If you're going to feed hay, make it pay you back by fertilizing your pastures!

[@big.g.fromohio3546]

I hear a lot of birds, that’s a sign of a healthy environment.

[@barrysparks9430]

I want to thank you. I stumbled across your videos a couple days ago and have been binge watching them at night. I have a small farm and a small herd of angus in Wisconsin and have been struggling mightily trying to provide the herd with sustained pasture, along with leasing hay land and buying hay. It’s been a very expensive hobby. My 10 hour a day job pays for what I need to spend on my animals. After watching your very informative videos, I am seeing a glimmer of hope to keep my hobby going! I’m a pretty good fabricator and will be able to make my own bale unroller, but starting tomorrow, my bales will be getting unrolled! And once the spring thaw comes, I’ll be removing my hay ring feeders and cleaning up the piles of manure around them and never feeding in a ring again ! Thank you sir !

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Thats awesome, go for it! Your neighbors are going to think you have lost your mind. Just warning you!!

[@Tomek745li]

Hello from Poland. I'm unroll hay for Hereford. It's very impressive how it's work. Your channel open my eyes to another way of fariming. Our fertilizer prize is about 1500 dollars for ton and it's not easy to buy.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Awesome, thank you! All the best to you in your grazing future!

[@kcahill2777]

You hit the nail on the head a few times there Greg 👏👏 .

[@candacewilliams6869]

Never tire of hearing about what you are doing. Attempting to learn your methods and copy on a much smaller scale for now.

[@courtneyheron1561]

Another beautiful video Greg. This never gets old. I‘m itching to get out on the land to give this a try. Ever Grateful Greg!👍😊

[@montrichins6040]

Wish more folks would listen. Methods like these would save peoples farms.

[@noah786]

Makes complete sense. I’m saving money to give it a go doing custom grazing. Your channel has been very inspirational. If everyone was doing what you are doing it would save our country.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Go for it!

[@marvinbaier3627]

I’m so ready for tomorrow! I can see a big difference where I feed hay last year. I did 2 sections this year feeding hay so I’m looking forward the grass. Thanks!

[@CMVBrielman]

I really think the current economic situation is going to encourage a lot of farmers to embrace regenerative techniques.

[@bekabeka71]

No other way around it! It’s a man made propaganda

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

They may need to change or go broke doing things the same old way they have always done them.

[@danhagedorn5206]

I’m in Nebraska and many guys are switching things up on their dry land crops and grass, but are more reluctant to do anything different on irrigated ground because they bought the ground so high and invested so much in it (pivots, tile, etc) that they don’t wanna switch. It’s the classic sunk cost fallacy we see in some parts of Agriculture. Hopefully people wake up and avoid another 1980s disaster when so many family farms (and local banks) were lost.

[@naturalgramma7907]

Best way to improve land, other than grazing and rest! Un roll your neighbors nutritionists on your land! #naturalgramma RevHank & Laura Reid

[@jethrofisher7491]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher With a lot of savings and a few years of grazing experience, would it be unwise for me to purchase fencing supplies and infastructure before landing a land lease to expand my grazing enterprise?

[@stickolascage2936]

Greg your the man true OG thanks for enlightening us young up and comers. Sending love from San Diego 🤙🏾

[@maxr4855]

from Poland we have our Greg Ciechomski with this metods. Goodluck.. MM

[@carlosbarrera8847]

Great information. Thank you Greg

[@codyshilling7353]

Greg, when you use that bale unroller, do you have to put the bale on ' the right way', ie in the oppisite direction to which the baler wrapped it up, so it rolls out nicely? Maybe that was a bit confusing but I'm sure you know what I mean. We currently use the traditional tow behind hydraulic bale feeders, and if you are trying to unroll the bale in the wrong direction, its far more difficult than if you feed it out in the oppisite direction to which it was wrapped up. Hope that makes sense🤪 very interested in getting my hands on a Greg Judy bale feeder. Thanks in advance Greg, dedicated viewer from the South Coast of Western Australia.

[@savageairsoft9259]

What is the impact of CAFO chicken litter on soil life(earthworms)? Got 1 place with a 1 more year agreement of litter. Wanting to free it up to do regenerative. Like Greg's process. Great video

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

If I had a choice, I would use cattle or sheep manure over CAFO manure. There are some things in that manure you don’t want on your soil.

[@savageairsoft9259]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thank you Greg very much

[@sheilasmith1109]

Hey Greg! We old farmers know that if you plow under your old alfalfa and hay fields in Mn, it’s the most wonderful fertilizer! But I’ve never seen people lay out their old bales like this! HOW FABULOUS!! Thanks! Now all I have to ask is WHERE did you get that hay bale mover?!!! I really need one!! 🙏👍♥️

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

We sell them on our website: greenpasturesfarm.net

[@andrewtexley448]

What are your thoughts on the composting bedding in hay barns like at Polyface?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

It works for the Salatins just fine. We prefer to do it differently in Missouri. We don't have barns, our cattle are moved twice per day 365 days of the year, works good for us. Animals love moving to new ground and their health shines.

[@thickasabrick52]

Greg, how do you find hay that is non-GMO and without Glyphosate.....

[@petrosros]

Greg UK farming vlogs are reporting a five hundred percent increase in fertilizer prices, quoting prices on day of delivery, and a one hundred and fifty percent increase in diesel also subject to spot price, farmers get diesel subsidized (they lower the tax rate). The domestic pump price converted to us Gallons and dollars in the UK is $7.0844 approx.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Oh wow! Makes our price increases look cheap. Hang in there and do everything you can to trample more carbon on your pasture surface. It will pay you back double!

[@petrosros]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher The way things are going, I will be eating the grass come summer.

[@sean-or1nc]

Greg new Mexico has some dry and interesting soil type.. How would you get the cow patties to break down with less work?

[@OnePieceatatimeranch]

Greg. We are building our herd intensive grazing for several years now. On your birds eating flies deal,,, How many pinkeye cases you reckon you have in a season? We vax for it,but it's not full proof as I'm sure you know

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

The tree swallows help reduce fly pressure, but we still get some pinkeye every year it seems. Some years are worse than others. It seems the wetter years are worse, more flys hatch out.

[@escapetheratrace4798]

What do you think about taking pies off my pasture for my compost pile? am I hurting my pasture?

[@courtneyheron1561]

How are you planning to use your compost? How much compost are wishing to make? I personally would carefully look at using local waste streams that will bring additional nutrients and carbon onto the farm. One thing I have done that is a reasonably simple and mostly, a hands off process after you get is set-up is fall leaves in a Johnson Su BioReactor. Apparently, to get your most microbially diverse compost, allowing the bio reactor 9 months to a year to finish is what’s needed. If this interests you, go online to get more info.

[@leelindsay5618]

Why would you take pies off the field? If you aren't using dewormers they will get eaten by worms and bugs and be gone in less than 30 days. No composting needed. If you are using wormers and poisons, then you would be killing your compost as well.

[@escapetheratrace4798]

@@leelindsay5618 I have fruit trees outside the pasture I want to fertilize I can't make compost fast enough with my chickens and leaves

[@pederjohansen2029]

@@escapetheratrace4798 I wonder if having a few sheep and maybe ducks in your fruit tree area will give you the fertilizer and pest control you require. There was a film on Netflix "The Biggest Little Farm" I think and they showed how they went through the regenerative farming system.

[@markperry6660]

really enjoy your books and videos I raise a few calves over window and would love to unroll bales like you . However i live in Michigan and we get some snow. how would do that without too much waste? When I sat a few I mean 2 or 3

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Spread it out on top of the snow and don't worry if they waste a little bit. This waste turns into gold for your soil microbe bugs in the spring.

[@davidgay2679]

Great video, how are you liking the Timeless step in post?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

They are much better than what you buy at your local farm store.

[@tunlandfarm9444]

Mr. Judy, we are in NE Texas, about nine hours away from you. Is there an outlet closer to us where we can get one of those bale unrollers?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

email us. We have shipments that go to Texas

[@tunlandfarm9444]

Email sent!

[@eltonmau7412]

Hey Greg in Illinois we have 31 days in March every year:). Are barn swallows the same as tree swallows?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Golden age moment there my friend!! Tree swallows are different from barn swallows

[@eltonmau7412]

Aw you have to laugh once in a while and not take life to seriously !

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

@@eltonmau7412 100% agree with you!!

[@nikdelsordo3016]

Great video Greg, thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge. We recently purchased our 160 acres farm in Alberta, Canada, that has been neglected for years. I'm learning what I can from you and other regenerative farmers and plan to implement it to our farm. my question for you is; I know you haven't wormed in 20 years, but what vaccination program are your herds and flocks on? I'm not a fan of pumping animals full of vaccines that the "experts" say are necessary. looking forward to a response.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

We give every beef animal a blackleg shot that is under 24 months old. The sheep that we castrate get a tetanus shot, thats it.

[@nikdelsordo3016]

@Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher that's great! Thanks again, your videos and information shared will definitely make a difference on my new farm.

[@scottbeck289]

If I need to aerate a pasture because I did drive a tractor on it all winter, what is the recommended way to accomplish this ?

[@sdesytfcanon]

You make so much sense, it hurt. Wondering something, could you replace the 4-wheeler with a draft horse for this work? I guess the 4-wheeler has too many different uses to be practical thing to do.

[@samuelahrens1936]

You could run 2 cow pairs on what a horse will eat.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

You could use a horse. If fuel prices keep going up, you may start seeing a few folks using horses!!

[@lindagates9150]

A self propelled fertilizer spreader that chooses the minerals that your acreages needs as well as it produces the fertilizer and is self replicating what better system could you have .to keep those earthworms and the other bits and pieces of life in the soil satisfied? You can explain all the advantages some will understand that there is a better way to do things that doesn't leave them broke and others only hear the sound of their bank account hemorrhaging and are too overwhelmed to see the possibility of what can be if you work with your animals to make their and our world a better place. . Watching the birds flying made me think of the world war 1 poem in Flanders fields... And snippets of the poem The larks still bravely singing , fly scarce heard amid the guns below ...... To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high Thank you for teaching me and others what is important for our world 🤔😘💞💖💞🍀🌟🍀👍👍👍👍🍀🌟🍀🖖🖖🖖🖖🍀🌟🍀🙋🏼‍♀️

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Great poem verse Linda, thanks for sharing!!

[@idgyschmitz1833]

Linda, you’re awesome. Such a poignant poem.

[@johnrisner9563]

Shame it's still too cold. I prefer Greg's summer cow pat inspections when he spreads the pat with his hands. Yes that pat looks good spread by foot, but it's just not the same.

[@gedwardnelson]

So I’m interested in how you get started NOT worming your cattle. I lost more this year than I care to state because I skipped worming last year. It was sickening. A few weeks ago, in an effort it get the herd back to normal, I dewormed and vaccinated. Happily they look much better now. I’d like to take your advice but apparently I did something wrong here. Oh…Tyler, Texas area here. Great video. Thanks!!

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Our twice daily moves onto clean pasture certainly help lower the parasite load on our livestock. By not allowing the livestock to hang out around their feces, that helps big time. The other practice we use is to cull every animal that does not perform with our non-worming treatment. Just sell them, they are not going to make you any money anyway.

[@gedwardnelson]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher thank you.

[@cornbreadbees5385]

How far apart do you put your post to sit the hay on? I unroll my hay also its great for the ground. Fertilizer here in south east Kentucky is $1000.00 a ton

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

28”

[@cornbreadbees5385]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher thank you.

[@spacemanspiffy6596]

I am curious about the barn aspect. I live up north and we see -40C or colder, would you consider a barn for cattle in those temps or just a wind shelter still?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Gabe Brown from North Dakota winters his cow herd outside in negative 40 below zero temps.

[@evelinesmrtnik3236]

How do I get started grazing rotationally on a traditional mountain farm with cows, sheep, goats in the Slovenian alps? It seems too hard, all our pastures have a 27% inclination. Hardly any water sources. Three or four groups of animals to rotate. Are you sure it's possible. Eveline

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

First, I would put the 4 groups together, then work toward a daily rotation of the group. You must have a water source, if you don't then it is not feasible.

[@evelinesmrtnik3236]

It can't be so hard to get water down or uphill out to different locations. I just need to figure out how for an easy start. Any suggestions, where to search? And do you think the same, to graze every inch and to buy hay? By tradition we do all the hay and buy on top. I am guessing we'll have a compromise here. No farmer is ready to give up his smooth steep meadows for stringy terraces. So glad for your response! Thanks for giving us a good sign, green light! 😙

[@drewk5929]

Hello Greg would you recommend staying clear of rumensin in your sheep feed for coccidiosis control? Thanks much

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

We do not feed grain to our sheep or cattle.

[@drewk5929]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher yeah I understand that. I just wanted to know your thoughts on rumensin as a coccidiosis control? Even in a molasses block? Thanks

[@drewk5929]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I’m just wanting to know would that drug mess your manure up as a good fertilizer?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

@@drewk5929 it may effect the breakdown of your manure

[@drewk5929]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher that’s what my concern was thank you very much.

[@amandar7719]

Mr Judy, would you, or ever consider, (or understand others deciding to) take a first cut of one or two pastures for hay (bring in a contractor) if, say, you get a particularly rigorous spring flush? Especially as hay is going to be expensive this year? Maybe you might if you’d downsized the herd the previous year during a drought… ? Thank you.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Never bale hay on your farm, graze every square inch of it. Buy your hay.

[@amandar7719]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thank you. I understand your concept. But, (and allow me to get this right) if a spring flush was particularly rigorous I appreciate you’d move your cattle for a short time more frequently - even, if appropriate, three times a day. Do you mean you’d invite another farmer’s small herd of cattle onto your exceptionally rigorous spring flush or would you tighten your rotation of your OWN herd/herds and move them 3-4 times a day? Or enlarge their areas and move them slower? I can understand creating stockpile later. It’s an unexpected rigorous spring flush v unexpected high hay price factor potential dilemma I was mulling over…. #options. Really appreciate your thoughts.

[@amandar7719]

I appreciate you will already have secured this year’s hay harvest from your local hay farmers. But if other newbie regenerative cattle grazing farmers haven’t yet pro forma secured next winter’s hay supply from a hay supplier, would you still firmly recommend never to take a back-up first hay cut from a small percentage of one’s own land: And instead be prepared to cull cattle before winter rather than spend out of pocket cash to feed/put down carbon hay?

[@samuelahrens1936]

@@amandar7719 Look up Matt Booher, extension agent in VA. Did a very interesting talk on SUMMER stockpiling. It depends on where you are, but if you can stock pile for summer slump, and stockpile for winter, why would you need any hay other than for a emergency? Look up Russ Wilson youtube channel, his cows graze stockpile in 6"+ of snow. If you have that much extra grass, you give your animals a BIGGER area and move often. I think Greg has said in spring flush he will go over entire acerage in ~20 days. In summer/fall, 35-60 depending on moisture and growth. If you look at buying hay as buying fertilizer, and getting free feed out of the deal, it's a lot easier to buy. Also look at time, fuel expense, or losing half your hay if you are not paying but trading hay for getting yours baled. It doesn't math out to bale your acerage. HOWEVER! Definitely get a forage sample FIRST. I have bought a lot of hay this last year and price rarely reflects quality.

[@samuelahrens1936]

Booher's talk at the Appalachian Grazing Conference is what I was referring to.

[@valeriestevens5250]

I notice you always put the bales on oak posts. Could you also use cedar logs? It seems that they would be the most rot resistant.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Cedar work great to. We have much more oak available to us than large cedars. If I have a large cedar it gets milled into lumber on my sawmill

[@Pilotcarsvc]

Nice Job !

[@yohjokromwood2327]

greg why do you not run big amount of chickens to ?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Chickens eat grain, have you priced non-gmo chicken feed lately??? We will stick with ruminants that are powered by green leaves grown from free sunlight that turn into delicious healthy protein.

[@yohjokromwood2327]

​@@gregjudyregenerativerancher maby make it your self an possibel grow some with al these shortages we could use some grain?

[@dennisdole1764]

Always great content and information. Might be a few frogs 🐸 to gig to in that there pond

[@johnlittle184]

Your pond skirts look like they are working great!

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

They are working great. We will be on your pond skirt in about 7 days. You folks travel safe!

[@bryanblackburn7074]

Greg...I see hundreds of dollars saved in your pockets with all those cost saving manure pats...this is certainly the way to go to growing more grass for your herd.

[@wcm68tn]

Hi Greg! Going to be 80° here north of Nashville tomorrow!

[@big.g.fromohio3546]

10 here in Ohio this morning

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Wow that is warm!

[@barrysparks9430]

27* and snowing in central Wisconsin

[@georgeheller2281]

Unrolling that hay is such an easy thing to do! For there own convenience people will have cattle up to there bellys in manure. These same people are the ones who laugh at the ones unrolling hay out in in the open in a different spot every day, and say, why you spending all that time feeding hay every day. Just doesn't make sense. Thank you again and have a wonderful evening.

[@indianaoutdoors4379]

Have you ever put your animals out on corn stalks for winter feed?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

No we do not graze corn stalks, my neighbor offered me his gmo corn stalks, I declined. I don’t want that in my cows.

[@stevelapp444]

Does nitrogen/phosphorus fertilizers kill microbes, worms and such?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Heavy amounts of nitrogen nuke earthworms.

[@claytonsmoking]

When you spread that cow pat i just thought of hummus

[@tedbastwock3810]

I'm watching this just now 3 months later after just having watched your latest (as of today) video of your interview with the manager of the largest organic farm in Germany ..... it's a funny coincidence that you're harping here on the same thing (high fert cost and folks' stupid reliance on it) as you did in the 3-months-later video. I'm afraid these problems -- both the high cost of fert and the foolish adherence to industrial-style food growing -- are going to be with us for a long time. BUT, we're very fortunate that the internet can do some good things, like Greg Judy and others spreading good info on how to escape the industro-chemo style of Ag. Thanks, Greg. Will the efforts of you and others like you end up saving humanity? Only time will tell. But I'd imagine that when you're at those gates with Peter you'll get judged favorably for your efforts here.

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

I hear the red wing black birds. Springs coming.

[@nandisaand5287]

I now live in Northern Louisiana, and NOBODY here does rotational grazing. There are fields here you can't walk on without stepping on a cow pat, cuz they're assuredly loading their animals with antibiotics, and the soil biology (if there is any) won't touch the pats. There's one particular field that's INCREDIBLY gross.

[@graydonturner]

I'm curious how folks mimic the bale unrolling on a smaller scale where large bales would be a weeks worth of feed or more. Small squares spread out?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Just unroll the amount that the animals will eat that day. Take remainder of bale back to hay yard.

[@winedotchris]

🔥🔥🔥

[@wallacewimmer5191]

👍👍

[@shoutingatclouds6841]

We can order dragonfly online and dragonflies eat the horse fly’s

[@justeph79]

I get the sentiment, but I'll take the steak..

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

😊😊😊

[@Gatorgolfusa]

🇺🇲🐊🦅🇺🇲

[@johncaviness9241]

Tell it to Joe Biden