Taking invasive species areas back to pasture!

Once you remove invasive brush immediately broadcast seed and mulch with old hay. This step will ensure that all your bare ground is growing green forage and holding your precious soil in place.

[@laceydevillier3922]

You’re so pleasant to listen to. Thanks for your videos, Mr. Greg.

[@bdlit7165]

Best quote, "brand new tires I just put on there 21years ago". I love your videos!

[@davemi00]

BD Lit - lmao Only Greg can say that with a straight face 😐

[@graydonturner]

Was doing exactly the same thing today...got seed and old hay spread right before the rain started.

[@jonathanallred7909]

I love your videos, Greg Judy, always tons of information. I have been doing a lot of research lately from your videos as I will be starting up in the next few months. The wisdom of your words and your ability to explain them so effortlessly allows a lot of information to be provided by your videos.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

You are very welcome

[@drewblack749]

Love your stories, Greg. Always learn so much. Thank you!!

[@larrybarber]

You got to love what he is doing and saying. I enjoy his vlogs. Keep em coming

[@courtneyheron1561]

Beautiful work! Thanks for all your continued sharing. 🙏😊

[@kiddfamilyfarmllc9962]

That will work won’t it This is why I have followed you before your you tube days .I think maybe for 10 years after we bought this farm. The information that you provide is so straight forward easy to understand. Definitely do a sawmill video.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Thank-you sir!

[@WendyAchatz]

That dog is the best worker you got!

[@vitomilillo8566]

Thanks for the way you explain everything!!! It’s going to look great!!! The flerd will love it!!!God bless

[@KyleNotAKyle]

This is exactly what I was wondering about today. Thank you.

[@rlyman111]

Love a big dog. Loyal!

[@rlyman111]

Dog has his job, he loves to do it.

[@edwarnock4534]

That round bale unroller is quite the slick trick. Would make a dandy deal for pulling behind a fore cert to feed cows with a team of horses. would have to modify the hitch height and adjust your winch so you can raise and lower from the fore cart, and your in business. Sort of interested in "tractor-less""farming/ranching.

[@HeritageFarmsTexas]

Great video. Really enjoy your channel.

[@C.Hawkshaw]

I eat a little beef, but I am concerned about cutting down forest to make grazing land. However, using the land like you are is I think the best way to use land for pasture. When people using conventional methods can’t make the land provide food anymore, they go look for new good soil, forest soil. If they used your methods, they could stay put, and get more production out of it- healthy meat!

[@elizebethparker5412]

Another delightful video!

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@vitomilillo8566]

Also God Bless Ben and Isaac

[@markenloe1265]

Love your channel...😎

[@montrichins6040]

Would be a billion dollars worth of hay theses days! Great video. Was wondering how to fix a similar problem on our farm.

[@drewk5929]

Iv been told sheep like turnips as well yeah? Thanks very informative as always Mr Judy!

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

My Calfs love them, I pick off the tender leaves and eat them.

[@willieclark2256]

In Henry Stephens Book of the Farm from 1844 there's directions on how to winter sheep entirely on field turnips, there's even plans for a shade shelter in there! It says that they should gain well if you make temporary paddocks (made of wooden gates) moved each day

[@aaronolson2469]

Good content never get tired of it. You are seeding the same way I do now. .it works. Btw how about an update on Arizona. I would really like to know what is happening

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Aaron, more info will be coming very shortly on the Arizona project. I promise!

[@Lanywillsonfan]

Topic for a future video... I've been wondering how you got your first dogs/pups bonded with your sheep flock? My first livestock guardian dog experience was a wreck. Got a year and a half old pyrenees male and he wouldn't stay in the fence even though we had the same fence that he stayed in where we got him from and he was very scared of people and he just kept going farther and farther and from the farm until he was seen 10+ miles away and no one could catch him. Real learning experience!

[@movinon1242]

Mr. Judy has spoken about just that same problem with Pyrenees as livestock guardian dogs (LGDs): they'd eventually start roaming further and farther afield, and almost always ended up hit by a car. His guardian sheepdogs are a special mix that I believe he has come up with himself. That dog in this video, Kangol, is basically their outdoor house pet, and not one of their livestock guardian dogs. His LGDs are also standoffish with humans, some even with him. He leaves them alone to breed and raise their pups in the wild. He just tries to introduce himself eventually, especially when its feeding time and they are weaned. So at least then they get to meet him and his crew.

[@swamp-yankee]

Training isn't easy. Ive heard a lot of horror stories that end with the pound, so someday I plan to sell trained dogs. I have two year and a half year old pyrs who are excellent. I have had no issues keeping them with the sheep. They are more afraid of electric fence than my livestock. They've been with the flock full time since they were 9 weeks old. At first they lived in a wire cage around a calf hut on skids, and only had sheep time under super vision, then they started spending half days, then days, then they were out full time. During lambing I put them in a sheep net unless I was there to watch them. Now I trust them. I watched them work last full moon, and they bunched the sheep, then one put herself between the coyotes and the sheep and barked like crazy, and the other one kept the group together, and barked a little bit. Pyrenees was all I could find, and though I wouldnt chose to pure breed, I'm happy with them.

[@Digger927]

I've heard a lot of people say, "They ain't make'n any more ground." Well, I beg to differ, that right there is 'making ground'. It's all about usage and efficiency. At $3,000/acre...you just made close to $10K worth of agricultural ground, that junk brush was hurting it's value.

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

Makes me think how hard the colonists worked back in the day clearing ground of course the trees are huge , building stone walls all over New England would have been something to see in the day now we're all a mature Forest again

[@Digger927]

@@davidhickenbottom6574 Heck yeah, we have stone walls all over KS as well. Most now are covered in brush but they're there. It's amazing looking at them now, how people managed to haul and stack so many rocks to try to improve their homesteads and make a living back in the day.

[@swamp-yankee]

@@Digger927 I recently cut a foot path over an old stone wall for a land owner and found a foot of virgin clay loam top soil on the ridge where the wall protected it, and errosion couldnt have added to it. The wheat field next to it has tan stoney dirt I can hardly get a fence stake into.

[@johnwood738]

Used to hunt with a friend and he had a plott hound named blackie great dog on bear,bobcat or coon until a coyote was around and then it was a rolling race with him and his owner back to the truck. I say rolling because he was doing his best to stay between his masters legs,neither one wanted anything to do with the coyote.

[@JimJepson]

Another great video that answers some questions that I had. Have you already explained the process of “finishing off” the cows before they head to my Traeger Grill? Are you 100% grass fed/grass finish, or do you sometimes grain finish? And what if you mix grain seed in with the grass and let the cows eat those as they grow - does that help/hurt??

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

No grain ever is fed. 100% grass finished

[@mountaindreamer7883]

I do like that atv bale mover. Much lighter that tractor on wet pastures

[@davidsawyer1599]

15:58 If you say so Mr.Judy!

[@swamp-yankee]

Greg, would you sell the plans for the unimproved bale unroller? I'd sign an agreement not to manufacture them. Your tool looks excellent, but I'm only a couple years into farming, and I cant afford it yet. Handling and unrolling big bales is the most difficult part of my operation.

[@jeffdonahue5004]

Answered my question. K31. I’m planning on planting some myself

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

I built a small silvo Pasture talk about some forage. K 31 I had blades 26 inches long. Its only been planted for a year. Just staring to graze with 2 Calfs . Boy they love it. I also have orchard grass and clover mixed in. It's going to be interesting next spring . Good grazing brother.

[@swamp-yankee]

@@davidhickenbottom6574 does it look like it can be stock piled this far north? I planted some behind my hogs this season.

[@doublejfarm]

story about kangal was super funny

[@bigwhane8603]

What about the part 3 of the tire tank????!!

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

It's coming when I get the brass valve installed on the tank.

[@wrong-waygo-back9355]

Looks like VW combi wheels

[@richardlieber9918]

Looks like he's taken a break 🤣

[@kathytripp1684]

👍

[@davidswanson640]

I knew of one older guy and his wife moved bales of hay on an old hood of a car with their horses although they didn't unroll them.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Sounds like they figures a good economical way to move them!

[@JohnVanRuiten]

Can I have him Greg? Looks like my Penny. She decided to quit eating at 10 years old. That was awful watching her last days.

[@gordonreed248]

I have tons of mulberries. Is there a good time to turn them loose?

[@marvinbaier3627]

I have heard so many times that don’t put animals on your new seeding because they will rip out the plant by the roots. What do you think about that? I feel you might get more out of your new seeding if you let them animals poop and pee in the area while eating the plants. That be funny seeds coming out and hit ya because that would happen to me. Enjoying all your videos. It sure looks great!

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

I'm sure he'll wait until the ground is froze.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Give new seedlings time to send their roots down before grazing or trampling on them.

[@donbrutcher4501]

Who do I contact about getting a bale unroller?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Thanks Marvin.

[@blue_boy8621]

Can we see the locust log please?! would (on a smaller farm) hogs/pigs help with the trees? Move em around the edges with electro fence?

[@movinon1242]

He mentioned around the 8:00 mark that he was probably going to do a YT video about milling that log into lumber. Lets hope he remembers. Jan, make a note of that and remind him, please!

[@swamp-yankee]

I used my last group of hogs to plant grass in a silvopasture area. They're great post clearing before there's much good forage since they love to eat roots. During the winter they gurdle trees pretty quickly, so you gotta be careful when they're around good timber.

[@adamhoffman6646]

How many lbs per acre of ky 31 you putting down?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

20 lbs per acre

[@kurtbognar6806]

Will you do a grazing school in the spring?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

May 6-8th, 2021 is our spring school. I need to post it on our website.

[@donbrutcher4501]

Do you ship the bale unrollers assembled?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

They are assembled. Customer take care of their own shipping, except we do ship trailer loads to Gamaliel Kentucky.

[@nineallday000]

Is you hay bale unroller available in Europe?

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

Most any fabrication shop should be able to build one for you.

[@nineallday000]

@@davidhickenbottom6574 Yes of course but sometimes it can just be nice to not have to explain the concept a bale unroller or screw up in some small unknown way, you would be surprised some of the tools that make it over here so i figured it was worth asking. Even having plans for how to build one would be nice.

[@roberthayes2027]

That honey locust log sounds interesting and beautiful. You've probably seen this guy who has a clever way to make slabs out of big diameter logs on his Woodmizer. "Making Table Tops from Locust End Grain Slabs - PT 1" on KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJ60mKWahM2Yg5Y Part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o53FlZSXarSjp80 BTW, there's an elderberry co-op not too far from you. Would you have any good areas to begin diversifying into producing some dried elderberry, etc? The demand has got the price up to about $27/lb if that co-op is too far from you. I'd love to help you set something up.

[@1mtstewart]

Those coyotes would have run your dog to death.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Not likely, our 120 lb dogs don't take any guff off of a 60 lb coyote!!!