Nonselective grazing our season long stockpile! 16,000 lbs of dry matter per acre.

[@danielphillips1094]

Good explanation

[@nealreardon]

Need more people like this on the internet really showing how we take care of our animals and how much we care about giving them the best conditions we possibly can. EAT BEEF

[@rosalieroku3818]

Excellent video! Thank you. That looks like a fantastic stockpile method. Thanks for a great idea.

[@cindypeterson1450]

looking forward to seeing you on the 13th.

[@savageairsoft9259]

Excellent

[@willienelson2078]

As good of a stockpile of fescue as I've seen

[@amazingrazin]

That's what my fields looked like last winter, but now it's 50% dogfennel.. We don't have enough pounds grazing. Last winter, with 5 cows and a bull on 12 acres, not 1 bale of hay was used! This winter, I'll use 3 maybe.

[@user-th3nw5tm5h]

Wow! 300 cow days per acre blows my mind! Thanks for the great video. You must get an elevated amount of trampling waste with that much forage. I guess waste might be the wrong word - feed efficiency decreases due to trampling.

[@runningtfarmsnc]

You have to harvest it at very high stock density to avoid refusal due to fouling. We will be able to harvest it at 85-90% efficiency at 4 moves per day and around a million pounds of stock density to the acre per move.

[@amazingrazin]

That was a thicc bull calf! haha

[@marcruel9401]

I think Greg Judy would move them before they get so dirty

[@horatiu-emilmoldovan1373]

Amazing

[@georgeheller2281]

That is an awesome sword of grass! What is your typical rest period during the grazing season? The trampling looks great too, should explode when the warm weather comes back. Have a great day.

[@runningtfarmsnc]

Of course it greatly depends on moisture. Usually 60 plus days. But we graze Nonselectively with high harvest efficiency so we’re able to allow a good portion of the farm (1/2 or more) to stockpile all growing season even while being stocked at close to double stocking rate for our area.

[@georgeheller2281]

@runningtfarmsnc cool, we are hoping to increase rest period this year to at least 60 days. We only have around 120 days of growing season up here. We generally employ tip grazing, this past summer was very challenging, only 4" of rain all summer. We just kept moving, animal performance remained very high, but the lack of rain greatly reduced regrowth. Also I think we were a little over stocked, 25 head of cattle, and around 75 ewes on 100 acres of lousy pasture in the sand. We picked up another 190 acres to graze for this next season, should help with the rest periods.

[@davidjarboe3187]

@@runningtfarmsnccouple questions: 1) did you have significant dropout of cows that couldn’t hack non selective grazing? 2) do you harvest 85%+ During spring flush, or are you more gentle on the stand? It seems to me that grass can take a major cut after a long repair, but the early stuff needs to be treated delicately. Love to hear your experience. Appreciate the vids! Cattle and pasture look great!

[@danielbrown8105]

Do you think you get more total dry matter yield if you grazed of the cool season/fescue grass around June and let the summer grass have more of an open canopy?

[@runningtfarmsnc]

We do just that on around half our farm during the growing season as we try to keep the best grass possible in front of the cows. We can’t keep up with the grass on the entire farm if we are stocked at a rate to be able to graze all year so we let what we can’t keep up with stockpile all season to graze in the winter.

[@CrawfordVenturesLLC]

Could the stick be used to gauge yield on summer annuals as well?

[@runningtfarmsnc]

It’s not listed on the stick.