Regenerative Ranching with High Density Rotational Grazing

​Regenerative ranching changes the paradigm of cattle and range management via biomimicry and a holistic approach. By working with herd animals' instincts to graze in high density clusters for short durations in rotational patterns, many benefits are derived that work synergistically for the greater good of the herd and the soil.​
Manure is consistently deposited in the pastures as the animals are moved encouraging the symbiotic relationships between the cattle, birds, insects and plants to thrive in a balanced system that supports life.
A diverse use of cover crops provide high quality forage that keep the cattle thriving while improving the pastures with more organic matter and biodiversity. This innovative sustainable ranching approach offers a multitude of benefits that changes the entire conversation on how to manage cattle and other herds in a way that supports healthy ecosystems.

[@SavoryInstitute]

This is an absolutely gorgeous video showing your grazing practices. Please stay in touch with as you dive deeper into regenerative agriculture and Holistic Management.

[@redddbaron]

The most brilliantly captured of all is the birds! That's where you see how biomimicry helps benefit both the cattle and the soil and the wildlife.

[@rubinsansom9269]

Red Baron Farm

[@GrazingAcresFarm]

You did a wonderful job putting this together. I hope it encourages other to start farming like this. It's done wonders for our farm.

[@vivalaleta]

Like the music. Love regenerative agriculture. It looks like the cattle were to long in the paddock they came from.

[@downbntout]

Carbon captured as leaf, then put through a four-legged composter, returned to soil, adding life and more life, then plants spring back up to grab more carbon

[@downbntout]

Good idea to drop the word 'sustainable', bc what you're doing is not sustaining what it was, but regenerating to Garden of Eden level

[@mamtaoza5132]

Thank you for such a lovely video - utmost nature at work,........ look at those birds..... OMG - i am sure all these creatures are very much at ease in this farm....... Please continue to do what you are doing and if god permits i will also have something similar to your style - Respectfully Yours!!!!

[@irkone]

Awesome video and practices. Majestic soundtrack! Evokes heroism :D

[@melovescoffee]

That's what i love to see. Shiny, happy, healthy cattle. I don't eat meat much, but i'll eat THAT. Won't eat anything that hasn't had a full, healthy, happy life outside with plenty of variety, as do many people nowadays. Total happyvore. Goes for plants too so no greenhouse hydroponics, sprayed whatevers on my plate. Look at the shine on those magnifiscent beasts! You should see those pitiful things here, fed on fields that look like perfectly manicured golf greens that grew out a bit too long and then the ugly feed corn they grow for them for winter silage that disfigure our beautiful landscape all spring and summer with aaaaaacres and aaaaaacres of massive ugly monoculture feedcorn. You used to be able to actually see the landscape.... but i havn't had the pleasure for many decades in Holland. I hope it changes soon. All we have is corn, stubble and 'golf'greens. Not even kidding. This used to be a land of raw beauty before land consolidation and mega factory farming. Think we had... you know.... wild animals here too at one point.

[@lilaclizard4504]

Just a comment on the hydro, I think used PROPERLY it has a huge part to play! I think there's some REALLY stupid ideas out there & people that think they can replace entire crop farms with vertical gardens & crap but there are some huge positives if used properly too - it's a closed system, so fertiliser doesn't run off into waterways etc - all nutrients are used, no waste & considering that the world's mined phosphorus supplies are running out, that's an important factor - the nutrients used are just base chemicals required by the living organism, it's not necessarily "artificial" as such, it's just giving the plants exactly what they need, as opposed to giving say dolimite & expecting soil based bacteria to break that down into calcium & magnesium for the plant to uptake & along with that, it means the plant gets all the nutrients it needs - because you don't need so much space to put the nutrients into the soil for the plant to absorb without having the levels so high that they kill the bacteria breaking them down, it means you can grow MUCH closer together & more efficiently, therefore having more space available for nature (at least in theory, of course man will NEVER actually convert it back!) -because of the controlled environment, herbicides are completely unneeded & pesticide use reduces dramatically. This also means that often old fashioned varieties that had more flavour but bug problems are able to be grown again commercially, especially when the flexibility & compact size of these systems often means they can be grown closer to cities & therefore varieties that stay ripe/fresh for shorter periods are also possible to grow commercially As for what system the plants would prefer, I'm not sure, there's probably positives from both system for them if we think of their needs & wants as sentient beings, but the ability to grow more varieties has to be something they'd support I would guess & being closer together but not competing for food may appeal to their social desires (although the hydro may effect their root based communication systems too, I don't know) & bug free I'm sure they'd like, but then come harvest time, they'd probably be even more aware of their friends being harvested & their fate as it approached. All in all, I don't think it's necessarily a bad system that they would reject anymore than people would reject living in a nice building in a city & demand to live in the country

[@alan30189]

That’s the way all ranchers should do it.

[@jaimeelizondo9985]

Humus content, REAL soil fertility, has gone up every year to where production and health has improved

[@soilhealthdoctor]

Fantastic video, bravo!

[@tonydeveyra4611]

thank you for your work

[@spaideman7850]

great. will be better if some details were provided

[@livingwebfarms]

Please search our channel for many other videos with details on regenerative ranching.

[@MistressOP]

i like swallows best they don't go after the dung beetles.

[@othnielbendavid9777]

Cool. Thanks.

[@partoftheabsoluteone4960]

Great work! - Lovely video - How many days do you allow in each area before moving the herd to the next paddock?

[@downbntout]

RICHARD TATE The plants decide, there's a stage of proper readiness the manager looks for

[@juanpieterse4075]

well that depend on how many cattle you have and how long it took them to eat the grass

[@piekielnaedzia]

What kind of plant [with yellow flowers] cows eat?

[@yxcvmk]

Thank you! Are there 4 areas required for rotational grazing only? I assume recovery would take longer and more than four areas would be required...?

[@ksgarmory]

+yxcvmk Yes, recovery time is much longer than 3 days, usually measured in months for cover crops like what is shown.

[@yxcvmk]

Thank you. MAybe my question was not so clear. I'm aware, that recovery must me in weeks/monts. My question: How much ares are required for such rotation? How long in one area - just roughly (I know there are variables, like animal desisty and climate etc).

[@ksgarmory]

I'm afraid the answer is too detailed for a reasonable response here. You have to figure out how many acres/hectare are needed per animal, per year. The smaller the area, the faster they have to be moved.

[@lilaclizard4504]

For proper managed rotational grazing, they will generally be moved daily

[@downbntout]

Was there any leaf left on the strip the cattle came off onto the new one? Looked bare, those cattle were overly hungry, I'm thinking

[@itsno1duh]

yes it does seem excessively bare but it also had the water troughs so maybe it is sacrificial to serve a purpose? I can well imagine a cover crop being planted there after they move on.

[@beniveyv7849]

That’s what I was thinking you generally don’t want the land to get that bare it will have a harder time recovering should either move sooner or run less cattle

[@andreafalconiero9089]

@@beniveyv7849 It's also bad for animal performance. In particular, in order to grass-finish beef with acceptable amounts of fat you can't graze down to dirt. In permanent pasture, that slows plant recovery as well, since plants need some green matter to capture solar energy and rebuild. However, some times this type of grazing can be appropriate -- if you're trying to clear out weeds, or when re-seeding, etc. In this case it looks like the animals may be grazing a cover crop which won't be growing back, so this might be the right way to do it. Greg Judy has a lot of great videos about pasture management which are certainly worth watching if you're interested in this subject.

[@beniveyv7849]

Andrea Falconiero I’ve been watching a lot of Judy he is great really helping me figure out how I want to go about getting my own operation going once I’m out of school

[@andreafalconiero9089]

@@beniveyv7849 ​I think everyone in this business should watch Greg Judy! Another situation where this sort of overgrazing might be appropriate would be if you have a poor pasture, perhaps with the wrong mix of species that you intend to overseed. You could broadcast what you want into the sward _before_ putting the animals onto it, and have them trample it in. With a lot of grazing pressure on the existing plants, it would give new plants a better chance to establish.

[@BikeAndFish1]

Nice.........

[@HectorPerez-tb8hn]

is forcing the cattle to eat all of it ? bare ground ? how often do you rotate ?

[@jingleballz6778]

How many acres?

[@notaras1985]

we will build eden again.

[@T1up4me12385]

Amen!

[@phoenixrisen6935]

Not trolling but I thought the idea is not to let the cattle eat the grass so low but move them on before hand.

[@aleandrade8735]

😍

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

Over-stocking is over-stocking.

[@jusaverage6347]

need to take the cattle off sooner. There should be around 30% of forage left over otherwise you're not giving the land enough time to regenerate, thus you're going to have issues later down the road with getting anything to grow.

[@ericschoeman6613]

overgrazing looks pritty but you greenies dont have a clue what you are looking at im a farmer and that is not a pritty picture but that farmer will know what i mean

[@EricM93]

good explanation....not