I’m so excited about this… and most people will never understand!

[@tickcreekranch]

Just watched a video by a well known South Poll farmer. In his video he call those who take 80%, stupid. You might grow more grass by taking a 1/3 but it’s some nasty old rank stuff. The cattle just become more and more selective when I’ve done it. I’m definitely not sold on the 1/3 1/3 1/3 or 50/50. I’ve slowed rotation down this year with higher utilization from the start and have more grass than I can deal with. I’m considering harvesting my fescue seed crop. The combine will just stump it. Only taking the seed head. I have oceans of the stuff and the price the last two years has been 1.00 lb. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@puresouthpasturesfarm6460]

Ha! I saw it too! 🙋🏼‍♂️ put me in the stupid line 😂. I like him a lot. He just struggles with the idea of context. My grass is totally different than his. I’ve been on his farm. One size doesn’t fit all. There’s a market for that seed bro! Harvest and sell it 😂. Hope you have a good one! 👊🏻

[@tickcreekranch]

@@puresouthpasturesfarm6460 all I know is the minute someone thinks they know it all, it’s almost impossible to learn something new. Thats why I belong to the camp of “I don’t know sh**”. The older I get the more I realize the less I know. Keep at it, you’re killing it. If you’re interested, I could give you some pointers on how to help grow your channel. We have been blessed to kind of just stumble onto it.

[@puresouthpasturesfarm6460]

@tickcreekranch man I was looking at your subs. Wow! Seems like I’ve watched you almost from the begin and you blew up! I’d love to connect! Want to chat by phone sometime? 501.680.4696

[@tickcreekranch]

@@puresouthpasturesfarm6460 absolutely!

[@alanwesterfield4254]

Go back like 5 years or so on that guy.... WAY more humble. $$$ does that to people.

[@markodeen4105]

I watch grassing365 as well as your channel. What I am hearing you say is your context is different than someone else's which is important! Your audio really caught those cows ripping into that grass, great sound!

[@puresouthpasturesfarm6460]

He’s great! Yes! Context is key!

[@tickcreekranch]

I also watch Ben, great stuff👍

[@arrowjmfarms]

It’s nice to see that dung beetle activity! Keep it up man you’re doing great. And I agree, context is important!

[@Dadnatron]

There are 2 issues with this level of grazing. First, when you knock back the early spring grass, you open up small June weeds to sunlight. Rather than shading them out, they can have a high likelihood of growing. I've seen this in making hay on a new field. I never had Spiny Amaranth before, in a pasture. However, when I cut the hay to 4", it opened up the new Amaranth to sunlight, and I had a huge patch grow for the first time. This was a major problem as it isn't grazable. Second, it significantly increases your regraze interval, which is fine, if you have enough pasture, however, EVERY ONE of your paddocks will be grazed 'differently' because if you take something to the ground in Early May... what is growing at that time will be significantly different than something taken to the ground in late June. I'm not saying 1/3, taken/trampled/left is better... just that the reasons I keep hearing about non-selective grazing never addresses the 2 above issues I've personally noted.

[@puresouthpasturesfarm6460]

Great observation! I agree. Here we deal with wooly croton (goatweed) germinating in early June. Your observations are absolutely true. My thinking is that, a large portion of the pasture gets grazed this low anyway. With the forages we have ( I understand it may be different when forage is predominantly fescue and orchard grass) they take so much of it to the dirt and leave sprigs of woody type weeds standing. So the effect is the same over a large portion AND, we allow those plants that are already bad news, to have the advantage and multiply. For the most part, I haven’t seen a weed that they wouldn’t nip off under high density. So we are setting those “weeds” back when we graze under high density. You should see the patches of dock in my pasture that many people say are ungrazable. No one told the cows that 😂. And they set them back. Does that make sense? Your points are very valid and I completely under where you are coming from. I guess I’m trying to pick my poison.

[@nectros7157]

Never thought i hear someone say, "Man! Look at that dung beetle activity! That's exciting!"

[@puresouthpasturesfarm6460]

Yeah… well… you always knew I was a little off. 😂

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

As an investor, with only 15 years owning the farm I get a lot of advice from people who "know" everything and their way is better. I've learnt from my wise young farm manager who grew up on this property that those people are worth listening to but the content must be filtered and applied to your land. There is not just one way to do things, there is no right or wrong.

[@puresouthpasturesfarm6460]

@@buildmotosykletist1987 so true! I think the biggest thing is everyone’s context is different! We have to do what works for us on our specific property.

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

@@puresouthpasturesfarm6460 : My farm manager grew up on this property with his father and grandfather. Generations of knowledge of this particular plot of land and how it interacts with the crops, animals, weather, etc, etc, staff, etc. That knowledge means we are constantly increasing yields. That knowledge allows us to take advantage of new technologies or indeed not use some. Also we do pick-up quickly when we do make the odd mistake. Then occasionally I hear criticism that I profit share with him. One look at our bottom line makes me smile about that criticism. Wisdom comes with time.

[@nandisaand5287]

Ask any 6 tradesman how to do a job in their trade and you'll get 8 different answers. AMP Grazing means ADAPTIVE Multi Paddock grazing, meaning you ADAPT your style based on conditions and goals. Let the Haters hate, Man.

[@puresouthpasturesfarm6460]

Couldn’t like or agree more!!!

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Nice