Good job Marvin. Also congratulations to your daughter on her recent graduation and continuing her education in college.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher thanks!

That was crazy that we bumped into each other on our county gravel road!

We are coming to Northern Ireland in September to speak at a regenerative conference.

Good question. I am curious to know why as well. Cattle will eat them but when there aren't many out in the pasture it might be due to the soil pH. From what I have read the evidence shows that the sweeter the soil the less dandelion as they prefer slightly acidic or neutral pH soil. Greg limes his pastures when the pH is too low.He had a recent post of liming a pasture that was growing lots of weeds on a recent lease that he has acquired. Good forage likes sweet soil. Greg has cattle mineral boxes full of the various minerals which are dragged to each pasture when the cattle are rotated to keep them and the soil healthy. Therefore the resultant manure is full of minerals which are returned to the soil. What a system mother nature has provided us or maybe God? Sun,water and grass,rock dust. We that have a PHD are blessed if we can get a good supply of beef or lamb from regenerative ranchers. .Cattle and sheep are what makes a healthy and Proper Human Diet(PHD) Sure,a small bit of bread and cheese and eggs are nice but we all could survive and thrive on ruminants with almost no plant matter in our diet,as we humans did for untold thousands of years and still did until recent times. Eskimo's and other indigenous people ate nothing but animal based diets. They are now suffering from our screwed up western diets of high sugar/carbs and plant oils and chemicals in processed "food". I digress: check out the pH of your soils if you have an abundance of dandelions,buttercups and other noxious weeds. I always kill weeds with kindness and love and never herbicides. Sweeten them up with lime and rock and lots of composted manure.

He has loads of dung beetles. I wonder if, because he was in a very low bottom after a rain that likely flooded the bottom, the dung beetles might have headed for higher ground or drowned. Dung beetles can drown on a wet enough cow splatter pat.

I think the beetles have already done their job and moved on. They bury eggs under the pattie.

I live in central Texas (FW area) and always buy local, grass fed beef. I pray for all the ranchers and wish you all the best as you work to feed America!

FWIW I've been using 4" and 6" PVC pipe for birdhouses for years with successful fledging of bluebirds, chickadees, and titmice. I just made sure to make groves or scratches in the PVC under the hole on the inside so they can exit easily.

Greg had a video last year where he showed dung beetles on a fresh manure pat competing with the flies for the fresh stuff. I don't know if they are back on all of his farms, but they were definitely on that one farm.

Best video yet!

Thanks big sister!