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about 10 years ago kids and grandkids talked me into fertilizer on pasture so i did it as a lesson on what it did for my income and what happened will that year i was several thousand dollars less income numbers don't lie . and kids and grandkids learned the old shut up and listen lesson

Awesome videos. Keep up the good work!! Hope your foot heals up quickly.

This was an awesome video!! Running a similar plan but just getting started 🙏🏻

What’s your harvest efficiency at? Are you back to selective grazing or is this just a small portion of the animals that are getting to cherry pick?

What was the rest period on this paddock?

Let the haters hate brother you keep doing you. Love watching the videos. Still waiting for the water line video

How’s your leg doing? From that huge hole…..

Beautiful what you regenerative farmers have been doing to this beautiful land of ours.

Where I fed came up to rag weed and thistle

Lookin good. Nice work.

How many head in that group?

I am not a farmer,but, I love seeing your land and animals be "natural". The land is really pretty(not skint); also enjoy seeing the "babies be curious, watching you!

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the over-grazing myth. There are a lot of people out there trying to regenerate barren land, and they tend to blanket blame over-grazing as the problem, without really understanding what that means and implies. They will never consider adding livestock to an area, because to them all animals are bulldozers. As a farmer who can first hand see how cows graze, what it does to and FOR the land, you can add some reason to the speculation. Moving cattle around, letting land rest, limiting the numbers per acre... it's how we do it in Scotland, and there is a reason that Scottish beef and cattle are so prized the world over. There is a reason that the land suffered in the last couple of centuries in the US, as ranches got bigger and bigger, cattle moved less and needed more to eat than the ground could provide. A well managed herd is an asset, a badly managed one is destructive. If anything, I'd say your paddock sizes are a little too small compared to our fields. Your cows aren't running and playing. You might get a better result with a larger space. Our fields are 1.5-2 acres, rotated between grazing and growing grass. The cows get the whole field to run around in.

Love it. Looking great D. Do you have issues with your bulls flipping your water? Mine seem that when he wants to scratch his head he will either flip the water or mineral. Trying to figure out how to stop it other then sending him down the road. He's only 2.

Even Greg Judy buys hay. I think he would prefer not to use it,but in one video I watched he referred to Hay as his insurance. As for fertilizer, why buy and put down Chemicals when your cattle will put down a natural fertilizer for you? Also if what I've heard about Michigan winters is accurate,I don't see how you can get through a Winter without needing hay. I've been led to believe that Michigan gets rough,brutal Winters.

So many benefits to what you are doing. The cattle feed the grass that in turn feeds the cattle while returning carbon back to the soil and feeding microbes while producing clean air. Everything benefits! The birds eat the flies, the dragonflies eat the mosquito larvae, the bats at night eat the mosquitos. Plus, a ton of other things happening simultaneously. NO CHEMICALS NEEDED!!! It's a beautiful thing!

Cattle and farm looking great 🙏

Great video

How is your foot doing? Man that sounded painful.

Another great video. Thanks for showing us around. Great to see the results from the hay in those lush lands of yours, really good results. The bulls look good, I particularly like that Murray grey bull you’ve got. The cows look sleek and healthy, nice work mate

Great to see another episode posted! Have been looking forward to the next one

The reason your failing is because you have pastures instead of grassland ecosystems. You don't have enough plant diversity, not enough structural diversification and your not deeply rooted enough.

@19:03 I honestly thought I had been trolled - business on top, party on the bottom. I thought he had on the 80's basketball short-shorts. He hadn't really shown his legs so...

Just found your channel. Great information! Where is the water source for the cattle all the paddocks?

Another excellent vlog! I really enjoyed that one. Good to see the things that go “wrong” as well as the things that go “right” eg cow escape/stepping in a wood chip hole🤣 Inspirational to see you honour The King 👑 in your vlogs and how you and your wife walk out that process with your farming; grace and peace friend.

When in doubt listen to the boss! Glad nobody got hurt. Been looking for a vid for over a week glad you back!

Sooooo…was I the only one watching this cattle move on the edge of my seat? That had all the drama of a Hollywood movie but this was 100% real….plus some good brief God content…I like hearing the thinking on grass growing…I bet you look at feeding bales on pasture as your safety net until you know how the field produces good, consistent forage in the grass growing months...thanks for the video you 2 wonderful farmers….

What breed is the red bull, beef master, red angus, south poll?

I have 2 or 3 days left on first rotation. Next year I need to try and move them through quicker the first time. I feel like a lot is being wasted. I'd like to be through once by mid to end of June.

I have declared war on woodchucks for that same reason. Glad you and Alyson are ok.

Thanks for posting, everything of great interest to me. I'm hoping to have my own farm soon.

I find life's easier by listening to my wife brother. 😂 I pray your ankle or foot wasn't hurt to bad. It's ALWAYS good to see husband and wife team working together. God bless y'all's family and ranch

Howdy. I just found your channel this week! In really enjoying the content! Keep up the good work God bless y'all!

whats the Sanny excavator like ? holding up to the work loads?

Really enjoying your content, really informative and also really interesting hearing your processes and plans

Great to see what you’re doing. Looking forward to seeing how the field develops with the cattle on it!

U can get a 1/2" poly pipe from lowes and home depot in 100ft rolls with all the fittings, we use it and the pipe can be drove over just not the fittings

Weeds pull up other nutrients. Variety is good for healthy animals.

As a new venture, it would be interesting to take some soil samples to see what you are dealing with. Brix readings are a cheaper option you can do yourself to monitor plant sugar levels. They should increase as you improve the soil fertility and your cattle performance is directly related to the amount of plant sugars available.. Don’t mind me, I just like hard data as a vindication of my work.

Looking good. Can’t wait to watch laying the water lines I need to do something like that where I am too. How’s the rain? Up here in Lansing it won’t stop

Nice work.

They are leaving that much, because it has matured past palatability. If you look, they are leaving the stems of that long grass. Not knocking your practices, but that is why they are leaving what they are leaving.

So you said 100 birds you gonna add. So each one of these 10x10’s you could do 50 birds? I built a suscovich only holds 30. Looking to have more. Thanks God Bless

This has happened to me and its actually not as bad as it looks. Just let it rest. It actually shows the immense power of the grazing herd as a tool and demostrates how a subtle change in management can leave a dramatic impact. Youre still doing a great job. Dont sweat it, there is so much seed on that grass and you have your recovery long enough to where it will be fine.

Great job! That spot will recover! Not ideal of course but it’s not a perfect world 😂 Keep calm and graze on!👍👍

Hey bud. Love your videos. We holistically graze over her in nz. We’ve done just what you’ve done on really wet days. It takes longer to come back but don’t beat yourself up. We now give the cattle more area when heavy rain is coming. Most importantly though apart from this we graze in the end of the blaze of growth stage when the grass is converting the most solar energy into growth. Leave it too long and solar conversion / growth slows. Graze too early and you don’t convert the optimum amount of the suns energy. You have to really monitor grass more closely to achieve this. Looks like where the cattle are going your pastures are left too long. On that paddock you said you overgrazed last time, it looks like you could graze that now before the blaze of growth flattens off. Same deal as you’re doing but looking at grass recovery and basing your rounds on that. Grass recovery and minimising over recovery is really important to convert the maximum amount of the suns energy into grass. How much the cattle eat isn’t so important as you’ve seen on your first muck up

I had a similar situation last year, all back to normal and maybe better. Not a mistake! Give it rest it’ll be fine.

Im assuming you meant grazed it down too far or too severely? Not overgrazed because you didnt stay on it to graze any regrowth.

Hey not sure the temperature there right now. I would made the same move especially if it was hot out the tall grass helps keep them cool

You’re cattle look hungry