Regenerative Ranching with Jim Elizondo

Discover regenerative ranching methods in use at the Florida Living Web Farm where Jim Elizondo works with the herd of Mashona cattle. Following guidance from his mentor and ultra high density grazing expert, Johann Zietsman, Jim is implementing a variety of synergistic processes that work to restore diversity and microbial life in the soil. Learn how we are building organic matter, growing quality forage and a healthy herd in harmony with their natural environment.

[@peteredwardmilns8912]

What a pleasure it is to listen to Jim. He is so knowledgeable. What a amazing guy. Enjoy your talks thoroughly. Peter Milns South Africa. Cattle farmer.

[@GrumpyTinashe]

Makes me happy and proud to see our native Zimbabwean breeds like Hard Mashona to give it it's real name in Zimbabwe and the Tuli from Tuli District in Matebeleland Zimbabwe. Great video thanks

[@migdolmielies]

Boy this man is a great guy and he is going to take the whole thing to the end!!!

[@realwealthranching]

Thanks Pieter! Just created a youtube channel if interested

[@clambert2020]

Excellent interview. Thank you!!

[@ricardoaugusto9925]

this guy knows a lot damn great video

[@realwealthranching]

Thanks Ricardo, I have a youtube channel now, website is www.rwranching.com and instagram: @realwealthranching

[@pedintx]

I am getting ready to expand my operation for grassfed beef,native and natural forage and overall soil health improvement. I have done a lot of research to get the right answers. Your teaching is the best and an invaluable resource for me. Thank you

[@jaimeelizondo9985]

+Paul E Dulin Thank you !

[@jotapits]

Hi Paul, were you able to start applying the principles discussed by Jim? Any advice you could share with someone who's about to start will be greatly appreciated!!

[@WenRolland]

Wonderful sharing of a great project! Thanks.

[@ronran9527]

to avoid flies on the cows back, you can try to feed garlic, in the netherlands we mix it in the mineral mixtures

[@ruedaricardo]

Depends on the fly variety...

[@elguapolegendariocasanova5615]

Helps with vampires too. Just kidding, I love garlic and eat it regularly for health purposes .

[@sprinkle2513]

Excellent interview. Jim talks about planting mimosa trees. On my farm in Virginia, we don't mow our pastures and we have honey locust, a relative of mimosa, volunteering in many paddocks. It is an excellent pasture tree that gives filtered shade, edible pods, and some nitrogen fixation. Cows will lightly browse the leaves but menacing thorns discourage heavy browsing. We also have black walnut volunteering in a few paddocks. We have 3-day graze periods and 60-day rest periods for our 22 paddocks which we strip graze with no back fence, 2 moves a day.

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[@thebestinsurancelady]

Such a great resource! Will put into practice ASAP

[@Horse237]

At 5:28 he has lots of flies on those cow pies. Get someone with a mobile chicken coop to drive onto the paddock 3 days after the cows left so the chickens can eat the maggots.

[@TS-vr9of]

Looking forward to a 2020 update, really interested in the progress they've made.

[@realwealthranching]

You can watch this in my youtube channel. Just created the channel about two weeks ago. Thanks for your comment.

[@TradingRiskMgmt]

I like the use of Diatomaceous Earth to treat the fly problem. However, I wonder if a better solution would be to follow the cattle with pasture grazing chickens to help reduce the fly population by eating the horn fly maggots in the cow pies? This is one thing I recently learned from watching some of Joel Salatin's videos.

[@itsmeagain7246]

+TradingRiskMgmt even better is the work of the dung beetles to reduce fly maggots. i also wonder what regulators say about cowpie-fed chicken.:-)

[@1mtstewart]

they don't eat the manure. they scratch through it looking for larvae and grain. this helps distribute the manure into larger areas.

[@DeRothschild]

Yep. The chickens need to come in three days after the cattle have been rotated out of the paddock.

[@tcotroneo]

Yep.. run the chickens

[@pamannaagriculturalsupply8712]

@@1mtstewart there's a type of beetle that eats fly larvae and eggs.

[@alecbauserman6621]

Excellent interview! Its exciting to see people become both profitable and land-healing by working WITH nature rather than fighting against it. Where in Florida is the ranch? Also, what was the animal he said is supposedly not in Florida but is at the ranch? (Yawarundi?)

[@jaimeelizondo9985]

Jaguarundi, the otter cat

[@aidenzanker150]

He is near Crescent City FL.

[@elguapolegendariocasanova5615]

Chupacabra .

[@saddambarrow6364]

Best farmer

[@josebarrera7683]

What do you think about buffel grass

[@luzgiraldo2468]

How about following the cows with chickens 2-3 days later. They will eat the fly larvae and break the pest cycle. Another idea is neem oil. It´s organic and not toxic to the cows, chickens, people and many beneficial insects. About the chickens, look up Joe Salatin.

[@donniebargo964]

My yard is full of wild mulberry trees and pawpaw trees here in Kentucky I tremble back and have started maintaining them and they are growing bumper crops of mulberries and paws anyway if he wants a mulberry slips route slip so they're already started growing you'll pay the shipping on it I'll say Dave as many of them as I can dig

[@wilman7574]

Good Video..are you doing anything with birds..as far as pest control..?

[@savedfaves]

He has wild hawks and wile eagles on the farm thanks to not spraying, they surely would help his situation. The trick with these methods is to not quit at first sign of problems, there are solutions. E.G. if you have problems with gophers eating roots of fruit frees you can install barn owl boxes, as long at you don't spray and have ground cover they owls should come and help take care of the problem for you.

[@matp9389]

What is the name of his farm?

[@savedfaves]

Maybe having chickens to follow the cattle a few days later might break the fly cycle and generate more profit in the process? I believe people who employ this way notice the chickens eat the fly larvae from the cow pats. Just the way bird flocks might follow the giant hers across the plains.

[@cajuncattlecompany484]

How do you treat for lice naturally

[@fredrikinjau1527]

Is amazing training i need this breeds i found in Tanzania please if there is any possibility help m

[@savedfaves]

What do you want help with? If looking for management training I suggest you consider learning Holistic Management and perhaps contacting The Savory Institute for advice. You many also try volunteering on some biodynamic or holistically managed farms or ranches before starting your own farm. Apricot Lane Farms in California (Est. 2011) is one suggestion. Article written by farm owner Molly: www.organicspark.com/introducing-apricot-lane-farms/ Documentary The Biggest Little Farm (2018) features this farm as the subject: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4nRk6FnipWWisU Best of luck!

[@downbntout]

The Savory Institute is an excellent suggestion and they originated in Zimbabwe. The headquarters is in Colorado USA but if you contact them they will help you connect to the Zimbabwe office

[@muchimi]

im in baltimore and 62, am I crazy to want to do this?

[@jotapits]

Go for it!

[@eze8608]

yes you are crazy, but then all the best people are :) have fun.

[@andreafalconiero9089]

I'm curious as to why they're seeding annual cover crops for grazing rather than creating perennial pastures. This seems like an energy-intensive method of producing animal forage, since it requires constant inputs of new seed, diesel to run tractors and seeders, etc. after each paddock is cleared out by the grazers. I expect there's some good reason for this approach, perhaps related to the near tropical climate, but I have no idea what that might be. Does anyone know?

[@savedfaves]

You'd have to ask Jim.

[@realwealthranching]

Hi Andrea, I have a youtube channel now, website: www.rwranching.com, instagram: @realwealthranching, facebook: Real Wealth Ranching

[@jenniferrichardson3155]

There are no common cool season perennial grasses that will live in the subtropics. This means you typically rely on warm-season perennials like Bahia or Bermuda overseeded (after disking, usually, at the end of the warm growing season) with winter annuals or cover crops. Stockpiled (left in the field to be grazed like standing hay) warm-season perennials like Bahia are low forage quality (low protein), and so you have to supplement with legumes/alfalfa hay, etc. Hope this helps explain.

[@andreafalconiero9089]

@@jenniferrichardson3155 Yes, it does. Thanks for the explanation!

[@Rhodietoo]

@@jenniferrichardson3155 A major advantage of the Mashona breed is their exceptional ability to utilise high volume, low octane grasses such as Bermuda (Cynadon dactylon is native to their country of origin) which is how they manage to thrive on poor quality winter forage, though a protein supplement does result in better winter performance.

[@unechaine1]

How is the ranch five years later ?

[@savedfaves]

December 2018 (haven't watched it yet) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWirnZyVqMSlkJI

[@realwealthranching]

Hi Patrick, you can visit us at www.rwranching.com to learn more. I also have a facebook page @Real Wealth Ranching and Instagram @realwealthranching

[@internetuser8607]

LEG3ND

[@sheepblitzer]

Who's the person he mentions at 13:15, who taught how to select bulls for breeding?

[@sprinkle2513]

+sheepblitzer Jan Bonsma

[@jaimeelizondo9985]

+sheepblitzer Johann Zietsman from Zimbabwe, Africa

[@accessiblenow]

Closed captioning please please

[@wesleycallison2079]

He ain't no dummy.

[@phillwainaina7252]

very sharp man.. greed..capitalism.. has taken everything away

[@muchimi]

use chickens to control the flies

[@phyllisrobertson2364]

There's people on this comment thread complimenting this guy on a "good job". Why? All those cattle heads look sick. When you can see their bones protruding and their flanks sinking in, giving that triangle design, that's not good. They look like they are starving.

[@jenniferrichardson3155]

Those cows are in good condition. What you are talking about is rumen fill, which is only visible on the left side of the animal. The right side “triangle” anterior to the hip bone will always be sunken in. What you can observe on the left side is how full the rumen is-if that triangle is sunken in, they haven’t gotten enough to eat that day. If it is puffed out, you may have bloat-a serious problem. The rumen fill in his cows looks good, but even if not, it doesn’t tell you much about their overall condition, just how much they have eaten recently. Of course, if you have poor rumen fill consistently, your cows will get skinny, but his are not. He also wouldn’t have that good of pregnancy rate if his cows were too thin or “sick.”

[@immoosiesmom]

Run chickens 4 days after the cows to clean the pastures of fly maggots and parasites…