Grazing For Weed Control

[@Northroadranch]

These videos need more views! To often we look at what we dont want to happen and it steers us in the wrong direction.

[@trifoils]

I've seen this very thing happen to my land after it was severely overgrazed by sheep. First year was chock full of fiddlenecks, which went away after a couple years of rest. Even the sagebrushes begin to disappear when cows trample them, going for the grass underneath, as long as there is enough rest.

[@gustavleroux2613]

So good love it

[@ingebuchanan7517]

What a great video. I'm not a farmer, just a bit of bush regeneration in Sydney, Australia. Bush regeneration seems to be almost exclusively pulling out weeds so your comment "Manage for what you want, not what you don't want" struck a chord in me, as I always felt that just pulling weeds didn't seem to make a healthy bush environment. The weeds just kept coming back and many little natives returning were probably stood on by well meaning weed pullers. I know some people were incredibly persistent, but so much work for such a small benefit. Maybe just managing a small area with dense plantings of suitable plants would be a much quicker way to eventually win. I'm going to try it, long term it may actually be cheaper. Thank you so much for your video.

[@mikecanaday5731]

I am a grazing for money contractor and it’s my job to remove weeds and invasive plants. I guess you are not speaking to me as I use thousands of goats 🐐 in a mob grazing situation. Sheep and Goats will leave the land better than they found it , I promise you. We also raised 4000 lambs and 5500 kids and we ranch in the California desert

[@davepratt4335]

...provided you have a grazier managing them who knows what they are doing. A person can overstock with Goats or sheep just as they can with cattle. It isn't the critter's fault if they overgraze, it's the managers.

[@mikecanaday5731]

Yes Dave that’s true. But we run our sheep and goats with herders that stay with them 24 seven and they are always in electric netting fence in a 3 to 5 acre paddock so we have complete control over the finished product. We never graze to dirt unless it is a prescribed fire break.

[@mikecanaday5731]

I guess I should also add they are in groups of 450 to 1000 head and we run ten bands.