Greg explains how to grow clover without planting it on your farm!

Greg explains how to grow clover without planting it on your farm! You've got to take advantage of your cow herds hooves to help you plant and invigorate the seed bank on your farm.
Hope to see some of you at the Powerflex Retail Store grand opening at Seymour Missouri on July 12-13th. I will be giving some grazing talks highlighting the successes and failures of Green Pastures Farm.
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[@drumhillerfarms6858]

Those birds are having a morning meeting

[@Evpat2000]

Absolutely beautiful, thanks for sharing!

[@bryanblackburn7074]

Greg I agree Jan needs to add some bee hives over at the bull farm get those bees making clover honey.

[@rodolpheROGER]

Monsieur Judy on your remark about whitetail deer food plots you are so right! Owning myself some woods and marshes I can't wait to improve them as sylvo pastures by thinning the pines and finding new Zealand Kaku grass and "lotier des Marais" to seed at first (it will drain the swamps, they do it in Brenne, Sologne in France, lands of poor shalllow sandy soils over by clay under, drained by monks in the Middle Ages through ditches and ponds! Your tuition videos are priceless! God bless you all and your family and your interns! Have a good summer and all seasons to follow!

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Thank-you sir!

[@tritchie6272]

Tree's, shade in the summer and windbreak in the winter. I'm guessing the key is having the Right amount for your operation. As thick as that pasture is,the cattle that get it might think they are in Paradise.

[@EastGateTentRevival]

Birds are beautiful! Tell us some much about our stewardship! #naturalgramma

[@fernandonerva7754]

Dear Greg, i have seen bloat in white Clover, Trifolium repens, much more than Red Clover, Trifolium pratense. Sheep is rare to occur, even in white Clover. I am sure you know, but maybe someone not. Thanks for the advice on excess N on Shades, will never forget this! Brazil south part.

[@wallacewimmer5191]

Purple Martin/18 free choice mineral feeder….Combo….🤔. Gregarious bird like purple martins probably wouldn’t mind a RV style nest box🤔🤔long time subscriber. Watch every video keep the education coming 👍👍

[@triciahill216]

Greg - We didn’t get around our farm fast enough this year and the clover in our last main pasture laid over and browned up. When we brought our cattle (South Polls) in to graze it about a week ago, they mostly went for the goldenrod and other weeds and forbs because the clover wasn’t vegetative. In the fields where the clover was still green, the cattle went right for it earlier this season but seemed to balance their intake of clover with weeds, forbs and some grasses (previously rolled out seedy hay on fields with GJBU). Question: Will the clover that laid down brown and has now been trampled by herd recover? Thank you.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Assuming you get some summer rain, it will come back vegetative again in late August-September

[@kennethheern4896]

Anywhere I unroll hay, the clover shows up.

[@marvinbaier3627]

Thanks for the video! It looks great there like all your farms. For the first time I got some birds foot trefoil. I seed it in 2020 or 2021 so I understand what you mean by in the seed bank. I also have seeds from across our property because we are across from a native prairie. I bet birds and animals bring it over to our property. Just like you said rain brings on the clover for sure.

[@troyshannon2736]

Greg- Do you have any problems with thistles? I constantly fight thistles in my pastrue, wich is not rotatioally grazed. If rotating solves that then I'm sold. Thank you for all you do.

[@leelindsay5618]

Yes, rotating with temporary paddocks and unrolling hay especially in winter solves thistle - Greg has covered different issues like this in past videos. They did super tight 30 min grazing in an area to get rid of cockleburs in one video - the cattle just ate and trampled it down and when they moved to the next strip to repeat the process there, the first area was flattened.

[@duotronic6451]

At 0:30 look close at the dangling wire. Something is wrong. That wire should be connected to something or removed. If it flops around in a wind storm, it will short. Call the utility company. Send a photo.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

There is no power on that line, owner had the meter disconnected

[@nelmalias8894]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Yeah, you can see that the tie in lead has been removed by the power company. I noticed the same thing! They shouldn't have left it swinging like that though. if the wind happened to toss it up onto the primary you could get energy into the system. Very unlikely, but still.

[@papaal7014]

Greg, couple years back you spread clover seed on a neighboring farm where you were going to buy his hay. How did that come out.?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Because it was never grazed, the clover has not come up. Owner does not want cattle on hay field☹️

[@CaseySimpsonJD]

Mr. Judy; what do you think of Bahia grass? It takes over here in northwest / west Louisiana. Of course we know it’s drought resistant. So we get it probably from pasture mismanagement. I grew up working on a 1300 acre cattle farm doing everything wrong. Bahia took over hay meadows except where we had hybrid Alisha.

[@brettpayton6286]

I don't know why but my swallow house I put up are full of Martin's. Purple an brown chested Martin's. I've got a few swallow but for some reason Martin's beat them in this year 🤷‍♂️

[@seandoherty4236]

I think you might need to make the hole and the nest box itself a bit smaller so only swallows fit in comfortably.

[@clintwalker9865]

Sir I was wondering if you knew anyone out west that rotational grazes sheep and cows that have to deal with large ani.als elk, bear and wolves? I'm interested in the fencing and layout.

[@AP-cm3kb]

Livestock dogs common in MT and ID for that

[@markodeen4105]

Greg, why are you hooking on cold?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

We always hook at the beginning of our paddock wire with a insulator cold and make it hot at the other end. We don’t like working with an energized wire. You will get shocked accidentally if you touch the wire. Why take the chance?

[@financedfish6852]

Greg have you seen or heard any increased quail activity?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Occasionally we will here a quail.

[@Hilltopblues]

Greg in the arid west. Would alfalfa be a better choice?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Alfalfa has a deeper tap root than clover. But it still needs water.

[@C.Hawkshaw]

Forba-licious!

[@layneanderson8142]

Your views would probably increase if you get a microphone with wind filter. The wind noise is so distracting I will skip the video.

[@leelindsay5618]

He's doing well with no frills. Also, he's only stopping to make a video during a working day - not setting up to make a video. He's explained you get real life here and in my opinion the info is well worth a bit o wind noise.

[@C.Hawkshaw]

You know what would be cool? If someone invented an audio screen for youtube that could screen out wind noise but you could still hear the voice. Ill have Elon get Artificial Intelligence right on it!