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Hello John, I am finished with your Erector Set hay processing video, which I guess is in Ohio. I may not sleep much tonight while processing you ideas. Congratulations are in order for your willingness to stick your neck out, to achieve your goals. I have recently found a younger man who has put the 45 tillable acres on my family’s (1907-xxxx) into Orchard grass. Being a retired toolmaker who was designing and building projects that then went to engineering for pretty drawings, and production, your accomplishments, and your true understanding of moisture in hay determining when to ted, rake, and bale are commendable. We are in north eastern Ohio, and have 8-9 inches of topsoil and then yellow clay. It can be tough, but as you said quitting is the end. I will look at your other material on CZcams.

The one guy that laughed at the read canary grass joke got me. Great talk, saving it for later. Is this stuff in his book he mentioned at the beginning?

Are the nutrients (N, P, K) removed by baled hay the same for hayfields that weren’t fertilized as they would be for hayfields that were fertilized?

Great Analysis on head to head Hay vs. Managed Grazing. NEXT: Take a look at the AEA (Advancing Eco Agriculture) Soil Regen Process. They use Plant Sap testing to FIRMULATE a targeted Foliar Spray to optimize plant health. THE RESULT OF THIS.... Is increasing Photosynthesis from 10% -15% (typical POOR efficiency) to 50% to 60% Efficiency. That quickly produces MUCH MORE BIOMASS. 4 to 6 Times MORE Photosynthesis = 4 to 6 Times MORE CARBON. About Half of that goes into the Soil (Feeds Microorganisms) and Half into Biomass... Doubling to Tripling Forage Mass for Grazing. This is only done for a few years. Uaing AMP Grazing + AEA Soil Regen Process is like turning your OLD PASTURES... into 3 or 4 Times as much Pasture....BUT WITH FAR BETTER NUTRITION - If the proper MIX of Forage Plant Species for a LOCATION (at least 8 Species) The Nutrition of the Plants....and then the Cattle. That GRASS FED BEEF is worth twice Gain Fed Beef due to Nutrition Content. For instance...these Cattle have more Omega-3 Fatty Acids than Wild Salmon (selling at $9.00/lb). These healthy Cattle have almost NO VET BILLS associated.

Tag for research. Does this table 31:30 mean that if I am rotationally grazing, and unroll hay, I just have to unroll enough hay to feed them for 6hrs? After which, they've already consumed their 'adequate daily nutrition'? The 'potential' evening move or feeding becomes moot, as long as I've provided enough feed earlier in the day?

Dear UK This was a very bad grazing presentation to put up onto YT. Not a complete waste of time but pretty close. Its almost as if you just threw something onto YT just to throw something onto YT. No consideration for effectiveness of the video or how audience can make use of information. I'm 18 minutes in and I can't follow Chris's presentation very well because he's referencing PowerPoint slides. He's making comparisons between this pic and that pic and can't determine what he's talking about I'm sure it was a good "live" presentation, but it's a YT fail. Please make a better effort when deciding what's suitable for YT upload. Thx

Very helpful THANK YOU

On your resources page, I believe it's "Will Harris White Oak Pastures" not Walt. Nice job otherwise.

Thank you.

Thank you for sharing your expertise.

What do you start the calf’s on. What is you mix?

I need help my neighnor bulldozed 1000ft of my woods but there is a metal wire fence between us. My dead is old and worded

I need advice, please. The neighbor beside of me put up a board fence. It's and they closed off my side of my property with there anything? I can do about that. They just took it up on themselves to concrete concrete fence and block my right side off

Check out green cover seed for info, including wide variety of grasses, legumes, and forbs

I graze down to 4 inches or so each pass. Mostly twice a day moves. I achieve rests of 50 to 80 days depending on time of year. I do a modified strip grazing. I create a new section every 3 to 4 days. I strip graze each section moving fence deeper every 12 hours. By the time forages are starting to regrow, I've moved off and onto a new section. Takes me 20 minutes twice a day. 45 minutes to an hour every 3rd or 4th day getting a new section fenced off.

No such thing as a weed, only a plant we don't yet understand.

Can anybody explain to me how this gains you any grazing days on a set acerage? Just can't quite grasp how it wouldn't just average.

Wish I could get similar information on browse.

About reseeding, can it be done in living pasture on the different moment showed in the video or doed the vegetation need to be dry like in summer ?

Isoflavones in clover counteracting the defenses of a competing plant, tall fescue. Could it be an example of simple natural selection? Could it be the system of grazed plants evolving to favor ruminants(as opposed to insects that won't be eating both plants) so the woody plants don't take the sun from them? There is so much we will never figure out.

I wonder if cicada are truly a pest? I can't think of another animal that routinely burrows that deep inadvertently providing oxygen to deep roots, deep water infiltration and relieving deep soil compaction. If trees have 17 years to poison the nymphs, why don't they do it? You'd expect a tree that could would have a survival advantage, but I don't see it in nature.

Thanks for the most informative presentation I've seen in a long time. Hope to get to the hayless ranching in a few years myself.

Very interesting. Trying to figure out how to adopt to my small goat operation. Need to stop taking a loss and start making a profit.

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I wonder what Jim Garrish would say about this whole topic .... The more I think about it, the more I realize how stupid hay feeding is.

Great work Dr. Ritchey!

LSN is good to to find used equipment. Not sure how much it's used in Kentucky, but it's fairly popular on the Plateau here in TN.

a farmer outstanding in his field

Potato is essentially starch which is digested to glucose only. Soda drinks contain sucrose or worse high fructose corn syrup. Fructose is toxic like alcohol.

So why do farmers bale such large bales ???? When not bale smaller bales and keep cattle moving ?

Very frustrating to try to understand several of Ballerstedt's slides, especially when he never explains or even mentions terms used in his equations in his "Emissions" slide, like DM, and DM above, and DM below. In the same vein, if he's going to the trouble of putting a lot of information into a slide that is a major argument of his thesis that raising cattle helps reduce carbon emissions, the least he could do is go through each line in the argument ("Emissions" slide). In other ways the presentation is interesting.

Which maturity type has more late fall growth? My assumption would be the early maturing varieties go dormant earlier in the summer, and will come out of dormancy better as the temperatures drop and produce more fall growth. This would prepare the early maturing varieties for an earlier start to spring.

He says “the reason I came up with this concept”…

The Jena biodiversity experiment found diverse pasture mixes not containing legumes fixed more N (over 200 kg per Ha) than legume monocultures. Free living N fixing bacteria are everywhere which is how plants get N in natural systems where no legumes are typically present. Dr Christine Jones talks about this in her presentation The Nitrogen Solution.

Ray do your slides keep your presentation structured? Wonderful presentation by the way...DennisK

We have been bale grazing for decades and this year I’m switching to unrolling. The manure is too concentrated around hay rings and too much waste prevents summer grass from growing

You should be checking your herd condition, water etc every day anyway so very little additional cost to move them. Plus while doing this you are assessing your pasture which is the most important thing you can do as a grazier. Ideally you are moving your animals to maximise productivity of the pasture as well as the animals. You can’t do that unless you are out there in the paddock every day or two.

It's amazing how much more productivity you can get off of our perennial native legume species and native grasses if you do good rotational grazing management. Some of the ranchers near me never have to buy hay at all and are finishing off their cattle 3x faster than the usual fescue/clover mixes.

In case someone else goes looking for it:www2.ca.uky.edu/agcomm/pubs/AGR/AGR252/AGR252.pdf

Jeremy, thank you for posting. In your opening, you mentioned you were going to talk about consideration for sheep and goats. Im looking to set up a 5 hot wire fence for rotational grazing that would include poultry, sheep, and cattle. Can you please provide any additional information? Mucho thanks. FYI, 70 acres in central Louisiana.

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Im a fan of ParMak. Made in the USA and they are tougher than the same price gallaghers weve used. Love the videos thanks!

The hard part is actually finding a contractor to put up a fence. It took me 3 years to find someone and get him out just to do a 330' interior fence. And I was lucky to get him!

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as a EE I enjoy and appreciate definitions & drawings

Incomprehensible. He should use a pointer, point at what he's talking about.

There's good data on-farm that I'm aware of showing significant increases in production from 2-3 to daily moves. We also have to factor-in the decline in rumen performance as the batch function is impaired through constant cycles of forage quality.

God bless louise light. She was on this pain train back then in the 70's. Said it was a mistake. If only science, gov, studies were for the better of the world to do better. We'd all live 120 years and no meds ever again. So sad here we are. Except we can only find what works for us and suggest it to others. The vegans don't need to be told. They get sick and maybe change. SAD diet folks may never change and live a great sick life till death.