Have you got broomsedge? Want to get rid of it? Here is how.
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- Have you got broomsedge? Want to get rid of it? Here is how. By focusing on the soil environment that broomsedge hates to live in we can rid our farms of this nuisance plant.
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I agree, the problem with people is they don't want to work for it. I started at 25(2007) with a shared 20 acre lease, I now have 300 acres 1/2 owned 1/2 leased, and the cows pay for it all. Still not where I want to be due to still having to have a day job, but I'm getting closer.
You have done well, keep at it and you will get there.
This is not a perfect comparison, but a cow drops 50 lbs of fertilizer per day. At $1100 per ton(price of synthetic fertilizer)...40 cows is 1 ton. $1100 divided by 40 cows = $27.50 dropped daily..per cow.
And that doesn't even begin to count earth worm castings! This is the way to make money/ a living. Good video
Unrolling hay is a game changer for poor soil. We've been unrolling hay in the winter and rotational grazing in the summer for 10+ years. The transformation on our farm has been amazing. We run more cattle and shortened our hay feeding season by 45 days.
Good job!
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Seems to me like you are also reducing the risk of fire and other power line related problems by grazing around it.
i dabbled a bit in unrolling hay this winter (bit of a struggle i don't have any kind of bale unrollers just hauled it to the field on the 3pt bale mover and unrolled pushing with the front of the bucket) and the grass under that stuff is easily 2 weeks ahead of the other parts of the farm, had a neighbor comment on it yesterday thought that was pretty neat. have hauled manure out of the fat cattle lot and spread it all winter on the pastures/hay fields and the response from the grass not nearly the same, really shows how much N you lose in the feedlot not getting the manure fresh out on the field
It’s likely the urine that you are losing in the spreading too. Bale unrollers are worth their cost.
If you have hills the bales will unroll themselves
Greg...I'm fighting that broomsedge on my place for sure buddy! Every year the cows are helping correct the soil and it WORKS!!!!! The Greg Judy Bale Unroller has been the most instrumental part of my land restoration...thanks so much for what you do! Josh #stoneyridgefarmer
Thanks Josh, glad you are making progress on your broomsedge fields!
Hell yeah
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Following your advice in these videos, we are slowly but surely converting a lost farm into one that is producing abundance. Thanks!!!
Wonderful!
You're so right about all your closing comments, especially hard work and not counting on luck. But I will add that luck favors those in motion. Keep moving forward and it will find you. What good luck I have had, and I don't minimize that I have been the beneficiary of quite a bit, can all be traced to moving forward. Never stop! Good stuff as always Greg. See you in May.
Starting at about the 13:35 minute mark... is golden advice. Youth today are not taught this. Today's messages are turned upside down, i.e. if it ain't easy, it isn't worth doing. In reality it's the complete opposite. Life is simply a series of choices. The choices you make along the road of life determine where you are today. Choose wisely or your life will certainly be more difficult in terms of disappointment. To some, life comes easy because you're born into it... but for most it's all up to your choices. Even those born into the good life can blow it depending on their choices. Greg, you have the perfect philosophy for life, and that's exactly why you are where you are at today, i.e the choices you have made in your life. Kudos to you !
Another great video! Can you go into more detail on using lime vs fertilizer and the affects to the soil or pH.
Take a soil test to see where you are at in terms of ph and fertility. Never put down fertilizer if you have a PH below 6. You are wasting your time and money. It is always a good thing to spread carbon on poor land while allowing livestock to trample and eat it. Arrange your temporary paddocks into long rectangles that allow your livestock to trample more of the grass on the ground. This builds healthy soil for free.
Thanks Greg. Hard work, careful thinking, feed the soil first. Even row croppers can benefit from this as well - offer to haul away all the “waste” from those who still have that problem, and spread it where it’s needed.
Great advice Greg...Don't be afraid to follow your dreams! We can do this regenerative ranching I hope to do so soon.
Go for it!
This channel gives me pleasant dreams.🤗
God bless you for your outlook on life and thank you for sharing
Unrolling hay helps! Hay prices are going to go up in this coming year so buy early and often or preorder your hay. Good hay is going to cost a premium in the coming year!! Great video Greg!!
Very true!
Well said Greg
Refreshing to hear talk about chemical use !
Closed on my farm last week, fence, sheep and guardian dog are ordered, now to figure out water!
Looks great! We had some sheep but just added some cows this week. I'm putting them on my worst ground and rolling out the hay!
Sounds great!
Thank you Greg! God bless you
I'm really enjoying your videos, Greg!
I wrote our extension in doing a dinner meeting on the importance of Organic Matter and how it can lower your input cost. Best way to increase your OM is cattle manure through rotational grazing and hay feeding distribution.
Broomsedge is a relatively low successional plant. It is an indicator (like all plants) of the successional stage of the plant community. Eliminate it by either decreasing or hopefully increasing the condition of the soil.
Broomsedge thrives in low ph soils, livestock managed grazing can certainly heal it.
I've just started out. All I have is my truck, and then do everything else on foot once I get to the field/land. You do eventually get fit walking around the pastures putting up three-strand electric fences for sheep 😅
I've made it through my first winter, which was very wet and not that cold actually. I'm wanting to make this my life, but not getting kit that I can't afford or really need yet.
The thing I could really use right now is a trained sheepdog as my current one has had to retire due to arthritis resulting from missing a leg.
Thank you for the video
Thanks Greg helping to keep the dream alive that’s for sure. 👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺
I love looking at your healthy kettle. They are beautiful.
just started last year, if I give it 10 years I'll be 85, may have to cut a few corners to get there with my sheep
Thanks for sharing, I enjoy watching your experience in breeding cattle✌️
AMEN...
Golden advice.
Thanks for the video Greg. I’m 3 years into running cattle, Smaller frame Aberdeen Angus, just had my first calving this year, praise God.
But do you suggest unrolling Bermuda hay in the field to spread Bermuda? Seed cost so much. I have been unrolling hay in my farm since late December early January. Can’t wait to see the results this summer if any, I recall you saying it takes 2 years to really see results.
But some Of the grass coming up now under the hay an cow patties is really really green looking. So yea I just had that question about Unrolling Bermuda hay!
(FYI I’m on 15 acres 4 of its wooded and I’m running 1 bull and 5 cows. )
Thanks again for all your videos!
Good clean cattle being fed in clean pasture with hay #
Greg You need to buy them boys 2 more 4 wheelers you've got to not be To tight all the time and get something that you need extra Great video always enjoy watching this content
Greg, I would appreciate a return video to this spot that you have shown today in a month or two!! It would be great if you could show before (today’s video )
With shots (video) in the future showing the manure and urine benefits.? Maybe this would open peoples eyes to the benefits of bale unrolling, grazing and the subsequent increase in fertility and carbon. Thank you as I watch your videos daily.
Noted!
So would I
Great video, thanks 🙏 for all those tips
Thank you Greg!
I called our local store in Wright County, MO. They quoted me $3000+ for 20 acres. They said the price changes daily, so they only guarantee it for that day
Our problem with hay in west Tennessee is finding hay that's not been sprayed with grazon or other crap!
Bought in November at 750 a ton. Needless to say, my program will be changing.
I love to see what you're able to do but just imagining having to move my cattle whole winter makes me shake. Winter is the time i can finally rest while the herd is safe and comfy under the roof. I can have most of my cows calved in the barn where i can help easily if needed, although that's rarely needed. It's not comparable effectiveness-wise, but i'm not ready to worry about my cattle the whole dark season. I've had a heifer run in front of the car on a highway after wet and heavy snow pressed the wire to the ground and kindly let the herd out in the middle of the night. It took years to be able to sleep at night again. Literally years.
Beautiful.
Hi Greg. Thanks for sharing your knowledge the way you do. This video sounds as if you do occasionally seed your acreage with a Kentucky 31 and Clover mixture. Any information you could share to help correct what I think I heard if I’m wrong, or any details on percentages of seed types in your mix will be helpful. I’ve just purchased some acreage in northern Nevada where many herds are roaming free and living on sagebrush and other weed types. It’s my hope to use fencing and do what I can to get more healthy meals on my average for sheep and cattle. Thanks in advance for any thoughts you will share. Best regards…
have you ever grown a patch out till it was seed stock and seen what your yield is? If you were producing your own seed could be useful to have in your kit. Maybe kentucky 31 spreads better by rhizome. Not gonna beat a $35 net bale though that's for sure. interested to know your thoughts. Blessings to you and yours.
When it comes to paddock grazing and fence chargers, which is the best fence charger? Solar or battery?
So, to recap, I guess from this video: unroll hay, move ruminants, right? I recall from other vid of yours: get a soil test and add lime and phosphorus as appropriate as determined by the soil test. Is that basically the formula for controlling broomsedge?
Yes
What are your thoughts on unrolling vs bale grazing? We are new farmers and trying to get our pastures back in shape, the soil is poor and have been overgrazed for years by previous farmers. We just got accepted into the CSP program here and one of the plans we they put in place for us is bale grazing. We have been unrolling the past couple years but wondering if bale grazing is going to be any better than what we are doing now? Bale grazing was a new term to me so maybe you have some knowledge on it? Thanks
Greg Tik Tok is growing tremendously It would be nice to see you there
Greg, they are spreading chicken,all around my house. We are in sand land it takes a lot to grow crops in sand.
And, you can collect those night crawlers and start a worm business. BTW, it is not just the fuel prices related to fertilizer, Russia is a major producer of fertilizer...
I unroll quite a bit,but if you dont bale any,do you have any problem getting hay found at a reasonable cost? we do
1200 lb net wrapped bales average between 40 to 70 dollars per bale around here.
What about a small sheep operation is it worth unrolling hay when a roll will last me a week or longer in a feeder
What comes first, the grass or the cow? If you are first starting out, say you clear the field, but the grass isn't optimal, would you advise putting the cattle down on that grass and supplementing with rolled out hay? This way the cattle can poop on all that ground and build your soil? Am I seeing this right? Thanks, from a first to be first generation farmer.
If you can afford to feed hay. That's the way to build a pasture. If you can get late first cutting with lots of seed heads on it. Better yet
The land will never improve until you get animals rotating on it. You need their dung, urine and foot traffic to get the biology humming in your soil.
You're right, you gotta work for it. I have a friend that raised a couple of pigs (his first time doing so) and then came to me and wanted me to sell the meat for him. "Nope, I only sell what I've raised" was my answer. Then he wanted me to give him a list of my customers so he could sell his pork. Whoa! "No way buddy! I worked to get those customers, they buy my pork!" I then told him he had to go find and build his own customer base. Farming wasn't as easy as he figured! Lol
It certainly is a journey to build a successful grazing operation. But when you reach your goal, it is well worth it.
Never be reluctant to help a brother. But doing it for them ain't help.
@@jackfanning7952Very true! I dont mind helping a fella out, I have helped this guy plenty. But you cant hold their hand the whole way, they have to learn to walk on their own sometime.
Maybe I missed it but how did you get rid of the brooms edge? I have a lot of it!
You Probably have the answer to your question by now. But just in case, he improved the fertility of his soil by unrolling hay on for his animals to eat when he rotated them through. Over the process of time doing that increased the fertility of his soil making it less desirable for Broom sedge and better for other more desirable grasses. I'm not sure how long that took him. But I guess both the leftover hay and animal wast matter is a good fertilizer. Oh, and from what he said it works better all the way around if the animals put the manure and urine down themselves than bringing it to in from a feedlot or something.
Would this same concept work for running sheep in polywire paddocks instead of cattle? I have brush and broomsedge but I have no idea what was here before it took over. I just got this place a short time ago.
Great show Greg, how about that farm in AZ you were trying to help get started? I may of missed the update.
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What type cows do you have and what state are you in?
Do you have Johnson grass? If so, how do you deal with it? That is what seems to be an issue around here, not just the broomsedge.
I am wondering if I can save sweet potato vines as "hay" for my goats. Any thoughts on that?
Great video! Do you have a solution for getting rid of broomsedge in my field if I don't have livestock? I have 7 acres of it I'd like to replace with clover for bees.
Spread lime and phosphorus on it after you take a soil sample first which tells you how much to put on.
Thank you sir.
Plus, do you need to run a harrow thru those piles to distribute the nutrients? Just leaving in clumps makes it patchy come spring seems like
We never harrow our pastures; our earthworm population eats them up and turns them into pure gold for growing lush grass. Harrowing is a waste of time and fuel.
What do you do when they don’t eat the hay you’ve unrolled and it’s just laying there and when spring comes it’s to thick for grass to grow thru it
This is the main reason we store our bales on oak logs. Our bales do not rot on the bottom, so that when we roll them out for the livestock there is not a big thick bottom mat that comes off. This thick area is what causes problems when unrolling hay. We also purposely unroll our bales backwards which allows the hay to be spread out over several hundred yards instead of 100 feet.
some say the bobtail cows are caused by fescue grass.
I want one of those unrollers but they are high priced.
Make one, they're a simple design.
@@CursandCows yes I need to. I have unrolled with a tractor for years and years but one like this would be nice for muddy days. Now I save small rolls from unrolling and put on a small trailer behind 4 wheeler a nd unroll by hand when muddy.
Can Kentucky 31 seed be broadcast spread? If so, what time of year would you suggest sowing it? Thank you in advance for you reply.
Tricia your best chance at getting a good stand of fescue started is in the fall around August 15th. If it is broadcasted you will need to put down around 20-25 lbs per acre on bare firm soil. If you drill it then you can get by with 17-20 lbs of seed per acre. For the cost of the seed, I would drill it with a no-till drill in August.
I am in Tn and KY 31 has doubled in price from last fall. It is at 2.75 a pound. Everything is going up like crazy, we need cattle prices higher.
Our government needs to quit printing money. Inflation is caused by to much money being printed out of thin air and that money is chasing fewer goods for sale. 2 years ago, gas was $1.75 a gallon, now it is $4.75 a gallon.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher If it was just inflation, the price ranchers are getting for cattle and lamb would be going up as well.
There's an effort underway to bankrupt independent landowners and get their lands for pennies on the dollar. The big agribusiness conglomerates can borrow $10s of billions at 1-2% interest to buy up all the bankrupt farmer's lands.
Its a damn shame that they will get away with it.
@@movinon1242 Also some people want to turn more Private land "Public" but make it off limit to humans. I call them invironazie's. Then you have Bill Gates buying up massive amounts of farmlands. If I understand what I've read correctly he owns shares in fake meat and thinks that the earth is over populated. Then you have the animal rights nutcases wanting to ban the consumption of meat. Personally I suspect all the above of being in it together.
Moving on some ground with mostly big bluestem. I’ll probably do some fall seeding with Novel fescue & red clover 🍀 plus others. Think I’d get shot if I seeded with K-31. Only a small place 10 acres. I’ll just watch the pasture this season. It’s been overgrazed I believe. Don’t move onto the place until June or July.
Native warm season grass. a good rule of thumb is to keep it between your knees and belt.
Just curious, what is the price of Novel fescue seed now?
@@gregjudyregenerativerancherI looked around on websites. A company out of northern Oklahoma had Kentucky-31 for 92.00 per 50# bag (1.84/#)
Kentucky-32 endophyte free
107.50 per 50# bag (2.14/#)
Sold out of both will restock later in summer. That’s what they quoted for past winter prices.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Okay I don't think I gave you what you asked for.
Cajun ll - Novel endophyte tall fescue on Seed World (internet price) 157.77/50# = 3.15/#.
I didn't know endophyte free is different than Novel. The learning curve for a newbie is steep.
Roy
How does Greg spread the cow patties around the fields then for even distribution? I have searched his videos but have not found this answer yet.
Thanks!
Our earth worm population devour them. No reason to drag them out
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thank you! How long do they stick around for? I dont know if i have unreasonable expectations or need more worms! New to this amazing journey of farming and loving the learning curve.
Haven’t figured out how do this with a small herd.
I have blue stem and coastal, made me a unroller out of old jet ski trailer. Unrolling 75% off bales on the blue stem. Good idea or bad?
Unrolling carbon (bales) on your pasture will improve the organic level in your soil and allow you to hold more water which grows more grass.
What breed of cattle are these, primarily?
South Poll
I've noticed that a few of your cows have lost their switch is that from fescue toxicity?
Yes it is
Hi Greg, how would you deal with a pasture that has a lot of thistles on it?
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Goats are the number one eater of woody plants like thistles, but sheep do like a good deal of woody material in their diet as well. You can offer to custom graze goats on the property for goat owners until they push the thistles back, then move sheep onto them. But you have to have a great fence to keep goats on the property.
Use electric net for sheep and goats and chomp those thistles
Thanks for the advice
$6 fuel and $1000 fertile is going to change the way people farm for sure
Matt, I believe your right, but our neighbor had a big ole fertilizer buggy out yesterday spreading chemical fertilizer on his pastures. I bet that nitrogen bill stung his wallet.
Please don’t use there words fossil fuel oil is a renuable resource and fossil means there is an end because ther is only so many fossils which drives the price up.I just wanted to mention that is the propaganda used to creat a chrisis in the now future. Thanks for you Awsome content we have some sheep now but am working on a meat sheep grazing operation.I’m exited thank you so much Greg.
Jeff
Tennessee
Hey Greg! Do you spread the manure out or do you leave as the cow dropped it?
We let our earthworms do the work for us. Dragging pastures is a waste of time and money.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher thanks, I was just considering the eveness
Ah the smell of spring the farmers spreading the manure over the fields! Until I was 16 I had limited experience with the odour. The new government introduced a new education program they called equal opportunity. Basically it meant that our rural regional high school students were all bused to town .before I had walked to the schools in the village that served a good sized area . Equal opportunity for me meant I got to drive with all the students through that stink . Now as a senior citizen I am able to see the advantages the new school provided didn’t at the time though. Right now I am going to walk to work all the way to the office down the stairs it’s there to my left. This old bird is getting an early start I hope I don’t find a pile of you know what or open a can of worms . Oh Mum was a relief school bus driver after I graduated ,I have a story for you about one incident not quite a forty acres story for the song but you will have to wait for it!😘💞🍀🌟🍀👍👍👍👍👍🍀🌟🍀🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🍀🌟🍀🙋🏼♀️
Hey Greg - does spring arrive really suddenly in your neck of the woods? At around czcams.com/video/8w60-Fmk6A0/video.html the field seems to go from very colourless to much lusher colours in under 15 seconds. Maybe an artifact of the camera.
Spring is approaching fast, we are praying for warm nights and no more sub zero weather! In ten days we should be in good shape grazing unless we get whacked with a late winter storm.
Luck is what happens when good effective preparation meets opportunity.
Hey Greg do you drag your pastures?
No we let our earthworms devour our manure pats. The worms eat them better if you don’t drag them.
Greg do you drag your feilds
To spread manure or will the worms take care of it
a manure pat in the field gotta be at least a dollar, at least a man-minute, and throw in the urine.
We farmers are like bobwhite quail...on the bottom of the food chain. Everyone out there are after every dollar of what little profit we can scratch together....all the time.
If you build it they will come!
This year the row crop farmers will be spending some of that $14 soy bean money from 2020.
When you re-introduce your bulls into the cow/heifer herd, how are you keeping sons from breeding dams?
I asked him this a few years ago, he said he doesn't worry about it, the cows figure it out.
You look at all the calves 9 months later, and if any of them looks sickly or anything like that - you just make sure they don't breed any further. In the wild, grazing animals don't care about inbreeding. That's the job of the wolves.
@@smygskytt1712 Doing that you'll lose calves and lose dollars.
@@sagecrockett693 Nope. Buying expensive show bulls and cows cost you fantastic amounts of money. You want animals that can take any abuse your environment can throw at them and then keep on going, and you want that to the lowest cost possible. Breeding your way there is the most expensive thing you can do - culling to that point is really cheap on the other hand.
Richard Perkins has a fantastic video interview explaining the concept of mob breeding, but basically you'll do fine as long as you make sure the weakest ones don't breed on down the line. And for every year, the animals will on average become stronger and more adapted to their environment.
@@smygskytt1712 Ever heard of bull-trading and sharing? Doesn't cost anything other than moving bulls on trailers.
War shmore...we know what the problem is. How about a little debt forgiveness for the farmers?
Thanks for telling the truth about chemical fertilizer. The only thing is that composted bedding (hay and manure) that sits in a pile for a year is a much better fertilizer than raw manure.
I will let out herd do it on the land, I don’t even want to think about the diesel required to stack and compost the manure out of 300 head of cows! No quality of life for the animals or me. Our cows are much healthier getting fresh sunshine on new pasture everyday in the winter than locked in a barn to collect compost.
If you can buy hay for less than 70$/ton you should buy every bale you can. It is hard to believe anyone can even afford to make hay at that rate. I would guess the fertilizer value of the hay ain’t bad for south of 70$/ton
that synthetic industrial fertilizer is no where near as good as the natural.In fact id go so far as to say its toxic
I personally don't want to feed my horses grass or alfalfa grown w/ that terrible synthetic nitrogen .It is bad for their health.
no grain either as its all GMO and its grown w/ the synthetic fertilizers
Got to have the dream, work ethic, and willingness to do without. Greg singing his ''healthy soil = fat cows'' song. Your vids tickle my funny bone, Greg....could turn them into a musical GRASS HEAVEN ... Alan Jackson can play your part, haven't picked Jan and the boys actor/singers. Enough silly for now....keep singing that healthy soil song, it really makes sense ... and $$
Love your humor!
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