How to Start a Cattle Farm: Easy & Essential Steps for Beginners

[@suegibson8914]

Watching from Australia. Thank you for your videos, I appreciate you passing on knowledge.

[@HeiferUSA]

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[@kevinveinotte3454]

From someone who has helping a number of new folks start farming I absolutely feel the first piece of infacture needs to be a containment area of some kind for loading/ restraining cattle. The wheels fall off the bus when treating/ loading day comes-bar none. Cattle are large,heavy and them just wanting to go back to the shade tree and have some space can go horribly wrong. Throw a few strangers and a noisy trailer into the mix and look out. And no, hay bales and pallets are not a coral. It can be portable, borrowed and simple but it needs to exist-somewhere. I helped a family "finish up" her dream of owning some cows yesterday. We got it done safely with experience but thats the one thing folks new to farming don't have yet. Best suggestion I have is find someone in your area growing cattle the way you want to and volunteer ; a lot.

[@HeiferUSA]

Thanks for sharing! That's very valuable experience

[@Marilou-g5t]

Moving ruminants between noon and 1 boosts the utilization of the higher BRIX levels in the forages and boosts herd health.

[@ngana8755]

What is BRIX?

[@queenimari602]

@@ngana8755 I think it is related to sugar content of forages.

[@HeiferUSA]

Thanks for the tip!!

[@Marilou-g5t]

@@HeiferUSA 👍 you are welcome

[@mzilikazimabaso4962]

I'm watching in South Africa,thanks for your mentorship

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[@HeiferUSA]

We're glad we can help from so far! ❤️

[@alimuttaqin6796]

I'm vet from Indonesia, proud of you. Very inspiring.

[@HeiferUSA]

Thanks for watching! Glad it helps :D

[@Marilou-g5t]

Interesting... my earlier comment about regen grazing not needing certain injectables at all is missing....

[@matthewpeckham9035]

And manure from cows that have received ivermectin is like nuking the earth worm population in your soil.

[@chalisblur]

Great info, thank you!

[@HeiferUSA]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Marilou-g5t]

Grain grows hooves and horns and throws off the gut microbiome.

[@AnimalWonders-t7x]

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[@matthewpeckham9035]

Great video. love y’all

[@Forester-qs5mf]

Great video. The only thing I disagree with is your definition of overgrazing. Overgrazing is when the recovery period is too short to allow a plant to fully recover its root reserves before being regrazed. It has nothing do do with how many bites a cow takes or how much of a plant is eaten. This is explained fully in Allan’s Savoury’s book Holistic Management. You can never stop an animal from eating a palatable plant right to the ground which they might do within seconds of entering a paddock. What you can do is through animal intensity and time management ensure everything is eaten and then make sure key species are fully recovered before the next graze.

[@HeiferUSA]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on overgrazing!

[@anurajoseph2405]

What a wonder ❤❤❤

[@Heyitssomeidiot]

what about a desert cattle operation that wouldnt have the ability to set up a rotational grazing operation?

[@Marilou-g5t]

@@Heyitssomeidiot Alejandro Carrillo rotationally grazes at his Las Damas Ranch in Chijuajuan desert. He has videos on youtube about regen grazing.

[@HeiferUSA]

That is a great question. Find out if there is a local Savory Institute Hub in your area and reach out to them!

[@Marilou-g5t]

@@Heyitssomeidiot Understanding Ag also consults about regen ag grazing in context for each individual farm's issues.

[@barefootgardens22]

How small is the small paddocks? I'm currently building a fence for cows, but not sure how small of an area i can do for weekly rotation. Starting with two calfs

[@Ryan-dr5cr]

Use mobile electric so you can make them any size you want. As you move them you’ll see how much they eat each day and can figure out how big you need to make the next one

[@HeiferUSA]

Hey! We recommend you to use the stocking density information in the video to help as a guide.

[@nikolaidisme2072]

vertu nice

[@matthewcorpman8705]

What are some finance options for someone who wants to get into cattle farming?

[@HeiferUSA]

Hey! Well, in addition to traditional bank loans, government programs, farm credit, or grants, you might try to find leasing opportunities with other landowners in your area to get started!

[@muhammadnazir-nt6wp]

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[@HeiferUSA]

Hello! Thanks for your interest in working with us. Please refer to our website to see all available positions! www.heifer.org/about-us/careers.html

[@muhammadnazir-nt6wp]

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[@muhammadnazir-nt6wp]

@HeiferUSA I want to work with you as a labour in your farm

[@محمدعبدالشافيعبدالشافي-س4و]

I am looking for a job as a shepherd on a cow farm. Are there any job opportunities available? Please. I have previous experience in raising calves.

[@HeiferUSA]

Hello! Thanks for your interest in working with us. Please take a look at our website to see all available positions! www.heifer.org/about-us/careers.html

[@QuickFlicks94]

Can you do about pigs. Like this.

[@HeiferUSA]

We took care of it for you some time ago! Check out our video Raising PIGS for BEGINNERS! [In-Depth Guide] in our channel🐷❤️

[@Reutzel507]

Good luck limiting a cow to biting a plant once.

[@mrsmiley631]

If you raise cattle, are you a farmer or rancher?

[@tireddad6541]

Or both. Do you grow other crops besides grass?

[@JordanZeitler]

Can't take the teaching out of the teacher!

[@cathycharron-folsom4504]

The goal is to eat less meat and improve environment with less producing methane from cattle

[@Marilou-g5t]

@@cathycharron-folsom4504 properly managed ruminants, (cattle, sheep, goats,...) add carbon to the soil. Humans eating meat is healthier for humans than eating carbohydrates. See Michaela Peterson and others on the lion or carnivore diet. Carbs make us fat, diabetic, deprive our brains of needed fats for optimal brain function and cause many other harms to human bodies. Ruminants are made to eat grasses and other forages. We lack the rumen, while ruminants have the ability to graze a lot of forages quickly, birp it up later and chew the cud, and then the food is properly digested.

[@chrishavard951]

@@cathycharron-folsom4504 cows aren’t the biggest producers of methane. Oil refineries and other plants are.

[@HeiferUSA]

We care about the envionment, that's why we raise livestock using regenerative farming techniques that care for the animals and the planet by improving soil health conditions to the point of capturing more carbon than the livestock emit :)

[@Marilou-g5t]

@@cathycharron-folsom4504 properly grazed ruminants build soil, increase water and other nutrient cycling, increase populations of worms (which improve soils), dung beetles (which incorporate manures into the soil so plants can reuse nutrients), and other animal which benefit from the stimulated growth of grazed forages,... Check out Alejandro Carrillo and the soil improvement to his Chijuanjuan Desert ranch, Greg Judy and his soils, Understanding Ag and their influence, Will Harris of White Oak Pastures, Joel Salatin and Polyface Farm,... RFK, jr. Calley and Casey Means, Mikaela and Jordan Peterson, and others were recently discussing the health benefits of regen ag and human health. Explore more, follow the money trail to see who is pushing a narritive. Think critically of ALL you see and hear. The earth was abundant until corporate greed influenced the ag sphere in the 1940's. See Steve Kenyon graph on a video on yt. Big ag biz inputs siphoned money from farms and small towns, made rural folks poor if they listened to experts.

[@markpiersall9815]

I live in Illinois where we grow mostly Corn (Maize) and Soybean for use as livestock feed. We have 27,000,000 acres plowed and sprayed with fungicide, pesticide and herbicide. Our stream and rivers run black with top soil. The University Budgets for Crops contain no Cost for Soil lost to erosion. Growing grains to feed livestock is unsustainable over the long-term. Cattle and Sheep Ranching should be encouraged.