Come join me, Russ, on the farm as we take a in depth look at what it takes to manage Wilson Land & Cattle Co. We'll explore grazing, innovative time saving, increased profitability, low stress livestock handling, herd health, and many other ways of thinking out of the box.
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Run Sheep behind the Cattle to control forage the Cattle find unpalatable. Consider installing a Screech Owl nest box. Owls eat rodents which host ticks.
What part of pa are you in? Im in slippery Rock i farm for a living crops and cattle. Im interested in owning saddle mules as well.
Good video Russ. Great to see you and Walker again. We have been dry south of you, pastures are a little weak this summer. Glad to hear you have been busy. Be safe out there, farmer rod
Clipping is something I definitely don’t want to spend the time, fuel consumption, or equipment on. What’s the point of grazing if we have to run machinery over it besides. Nice video!
No matter what the plants are called they still make oxygen and many are edible.
I call it morning glory and it and the milk weed were the only things that were green in my brome pasture last year from June-August during a drought. My cattle will eat the heads off of Canadian thistles but not musk or bull thistles. Do your cattle eat milkweed because in my class of about 40 students in college none of their cattle ate it?
@@Levi-tm4gl i believe milkweed is noxious to cattle, but "ok" for monarch butterflies
Our livestock eat everything! If I want milkweed I have to fence it off. Kv2 is right it is toxic. But this is my theory on toxic plants. If it’s diluted in there ration it can be beneficial. If we go to the pharmacy and get a bottle of medicine and take a pill it’s medicine if we take the whole bottle it poison. Do you follow me on Facebook? I’ll post a picture of what they do to milkweed.
@@user-kv2pt4lu9y I'll open up a new paddock with lot's of options to choose from and they almost search out the milkweed. So, the cattle don't seem to thinks it's noxious/toxic and I've never seen them have any negative symptoms from eating it.
@@RussWilson My cattle seem to search out milkweed. I've never had to force them to eat it and they've never had negative symptoms from eating it. I've found that milkweed has remarkable grazing tolerance. It can start producing a seed "sack" within a few days after grazing. I don't have facebook and today was the first time I've seen one of your videos.
How’s video quality? We got a new camera trying to get it dialed in.
Photo quality is fine.
Thank You!
Looks great!
We’re in our third season of converting row crop land into pasture via grazing, rolling out hay, and frost seeding some clover. One observation we’ve noticed in the conversion pastures is that the Goldenrod grows so tall before we get it grazed that it seems to be suppressing grasses and other shorter forages. After grazing the mostly Goldenrod growth, I clipped it at 9”, but much of the ground seems to lack roots in the ground and is fairly bare. (Some areas of the pasture had a thin mat of dead clover covering the ground.) Should we be clipping the Goldenrod before it gets so tall to let sun get to the lower vegetation if we lack enough cattle and sheep to keep it grazed lower, drill or broadcast some other seed (what seed and when, spring or fall), or ??? Help! Thank you!
Hey Tricia, How many animals are you working with? How much of your pastures are goldenrod?
@@RussWilsonHi Russ, We’re running about 50 head of cattle (30,000 lbs. plus or minus), counting calves. And, 100 small ruminants (mostly sheep and 15 goats). The two goldenrod dominated pastures, which we subdivide into paddies when grazing, are 17 and 26 acres in size. I’d estimate the goldenrod comprises 30 to 40 percent of the roots in the ground, but appears to be greater than that range due to its height over the other roots in the ground. We also have 50 acres of established pasture and another 32-acre pasture that is well on its way from cornfield conversion to pasture. Thank you.
What battery life are you getting?
2-3 months
Interesting, that is 2-3 times the life I expected considering the fairly significant quiescent (the amount of energy a device pulls at idle just by being connectex to a powersource) draw those timers have. These timers commonly draw 4 Ma which should drain those AA's in about 34 days. Have you ever tested the power draw at idle? How do you decide when to change the batteries?
@@user-uf5hf3bi5y I have a limit control which disconnects the power after releases
@@RussWilson I see now. It looks like the limit switch kills power to the timer which in turn also kills power to the latch until it is manually reset. Now I understand why your batteries can last that long. Very well done! If you didn't have that limit switch your batteries would die every month. If I'm correct about every 2-4 years the watch battery in the timer will need replaced because 99.99% of the time it's in deep sleep mode and running off the coin cell battery which has an advertised life of 2-4 years.
Did you breed this cow too early? Perhaps she was too immature to accept the pain that goes with birthing a calf. As you said, giving the oxytocin a chance to step into the system. Its a lovely looking calf.
I don't feel she was bred to early. I want my heifers to calve at 24 months of age. Thanks for watching!
Im glad i found your channel. Great content and well put together.
Much appreciated!
Great pasture sir
Thank You!
Great solution
Thanks for watching!
Sophia is so cute. Looks like the chicken tractors are working well.
Yes, thanks
You say you plant Silver King and yet, you keep saying the corn is open pollinated. Silver King is a hybrid SE sweet corn.
Here is the silver king we use. It is a white dent corn and open pollinated. openpollinated.com/product/silver-king-100-days-untreated/ Thanks for the comment.
Great update on your garden it’s looking good 🇳🇿❤️
Thanks so much
What are the results what did you find?
One sample tested at 14% crude protein and one tested at 16% crude protein. Not to bad.
Fascinated with the Osage orange! Good o”ll monkey ball trees. When I was logging I cut an old fence line full of it and had it milled into boards to make pens in my barn. Every log I bucked I had to file my saw. Thanks for sharing. Looks awesome!
This is the first I have messed with them. I gather up 8 balls when i was in Tennessee this passed winter. I cold stratified them really didn't think they would grow and a think they all grew.
Awesome update! Thanks Russ!!
Thanks for watching!
Great video thanks!
Thanks for watching!!
Russ your garden area is beautiful. Every thing look heathy and green. Great job.
Thank you kindly
OK Russ. How donyou keep cat out of those beds from wrapping all over in them? An also what will you do with those grafts that dint take? Give them through winter an see what they do come spring? Thanks. Keep up great work
Hey, Brett I have a eletro net around my beds to keep all animals out. The trees that didn't take were planted in a stool bed to make more rootstocks. Thanks for watching!
Could you give us a list of trees we can plant that cows/sheep eat and which of those also provide shade for them?! Thank you! Greetings from Greece.
There are a lot for good trees for cows. Pines and spruces are good windbreaks. Good fodder trees are willows and poplars.
@@RussWilson Thank you sir, very helpful.
Thanks for the video! We grafted about 25 apple trees in 2020. In my short experience, we noticed 2 types of apple trees was easily grafted while other trees not so much. I think red delicious and Ohio Pippin.
Some do grow better than others for sure.
When is a good time to graft trees in PA?
I like to bench graft in February march and like to graft onto existing trees just before they bloom. You can graft graft up to 1 month after bloom success lowers the later in the year you go.
Osage orange are really neat fruit! We still see some in south eastern PA when we visit family and friends.
I never really seen many in our area. I got the seed in Tennessee they are all over down there.
No garden is complete without planting okra. Since I’m not a big fan of carrots, I suggest ripping out the carrots and replacing them with okra. That’s a north Georgia thing. Excuse me.(Nawth Gawga)
Lol, I wish we could grow okra here. I think it's too cold here. Does it need hot dry weather to grow?
@@RussWilson having a dry climate is one thing we’ve never been accused of having. Hot and humid for sure.
Morning
How's things on your farm?
This is the kind of success Pete from a Few Acres Farm wishes he had with pigs. If he did not have bad luck he would have had no luck at all. They all look great, please keep us informed how they feed out and dress out.
Pigs can be tuff to get started sometimes.
Are these the pigs that were delivered by the couple from out west of you.
They are! Came from central Wisconsin. Thanks for watching!
It seems your boy has grown into a man since the last time you posted friend. Great work!
My kids are growing up way to fast.
That’s a pile of piggies 😂
Lot more than a figured we would have.
Your pigs are looking happy running around and plenty of piglets also 🇳🇿❤️
They are!
The piglets look great. The moms look great as well.
Thank You!
I had a sow that would birth and raise awesome litters...first litter was 15, largest litter was 21! And she was calm and easy going. I certainly miss her, best sow I ever had (so far)
Wow! Most sows had a max of about 15 teats at the CAFO farrowing barn. We fostered a lot of pigs, depending on births and teats with milk.
@@user-kv2pt4lu9y she had 16 teats and she was long, lots of room for piglets to line up. I didn't have to supplement any, she had enough milk for all her babies. 1 strand of electric wire would keep her in and it didn't even have to be on!
That's a great sow 21 babies!
@@RussWilson she sure was. Alice was a Yorkshire×Landrace and I use a Berkshire boar
Those lactating sows are in great shape for breeding stock! I spent 18 months at a CAFO farrowing operation and that was the body condition that we worked toward.
Thank You! Do they just not feed them enough in the cafo?
Thanks for the video! What a fantastic job only feeding hay for 47 days. I’m hoping to get to that point too. I’m glad you have been busy consulting to show people how we all should be raising animals.
Thank You!
Love that time-lapse thanks Russ you guys have a great summer.
Thank You I'm going to try and do more timelapses.
Great to see you post Russ! Are you having a field day at your place this year? Would like to make the trip up.
Not sure on the field day this year. Our conservation district said they didn't have time to help. So I'm kind of on my own. If we could find some help and donations or grants.
I really like those sunguard posts, I've had good luck with them
They are a great post!
Great presentation thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching
Glad to see you back. Great job on the hay.
Thanks 👍❤❤
Glad to see all is well! 47 days is awesome! Congrats on a job well done.
Thank you!
How is the Cup plant doing at this time of year?
The cup plant is awesome. The stuff we haven't grazed is 6' tall and coming into bloom and the stuff we grazed is 4' and coming into bloom.
Great job Russ.... Thanks
Thank You!
47 days on baled hay is amazing. Nice work!
Thank You!
Great Tutorial - That knot is what I know as Donald's Knot, - great that it is tied outside the strainer jaws - are you pulling out radially hard enough on your crank handle as you make your wraps, this makes the wraps tighter - this knot relies on the compression increasing in the first set of wraps as the load comes on - although not necessary I also do the second set of wraps - just two then snap of, saves getting the wire cutters out.
Thanks for watching!
Good video, 'great dog too!
We love our dogs! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the content.
Thanks for watching!
Good education
Thanks for watching!