Mowing Pasture l How To Improve or Maintain Your Land

Today we are mowing our pasture and cleaning up our fence lines. We go over the tools we use and the best techniques we have found. Also we go over common weeds and how we deal with them! Thanks for watching!
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[@caabise]

When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s, the weekend school let out in the summer I was taken to my Grandfather's dairy farm near Glenwood Wisconsin and stayed there until the week before school started in September. I had many jobs on that farm through the summer months but there was one I hated, and that was pulling Mustard and Cockle out of the oats. Most farmers in the area did the same, but then things were different then. That farm made me who I am today and I loved every minute of it. Your posts take me back to that 80 acres of so many years ago.

[@mikeyc1928]

Pretty much the same for me, except I worked on the home farm in the 60's and early 70's. Northeast Iowa. Even while in the military, I would come back to help while on leave. I loved working with my grandparents, Dad and my uncles. I just enjoyed farming. I never got paid, but I ate dang good!

[@dermotward6540]

Wow your farm looks more beautiful everytime we see it. Lovely video thank you.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@matthewdavis4081]

The views from those hills at the farm are just mesmerizing. The barns and green pastures the ponds the oats and corn are looking great from my view. I can't get over how handy the 7405 is. That tractor is the complete package and how you can do anything on that farm with that one tractor. It is definitely the ultimate utility tractor package. Thanks for another excellent video. Gierok farms

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you again for watching, we love the 7405

[@davidkimmel4216]

What a Beautiful Farm Stead

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you

[@adamhenry5791]

Absolutely the most beautiful Farm I’ve ever seen 🍻

[@dermotrooney5018]

What a beautiful farm and country!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@glenmomrik727]

It's little things like mowing pastures that keep your farm clean shows you care for your land

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks Glen

[@dankinnard1833]

Back in the 50's and early 60's my Dad had my brother and I team up and cut off those thistles with a hoe and then we carried a bucket filled with crude oil from one the gas wells and used a ladle to cover the root with the crude oil. Within a year or two we completely eliminated all the thistles in our pastures. After that, a couple of mornings and we could keep up with this task. One of the many jobs Dad kept us busy and out of trouble working on the farm, great memories! Your farm reminds me of the life I lived sixty years ago.

[@GierokFarms]

Man that sounds like a lot of work!

[@eddielittleii8919]

Interesting video, thank you for taking the time.

[@french-canadianfarmer5049]

I've found that mowing thistles just before winter seems to freeze out the roots. As always I love the videos.

[@farmunincorporated5132]

Thistle toast 😆 that is purely original my friend!

[@GierokFarms]

It's crazy that they eat it

[@aidenzanker150]

I'm a dairy farm hand in northern Victoria, Australia and I have to say, you live in the most beautiful place. I'm a little jealous that you can grow grass without irrigation.

[@Bluepillphil-d1w]

Haha. We do in Australia too, you just have to be on the east coast.

[@GierokFarms]

Welcome Aiden, I know I'm thankful for where we farm, thanks for commenting and watching!

[@RollinCoal72]

Crazy, we have the same noxious weeds here in Idaho! I am forever at battle with Canadian thistle, man I hate that stuff! I assume you don’t spray your pastures with your milk cows?! But even spraying that thistle is a bear to control. They say spraying in the late fall after a frost is the best time to spray as the Canadian thistle is send all the nutrients to the roots to survive the winter! We also have lots of cockle burr and hounds tongue!

[@philrogers8160]

One year we had a new seeding growing with oats. It started to get very weedy , so we cut it and round baled it a little wet. We took all the bales to the pasture and the cows went wild eating those bales.

[@GierokFarms]

I believe that, sometimes those bales just caramelize

[@8tomtoms8]

You got to have your whits about you when navigating those pasture hills. The all wheel drive helps a lot but still have to be careful. I always heard best to back up steep hills. Those pasture hills keep you guys and the cows in tip top shape. Great informative video!!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Tom!

[@jakethunder4234]

My dad and I farm in central Wisconsin and we get that yellow mustard in are oat too and not usually in anything else.

[@GierokFarms]

It must be easier for it to crow in oats than other crops

[@mikebrown1188]

We have alot of Canadian thistles hard to ride of. Lots of burdock too

[@GierokFarms]

Burdock is another one that can be hard to get ride of

[@Adam_Poirier]

I think you are right, I think the birds are probably carrying seeds. I remember one year I brought my mom some manure for her garden. We stockpiled it in the summer when there was corn on the fields and then would spread it in the fall. My mom asked me to drop off a bucket load one day so I did and she ended up with so many thistles in her garden haha

[@GierokFarms]

Oh man I bet she wasn't happy lol

[@jeaninegowan6743]

Would you consider putting wild flower seed down in the super dangerous spots? It would absolutely stunning and amazing for the pollinators, plus you wouldn't have to risk going in there with the machinery. Just a thought 💜

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Interesting how weeds can propagate. Those willows and cattails could have come from our farm 200 miles to the northeast. My favorite weeds are the wild strawberry that grow on the side of the road. Oftentimes I will stop when I am pulling hay wagons I will stop and pick a handful for me. We have a heifer (Sara) that will strip off the bull thistle leaves green off the plant but leave the thick stem. Only one that does that but as you say, cut them down, the cows seem to clean them up. When we cut off the pastures we use an old Brady stalk chopper. Works good for us.

[@GierokFarms]

That's so cool that you have a heifer that dose that. Might want to breed that gentiec into the herd sounds like a great way to save cost on mowing and feeding

[@ArmpitStudios]

Enjoyed this one a lot. Wish I was out there, smelling the cut plant life.

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@jeffhuntley2921]

I’d be collecting those apple bushes. Thanks for sharing all the info!

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks for watching Jeff

[@patrickclement3243]

The cattails etc probably arrive as seeds on birds feet. Wonderful content!

[@GierokFarms]

You probably right, thanks Patrick!

[@mikekuhn6216]

Very interesting video on pasture-land. When my dad milked cows, of course we had pasture for them to graze for several years. When it came time to plow up that ground it was slow going with his WD Allis and 2-14s. It would "roll over" in slabs, but made great corn ground in the Spring. Thanks again for your guided tour.

[@lambfarms7894]

Ah the struggles of hillside farming. One of my old bush hogs has a chain for top bar that allows your bush hog to float over humps.

[@GierokFarms]

I could see that being useful

[@HumbleHaymakers]

Great video!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you

[@RideauLakesFarm]

I've noticed that with the thistles too, the cows will eat thistles once we cut them

[@GierokFarms]

It must bring out the sugars

[@williamwilkinsii1839]

On fence post rotting or rusting at the topsoil we dig a big hole maybe eighteen inches wide and the depth of the topsoil then drive your post in the middle fill in with washed gravel and pour used motor oil close and around the post your friend truckwilkins

[@Bluepillphil-d1w]

Everyone is using cement fence posts here these days. Difficult to get decent posts

[@GierokFarms]

I know my dad would treat logs from the farm like that to turn them into fence post

[@geraldsundberg3610]

A lot of weed seeds are wind blown, they have parachute type of appendages to help dispurse them.

[@GierokFarms]

It's crazy how far they travel

[@bonniek3985]

I think your wild apple trees are crabapples. They come in a wide number of types.

[@GierokFarms]

Most likely

[@jeaninegowan6743]

I agree

[@rockfarmer8095]

When we were kids we would walk the oats field and. Pick the yellow mustered.

[@GierokFarms]

I've seen my dad go out and pick shatter cane to prevent the spread

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thank You

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks for watching

[@henrygraf7860]

Thought I heard a Wisconsin accent. I live in Kaukauna Wisconsin. We’re buds.

[@GierokFarms]

Welcome to the channel fellow Wisconsinite

[@michaellucht6351]

Lots of Milkweed, the Monarch butterflies like that. Ouch!! No thats Canadian thistle.

[@GierokFarms]

Milkweed is a pretty weed though!

[@bigears4014]

Scotch thistle is the big one and charlock the yellow one. Crab apple

[@daspicsman]

If you burn the thistle the cows love em! Could you not bulldoze some of these hills to be much more flat?

[@GierokFarms]

That would be a lot of dirt to move lol, would take a multiple life times and lots of money lol

[@sawsurgeon]

@@GierokFarms : Besides all of that, those hills add up to more real-estate! Flattening out your beautiful hillsides would greatly reduce your true acreage! Bless’ns to ya, Tedd

[@dominikpiskoric9649]

Thats stuff in oats is canola u have them on field bicouse manure, oats or hay or with straw if u buy it

[@GierokFarms]

That could be, where we buy straw they do have canola out there

[@timmyscroggins1962]

Do you ever fertilize or spray your pastures with 2 4 D in the off grazing time ??????

[@GierokFarms]

We have fertilizer it. And I have heard of guys spraying for broadleaf in there pasture but we don't

[@ldr9146]

My dad called those apple trees, with a small apple, a Crab Apple tree.

[@GierokFarms]

They probably are crab apple trees

[@dennislang4375]

Not using the ponds for watering cattle, what was your reason for creating them originally? Just curious.

[@jazzerbyte]

I didn't realize that the cows would eat bull thistles after they dry out!

[@GierokFarms]

Must bring out the sugars in it

[@creativengineering]

I think Dad called it yellow rocket? Us kids walked the hay fields and pull them.

[@GierokFarms]

I believe it, I have heard people call it that as well

[@robertburt9071]

Remember Dad calling that yellow rocket here in Ontario Canada

[@GierokFarms]

I have heard that name for it as well

[@duaneschmitz2674]

Do you guys have a Disc bine or haybine

[@GierokFarms]

Disc bine

[@cntslesfabrication]

You guys really need to get more into your comments and respond to people when they have questions and other things to show you really care about your viewers or it could hurt your growth of your channel

[@GierokFarms]

We read every comment, wish we had the time to respond to everyone, but can only respond when we have time. Thank you for commenting.

[@prestemon]

It’s Canada thistle not “Canadian” that drives me nuts lol. Just fyi. Keep up the good vids

[@GierokFarms]

Lol the more you know! Thanks Aaron

[@johnhatt1219]

Crab apple tree

[@GierokFarms]

Nice

[@drdulas5055]

15-20 years ago a neighbor had a 6' Bull Thistle and cut it and decorated it as a Christmas tree. lol I would be so afraid I would roll a tractor on the side hills if I hit a fox hole. Have anyone ever rolled a tractor there?

[@marknease1631]

Is it time to get some goats to keep your hillsides “mowed”?

[@raywhite1442]

Can't tell what kind of root stock they grafted your winesap on to

[@GierokFarms]

I Wonder

[@TheRichtaber]

What county in Wisconsin are you guys?

[@jakegardner160]

If you lay the thisels down the cattle will learn to eat them. By starting at the bottom.

[@alancooper5386]

That must have been the land ur grandfather got for free. who would want those hills.

[@GierokFarms]

It's sure is difrent trying to farm it!

[@raywhite1442]

Where are you

[@andersonsfarm4456]

every time I plant oats I get mustard seed

[@GierokFarms]

Must be really common

[@raywhite1442]

People like to feed birds and bird seed is full of thistle seed

[@GierokFarms]

Really maybe that's what brought it in