Greg explains how to calculate how much winter stockpile to give your livestock with daily moves.

Greg explains how to calculate how much winter stockpile to give your livestock with daily moves. With a bit of math calculations, you can ensure that your livestock are getting the correct amount of forage and you are not over feeding them. Every day that animals can feed themselves in the winter versus feeding them hay, your animals are making you money. If you want to keep your farm profitable every year, check out my 3 grazing books that I wrote on our website: greenpasturesfarm.net/books/

[@notbuyingit5698]

Correction Greg, an acre is 43,560 SF, not 42,560 :)

[@georgeheller2281]

Winter is all about spreading fertility, and getting prepped for the spring flush. The weather slows things down, giving time for planning and reflecting on the past season. Thank you for the lesson on calculating forage, there may be less stabbing in the dark now when it comes to paddock sizing. Have a wonderful weekend

[@NZAgriculture]

Good day folks!

[@dertythegrower]

👍

[@tomcurran8470]

Thanks for the detailed calculations. Ironweed and goldenrod are medicinal. Don't 2,4-D your "weeds." Also, like Greg says, you don't want your pasture looking like a lawn. You have to fight the peer pressure of your neighbors.

[@charleswalters5284]

Ignore

[@henrypersoon]

Correction Greg an acer is 43,560 ft2

[@troybishoppthegrasswhisper3703]

Hooray!!! Paying homage to some practical grazing math.

[@cassityart7001]

Thanks for posting this video. We lived in Kansas and had one grass cut and bale the first week in July each year. In Tennessee you can get 2 and some years 3 cuts per season. Winter is the rainy season in Tennessee. And free aged branch/leaf mulch sifted for Fall nutrient field cover. 💦

[@hectorperez7655]

The kids did a great job with the pond!!

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

Look at all those dollar bills on the ground. Bulls look amazing, no mud on them. Physical work is what I love and yes looking at what you can improve and accomplish with just your hands is amazing. The pond is beautiful.

[@godricfamilyfarm]

Great info, thanks Greg

[@marvinbaier3627]

Thanks for the video! The pasture and pond looks great. It sure is a weird winter so far, and I kinda of like it. If it stays like this, I will be happy.

[@jeaniepartridge6701]

Thanks Greg, because of your advice we didn't mow last June when we bought our property. We have some green underneath the cows are really appreciating now. Our pastures look something like this one.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Great job, keep up the good grazing practices!!!

[@elizebethparker5412]

Your grazier's eye is spot on. 👌

[@jeaniepartridge6701]

Seeing your mineral feed reminds me to tell you thanks because we think it has made all the difference in our animals.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Your welcome!!

[@cartermiller2705]

Phaaaht! Happy New Year! 🌧☀️

[@marjnussby3193]

Healthy, fat studly bulls. Awesome video- instructive and philosophical. Thank you, Greg!

[@riverflyswatter]

Work Work gets you everything you need

[@ronaldclemons5520]

Nice set of bulls. Some people want believe that you are not grain feeding them. Blessings🙂

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

These bulls would not know what to do with grain, they would be looking for grass.

[@plainsimple442]

Greg, an ace is 43,560 sq. ft. So based on your calculation they can eat 5 inches that will be 2,5% of their body weight not 3%. I assume that amount of forage is adequate for that time of year and their activity. How many hours of grazing for 41 bulls, on .45 acres, to consume that calculated 900 lbs. of forage?

[@michaelsallee7534]

So many have the false pride of income per calf ... rather you want income per acre. How large were the bison? 1100# per cow, 2000# per bull.

[@markrunion1769]

Greg you are going to have to plant some corn on part of that farm to help offset the losses. The K31 is just not getting the job done 😆 Thanks for the great video!

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Yes, I love your humor!!!!

[@kennethmiller8415]

Correctoin... 43560 Sq ft per acre

[@SasquatchBioacoustic]

Yup, Greg's got even more forage than he thought he had. 43560 Greg!

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Yep, golden age moment there!!

[@tedbastwock3810]

@@SasquatchBioacoustic Not to be a stickler, but that brings it down to 907.4 # available, i.e. down not up .. either way nobody can argue against Greg's results after seeing his cattle .. might not be a math professor but his ruminant results rock the world. Edit That is equivalent to the body weight part of the calculation being 2.459 ... my point being that a lot of those numbers are rough guesses, and when you put those together with Gregs experience and intuition, it works great

[@scotthambrick2293]

Mr. Judy, you said the grass grew stockpile until December 10th. What was the event that let you know stockpiling was over? The 10 hour day? Temperature? Something else?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Grass blades not growing any more lengyh

[@scotthambrick2293]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher OF COURSE!. Thank you much sir.

[@jasonearls3215]

What is a fair lease price per acer ,how do you determine?

[@davidbonin6378]

What do you put on stumps to stop regrowth?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

1 quart of Crossbow to 5 gallons of red diesel fuel. Only paint the cambion bark area on the edge of the stump. Must be painted within 3 hours of cutting tree.

[@michaelfelder2640]

Would it help first time rotational graizers to have a feet counter on the reel? And do they make one?

[@tickcreekranch]

A range finder is a handy tool on the Ranch. I’ve been using one to do most of my calculations 👍

[@garrettrice7598]

About the bull pasture. Will you run the sheep on there before spring? Will you install a rock skirt on that pond. Will the water quality improve with just sunlight? So you won't need to do any water treatment?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Sheep will not be run over there. The open sunlight and not having tons of leaves falling into the pond should cure it.

[@gkseeton]

All the beautiful grass will hold the rain when it comes.

[@wallacewimmer5191]

🎉

[@tireddad6541]

All that math and planning. To have well nourished animals. And I bet after spring flush will look a lot better. That supposedly dumb rancher with money in the bank, money in his fields, and after that work good night's sleep

[@shannonjayne605]

My cows had that and refused to eat...mood at me till I gave them hay... should I force them by ignoring the moo's? I'm new to this, can you tell?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

It all depends on what kind of forage you were trying to make them eat. If it still has some green in the lower canopy, our cows and bulls are in heaven eating it over any hay there is.

[@adamhorr8492]

Where did you get that stick or what is the name of it?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Got it from our local USDA office. It is called a grazing stick.

[@tomcurran8470]

I'm getting one.

[@mikerosel5402]

There is 43560 ft2 in an acre, you accidentally figured 42560

[@leeneely5457]

Looks like the bulls are planting a lot of weed seed

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

There’s been weed seeds dropped every year since the earth was created, don’t go broke mowing them off. Your stockpile is severely diminished

[@tomcurran8470]

One person's weed is another's forage. There basically are no weeds in a pasture, except if you have horse nettle, deadly nightshade, poison hemlock, etc. Now, if you are managing for only single species hay, then you go down the road of defoliants. But, that's not what Greg is doing.