And that’s raising cattle in a nut shell folks. Healthy pastures equal healthy cattle which equals healthy protein for us. Greg is on the tip of the sword of the food production revolution. I use to day dream about selling a bull for big bucks. Now I say dream about changing the food culture. Having chefs search me out for my pork and beef. To feed people healthy food that benefits our health and our environment. Fight the fights worth fighting for.
@spoolsandbobbins3 ай бұрын
Amen! Preach it brotha!
@spoolsandbobbins3 ай бұрын
best video of Greg's. Hear the passion! Educational too!!
@JohnMarsing5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for giving your viewers the rundown on the various grasses. One day I would like to be managing a herd of cattle, so knowing the grasses would be very helpful. Thanks Greg Judy
@NS-pf2zc5 жыл бұрын
I was just telling my husband I wanted to learn more about our grasses. This was timely!
@clearvuehomeinspection77933 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic person to listen to! Great stuff
@Tillie4903 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the class in grasses. It was something I’ve been wondering about. I need to listen to more of your videos for the education! Love stopping by to enjoy the farm...😚 🐂 🐑
@EcosystemDesignConsulting5 жыл бұрын
I watch these videos everyday. Thank you, Greg.
@bunnibravo46473 жыл бұрын
Love this such a great attitude and informative video 👌
@Skashoon4 жыл бұрын
Would also like to see this for summer grazing grasses and legumes, etc. Also toxic plants and weeds that can kill livestock. Thanks
@Driven19813 жыл бұрын
Wonderful pasture mix:)! I see your about to get your steps in😀. Getting ready to put up some fence👍! Good stuff brother.
@relentlessmadman3 жыл бұрын
listen to the wind blow listen to the grass grow! these things are good to know even if you live in the asphalt jungle!
@Bill-10053 жыл бұрын
Glad o found your grass vid. What o was looking for…blessings to you!
@Ptitnain25 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all the sharing infos, I have both your books and I love those videos.
@billymaldonado4835 жыл бұрын
The diversity is amazing!!!
@Digger9275 жыл бұрын
Your timing is impeccable Greg! I was building fence today and on the way back to the shed I was driving around the pastures checking out the grasses and weeds and I saw a couple I wasn't sure about. One I was unsure about was the bluegrass, I have a lot of it and I didn't seed it, I was pretty sure it was bluegrass but I was shocked at how much of it there is. I'm still not sure what the other one is but it's got a tan-ish seed head and is about 24-30" tall, it's a cool season is all I can tell about it. It may be the canary grass but it didn't have leaves nearly as large as what you showed there. The serecia is really coming in now, any advice on battling that junk?
@COMB0RICO3 жыл бұрын
That was awesome! Thanks from Texas.
@allenferry12683 жыл бұрын
Thank you belatedly for this video. It's hard to identify forages from those cute little pictures you find and when I ask my county agent to identify them all he says " I don't know but a cow will eat it."
@OklahomaState10 ай бұрын
Thank you
@vemacrinnon1286 Жыл бұрын
Hi #Greg Judy. Love your videos. This one is silent though, no soundtrack. Please could you reupload this one again with the sound sir? I've been looking forward to one where you really get into the forage species mix in your beautiful pastures, as I'm in the UK, and am interested in emulating your pastures with our native equivalents. Much love and well wishes to you and yours. Ve
@gregjudyregenerativerancher Жыл бұрын
It was loaded with sound. I have no way of going back and reloading that video. I delete them after several months from my phone to free up space.
@vemacrinnon1286 Жыл бұрын
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thanks for the fast response Greg. I tried watching it on my Android and it plays there, so must be a YT or Google tech problem. Looking forward to part 4 of the 5 acre farm series. God bless from England. Ve
@kaikoserpa66553 жыл бұрын
This was lovely! Thank you
@johnscarboroughregenerativ72405 жыл бұрын
Thank you Greg for the good info! Could you do a video on Weeds in your pastures?I love how clean your pastures are. I trying to understand what I can do about the weeds in my pastures thank
@trevorgreycattleco5 жыл бұрын
John Scarborough it’s only a weed if the cows don’t eat it.
@NS-pf2zc5 жыл бұрын
@@trevorgreycattleco Yep! Mine eat all kinds of weeds. Thistles, plantain, dandelion, multiflora rose. They'll eat tree leaves too. It looks like a salad bar out there!
@SteveDodsonatDodsonOrchards5 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure my sheep would walk over tons of grass on their way to eat a weed get 🐑
@charleswalters52842 жыл бұрын
Bushhog if u must then feed hay on it ;add fertility
@wenatahakwano37182 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the content
@micah_lee2 жыл бұрын
Hey Eastern gamagrass! The only native plant shown in this video! Plant native! Like he said, drought tolerant and perfect because it is best for the soil and weather conditions that are present in the eastern US! (Because it is endemic to here!) All of the other grasses make it seem like we are in europe and asia. We aren’t.
@troybishoppthegrasswhisper37035 жыл бұрын
Good stuff Mr. Judy. So you don't worry about all the seedheads and plants diminishing their grow? We are pruning on our 2nd turn behind the cattle because we have too much rain and are stocked more for later grazing. GW
@gregjudyregenerativerancher5 жыл бұрын
We were trying to clip some of the pastures behind our cow mob. It rains everyday almost, so no clipping! What we did get clipped is absolutely gorgeous, beautiful long new leaves growing back very quickly.
@gregjudyregenerativerancher5 жыл бұрын
We were trying to clip some of the pastures behind our cow mob. It rains everyday almost, so no clipping! What we did get clipped is absolutely gorgeous, beautiful long new leaves growing back very quickly.
@iramcclure6189 Жыл бұрын
Man could live good baling hay like a mad man in the summer and set back and collect money for as many as he could bale
@davidhickenbottom65743 жыл бұрын
Will timothy grass thrive in a grazing rotation?. I have a diverse pasture in New England. This is my first year grazing I have K 31 orchard grass some rye and white and red clover. One year later quite a bit of Timothy in the pasture.
@ryanwebb64785 жыл бұрын
Great video!!
@dntbh8in5 жыл бұрын
How do you go from crop land to grass without seeding. The first few years would be all weeds? Graze through that?
@gregjudyregenerativerancher5 жыл бұрын
You have to get the soil food web thriving. This requires, trampling carbon, manure pats, urine patches and rest. Repeat recipe. Be patient. Most cropped land has very little biology existing in it. You are starting with a blank slate. On the weed issue, graze off what they will eat, then mow off rest of them. On your first spring grazing rotation, do not graze the crop land off more than 2/3rds of the height. You want to encourage the beneficial grasses that may be there to compete with the weeds.
@dntbh8in5 жыл бұрын
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thanks Greg. Live the videos learning alot from them
@andreafalconiero90895 жыл бұрын
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I'm looking at doing something similar (converting arable to pasture), and was thinking of seeding a highly diverse mix of perennial legumes and grasses together with a fast growing annual like oats or rye that's sparsely seeded to function as a nurse crop in the first year. I plan to use a rod weeder and harrow to break things up, and then broadcast the seed mix and use a cultipacker to get things started. Once the nurse crop is ready, it could be taken off with a combine (or just cut high) to encourage tillering and regrowth of the perennials below. Aside from the cost of seeding, do you think there would be any drawbacks to doing it this way? My concern is that many of the beneficial species I'd like to introduce (sainfoin, birdsfoot trefoil, etc.) don't even exist in the seed bank or surrounding areas, since this land has been cultivated for many decades. Just letting it go to weeds and waiting for the grasses to supplant them seems like a much slower process. Eventually I'd probably end up with a decent sward of grass, but probably not nearly as much biodiversity, and not necessarily the mix of species that would make for the most productive pasture.
@gregjudyregenerativerancher5 жыл бұрын
@@andreafalconiero9089 Just be careful on purchasing a lot of seed that may not be adapted to your environment. Maybe try a few pounds of each before jumping in and buying full bags of seed that may never come up on your farm. I prefer to use what is in the seed bank, it might surprise you what is there already. Been seeds being dropped there for thousands of years, some are still viable.
@bryanhauschild43763 ай бұрын
No spiders, no cows?
@cindywoodrum50373 жыл бұрын
I live in Georgia on 5 acres. I have no earthworms because of hammerhead worms. Is this a problem and no good?
@nukalavenkatreddy2749 Жыл бұрын
dear Mr Greg/ I am from south india/ i am very much interesting in sheep farming and already i maintaining. I need your help what are pasture s and rhodes clover grass are suitable my whether. temperature is between 32to44 degrees
@brandondickerson27852 жыл бұрын
Is there a book with this info in it?
@thomascushing3760 Жыл бұрын
I had an animal science prof at Ohio State around 1970,Dr Jack Judy.Any relation?
@gregjudyregenerativerancher Жыл бұрын
Not many Judy’s around, probably a distant relative!
@aBuAraDaH3 жыл бұрын
Hi my friend i would like you put there name i couldn't find them easily
@route66express5 жыл бұрын
How do you deal with thistle when you are developing a new farm? We all know how much you love spraying chemicals on your pastures.
@gregjudyregenerativerancher5 жыл бұрын
Manage for what you want, not what you don't want. It is a lengthy topic which will be in my new book. Hope to have it out this fall.
@spoolsandbobbins3 ай бұрын
Maybe borrow some goats to eat the thistle first, sow native grass and watch your seed bed hatch.
@iramcclure6189 Жыл бұрын
Ide rather bale it. Spruce the place up with a little fertilizer and grasses like you gotty gets thicker then hair on cats back ! Make 5 bale to the acre and that stuff will bring premium in bale
@gregjudyregenerativerancher Жыл бұрын
I will stick with the 4 legged machinery harvesting their own hay right where it is grown. My machinery runs on sunlight harvested thru green leaves, not diesel fuel.