North Road Ranch

North Road Ranch

Young local farm with seasonal production of grass-fed beef, chicken, and eggs! Follow us to see our journey as a young couple starting out a farm, how we raise our animals, and what we’re learning!

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How We Bale Graze Cattle

How We Bale Graze Cattle

We Bought Our First Farm!!!

We Bought Our First Farm!!!

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  • @shalomtoday
    @shalomtoday23 күн бұрын

    👍

  • @marcruel9401
    @marcruel9401Ай бұрын

    Do you ever plan to unroll the bails?

  • @alteba
    @alteba2 ай бұрын

    Great job. The tree grows indeed so that is why you should relocate the isolators every year. No problem solving the situation like this. Oooh. And keep in mind not to use the tree for timber. Carpenters don't like screws in their wood.

  • @farmer1ab
    @farmer1ab2 ай бұрын

    Trees grow as well

  • @albundy1956
    @albundy19562 ай бұрын

    Put the net i a circle, so do U avoid sagging in the corner. And the neting boxes should U put in the darkest place AKA under the window. Just my two cent... Good luck to U all!

  • @porkyfedwell
    @porkyfedwell2 ай бұрын

    Wonder how those work with 1/4" polywire for horses? What diameter are the holes in the pvc posts?

  • @davidpeightal4918
    @davidpeightal4918Ай бұрын

    People sometimes attach electric wire to the outside of the post with a soft wire through the hole. Greg Judy does this when appropriate for a few different situations. You could wire a poly tape in the same way.

  • @bradenfuller1168
    @bradenfuller11682 ай бұрын

    What fence charger do you use? My dang cows walk through the wire like its not even there.

  • @Northroadranch
    @Northroadranch2 ай бұрын

    We use the Gallagher Fence Energizer MB1800i. What has worked for us so far is for a herd of cattle that has never been around electric fence, we have to train them to it first. We put them in a tight 4-wire high tensile wire pen for the first day to get them all used to the fence before we let them out to the pasture. The rest of our perimeter fences are 3-wire.

  • @Sammy_Boy_Smith
    @Sammy_Boy_Smith3 ай бұрын

    Raising a family on a busy road.... Y'all ever seen the 1989 film : Pet Sematary ?

  • @user-wu1zh1cq1v
    @user-wu1zh1cq1v3 ай бұрын

    nice truck

  • @user-tc3ou6sy5f
    @user-tc3ou6sy5f5 ай бұрын

    Sandy ground is sandy ground. There is very little you can do to change its fertility ! Sand aerates the soil causing anything and everything to decompose ! Meaning. Sand will eat itself out of house and home ! This is also true with any soils ! So called regenerative farming .....farmers / ranchers think they can " build " the soils. Very true to an extent. After that...the same is true........the soils eat themselves out of house and home ! Unless you use commercial fertilizers to get an extra "boost " the soils will only produce so much ! This is why farmers do use commercial fertilizers on corn / soybean crops ! Take for example ..... Mr. Glyphosate ( Greg Judy ) ...... He will " never " show an example where he tries to uses.......or experiments with commercial fertilizers ! Because he dont want to shame himself ! By using fertilizers you can nearly double your grass production ! As a dairy farmer Ive dont rotational grazing for years. Tried many ways and things. Open up.........try doing new things ! Dont follow someone on youtube !!

  • @akwolf1434
    @akwolf14345 ай бұрын

    How many feet did you go between posts? Those black insulators on your wood posts, how are those holding up? What brand were they?

  • @davidpeightal4918
    @davidpeightal4918Ай бұрын

    7 feet along the highway for appearance. 15 paces on the backside alley

  • @chuckledbetter
    @chuckledbetter5 ай бұрын

    great video it is wonderful to see young farmers in action fantastic plan for your winter feeding happy grazing chuck ledbetter checotah oklahoma just a bit futher south than you are

  • @backwoodshomestead
    @backwoodshomestead6 ай бұрын

    Great video! I am experimenting with some bale grazing on some pastures with a lot of trees this winter in Ontario. The cows sure are helping with land demo. They stomp down any small trees around a bale. It is working great for land clearing. Hoping this will help my pastures produce some better forage. I should post some vids its cool how fast they work. I subscribed look forward to more vids!

  • @whiteface5055
    @whiteface50557 ай бұрын

    Good job. Just subscribed.

  • @kellydorney3514
    @kellydorney35148 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the video and info! I wondered how your field/pasture performed after bale grazing, and whether you did anything to spread out the manure where it was heavy?

  • @redrustyhill2
    @redrustyhill211 ай бұрын

    I dont have cows but have hay ground. I want to bale graze vs sell hay but as wierd as it sounds i make more money selling the hay than what someone would pay to winter their cows.

  • @Northroadranch
    @Northroadranch11 ай бұрын

    Thats not too suprising, theres usually things that dont make sense in all markets. But what about the cost of selling your nutrients vs recycling them into your hay field? The year after i bale grazed the bale row grass is easily twice as tall. That would add up to strong fertility over many years

  • @redrustyhill2
    @redrustyhill211 ай бұрын

    @brick_deerskin8768 the fertility issue is important to me as this is very sandy ground, crp that used to be wheat field, and grass is sparse on half the land. This year i have to sell the hay to buy fence and get a well dug. Debating whether summer mob grazing or winter bale grazing would be better

  • @Northroadranch
    @Northroadranch9 ай бұрын

    Thats understandable, i think you have to make decisions based on what money you could make each year/afford in short term,but think about the effects long term. I would love to bale graze 10 times as many cows but am limited to time and money too. If you are setting up fence thats ok, next year that expense should be gone right? As for fertility bale grazing is very great and can heal land but is very concentrated. The residue would help fill in your dry patches but it might take a decade to cover your entire area. I bought 200 hay bales last year and they easily spread out in around 15 acre feild. I graze 150 acres which might get me 150 bales if i hayed it instead. Therefore using my own hay it might take me a decade to cover it all. Which is not bad because that fertility will last for years. Winter bale grazing would be easy in the sense that you will not ever overgraze because there are no cows in the winter. If you make the hay yourself you could just leave the bales and graze them where they were made. This would work well if you had a lot of fence setup, not with temporary wire. Hope it goes well, either way learning and improving comes with time. @@redrustyhill2

  • @user-tc3ou6sy5f
    @user-tc3ou6sy5f5 ай бұрын

    @@redrustyhill2 Sandy ground is sandy ground. There is very little you can do to change its fertility ! Sand aerates the soil causing anything and everything to decompose ! Meaning. Sand will eat itself out of house and home ! This is also true with any soils ! So called regenerative farming .....farmers / ranchers think they can " build " the soils. Very true to an extent. After that...the same is true........the soils eat themselves out of house and home ! Unless you use commercial fertilizers to get an extra "boost " the soils will only produce so much ! This is why farmers do use commercial fertilizers on corn / soybean crops ! Take for example ..... Mr. Glyphosate ( Greg Judy ) ...... He will " never " show an example where he tries to uses.......or experiments with commercial fertilizers ! Because he dont want to shame himself ! By using fertilizers you can nearly double your grass production ! As a dairy farmer Ive dont rotational grazing for years. Tried many ways and things. Open up.........try doing new things ! Dont follow someone on youtube !!

  • @Huntlifts
    @Huntlifts Жыл бұрын

    God Bless you all! All glory to God! Turn from your sins and live for God! Romans 10:9 “if you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God rose Him from the dead you will be saved.”

  • @tinabogucky2662
    @tinabogucky2662 Жыл бұрын

    Hello I live in Kitscoty Alberta. Where did you purchase your fence posts. Looking for local distributor.

  • @Northroadranch
    @Northroadranch Жыл бұрын

    Hello, I got mine from Aveley Ranch in British Columbia. He had lots in stock and met me half way. You can find them on timeless dealer website

  • @billymann5325
    @billymann5325 Жыл бұрын

    🏳‍🌈

  • @Ptitnain2
    @Ptitnain2 Жыл бұрын

    Great technique love it and you are well articulated.

  • @MuamerDapoPadisah
    @MuamerDapoPadisah Жыл бұрын

    I'm happy for you buddy. Nice to see you after so many years and I'm glad youre here in AB 👍👍👍👍

  • @wade1769
    @wade1769 Жыл бұрын

    I'm from NEW BRUNSWICK CANADA where are you located? Love the video can you so another in spring?? Where did you get your Obrien step ins? How many joules do you use on your fence?

  • @Northroadranch
    @Northroadranch Жыл бұрын

    We are from Alberta. West of Edmonton. Yes it all just melted I’ll take a video of what it looks like. Order them straight from power flex in the states. You pay tax and duties but it works out to about $10 a post but I think great quality. My energizer is 18 joules I think 3rd biggest. I have about 20 miles of high tensile wire though.

  • @charleswalters5284
    @charleswalters5284 Жыл бұрын

    So the fence can still shock, even if the ground is dry and not very conductive. Mr. Judy just says always keep the charger on to control the grass, it uses very little electricity .

  • @charleswalters5284
    @charleswalters5284 Жыл бұрын

    Ground the bottom wire.

  • @bautistafamilyfarm
    @bautistafamilyfarm Жыл бұрын

    Wow it's beautiful place I love the snow..

  • @plainandsimple1
    @plainandsimple1 Жыл бұрын

    As a heads up Greg Judy recommends electrifying the bottom at all times because it helps kill the grass along the bottom especially with a hot charger. Dry stuff that's dead won't short the fence.

  • @finbarrdinneen3430
    @finbarrdinneen3430 Жыл бұрын

    It would be nice to see this in the spring and summer to see the effect it has

  • @brockkyradoerksen2687
    @brockkyradoerksen2687 Жыл бұрын

    Yes, we will do that and show you how it looks a couple times this season.

  • @jerrylansbury9558
    @jerrylansbury9558 Жыл бұрын

    Strip grazing in the summer after bale grazing this way....... Yah right......and a farmer expects cows to eat that quality of grass when it stinks....of mole and manure ???? Im a dairy farmer....doing this......just as well dry the milk cows up ! No big issues if yah plan to bale it. Ask..why dont more "" dairy """ farmers graze ?????

  • @DUKECITYMIKE505
    @DUKECITYMIKE505 Жыл бұрын

    I like you’re camera mount

  • @Northroadranch
    @Northroadranch Жыл бұрын

    original one of a kind

  • @finbarrdinneen3430
    @finbarrdinneen3430 Жыл бұрын

    Congratulations to you both for getting married. Good luck with your new farm

  • @wallyyuriy8912
    @wallyyuriy8912 Жыл бұрын

    I tried something similar here. Sadly all I end up with is a huge field of weeds. It use to be nice crested wheat grass

  • @redrustyhill2
    @redrustyhill211 ай бұрын

    Where at?

  • @wallyyuriy8912
    @wallyyuriy891211 ай бұрын

    @@redrustyhill2 se Saskatchewan Canada

  • @user-tc3ou6sy5f
    @user-tc3ou6sy5f5 ай бұрын

    What sized bales did you use ? If anything bigger then say 400 pounds (say 3 foot x 4 foot bales ) expect weeds ! Use small bales....cows are in and out in a short time. Not so much trampling ! If you put a mountain of hay in a small area......how do you expect them to clean it all up with out cows standing on it for days on end ?????

  • @wallyyuriy8912
    @wallyyuriy89125 ай бұрын

    @@user-tc3ou6sy5f controlled feeding through the bale shredder. Works out to about 40 pounds per day per head 1300 pound round bales. I make a line just so all of the cows are tight but not fighting. They clean it up.

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    @downrightdirtyshamecowboy54742 жыл бұрын

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  • @carterdoerksen3374
    @carterdoerksen33742 жыл бұрын

    Touch it

  • @raybankes7668
    @raybankes7668 Жыл бұрын

    Lmao I get shocked at least once a week on my Polly wire paddock reels

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  • @feras0012
    @feras00122 жыл бұрын

    You should’ve watch Greg Judy at regenerative ranch. kzread.info/dash/bejne/h4hp1piGlsW0d6w.html

  • @jordanbeardy8798
    @jordanbeardy87982 жыл бұрын

    HOW DID YOUR GOPRO NOT FALL OFF WHEN YOU WERE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD LOL 😆

  • @Northroadranch
    @Northroadranch2 жыл бұрын

    Its the 2x4 mount...i just held on tight lol

  • @jordanbeardy8798
    @jordanbeardy87982 жыл бұрын

    @@Northroadranch LOL

  • @cant_keep_up4123
    @cant_keep_up41232 жыл бұрын

    Nice selfish stick👌

  • @shawnsavage9015
    @shawnsavage90152 жыл бұрын

    Nice setup. How long is that trailer?

  • @jimkewley3790
    @jimkewley37902 жыл бұрын

    Where about? Which Province?

  • @Northroadranch
    @Northroadranch2 жыл бұрын

    Central Alberta, right in the middle

  • @tinybigbus1873
    @tinybigbus18732 жыл бұрын

    Where can I get a selfie stick like that?

  • @Northroadranch
    @Northroadranch2 жыл бұрын

    It happens to be custom made. Very hard to find...

  • @nicolvilleoffroad
    @nicolvilleoffroad2 жыл бұрын

    Laughs in *460*

  • @ericwasilko8377
    @ericwasilko83772 жыл бұрын

    If you're talking about a big block ford could pull that kind of weight better you're lying to yourself

  • @iammekanic9800
    @iammekanic98002 жыл бұрын

    That was a dumb as hell comment

  • @charlesuplifted5216
    @charlesuplifted52162 жыл бұрын

    @@ericwasilko8377 I mean a f350 dually with a 460 will pull it But due to age it will be slower getting up to speed and stopping

  • @finbarrdinneen3430
    @finbarrdinneen34302 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations on the ring on your finger. Good luck with your future and farm

  • @Ben-vw3pu
    @Ben-vw3pu2 жыл бұрын

    If you use pesticides you should be able to keep them trees off the fence

  • @Northroadranch
    @Northroadranch2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Im used to the prairie without trees. I wonder if the cows would help keep them down too

  • @jamesduescher3462
    @jamesduescher34622 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @jamesduescher3462
    @jamesduescher34622 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @SethGryde214h19o93
    @SethGryde214h19o932 жыл бұрын

    Nice place

  • @toddtumback7376
    @toddtumback73762 жыл бұрын

    Looks very cool buddy. I am so excited for you both. I hope I can come check out that barn one day. I will be waiting for the tour of the barn to come on here.

  • @denisefletcher1213
    @denisefletcher12132 жыл бұрын

    Congrats! So exciting! Looks like beautiful country!