Good job. Now you produce more grass then you need more fertile soil and more clean water running in that creek that the soil is releasing all the time

Third choice: drill in a legume-grass mix

i have found you get less compaction if you don't use hay rings. Bit more waste a lot less compaction

Great video thank you for the information. Grettings from Barranca de Sta Clara Jalisco México. We are very small farmers with dairy cows for cheese. Sorry for my bad english

Hay rings are not effective- roll it out. Greg Judy has it mastered.

$40 a roll, wish they were still at those prices

I had to dairy farm with a father who overstocked our farm, ran out of grass every summer and out of silage every winter. I was put off farming as a result and now spend my winters in south east Asia.

When did bale grazing originate? You said it originated in the High Plains, but it has been done in Georgia for at least 75 years. It was simply referred to as feeding hay. Granted, it seemed to have more benefits than you mention.

Bale grazing vs hay unrolling across pastures. Which is better?

Your local extension agent will be able to direct you towards a good lab for your soil samples and can make recommendations for your specific location and soil type. Southern Forages by Ball, Hoveland, and Lacefield would be a great book to get you started.

Can you recommend any tests , i can use.as well as books etc so i can determine my soil type , what nutrients , minerals it needs to balance it for ultimate performance and grass types. I am in kentucky, but when i visited NZ i was amazed how productive their farms are in terms of soil and grass . Thankyou

Thank you for sharing this. Can improvement like this be had on smaller pastures? We just moved to a very rural 10 acre property and the house sits on about 2 acres. The rest we are going to use for grazing. we essentially have 3 fields, with the biggest being about 4 acres, that we want to move 5 or so cows through. We're wondering if sectioning off the fields into smaller paddocks of about 1-2 acres would help, then rotate through them a week or so at a time?

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You lost my attention at “climate change”. Can’t listen to anyone who warps science to fit a political narrative.

I was wondering do u use any peas

We finish about 110-120 head per year with cattle that are in the 4 frame range and we average well over 24 months, probably closer to 26-30 months. We are in NE Ohio and rely heavily on bale age for winter feeding.

Looks like a great start to an important program to foster improved management and protect soil, water, and air resources!

Very good presentation, thank you for the education. Randy from Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦

Sorry but there wasn’t one step in this video labeled step by step????????

You have a real gift for explaining things. Thanks very much!

I grew up in Eastern Ohio, lots of oil and gas wells, most released natural gas into the almostpher. 24/7. I believe militant vegans have pushed the cattle methane myth.

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Hey....!!! It's Becky from Mountain Glen Farms....😍

Thank you for your comments.

How would you guys go about preparing clay soil before trying to turn it into pasture? Is there anything cost effective on a large scale?

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45min on who the new zealenders are and 5 min on how they farm..

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Excellent info ... thank you

How do I find these pasture walks and farmer social events in my area?

Right on brother. You GET IT. Now somehow we need to get EVERY producer to follow your lead. May God bless you and your family.

perfect!

How are cattle ranchers just figuring this out? Oats, radishes, vetch, and clover? Dude deer hunters have been planting that mix for decades, that's every food plot mix ever made lol

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Lose the music, or tone it down. The content speaks for itself.

Great message, especially for other farmers who feel stuck in the old ways of soil depletion. I think you can definitely help them. Thank you!

Great informative video. I just joined your channel. We desperately need to improve our pastures. We are in North Texas.

Awesome goal!

Mr. Gritman , You can email [email protected] with your email address or phone number so that one of the board members can contact individually or perhaps contact your local extension office to look the site over and give some custom recommendations.

What a great video ...thank you

Thank you for this video, it was very instructive. My daughter and her husband just bought a NICE small house on 19 acres of which 12 are neglected pasture. The elderly widow who owned it was just too infirm to manage it so my son in law has a big chore ahead of him. The BIG issue is the trees in the pasture. I have urged him to lay out the pasture into small pastures for day grazing and save one big tree in each or build an open shed (roof, no walls) so the animals could get some shade. Then he needs to bring in a forestry mulcher and just clear out everything else. Leave it over the winter, disc harrow in the spring and fertilize and seed with a proper mix of grass, clover etc. The next spring he can put cattle on it. I am not a farmer so I hope I have this right. Comments are welcome. FYI, the waiting period and the disc harrowing is to be sure to cut up and knock down the saplings and be sure they compost.

Ive rotationally grazed milk cows for 35 yrs. I promise... with grass as tall as in the video..its way over mature. Well beyond the vegetative stage ! Anything over 6 inches tall .....it should be allowed to mature ........then bale for winter hay. With grass as tall as in this video... the cows only trample about 50% of what is there. Salvage it... bale it ....and move on ! He mentions nothing about manure load....meaning cattle wont eat where they pooped ! If pastured maybe twice the manure load is such that 50% of the pasture is manured. Imagine eating your dinner at the table with manure beside your dinner plate ????? Anything thats has been manured......a cow probably wont touch for almost 2 yrs......unless......they are starved !

Those are some happy cows. Good to see these more natural grazing methods in practice.

What was the seeding rate ?

Love This! Thank You,

Great video...very encouraging!

That is a daikon radish you see at 4:16. That mix was planted on September 2nd and the radish grow rapidly if planted in late summer. That short clip was filmed probably in late November that fall. You can go to the VFGC website at vaforages.org and look under the Resources tab, then Research and Publications and read the full case study summary titled Using Annual Forages and Grazing Management to Build Soil Health and Improve System Performance.

He is referring to strip grazing. Allocating one days’ worth of pasture at a time using temporary electric fencing. He mixes the seed together and plants it with a no-till drill.

What exactly does he mean by "day grazing" at 1:32?