Lance Klessig Regenerative Agriculture Advocate
Lance Klessig Regenerative Agriculture Advocate
🌾 👨🌾 I'm a big believer and promoter of Regenerative Agriculture & the Soil Health principles. I've been blessed to work all across much of the US and see many farms and ranches that are not only sustainable, but also regenerative. 🌻 🌱
Modern day production agriculture is changing in some very large ways as growers learn to focus on profitability and ROI. Often times, our biggest enemy is between our own 2 ears and what we tell ourselves & accept as "normal".
My Channel is here to share success stories from across the US where landowners, farmers, ranchers and the like are once again farming in sync with nature instead of fighting it.
➡️ To continue the soil health & regenerative farming discussion, please feel free to reach out to me directly at [email protected].
➡️ Technical assistance in designing cover crop mixes, direct marketing, incorporating livestock, and hosting educational field days & workshops is available if interested.
Thanks - Lance Klessig 👨🌾 🌻 🌽
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When he says "roll it down into a cash crop" does he mean combining it? I've only ever knocked triticale down for hay
Yes I believe he was referencing combining. I'm recalling that in some years I believe he has to swat it first before combining because of the vetch. Thanks
@@lanceklessigregenerativeag7901 How does that work? Does he use a pickup head on the combine then?
who buys rye triticale and vetch
Other Farmers buy his product as "feed". And they may do something else besides feed it.
I grew up on a farm 60 miles west of you. Havana township/Owatonna.
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Amen Brother, I listen to my audio bible while working my 1 acre, it regenerates my soul. God bless from Caldas da Rainha Portugal.
Thank you and same back at you.
Do you think that some seeds are left by birds that come to eat the seeds from tall grasses?
Yes and they likely help some of the seeds land on the ground and become part of the latent seed bank.
Location,?
SE Minnesota.
Where have ya been? Haven't seen anything new from my home state. I currently live in AZ. I like to see how your payoffs affect your farm. It's shows how the practice works. How to see you post again soon.
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Interesting how many comments are blocked here . I question why ?
No idea however I do see several other comments shown.
He should be the next secretary of Agriculture.
Right on!
RIGHT ONN!@@lanceklessigregenerativeag7901
💯% I second that!
If your cost imputs are much less than the conventional way then your profit margin is much higher why not go this way? Profit is not a bad word in farming.
We wont be farming for long if we aren't profitable!
Like the concept behind the video, could be a little better scripted though. I did learn some things tho so thank you.
How to get that machine?
Do you give them any other feeds or they survive on the pasture only?
Thanks for the question. They get non-gmo grower mix along with pasture.
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I don’t think you talk enough about the Kiko vs Boer .. thank you
Nice video. Ive always heard 10 head per bail, but if your only grazing 1 bail how big of a area do you give them?
I’ve had a Jug watered installed by Dan foot over a year. Works great. Absolutely no problems!
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Fake is spelled wrong on the shirt. It's spelled 'f o x '
Nice looking cattle!!
It's pronounced Barkshire!
ThankQ
How nutritious are the corn stalks compared to fescue or other meadow grasses? Thank you.
Thanks for the knowledge sharing Lance! Will this annual ryegrass help prevent weeds such as crabgrass and other broadleaf weeds? I have a hillside and it's easy to grow annual ryegrass. But hard to grow fine fescue. So I keep sowing fine fescue and annual ryegrass at the same time. Dealing with a lot of weeds this year though. Hoping for less weeds next year.
👀 That's a nice International
very cool since 2007
A good reflection on a simple fact: A farmer must be a store of wisdom and a master of many disciplines. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with 57,000 ratchet and tow straps in my truck. Hay looks good! - Peter
Let's be honest. If you don't have a Gallagher geared reel it's tough to call yourself a man. We got a couple that we built out of some rebar and a piece of PVC and they work great
Could it be even better with clover interseeded? Great video.
Don’t forget about inter seeding and grazing cattle after harvest on those corn stalks what a benefit that is.
Animal units can add a lot of profit. We need to get back to trying 60-inch corn again to see if you could make a continuous cornfield with little-to-no fertilizer
When you bring in fertilizer credits, and animal unit dollars I could give up a lot of peeled and still have a better profit versus how I used to do a full tillage purchase my production corn crop
Glad to see you are off on some more adventures Lance. Yes it's fun to being doing things outside the box if you make the opportunity happen. And make some "learning experiences", as they seem to be better teaching tools. Call me crazy but I decided to try winter barley after my dry peas this year. Hopefully the start emerging this weekend as they have a heck of a root system started🙂
what is total acreage for those 235 heads? Thanks - Bill
I know of that farm. Imagine what 250 cows could do in a year for healing land?! I have rental land that I am trying to find a guy who can bring cattle over and graze the corn stalk for free.
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The potential in custom management was a proper takeaway from this weekend. It is an object lesson that half my takeaways from a grazing school were from conversations with other attendees and not the speakers. - Peter
Multiple yrs of drought strung together n we are hurting getting crop out of the ground with the intense use. FCIC is totally fukking us now as well with these bullshitt GSI inspections leading to GFP denials.
It was great to visit with you today and look at the cows; some great looking animals you have there. - Peter
Uh, short answer is yes, but you’re gonna need a lot more acres than for a cow. The problem is a horse is VERY selective grazer🤷♂️. Horse bonds are powerful/unique.
Sure you have enough cattle trailers ? 6 ?
Absolutely! Modified layer wagons. We ran 250 hens last year w a guard dog. Move the cheap/free trailers and fertility is spread.
No till = no yields. if they did tillage they would be growing 280 bushel corn and 80 bushel beans.. ask me how I know
This year during severe drought the alfalfa in my pasture mixes produced most of my forage. My cool season grasses were fried but alfalfa did ok. Very glad I have it in the mix.
I had no idea bulls get venal disease VD.. those bulls be hoping the fences or the cows 😂
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Thanks for the video! Have you ever considered trying to cross a Berkshire sow with a Kunekune boar? Seems like if it was successful it would interesting - maybe the offspring will roto-till a little less aggresively, and maybe exist on forage better? I've never really heard of it being done - perhaps there is a reason?
Thanks for the comment….I have some friends that raise kunes however personally not sure I’m a fan. Also our customers really like the flavor profile and red to dark red pork chops that Berks often produce.
@@lanceklessigregenerativeag7901 Understood - thanks for your reply. If I can ask - what drawbacks do you personally find with the Kunes? Everone has different thoughts, based on many reasons. I'm new to regenerative agriculture, and was going to try both Berkshires and Kuneskunes over time. I was going to start with the Berkshires first - for the same land regenerative effects you talk about in this video. Not sure which breed I'll stay with for the long term though. You have a great channel here, and I've also learned a lot from the visits and interviews you've done. Thanks again for the great channel - it's much appreciated.
Were you running straight boat goats when you had problems or with the Kiko/boar goat cross that you have now?
The straight Boer were the most problematic compared to Boer x, Kiko x, and straight Kiko.
@@lanceklessigregenerativeag7901 thanks Lance!
@@lanceklessigregenerativeag7901 Thanks for sharing this great video. What kind of problems with the straight Boer?
Amazing diet ? As a diary farmer.....my cows would go dry on eating this forage ! So.......a stock cow produces milk for her calf ? This dont even make good dry cow feed ! Why allow the grass to get so mature...? Mow it ...or cut for hay..... far more productive both ways.....for feed use and for new re-growth for the cattle. Besides.... if left mature the grass no longer grows....sits idle. Thats being productive ?
Oh my..... Mr. Glyphosate ( Greg Judy ) Your going to go broke !!!! He has many ways a person can go broke ! For sure ! Soon he wont have any neighbors.....they will all be broke ! Leaving Mr. Glyphosate more land for grazing !!
100 % correct !!!! When Mr. Glyphosate ( Greg Judy ) says he's fertilizing his pastures with cow patties hes only fertilizing a " tiny " areas ! Making it meaningless ! And in no way a cow patty is worth 1.00 dollar ! Or even a dime ! The cow patties are spread far and wide....like the demo of spreading fertilizer with that bottle. On the other hand... spreading fertilizer 80-80- 100 - 30 twice a year will more then double your grass yield in that year ( depending on rain ) ! The cost...is another topic. Chemical fertilizers also enhance worm activity because of the heavy crop of grass produced ! Been rotational grazing for 45 years......since the Blitzer click electric fencer......or the steady buss " Bumble Bee " fencer. Tried almost everything. In a dairy operation fertilizing fields pay hands down ! But for some reason stock cow farmers dont quite understand this..... more """"" QUALITY """" grass the more milk production....thus more weight gain on calves / cows . Instead stock cow farmer expect the cows to eat manure latent pastures. Try that with milk cows. As Mr. Glyphosate often says... you will go broke ! For once hes right !!!!!