are saying here....

@coffeehugger

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonspeedo8122 Simon, if you are able to finish, not just graze, but actually finish 80 beef at 2lb a day gain on 20 acres of forages then you have it all over me. If he was grazing 80 head, would need close to 80 acres. This isn't a cow/calf, not a dairy. He's finishing beef at zero concentrate and LOOK at those animals. He isn't hating on pasture, he's just talking about the end product. If I had the building to feed with this thing, would do it today. But to save the pastures we just use a flail chopper or chopper/ box and feed green chop. This guy's outfit looks way better. To finish beef he has no fences to fiddle with and move all those animals, no weather issues, no flies, no water to hook up. Saves time and labor with great results, if what he is showing us is true.

On your farm, in what time zones will you feed them fresh grass?

I liked this model so much

Beautiful farm

Amazing job 👌

Here is the deal. Yes grazing has many benefits. Cattle graze with 5 mounts. 4 being there feet which stomp grass into the soil which is good for soil but will take away volume of available feed. Zero grazing makes more feed but will require more input back into soil particular carbon. Wonder which is further ahead in a 10 year span including keeping the organic matter in soil the same

@timshirk6261

2 жыл бұрын

Also grazing saves manure nutrition as not so much is lost to volotulation

Sounds like big bro to me. The way of the checken and the pig.

well-preserved fendt👌👌

Looks like a brilliant system i did read dairy cows don't last as long indoors but perfect for fattening cattle

What about everyday for grass to fed cow

would love an update on this farmer. How he finds it now. After a very wet year last year. Poor grow early this year and poor beef prices

@nosferatu8789

5 жыл бұрын

He would probably have bough in fodder and changed their diet as winter came in. Beef prices rise and fall so some you win and some you loose just like all investments.

Just say it’s-30 degrees during an extended 8 month winter due to the ecosystem rapidly changing. INDOOR GRAZING is a must’ve AND of course OUTDOOR EXHAUST for the methane gas.

Nice video, I see the benefit but I do wonder about all the extra work assosiated with cutting the grass as opposed to changing a strip wire and the extra hours needed to put out slurry

@marcasotiarnaigh8672

2 жыл бұрын

For small farmers it’s probably ideal

great older video, new sub!

Good video

Excellent

What kind of grass do you plant in your farm or ranch

The zero-grazing has to be a extra. Not a subtitute to grazing in the land.

@KB4QAA

3 жыл бұрын

His only real justification is the ground being cut up when overly wet. Well that is an Ireland/UK problem. Not applicable to the US. Anyhow, cutting grass 2-4 times a day is 1. expensive 2. Completely ties you down every day. 3. Other climates don't have lush grass like that, sometimes ever!!!

@jappiegamez

3 жыл бұрын

@@KB4QAA my opinion: the best milk comes from cows grazing in the field. But you have a point, the UK is wet and have a terrible water system to make the fields dry. I live in the Netherlands. Similair weather and as you know we farm under the sea water level. But i forgot that we exactly dominate the water. When its wet, we pump it away. If its dry we pump water in. But the UK, wet is wet thats true

Seems simple and very good but How do you on on in winter?

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Very good quality video

Wowww nice pins and so clean...

Good arguments for adult veal effectively. How do you deal with the feet problems and lack of exercise. Cleaning must be harder without a loafing field?

Why dont you use a blade on the front of the tractor to push the grass up?

Question: what about nutrients going into the ground via manure? And, What about the soil needing aeration, commonly seen by cattle loafing through?. Thank you

@C.Hawkshaw

Жыл бұрын

yes and compaction from heavy equipment. The hooves do so much to add trampled grass to the soil health. This zero grazing is bunk. just an ad for big ag.

You should get a convayor off an old diet feeder and put it on the back of the trailer

Mob grazing for lyfe

As a customer I’d rather buy my meat that has been out in the field rather than being stuck indoors its whole life.

@jonathanmcaleece9834

4 жыл бұрын

tmgbennett I’d agree but we consumers demand all this from farmers and want to pay them little for their toil. So the farmers adapt to the harsh financial climate that we consumers put them through. We can’t have it every way. It’s either pay top prices for it or accept that they have to produce it in non ideal conditions. One or the other it is a binary choice.

@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanmcaleece9834 thank you!!!!!! So very well said! I would have never thought of feeding our cattle that way, but it actually looks like a good deal, we can only pasture from April (if we are lucky!) To basically October, but October into November, the grass is mostly gone, done growing for the year and has very little nutrition in it.. as we run a cow/calf oporation, on ground not suited for the equipment to work on, we will pasture... But under different circumstances, I would definitely be looking into this way of providing feed for cattle!!! A lot less waste=money in the bank!!

@tmgbennett

4 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Mcaleece this is why I get my meat from my local farm shop. And milk as well. I like it because I know where my meat has come from and how it has been reared.

@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin

4 жыл бұрын

@@tmgbennett good plan... As long as it's all on site, you know. Lots of shops are not USDA inspected, so in order to sell meat, they have to get it from a USDA inspected facility...

@jonathanmcaleece9834

4 жыл бұрын

You see it all over Europe farmers sick of it all. How stupid are we general public treating our farmers like second class citizens. If it’s not air pollution it’s water, if it’s not animal cruelty it’s the chemicals they use to produce our food. Everyday I thank farmers for their toil. Let just see how the public would react if all farmers stopped producing our food, in a matter of a few weeks the world would starve then you’d soon see the thankfulness for the farmers. You can’t eat money,fancy houses, nice cars. Food production is the number one thing that’s needed and we just take farmers for granted and frankly treat them like shit. Stuck behind a tractor on the road always makes me think how lucky we are to have them.

I love this farming work is too good I like it's

What is the brand of these machine that cuts and picks up the grass?

@massey420

2 жыл бұрын

made by hand engineering and sold under the Zero Grazer brand

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Please for the device that the tractor is attached to, how do I get it or how much it costs

It only works best if you are in wet environment

Now we know where Jamaicans get their accent from...lol great video!

@Dresoils

4 жыл бұрын

Lolol. Youre not too far off.

@mehmetabdullah250

4 жыл бұрын

What Accent

@oe542

3 жыл бұрын

I only understood about 50% of what he said.

yes????how do this work wen land is flooded

I LOVE raising animals, inshallah i will do animals farming ❤

@khattaklifetv4382

3 жыл бұрын

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@jackzhu7869

3 жыл бұрын

@@khattaklifetv4382 a

Amazing!

Nice video, cute cattle

Very interesting, wondering how the cattle’s health holds up in the enclosure

@andreafalconiero9089

3 жыл бұрын

Like all livestock kept indoors, they are constantly getting sick. It's a great way to make veterinarians and drug companies rich, though it won't do the farmer much good.

@blastfromthepast7119

3 жыл бұрын

@@andreafalconiero9089 or the consumer. Id like meat from a healthy animal.

@lol-vz8kd

10 ай бұрын

​@@andreafalconiero9089that's not really true.

@armincal9834

8 ай бұрын

​@lol-vz8kd that's not true at all,they are perfectly healthy in closed areas :D

what type of grass they plant

What is the name of these bulls breed

Do the cows ever get to move outside of those cages? They need sunshine ☀️ too.

What is the average growth rate per day?

I am Montagnard indigenous my sister have cows they raise them in field they eat organic grass.

Mantap boss 👍

keep up the good work,

Great video, new fan here. We have a much smaller operation. Cattle look great.

@andreafalconiero9089

3 жыл бұрын

They look like pigs that just crawled out of a wallow. This is what healthy, humanely-raised cattle look like, in case you forgot: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y2eYq5acYpu_YdI.html

Cows grazing add their own manure which means no fertilizer costs, less equipment costs, less fuels costs, less cleanup in the barn only need labor to move the cows in and out for milking but they will learn the routine fast. A mechanical grazier, what next a mechanical grass eating machine to feed the cows pre chewed grass?

@zamankhan5340

Жыл бұрын

Well said.what happened to the slogan compassion in farming.god forgive these farmers

@missy2244

Жыл бұрын

Here’s a bazaar truth: Feed developers have “fermented grass” products. Not only is it already chewed it’s halfway digested!!!

@yellowdot7171

Жыл бұрын

This is only the final step of the cow cycle. Letting cows grazing only allow them to reach around 300kg when the finishing process in an enclosed areas put here weight at around 500 kg. The goal is to reduce their energy waste so they convert as much food as possible into meat and fat. Before in their lives those cows had been grazing for around 2 and a half year. This process takes only around six months. I recommend you the book "Should we eat meat" by vaclav smil. It's not a book about not eating meat but it's a review of the industry using academics paper and latest research and numbers. The book is a bit dry but short and gives a much better comprehension of modern farming. For the ethical side of this last process, I would insist on the minimization of unnecessary suffering and ask you to put the gains ( more people feed, less land used, concentration of waste allowing their recycling) in contrast to this practice. It's then up to you to judge this step but remember that at the end, you not only need to find an ethical solution but also a realistic one if you decide to change or ban it.

Mantap lur

What's the type of the grass

Whats the name of that machine and where can I find it?

Nice but then you need straw bedding and to clean stalls still. Looks nice yet.

Can't see it working this summer

Ninggalin jejak. 👍

cows like to go outside. einstein

👏👌👍💪🔴❤🌹 Thank you.

I love it 🐮🐮🐮🌿🌿🌿

Farmers have to adapt their operations for weather, soil conditions, markets, and goverment regulations.

Beautifull video ❤️ thanks

My dream worked here in this field

Nice

Cows on concrete! I like Greg Judy. Very efficent and profitable.

@calebmanuel17

4 жыл бұрын

Tomas Körmark yep l know l subscribed his channel

@martineamonnugent8378

3 жыл бұрын

Greg's cows are 1000lbs this man's cows are 2000lbs it's wet in march so that is why he brings the grass into them

@ziggy811

3 жыл бұрын

Plus Greg Judy works with 100s of acre of land this gentle man only has just over 20 and Ireland can be very wet

@andreafalconiero9089

3 жыл бұрын

@@martineamonnugent8378 Then clearly he's finishing the wrong type of steers (not cows) on his land. He should get some that are half the size.

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Thats a good machine, its because its only One work, It cut the grass then it pass directly to the the truck bin. Just One pass

I need ajob help me i have experience in animal rearing and I studied animal health production

@LuisOrtega-ly8eg

3 жыл бұрын

Asiimire Levi luisortega122570@gmail.com

@IllIlllI

3 жыл бұрын

What do you expect people to send you? A job interview 😂😂😂

hopefully they still get let out to a separate paddock just dedicated for them to move around, enjoy life lol and have a grazing paddock separate as well.

Yeah great

I love seeing the cows out in the field but zero grazing is definitely more efficient. We will never do it on our farm though

@andreafalconiero9089

3 жыл бұрын

It depends on how you define efficiency. Using huge, fossil-fuel powered machines to cut and move grass to grazing animals that are cooped up in barns is not efficient in my book. What's _actually_ efficient is using the solar-powered legs of ruminant animals that allow them to move by _themselves_ to where the *grass* is, and cut it for themselves using the teeth and hooves that have been refined by 100 million years of evolution to do just that. A food production model that turns _mobile_ organisms (animals) into stationary ones, and _sessile_ organisms (plants) into mobile ones is completely ass-backwards, and grossly inefficient by any proper method of cost accounting. This farming method simply isn't accounting for all those costs, which is why from a certain myopic perspective it might seem _efficient_ to you.

@DaveWuzHere

3 жыл бұрын

@@andreafalconiero9089 by efficiency I meant you are able to keep more cows on smaller areas of grass. Most of the time cows will walk on nearly as much as they actually eat

@andreafalconiero9089

3 жыл бұрын

​@@DaveWuzHere Farming is a business, and the efficiency he should be pursuing should be net profit/acre, not cows/acre. Seeking to maximize the wrong thing is a good way to go broke. As is the idea that cows _trampling_ a portion of the grass is somehow a bad thing! That trampling is what feeds and thereby builds healthy soil -- it isn't _waste_ -- it's an _investment_ in healthier and more productive soil. The underground livestock (earthworms, etc.) need to eat as well! The whole reason this farmer's pasture turns into a mud-pit every time he puts his oversized cattle onto it is because it is constantly being hayed. There's no sod or litterbank built up to support the weight of his animals. The problem he's trying to solve with this stupid feeding system was one he created for himself. kzread.info/dash/bejne/e4KCw5STeZSdg5M.html

@kwoltekublai3337

2 жыл бұрын

@@andreafalconiero9089 If you look at agriculture as a business, considering the climate and level of development of agriculture in Ireland, Greg Judys approach is not the way to go from a financial perspective in Ireland. His system is low stocking rate, low productivity and low costs; and this works fine in the US, where land prices to buy and rent are exponentially cheaper (Ireland has the most expensive agricultural land prices in the world, meaning you cannot just acquire enough land to make a low profit/acre system work) and you have consistent drought as a limiting factor in most of the areas he is consulting on/working with (meaning it is impractical to attempt to maximise the productivity of the land at other times of the year, it would be pointless as you would have to buy in feed mid summer to sustain your animals). On top of all of this, one of the dominant reasons his system works and is profitable in the areas that it is implemented is that it allows the ground to conserve moisture, reducing the impact of droughts; which effectively do not exist here. You can see this most clearly in the differing dominating grass species used; endophyte infected tall fescue Vs perennial ryegrass. The US system is attempting to gleam as much as can be out of marginal land and a marginal climate (atleast as far as year round grass based grazing systems go). The Irish system is attempting to maximise the productivity of one of the best environments globally to grow grass consistently throughout the year.

@C.Hawkshaw

Жыл бұрын

@@kwoltekublai3337 Nope, not sustainable.

a lot easier to manage the resting of the padics too.

Wow...

What kind of grass is he feeeing them? Can i know the name pls?

@philipoconnor2236

4 жыл бұрын

Traneens

@s00045732

4 жыл бұрын

Navan(T), Glenroyal, Clanrye, Crusader would be a typical graze/silage mix here or Nifty, Carraig(T), Moira, Dunluce(T) for more silage mix

Wait.. So the cows are just stuck inside 24/7?

@lileti2199

3 жыл бұрын

No shit, these arent cows they are steers, this is how its done everywhere contrary to your believes of them grazing on a beautiful pasture the whole day

I would say those cattle look happy. In America we have no shortage of grazing land. In fact, 85% of U.S. grazing land is unsuitable to grow crops. Grazing on these land more than doubles the area used to raise food.

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How many years does this take to finish them?

@ivgotballsofsteel4048

4 жыл бұрын

a few months

Good

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I like

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Legal a máquina

you give beautiful grass, but the animals and the barn are very dirty ...

@lileti2199

3 жыл бұрын

In my country its about one year for bulls and 2 for heifers

a lot of infrastructure costs. millions of dollars and manure to handle now

@jakebradbury4562

7 жыл бұрын

Zack Scott but if there on the field when it's only slightly wet cows with plough the hell out of it costing that farmer a lot of money reseeding the field every farmer I personally know being a farmer myself keeps cows or other cattle inside when it's bad weather it's better on the health of the animals just because there so called wild animals doesn't mean they don't need shelter

@MistressOP

6 жыл бұрын

look up permaculture practices. also, learn proper density. you know what season you're in lower your density move more. it works for a lot of farmers because it takes a lot of understanding a practice. this.. this is just a really bad idea and will probably wreck the water table

@nosferatu8789

5 жыл бұрын

He only bought the zero graze grass harvester so probably 60,000Euros? or $60k. No more manure as he finished beef stock inside so the manure is just the same amount. So you are quite wrong!

@kwoltekublai3337

5 жыл бұрын

Firstly euros. Secondly zero grazers of that model start @ 30k€. Slurry spreading expenses are not really even a factor. Neither is the initial cost of the zero grazer if on a relatively large farm. The 3 considerable things with zero grazing are a) fuel cost of driving the machine - I think I read somewhere that the break-even point of zero grazing over grazing is 60% grazing utilisation Vs 90% zero grazing utilisation. b) maintenance costs - will be pretty low but from what I understand these machines can be prone to failure. c) (the biggest) the labour. This guy is cutting 20 acres - imagine the guy cutting 100? (That's still a medium sized farm in Ireland). That's 5 round trips assuming his machinery is identical - and there is a point at which you can't get any bigger. (20)(X)+(X) starts to add up when you get to a bigger scale - that's 105 mins + fuel + repairs for my example. But yeah it has its uses its not the perfect tool tho.

@davidhickenbottom6574

4 жыл бұрын

Some people like to work their asses off.

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Салом все я не понял что сказали но мне понравились бычки

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Would it be possible to cut silage with a zero grazer

@senankeane

7 жыл бұрын

why

@cmgvideo2868

6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@nosferatu8789

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, these machines are loosely based upon the old style all-in-one silage wagon the likes of Reko Mengele used to make in the 1980's. Like wise you could use your silage machinery to cut the grass and bring it in with a trailer.

@johnjoemurphy9588

5 жыл бұрын

Aaron Healy yes

@kwoltekublai3337

5 жыл бұрын

With that specific one you could try but it wouldn't do a great job. The primary function of the mower is to minimise damage to the grass and is not identical to a regular mower. As I understand, it will not cope well mowing dense swards at the point of growth where silage is to be cut. You'd be better off getting a front mower and silage pickup so that it is duel purpose for both zero grazing and silage collection. Instead of having an independent company make both you can get the best mower and best pickup (unfortunately the mower cannot have a built in conditioner as this causes the zero grazed grass to heat). However, your silage cut and preserved @ the DM of the grass (~20%) will be off poor quality - the wilting stage is highly important to allow DM up to ~30% for proper fermentation, higher quality silage and ultimately higher profit from the same grass.

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i have cows we are on clay soil that has not been farmed for 25 years i an my girls are working to start a small farm and if you look at the stats for a smallholding like mine 20 acers we have now 20 pig 110 sq meters for veg to sell and that needs livestock to make that work (there shit ) (organic ) and some sheep all see the sky and all see a roof to keep the winter off them and to see the sun on there backs at the right time like most of us feel in the summer going to work or the winter say you dont feel the same

@sarahann530

4 жыл бұрын

You dont have a fucking clue

@lileti2199

3 жыл бұрын

Wtf did you just say?

@lileti2199

3 жыл бұрын

If you have 20 acres just get 20 bulls ffs

They will eat a good bit of grass in the field if you do strip grazing

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The whole idea of putting up hay. 1. The green pigment is reduced by drying in the sun. Thus keeping the green out of your steak. 2. To preserve the hay for future use.