Great grazing farm!! Would love to see it one day. I live in PEI, Canada. For your drought conditions, maybe you’d want to research the rainmaker information and technology that Charles Hatfield used in 1916. He made San Diego flood. City sued him. It’s out there. Genoenginering the weather has probably over 50 USA patents in the last 130 years the elites are trying to cause another dirty thirties food shortage dust bowl. We farm animals and grain methods with organic methods too. You gotta be two steps ahead of these globalists. God bless you for raising clean food!!!! ❤
Oh man you’re in a nasty one. We had bad droughts the last two summers so I can sympathize. Not the worst in 135 years, more like 40. Although you’re a blessed man that you discovered nonselective grazing and have so much stock pile. It has been a total game changer for us. Too bad you couldn’t make it to Tallahassee, it was a great time. Sending prayers your way for rain and cooler temps.
I’m in a similar situation here in SE Ohio. Very dry June maybe an inch or so. A lot of neighbors have switched to hay already. Very thankful to have at least another month of forage in my fields. I’m treating it like winter time just graze what we have available now and hope it grows back at some point.
We haven’t had any measurable rain since Memorial Day weekend. And only had 0.4 inches of rain then. We have had around 0.6 for the last six weeks and most of that was little 0.1 sprinkles early in the afternoon so the sun came back out and immediately evaporated the rain.
@runningtfarmsnc We got a break from the heat and humidity yesterday here and an inch and sixty- three- one- hundredths of rain this past week. Wish I could push some your way. You seem to be handling your situation well, but I know a break for you, and the herd would be welcomed. Take care, and thanks for sharing what you have experienced!
They are smaller and would take a significant price hit against average commodity cattle prices, however we don’t sell cattle into that system as we sell 100% grass fed/finished beef directly to our customers so for us size isn’t the issue. The low line Angus would lack the necessary heat adaptation to work well in our system just as our remaining full blood Angus cows do. That is why we began creating a Composite breed using Mashona as a 50% component of our composite to help with the heat adaptation.
Prayerfully the rain they are calling for today will give us some relief. Neighbor lost his breeding bull this week they think from heat stress here in Turkeyfoot.
Josh, couldnt you have clipped this before spring? I know hindsight is 20/20 but just curious if you think that would have benefited you in this situation.
The forage quality could have been better had I mowed it earlier in the spring but I’m not sure if it would have made enough difference to justify the cost of mowing. We will adjust the grazing as required to suit the cattle until we can get back on higher quality forage.
We graze around 500 acres with the acquisition of the lease on the farm we’re grazing in this video. I expect we can run 1000 lbs of live animal weight now and as our land and genetics continue to improve we can get closer to 1000lbs per acre but time will tell.
@@runningtfarmsnc we got a lot of continuous graziers, a couple rotational graziers but I’m taking it to the next level thanks to your content and grazing 365
Great grazing farm!! Would love to see it one day. I live in PEI, Canada. For your drought conditions, maybe you’d want to research the rainmaker information and technology that Charles Hatfield used in 1916. He made San Diego flood. City sued him. It’s out there. Genoenginering the weather has probably over 50 USA patents in the last 130 years the elites are trying to cause another dirty thirties food shortage dust bowl. We farm animals and grain methods with organic methods too. You gotta be two steps ahead of these globalists. God bless you for raising clean food!!!! ❤
Oh man you’re in a nasty one. We had bad droughts the last two summers so I can sympathize. Not the worst in 135 years, more like 40. Although you’re a blessed man that you discovered nonselective grazing and have so much stock pile. It has been a total game changer for us. Too bad you couldn’t make it to Tallahassee, it was a great time. Sending prayers your way for rain and cooler temps.
Good information
I’m in a similar situation here in SE Ohio. Very dry June maybe an inch or so. A lot of neighbors have switched to hay already. Very thankful to have at least another month of forage in my fields. I’m treating it like winter time just graze what we have available now and hope it grows back at some point.
We haven’t had any measurable rain since Memorial Day weekend. And only had 0.4 inches of rain then. We have had around 0.6 for the last six weeks and most of that was little 0.1 sprinkles early in the afternoon so the sun came back out and immediately evaporated the rain.
@@runningtfarmsnc well let’s pray everyone gets some drought relief soon 🙏
Praying some precipitation comes your way soon!
Thank you sir! We could use some.
Hope you get some cooler and wetter weather soon 🙏
Thank you sir we could surely use some. The rain yesterday evening went south of us not so much as a drop for us.
@runningtfarmsnc We got a break from the heat and humidity yesterday here and an inch and sixty- three- one- hundredths of rain this past week. Wish I could push some your way. You seem to be handling your situation well, but I know a break for you, and the herd would be welcomed. Take care, and thanks for sharing what you have experienced!
I’m new to all this and the info in this video confirmed my thoughts i’ve been having with my small herd. Thank you
That was my May and early June.
I imagine Lowline Angus would suit this system very well. Would they work in a commercial setting or be too small?
They are smaller and would take a significant price hit against average commodity cattle prices, however we don’t sell cattle into that system as we sell 100% grass fed/finished beef directly to our customers so for us size isn’t the issue. The low line Angus would lack the necessary heat adaptation to work well in our system just as our remaining full blood Angus cows do. That is why we began creating a Composite breed using Mashona as a 50% component of our composite to help with the heat adaptation.
Always watching those pats! Praying for rain man!
Prayerfully the rain they are calling for today will give us some relief. Neighbor lost his breeding bull this week they think from heat stress here in Turkeyfoot.
Great video Josh ,you answered a lot of questions I was rolling around in my head ,could you comment on the manure pile that looked more watery
My heart goes out to you. But upside you are putting down solid pasture gentics down. Good seed.
As always, good job Josh
Josh, couldnt you have clipped this before spring? I know hindsight is 20/20 but just curious if you think that would have benefited you in this situation.
The forage quality could have been better had I mowed it earlier in the spring but I’m not sure if it would have made enough difference to justify the cost of mowing. We will adjust the grazing as required to suit the cattle until we can get back on higher quality forage.
Good info and looks like you have it all figured out Josh !! What is your total acreage and cow unit average you expect to run on a yearly basis ?
We graze around 500 acres with the acquisition of the lease on the farm we’re grazing in this video. I expect we can run 1000 lbs of live animal weight now and as our land and genetics continue to improve we can get closer to 1000lbs per acre but time will tell.
Are you the only one in your county or state doing non selective grazing?
No sir there are others.
@@runningtfarmsnc that’s good. I think there’s a couple in va but idk anyone in our county
@@zhostetler3 Not very many. I know of 2 others who are close to me. One just started this year.
@@runningtfarmsnc we got a lot of continuous graziers, a couple rotational graziers but I’m taking it to the next level thanks to your content and grazing 365
@@zhostetler3if your genetics can handle it you won’t regret it👍