No Land, No Money, No Livestock, this video explains how to make a full time living on leased land.
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- Starting a fledgling grazing operation is much more profitable with leased land. Leasing land frees up equity to grow your business! Check out my books on our website: greenpasturesfarm.net/books/
He never changed his tone yet he got me really motivated. He makes a lot of sense.
"You're sitting behind your computer at your day job, and you're sick of it." How did he see me?!? haha
Put some tape over the camera hole on your cellphone and then he will only be able to hear you.
I’ve got 12,000 acres leased and the reason I was able t lease it is because no one else wanted it. It’s in the desert and I’ve got to haul water every day but it’s my ranch and all my livestock are paid for. Greg is right To control the land is where the money is at. 🐐🐏🐑🤠
good luck man
May I ask how exactly you manage your water?
Biggest issue I have is water.
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My landlord gives me the water and I haul it in Trucks. The longest haul would be about four miles. In the the summer I’ll need about nine or ten thousand gallons a day. In my area average rainfall is 7” per year.
@@mikecanaday5731 Thanks.
You water all the land daily?
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Animals in the desert drink a lot of water 💦 so every day and some times more than once.
I've got a free lease and $400. I bought a calf and milk replacer, two weeks in he's still okay. I bought six tiny hairsheep lambs, lateborn, and five are female, they were $25/ea. I'll get em catchable and sell em privately, see what comes thru the sale barn next. Hangin by a hair but it's a start
get part time job , keep them in electric fenced area
Would love to see your progress. You got a blog or anything?
God bless you
Way to go!!! I was given the opportunity in the past week for a free lease all I do is clear and don't have the money for livestock so your comment helps give me hope I can do it! Thank you and good to you!
@@tha_munk2030 All you do is clear? I hope you've got some goats to do that for you. :) A lot of goat owners will do it for little to nothing on other people's property just for the free forage.
Every successful farmer I ever met has a note pad in his pocket.
That note book is called a 'learning curve' book, mine is full. )
Not just farmers. A trait of successful people is the ability to create an agenda (and work on completing it). A note pad is a terrific tool. I use one to help my poor memory.
Greg, I have been watching for a few years. Started with chickens and moved em every day. Now I’m into dairy goats and I move them every day. I have 26 acres available to lease, and now it’s time to move up to grazing.
I am 24 and your wisdom is making my paths clear! Thank you
Best of grazing to you !!
I think this video was the key to something important for me to understand before moving forward in the direction I should be going. Thanks Greg. Truly amazing knowledge you are sharing.
As always it deserves more than a thumbs up :-)
1.Find area where there is 28-30 mm rain. Moisture makes thinks quick to grow.
2.Get a 5 year lease minimum. Written!
3.Make the land look good and work on it.
4. 1-5 acre land can be played with. There could be free land as well.
5. Grow grasses for the livestock. Find which grasses goats or sheep like.
28-30mm? That’s barely an inch
@@Josh_Koster probly meant cm
Inches …
Shouting a huge THANK YOU!! You've confirmed it for me. I work a full time 9 to 5 and tired of looking at a screen all day. I've been wanting to start farming but wasn't sure where to start. I'm searching for land i can lease now. Thank you so much!!
How did you go?
My son’s in-laws make a good living farming on leased land. They grow hay and have no animals. They only own one acre, where their house and shop are located.
Excellent content!! 👍 👌 😎 Came across your channel and subscribed!! Thanks for sharing!!!
You're an inspiration! Thank you Greg!
Thanks Greg. Appreciate your wisdom.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom, Sir!
Thanks as always for the great information and encouragement.
such an inspiring video Greg! you're a bloody legend.
thank ya fer another great video amd the pep talk,, thanks
Wonderful Greg: you got me thinking here in Aussie
Thanks for the expertise and encouragement
Absolutely amazing! Fantastic speech! Thank you
I’m 21 with two baby boys and there is nothing I would love more than to make good money close to home where I can be there and watch my beautiful family grow and live the rest of our lives on a ranch
Sir, I appreciate your time and wisdom words. That was real gem. Thank you.
Really appreciate your teaching style and how you make it simple to understand. Thank you and God bless 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Didn’t even know that was a thing to do. Thank you, partner
The more we learn from you guys the more we enjoy going back and watching your older videos again, because now we really get it!!
I am so grateful i found your channel! The info on here is absolutely priceless!
Excellent commentary - you are a real inspiration Sir. Thanks!
Very inspirational & encouraging!
Great information Greg. I have been looking to buy land but never thought of leasing it.
Ik it's probably common knowledge in rural areas and among farmers but I'm 47yo and I didn't realize how economical leasing grazing and farming land is until a year ago from watching this video I think. I am here watching again, I am gonna do this someday soon, and I wanna say this video is a treasure. I can't be the only moron who didn't think of this before so you really are probably helping allot of city slickers like me realize we can do this to and we don't need to invest in a whole farm to learn and try it
This guy is awesome thank you for the advice
I appreciate you sharing your wisdom and experience with us. Please keep doing it I need it!! I’m gonna make a life on the land. I refuse to accept anything else. So I need everything that you are willing to share Mr. Judy! I’m so indebted to Justin Rhodes for introducing me to you. I have already learned quite a bit from listening to you. But more importantly I think my attitude has improved!! I feel more positive about reaching goals I set for myself than I ever have. Mr. Judy you have plaid a big role in that. Thank you!! Please keep teaching us. Good luck this deer season and God bless
The law of compounding applied to cattle. VERY GOOD video Greg. This should bring hope to every aspiring cattlewoman or cattleman around.
Great advice thanks Greg
After spending all day yesterday and today with Greg Judy learning in person I have to say THIS is the best information and teacher anywhere on the planet for those of us who want to take charge of our own food, our own livelihood AND help to save the planet at the same time... thank you!
Hi Greg you're an amazing man! About 2 years ago I started leasing 75 acres across the street from my house (2 acres), I have honeybees, Berkshire hogs , 8 head of cattle at the moment. My goal is to start raising grass fed beef as the main part of my farm all thanks to sharing all this knowledge.Cant ever thankyou enough!
Greg I'm paying close attention to your videos,and I have your first book. I'm buying about 80acres of prime pasture and the goal is you start raising cattle next year. Thank you for all the great knowledge you are sharing.
Greg, I watched this three years ago but I'm watching it now again and it motivates me equally as much or more so to go lease some land and start raising sheep. I'm going to get some of your books.
Please link your book. Ty for the sharing of your knowledge.
Congratulations Greg.. I am from philippines and my father own a farm also like your videos..i love cows goat and chicken
The most valuable thing to own is this knowledge. Practical application and experience is gold. Thanks for your videos. ❤️🌱
Experiance is an excellent teacher. It trumps make believe every time. Most people go into something new with a lot of hope but doing something new is not easy.
I can tell that you really want to help people. It shows in the way you talk.
Awsome advice thank you so much
You got me thinking about leasing for meat chickens (something I might be able to do currently). A buddy of mine has a couple acres of yard he doesn’t use. I tease him about not having chickens. I am going to play with it in my head, see if a meat tractor or two is doable and see it I can work a deal. Even if I can’t sell them I could possible use them for my family and save a few dollars and since he isn’t doing anything with it anyway, I could pay him in chickens. Thanks for the the inspiration.
I just followed your channel and im happy that I found your work because it much needed. Whats your take on grand solar minimum in the up coming years and how you gonna overcome it ?
sheep work well with this. also USA gov gives out sheep firebreak grazing. homeowners association and keep sheep grazing contract if you have a really good flock of sheep or goats and manage them correctly. great way to walk into a paid job that's paying you to be there. sometimes requires a bit of supplemental feed. mostly not if you got goats.
Such good advice. We bought the land first and it's been very slow going. We'll get there, but probably would have gone much faster leasing first.
Great Man, I want to attend the May, When I have to register your class
good topic! great thing about cattle is they can rebuild the poor ground into productive ground.
Thanks Greg
Thanks Greg, im inspired~!
Great video greg
Appreciate the video, I've been on the search for 3 years for land around St. Charles County, MO...no luck yet!
Some places are hard to find land at. Expand your search and you might get lucky
This is a wonderful resource. We are so lucky to have opportunities like CZcams to hear from someone who might be half the country away, to gain their knowledge and add it to all the others.
The best resource for knowledge is talking to other people, and we get to do that passively with so many farmers through CZcams.
That doesn't mean stop there. Get out and meet people locally.
You can find farmers, and some will be willing to talk to you, at so many places without needing to go door to door.
- Farmer's Markets
- Auctions (Commodity and Equipment)
- Your Local County Fair
- Veterinarians That Treat Livestock
- AG Centered Events, such as 4H (even the kids will probably teach you something), Rodeos, and Historic Equipment Shows
- A Small Farming Town Diner (most advice I have ever gotten for the price of a cup of coffee, great multitasking as you soak up knowledge while having a good meal)
Head to those types of places, walk up to someone who looks like a farmer and shake their hand. It's easier to pick up some knowledge from a complete stranger about farming than it is to pick up a girl or guy at the bar.
I appreciate your info thanks 🎉❤
Greg I really appreciate your words of wisdom. I own 140 acres in SW Texas and regenerating the land. We’re making progress. Thank you. Quick question ? When you lease the land and have cattle brought in and as you describe it as a manager. Are you involved in the cattle day to day or is the cattle owner taking care of them. I just ordered your book, the answer to my question may be in the book. Thank you for the answer. Blessings. Monte
I just met a couple who own 4 farms. They started off by leasing a plot and growing ginger. They still grow ginger, but they now have employees to pick it, and they have 100 head of cattle, growing a herd (yet to sell any). I knew that Joel Salatin says to lease, but to meet people who've done it so, so successfully... !
oh my gosh what an interesting idea!! wow
Great advice
Thank you so much. Almost cried. No farming background, moving in January to the land only with my God, my dog, my skin and my knowledge. Thank you for the encouragement. God bless you
Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
The best of luck to you Lucas!!
Greg! I love you!
Excellent Video!!!
I love this video I wish I could have a farm too
Lol we've got 1/4 acre and rabbits :-). I get you on a small scale ;)
I have almost half an acre, half of that buildings & trees. Neighbor said I could lease that bottom land. I have 8 chickens- rooster is a meat bird-ran out of time to butcher. 7 are laying hens.
Good advice 👍
I would love to just hang out with this guy while he is farming everyday.
Greg we just purchased a 90 acre farm in the Berkshires MA the beginning of this year. The Farm came with a 1820 house and 3000sq barn. Hasn’t really been farmed for 20 years just used as high grade hay. There’s about 50 acres in hay and 40 acres wooded. Im probably going to open up another 20 acres in the years to come. I know absolutely nothing about farming so this will be a adventure for us. Where going to start our own CZcams channel to show others our progress as time goes by. Wish us luck.
Hogs and goats can use woods. Salatine would get a chainsaw and wood chipper and make bedding/mulch
Brilliant!
Wow! I’m looking forward to hearing more about this.
Try to get a purchase option along with your land lease. That option can appreciate a bunch, whether you execute not. And maybe you were the one to force the appreciation. Flip the option, or buy the land at less than market value.
Greg, great advice.. What do you do about equipment, tractors etc if you are just trying to get a start. And where can I find your books at?... By the way I am in Georgia.
THANK YOU !!
Hey Greg, in an upcoming video can you talk about how/where you market your meat (beef, lamb, chicken, pork)? In the last three years of my farming adventure I’ve learned that raising the animals is the easy part but without a market they will cost you money rather than make you money. Thanks for your great videos and passion with which you share.
that is key . first finds wholesaler , price and quantity they can buy. then look for direct buyers later to increase ur margins
You're pretty cool guy.
So its 2023 me and a friend are starting and we are leasing to start just to see if we can do it with sheep . We found a farm that needed a good bit of work approached the farmer about leasing his pasture and said we will do the work to bring it up to par and so far it's working great.
Good job!!
That’s awesome advice.
For me personally it’s going to be 5 steps
- actually move to my land
- take a class on animal husbandry
- learn on my own 5 acres to build pasture and not kill my livestock
- develop a direct to consumer market locally
- expand to leased land
I’ll keep watching you and learn
how did you go?
Inspiring! I have been a software engineer for 15 years, I now wish I would have been a farmer. Looking forward to getting started on my retirement!
With your software engineering background, you could help develop low cost tools that help farmers and ranchers manage their inputs and outputs, make record keeping simple. Personally I would love a tool that’s based on excel spreadsheets because the cost of software updates is minimal. Just saying.
@@4philipp strongly considering doing that. I don't know much about running a Farm but I am considering building a platform for Farmers using a Co-op model to keep the costs to the Farmer low. As long as I don't have silicon valley venture capital then I don't need huge profits. The Farming community can own the platform.
Un Seen you might want to check out Richard Perkins in Sweden. Besides doing regenerative farming, he sells thru a REKO, which is almost like a Facebook group but he has also been promoting a project that develops a platform for farmers by farmers. Kind off.
What I would be looking for is the simplest form of tracking basics and being able to chart and print it. Personally I don’t think farmers should need high-tech to do their jobs, just have a simpler record keeping mechanism.
But I’m not a farmer yet, so maybe others think high-tech is the way to go
check out Holistic Management (it came out of holistic planned grazing systems) - it has systems in place for making decisions about land and one's life that are awesome. Savory Institute is the place to start. The Holistic Management book is amazing, full of info about management and land.
Good talk
Would you consider a custom grazing and care lease as a viable option when looking to expand your operation?
Yeah, definitely not getting pretty pasture like that out here in CA.
I know it depends on the soil. But if you leased land that's fairly baron & grassless, what would you do to cultivate some lush green grass? Would you sow some pasture? If so, what type?
Hey Greg, I am just starting out in the Ozarks and I love your videos. Does your book go into more detail about how you were able to get livestock that you didn't own on your farms? The management idea is intriguing
No Risk Ranching Book goes into detail on finding livestock to custom graze
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I'm thinking of buying 289 acres in Mississippi. I would want to lease the land to sharecroppers. I see some prices range from $170-$225 per acre. What I need to know is, is that every month or they pay that whatever amount for the year. Seeing that 289 acres at $225 an acre is $65,025. That would be the payment for the year or would that be the payment each month?
@@beezytalkingshit9319 that number is by the year
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Ok thank you so much. I couldn't find this answer anywhere.
Are all the perimeter fences you put up on leased properties only high tensile electric?
How do you pick what breed will be the best for your area? Does it vary? What breed do you run
Hello sir, trust you are keeping well. I have a small query. How to make the beef meat industry a reliable and sustainable one for the year?
How do I keep my cattle from being stolen from leased land if I have to work a full-time job in the beginning? I'm a hard worker but the naysayers have presented me with a good question. I can't watch my livestock all day in the beginning. I can check on the livestock everyday but it will have to be after work. What is the best practice to protect them? Is it necessary to have someone watching the livestock for most of the day?
Greg, what's your Bull:Cow ratio?
Could you do a video explaining how to scale down... for example with 10 acres what the scale would be.. paddock sizes... herd size.. etc thanks love your videos!!
@@fooddude9921 thanks for the in-depth reply. It was very helpful!
@@fooddude9921 How do you calculate animal units? Everything I have found says that a 1000 lb cow is 1 AU, not 100 AU. I am looking to run a Dexter cow/calf pair on 1.8 acres, going up to 3 acres next year. Am I able to get adequate animal impact and still have a 60 day rotation? I think the 1.8 acre area would be divided into ~1300 sf paddocks to get a 60 day rotation of paddocks.
@@McClureOutdoor That's what he said. 1000lb = 1AU
Can anyone give advice about a nice three full grazing acre farm that is lived own and owned. How to, how many etc cows.
How would you go about charging for a custom grazing service?
I think Greg is representing this proverb well when he says not to worry about buying land until your business is running and working:
“Prepare your work outside And make it ready for yourself in the field; Afterwards, then, build your house.” -Proverbs 24:27-
At least one still believing in the american dream and apparently living it. Good for you, Sir.
Would love to hear how you Market your calves and lambs. I sell a few off the farm for meat but majority go to sell barn. Great video
he sells to company that sells grass fed beef
I inherited the family business a few years ago and came to realize all these investment advisors only want your money so THEY can play with it.
If there is an opportunity to work in your farm. I will take it immediately haha
Hi Greg, love the way you operate. What sort of average rainfall do you see in your area?
38 inches a year is what they say is our average. The last two years our average was 25". This year we are back to average it seems.
Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher thanks for your reply.
Can you do a top 10 States to start homesteading in if you're looking to we locate
I will do a video on that
I always tell people to go south. It’s nice and warm and people like that. It also keeps them out of snow country where I am ;)
How do you supply water to the leased property?
how do I go about leasing just 1 acre. I want to apply this concept with growing produce.
More common sense, thank you Greg!
Breaking cattle to the electric fence; do you have a film that shows your experience?
Thanks
Peter
If you buy livestock that was raised on grass and with electric fencing, then they are used to it already.
If they are raw to electric then bring them into a charged holding pen and leave them there for 48 hours is I believe what Greg recommends. Tie a couple aluminum cans on them and once they have corralled themselves toward the center each time you've checked on em for a few days then release them.
If I can remember which video he covers this in detail I will lost it here but I know I've seen him highlight it more than once
@@scottwall8419 tie cans to electric fence
It will attract cows and get them trained (shocked) faster, Mr. Judy says