Issac and Greg inspect their newly established silvopasture.
Vložit
- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Issac and Greg inspect their newly established silvopasture. Opening up the scrub brush canopy last year is paying huge dividends this year with an explosion of new grass and clover plants. By removing the junk trees and exposing the soil to sunlight, we now have a beautiful savannah setting that will produce high quality forage for our ruminants.
If you want to keep your farm profitable every year, check out my 3 grazing books that I wrote on our website: greenpasturesfarm.net/books/
Isaac u r a future star my friend! Keep soaking up that knowledge from Greg!
Amazing job, guys. I like the way Greg quizzes Isaac to reinforce this learning.
I'm soaking up many of your videos! Thank you to both Greg and Isaac for the knowledge! We bought an 80 acre farm with 55 tillable acres 2 years ago. The land has been row cropped for 50-70 years and we want to "redeem" it from its depleted state. And we're 65! Never too late.
When those heat waves come the ranchers with silvopasture are the ones whose livestock will best survive without intervention.
looking good, another great example of simple things you can do to improve the land. thank you and have a wonderful day.
Looks great! Starting out it's better not to purchase large expensive equipment. Better to outsource dozing,skidsteering and even bushhogging to keep input costs very low. Put your money in herbivores instead of expensive, depreciating equipment. Thank you both.
Thanks for the video! It looks great! I need to put some grass down on half the area where I have my cattle now. I’m feeding them along a fence line that haven’t been cattle there since 2017. The grass strip is 10 feet wide and very thick and tall. I am also giving them 10-20 feet strip of cereal rye with a little bit of hairy vetch that they are stomping down as a great cover for the soil. If I was ready, I should put down warm season mix of seed of grass, legumes, and forbs or a mix cover crop. The thick grass line looks great for as getting stomped down to the ground. It looks like they are eating a quarter to half of the grass line and the rest is trampled down. It looks perfect! I learn so much from all your videos!
Nice looking silvopasture. If that were my property, I'd want to add a few fruit & nut trees for the added bonus.
Obviously I’d plant all fruit trees
If you plant nut trees as well, especially hazelnuts and chestnuts, the cows (and pigs, if you pasture pork) will also eat those when they fall to the ground. And for the pigs especially, it is a fantastic way to supplement their foraging with more quality protein (since, unlike cows, they're monogastric), allowing you to keep away from grain silage made with corn and soy.
In fact, you could harvest your own, homegrown nuts-chestnuts, hazelnuts, acorns (if you have oaks), hickory nuts and pecans (if you have those too)-and make your own silage with those. Then feed the piggies just enough of it to keep them alive, forcing them out to pasture to find the rest of their food. And if they have enough pasture to work with, they'll be happy and healthy, especially if there's enough fruits trees (apples, pears, cherries, peaches, plums, figs) dropping gifts for them to hoover up.
Plenty of berry bushes and vines would be great, too. Blackberry, mulberry, raspberry, elderberry, grapes/muscadines, blueberries, etc.
greg you gave a great gift to issac .... he is soaking up knowledge .... amazing .... where could any one learn this other than you .... very powerful to see .... in today world priceless greg
We as well have a great gift: Isaac. We deeply appreciate being able to work and share our knowledge with such a quality young man!
Greg Judy is a genius!! Look at the amazing results!
Have a before and after pictures.
Wow. That was quick. Great results guys.
Mother Nature is modest. She wants her soil covered. We as land stewards get to choose the covering.
Well said !
Have been hoping you would show this area this spring. It looks great, so much better than before it was cleared. Amazing the amount of diverse forage growth for first year considering only K-31 fescue was seeded. It’ll just get better and better.
expertly done
Another reason to concentrate mostly on creating a humus layer over the soil. Once that is established the soil below will grow anything.
Great job men. The hay is what allowed that seed to take. Quick and cheap transition. Great to see.
Looks amazing!!!!
Spread it all over the world!
The high impact mob grazing and winter feed program really works!
Looks amazing. Thank you for sharing.
This is a timely video because we just closed on our property and we need to create pasture. Thanks for the info and encouragement.
Good luck to you!
Issac! Beautiful land
That looks fantastic! It gives me hope for how much growth is possible in just one year using smart management practices. We’re getting reading to clear ~28 acres for silvopasture and I hope it ends up looking just like this!
Best of luck to you.
Thank you for the video
great video
Nice result
Now that surprises me. I would have thought that after seeding and putting down hay that you would have kept the livestock off for a year or two until the pasture established itself. Never would have guessed that you'd have the cattle in there during the winter to trample it. Learned something very new. Thank you!
The ground was frozen and snow covered this past winter when we were on it. Unrolling hay and feeding cows on it really helped it.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher is that were most of your money goes on feeding?
You guys are amazing! Love it! 😁🌱💚🙏✨🌾🐮🙌🙌🙌
Great job guys! Greg, have you talked about the loss of our cattle, chicken and Turkeys we as a nation have recently suffered and threatened our food chain?
When you pen up animals in large concentrated areas, good things never happen. We need to get the animals back out into their natural environment. Everybody wins with that scenario.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Greg, it's come to my attention that this year alone we've had over twenty food processing plants burn to the ground . Many people I've discussed the current situation express concern. Thank you for everything you teach people , wish more would immulate your ideas, we all would be better off.
@@dlivengood59 details?
Feel so sorry for cattle not under management like yours. They are out in pastures scrounging around for a good bite to eat.
Just watched an older video when 014 was a calf and would love to see what he looks like now....if you still have him
Greg, have you considered pollarding the desirable trees that produce firewood, & mushroom logs? Pollarding is cutting the tops off (pruning) of a desirable tree so that it sends out multiple shoots (6-8), that over the course of 5-15 years, will yield the landowner 4"-8" diameter logs measuring 6-8 feet long, perhaps longer.
One of the side benefits of this type of ongoing pruning is that it has the potential to almost indefinitely prolong the tree's life. There are documented pollard (& coppice) forests in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, & Portugal that are hundreds of years old.
When you first started doing videos on silvopasture, especially where you talked about leaving trees uncut for eventual shade for the sheep & cattle, pollarding & coppiceing immediately came to mind.
Coppiceing follows the same principle as pollarding, except that the trees are cut near ground level with the intention of forcing 3-4 shoots out of the sawn off trunk. The shoots, over that same time period, will yield fence posts, or firewood measuring 6"-8" in diameter.
I believe that pollarding is done in the savanna-like silvopastures in Spain where the famous Iberico hogs are raised, and finished on acorns.
That and the ability to provide your cows “tree hay” that cattle take a great liking to. When I drop some trees in the summer pastures my cows just tear them up.
We do a lot of coppicing, makes great forage for both cattle and sheep.
Great job now about the tall straight trees what if you get in tractor bucket and cut about 10 to 12 feet from ground would that make them grow outward and produce more shade for cattle but let filtered light through
Might be worth a try!
My tablet says I am the subscriber who hit 👍 first 😮 and that there were four views at that time! I wonder if insectivorous birds will eat seeds too? This is a great day watching one of your videos is a wonderful way to start my day. Just had a n idea … cue the laughter….create some shade by planting some tree trunks in the field and connecting them with a lattice of wood from off cuts from your sawmill….. seems like a hard way to create a bit of shade …your mission should you choose to accept it would be to make it strong enough to be a safe scratching site as well as a source of shade. I wonder what kind of bird houses could decorate the tops of the structure. I forgot to add the usual pictures 🤔🍀☘️🍀👍👍👍👍👍💝🌟💝🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🍀☘️🍀😘💞💕💞😊🌟✨🌟🙋🏼♀️
Look up joe Salatin and his shade mobile for portable pasture shading
@@vonmajor Justin Rhodes does that for his micro dairy herd as does Morgan Gold for his micro Highlander herd I watch quite a few interesting people who love to make things for their animals. I also subscribe to Richard Perkins another builder I think they all get some inspiration from Joel salatin as well as from Greg! I was inspired by the wood henges built in England Perhaps before the stone ones if I remember correctly and the static gazebos that Mr Tischler makes for people 🤗🤷🏼♀️☘️🍀☘️🖖🖖🖖🖖☘️🍀☘️👍👍👍👍☘️🍀☘️🙋🏼♀️
@@lindagates9150 depending on how deep in the weeds you want to go get his tabletop book. Covers lots of projects from chickens, sheep, hogs and cattle. Will run about $70 but worth every penny!
@@vonmajor I thank you for the recommendation but I have zero interest in building anything besides my compost area and the raised garden beds brought up in the country moved to the city fifty-two years ago for my first job and this is the first year planting vegetables .all Jan's fault so inspiring!
Hí Greg ,I think trées when they are bunched up in a dense forest develop a week structure because they well protected by wind and sudden removal of trees in a big percentage 80 to 90 percent of them like when you make a silvopasture increases the chance to be damaged by strong wind
We will see, all we had before was trash trees. Some of them are decent trees
It looks great how would you go about getting rid of mesquite trees.
I live about 20 miles from Greg. We don't have any Mesquite around here. We have cold winters where the temps sometimes drop below zero. We also get about 40 inches of rain a year. So, the oaks have plenty of water and they would shade out something like a Mesquite.
Do you have a slope limitation on what you convert to silvipasture?
is there a book on pasture plants?... that could be a good idea...
Do you have some pictures or video of this place that you could pull up and put a side by side comparison? Your verbal description is good, but it would be so wonderful to see a Before and After in pictures.
He did a 3 or 4 video series of this area last year in August or September when it was being cleared, and Greg & the young men cutting down trees and etc.
Hey greg, I have pasture that is a hay feild but isn’t being hayed because I just bought it to start grazing sheep. I ordered timeless fence posts for the perimeter fence and won’t be putting sheep out there until later next month. The grass is super tall and turning brown. Should I bush hog it now or just let it go? I’m in upstate ny.
I would turn the sheep into it and let them graze it
isaac better start preparing some presentations, it won't be long before he is asked to come along to speak with ya, greg.
Isaac is so handsome
What kind of seed did you broadcast? Thank you, Greg.
Fescue seed only
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher What type fescue do you use????
@@stevecapps6332 he has mentioned his cattle have been conditioned to the endophytes in fescue. As a result they do better than others and just important his pasture is never grazed down to the nubs where toxicity is the highest.
@@stevecapps6332 K-31 fescue.
Does anyone have a link to the before videos?
Not 100% but it could be this one
czcams.com/video/nRMqT3c0Eqs/video.html&ab_channel=GregJudyRegenerativeRancher
Not sure if this is the same place but is the method. czcams.com/video/tMoFYYu-BEQ/video.html
czcams.com/video/nRMqT3c0Eqs/video.html
It’s killing me just waiting for the opportunity to get my farm started.
Remember patience is a virtue, enjoy your journey.
nice greg any reason why you dont use wood chips ? they contain mutch more carbon
Wood chips suck all your nitrogen up and leaves you with no grass
Grass grows grass. You can't be more explicit than that. Why let cattle or sheep graze it down to ground level and lose 99%of photosynthetic material and yet I see it done everywhere ?. It annoys me to see an over grazed pasture and it's so detrimental to the land and a farmers bottom line.