In conclusion...By moving your animals 3 times a day this removes them from the new fly hatch each move. Moving your cow herd in the middle of the day lets your animals take advantage of the energy in the forage as the Brix is in it's prime this gives your herd peak performance and gain. In turn this balances the PH causing flies to ignore them this is a win win situation. Congrats to Isaac, Ike and Joel this is brilliant!
Truly remarkable ! I have never seen such sleek content cattle and never in my life have I seen cattle without flies on them mudsummer! Herd immunity, full nutrition, clean paddocks. Way to go.
Looks like we've learned of a new plateau of bovine/pasture health. Flylessness! What about the urine pH? Did y'all have any luck catching some fresh samples? What are the numbers Ian spoke of? Hats off to the GPF bovine and pasture management team. Awesome.
I think I remembe reading somewhere that 200 flies on a cow will drink enough blood, and require enough muscle movement and twitching to consume the calories that a cow eats in a day. If those numbers are correct, 1,000 flies on a cow will take a few pounds per day off a cow.
Can you give us an update on the neighbors triple fenced in, landlocked by stream property, y'all were starting to work on about 3-4 weeks ago? Think you said it was being taken over by locust trees...
If you ever see any better living only on grass, do make a note of it. And report back here. I've never seen better and Greg has worked smart to make it this "easy". Easier than conventional-and regenerates the land like nothing else. Someday most farming may be like this. I sure hope so-it be awesome for the ecology of Earth.
Hey Greg, I heard that if the temp was a 104°, Red cattle's body temps would be a 109 and a black cow would be a 129. So we know who's gonna be crazy more.
Thanks for the video! It looks beautiful there. The cattle are sure enjoying themselves. Do you think you can do a video on the ragweed patch that you moved every hour? I’m wondering how that looks now. This year a lot of the manure patties are disappearing faster compared to the past years. I’m guessing we are getting more dung beetles.
Do you think these electronic collars for cattle, that control their movement will soon be inexpensive. Moreover, do you think they will work for goats?
Sure we could say that about ticks and mosquitos and chiggers too, but that's not how Nature works. You have to have enough prey or you lose the predators. Also when the flies are not biting the cows, there's no losses. The flies become a non-issue. The fly population will naturally decrease as they don't have cows to bite anymore. because that's how their population became what it is now. Wonder how it will affect the tree swallows population at GPF. Greg has hundreds of bird boxes up for fly control.
They look incredibly healthy. How do you sell them? If you try to sell a cow in Texas at the sale barns, it'll get less if it's not black, specifically black angus. It's just the way it goes, even though there's better meat and health with other cattle. If someone's going to sell any other way, they need another path.
@@JoeJohnson1 2 of my friends, one Amish one not Amish, sell beef at a farmer's market. Another has a roadside stand opened a few hours friday and saturday. Another just switched to dairy, sells through a co-op called organic valley. If i sold dairy, l would try raw milk through cow share arrangements like the Amish guy does with his dairy cows.
@@seandoherty4236 then i guess our dairy cows never went much faster than a trot when i was around. I would have hated to see their bags flopping about at the speeds you mention.
A dairy cow full to bursting is something altogether different, lol. But if you put a mountain lion in her paddock I bet they'd hit 15 MPH on their way out.
@@davidpeightal4918 you need to size your herd for what your land can feed in a drought year. To start out move AT LEAST every 3rd day. As you see progress, move more often. You need to have evough of a herdsize for more frequent moves to be cost effective. At smaller numbers, multiple moves per day may not be cost effective, but still good for the health of the herd/flock. Depending on your microclimate and how many acres it takes to support an animal unit a smaller herd/flock on smaller acreage will have smaller paddocks. The size of the paddock is relative to the herd/flock size. Someone with 3 cows vs 30 cows vs 300 cows vs 3000,...measure the paddocks in feet vs yards vs acres,...
@@user-kv2pt4lu9y thank you for taking the time. I’m trying to figure out how to determine paddock size per animal unit. I know it varies by region and other factors. But I’m wondering if there is some kind of rough formula or visual image of how the paddock should look when first vacated to figure out the ideal paddock size. And would a 3 day paddock need more than the 30 days rest? i.e. Is the 30 day rest for a 1/3 day paddock? I know there are many variables. And thanks again.
Use less animals until you have enough land. This is the very first rule of grass management. Also those 3x moves means they graze LESS from each paddock such that recovery is even faster than before. Greg has some videos where he explains more and even uses a white board. He has books, and gives presentations. Most everything he teaches can be learned here in the hundreds of videos he has posted. I went back to the beginning and watch all of them where the wind noise doesn't knock out all the meaningful audio. This flylessness situation is a new thing-I wonder if the swallows have noticed.
How far north would the south polled breed thrive? Would they continue to thrive when foraging through snow? Would they continue to do well if they were fed rolled grass bales?
We have them in Minnesota. Just make sure that they can grow winter hair. Some South Poll will not have adequate winter hair..A good breeder will know which cattle to sell north
They use all sorts of watering points. There are different strategies for each situation/location as far as how they access them. Greg's watering points installations and pond management (NO COWS IN POND) is exemplary, the best I've ever seen. He has a few dozen videos on such.
Noooo, I ain’t spraying that crap on my clothes. It has chemicals in it that will make you glow in the dark!! Just kidding, but seriously don’t put that crap on your clothes.
Well I do. I work in the fields/woods/pastures/streams doing boundary surveys and we would get 10x more tick bites if we didn't ALL use Permethrin on our clothing. We run into very heavy tick infestations sometimes (most often where farm animals have been gone for a year or three). And if you've ever had hundreds of microscopic tiny seed ticks come charging up your pants or bare leg you understand. With Lymes disease and RMSF and other tick-borne diseases being a real and present threat to us each day, we keep our clothes treated to minimize exposure. WE STILL GET BIT, but not nearly so much. I've had RMSF once already and many friends suffer from Lymes. Permethrin is supposed to be perfectly safe once it bonds to the clothing. Never ever get that stuff on your skin. It's simply necessary in my work. GPF is probably not that ticky at all-it's properly managed. Everywhere I go is "between management". Even with treated clothes I've probably had 30-40 tick bites this year. Most from work.
Typical corporate tactics. They found out that chrysanthemums repel ticks, then they found out that flowers can't sue them; so they figured here's something they can steal (oh, sorry, 'get for free for themselves from our common heritage' like when they drill deep and drain our aquifer , and sell the water as our wells go dry). You or me might think "let's sell chrysanthemum extract to keep the ticks off people". But it'
's not enough for them to make money, they wish to stop us from making any, so they want something they can patent. So they have chemists isolate an active ingredient and modify it into an unnatural compound (more poisonous, if possible) that they can patent. This causes us several problems, since we took the stuff out of the context of the complex chemistry of the plant which protects the plant from the toxic stuff (tick killing neurotoxic chemicals, in this case) that they're trying to sell us. The plant might have 50 or 60 compounds to protect themselves from the toxins they make, but we don't. So since pyrethroids are neurotoxic, the symptoms to look out for (probably years from now) might be tremors, tingling, numbness, shooting, stabbing, or prickling pains, difficulty breathing or sleep apnea, confusion, headache, memory loss, tourettes', tardive dyskinesia(spasticity) etc. How 'bout trying chrysanthemum extract or maybe yarrow or yarrow extract? I bet you could find more stuff if you looked.
Rubbing yarrow leaves on our skin works well for me and my crew. Before anybody tells me that's inconvenient, let me say ain't it funny how it's inconvenient to find a plant that grows all around us, yet it's somehow convenient to get some chemical that's only manufactured at one factory halfway around the world! Hmm...
Doe goats and wethers are more readily contained by fencing than Billy goats. Why not simply buy a handful of doe goats each Spring? Given Sheep frequently twin and lambs are market ready in half the time of Cattle why doesn't Greg and Judy run more Sheep and fewer Cattle?
I have to think that Mr. Judy understands his context well enough, after near 30 years of regenerative ranching, to have the right mix of livestock for his operation and the acreage he controls. He is open to suggestions, I am sure, as his mentors and interns alike provide him with ideas and feedback.
In conclusion...By moving your animals 3 times a day this removes them from the new fly hatch each move. Moving your cow herd in the middle of the day lets your animals take advantage of the energy in the forage as the Brix is in it's prime this gives your herd peak performance and gain. In turn this balances the PH causing flies to ignore them this is a win win situation. Congrats to Isaac, Ike and Joel this is brilliant!
They are great graziers and we are fortunate to have them on our team.
Truly remarkable ! I have never seen such sleek content cattle and never in my life have I seen cattle without flies on them mudsummer! Herd immunity, full nutrition, clean paddocks. Way to go.
Full Testimony to your epigenetics too!
No need for grain when you pair great management with great genetics! Have a wonderful day.
Looks like we've learned of a new plateau of bovine/pasture health. Flylessness!
What about the urine pH? Did y'all have any luck catching some fresh samples? What are the numbers Ian spoke of?
Hats off to the GPF bovine and pasture management team. Awesome.
These animals are looking great!
I think I remembe reading somewhere that 200 flies on a cow will drink enough blood, and require enough muscle movement and twitching to consume the calories that a cow eats in a day.
If those numbers are correct, 1,000 flies on a cow will take a few pounds per day off a cow.
You have great looking animals great job .
Can you give us an update on the neighbors triple fenced in, landlocked by stream property, y'all were starting to work on about 3-4 weeks ago? Think you said it was being taken over by locust trees...
Those are some SUPER healthy looking cows, wow!
If you ever see any better living only on grass, do make a note of it. And report back here.
I've never seen better and Greg has worked smart to make it this "easy". Easier than conventional-and regenerates the land like nothing else. Someday most farming may be like this. I sure hope so-it be awesome for the ecology of Earth.
@@wadepatton2433 I wish, I don't see "big AG" ever going to something as logical as this. That's fine though, creates a market for us :)
Hey Greg, I heard that if the temp was a 104°, Red cattle's body temps would be a 109 and a black cow would be a 129. So we know who's gonna be crazy more.
I'm not a pro but those cattle look really good Greg. They all look nice and chunky. ❤
As to groceries, I worry more about Greg than the cows. Sure you’re getting enough of that grass Greg?
Never saw anything like this..
Amazing!
Beautiful herd.
Thanks!
Thank-you Alberto for the super thanks!!
Thanks for the video! It looks beautiful there. The cattle are sure enjoying themselves. Do you think you can do a video on the ragweed patch that you moved every hour? I’m wondering how that looks now. This year a lot of the manure patties are disappearing faster compared to the past years. I’m guessing we are getting more dung beetles.
Bull calf on minerals thinks he is king of the hill 😉
Good job..I'm just wondering do you have any snake problems?
I poisonous snakes here, except for a few copperheads. I’ve never been struck by one.
Do you think these electronic collars for cattle, that control their movement will soon be inexpensive. Moreover, do you think they will work for goats?
movie stars!!!
I see what you did. Move 3x per day.
16:51
video bombed by a hungry fly.
You got that right 😊
Also moving more often due to drought or surplus to maintain a vegetated state
@13:37 Is that a coat that should've slicked off by now? For your region, would you cull her and calf? Or find her a home in the Dakotas?
😊
Did you compensate the neighbour for the goat damage?
I paid $4000 for a new fence between us to prevent the goats from doing it again. Guess what? The goats did it again.
I bet that got your goat! 😂
😂🤦
I suppose the guy who was angry was in denial. Cows have been eating grass since the Lord made them.
fly pop: 1 is too many
Sure we could say that about ticks and mosquitos and chiggers too, but that's not how Nature works. You have to have enough prey or you lose the predators. Also when the flies are not biting the cows, there's no losses. The flies become a non-issue. The fly population will naturally decrease as they don't have cows to bite anymore. because that's how their population became what it is now. Wonder how it will affect the tree swallows population at GPF. Greg has hundreds of bird boxes up for fly control.
They look incredibly healthy.
How do you sell them? If you try to sell a cow in Texas at the sale barns, it'll get less if it's not black, specifically black angus. It's just the way it goes, even though there's better meat and health with other cattle. If someone's going to sell any other way, they need another path.
breeding stock and steers he auctions on his website, he sells sides of beef at fixed price on same website. He has them butchered.
Thank you. Yeah, direct marketing seems the best way to go.
@@JoeJohnson1 2 of my friends, one Amish one not Amish, sell beef at a farmer's market. Another has a roadside stand opened a few hours friday and saturday. Another just switched to dairy, sells through a co-op called organic valley. If i sold dairy, l would try raw milk through cow share arrangements like the Amish guy does with his dairy cows.
Cows walk at about 2 mph, run at about 4 mph.
Cows might trot at 4 MPH, but at a proper run they can maintain 15 MPH, and peak at 25 MPH if it evet felt it needed to.
@@seandoherty4236 then i guess our dairy cows never went much faster than a trot when i was around. I would have hated to see their bags flopping about at the speeds you mention.
A dairy cow full to bursting is something altogether different, lol. But if you put a mountain lion in her paddock I bet they'd hit 15 MPH on their way out.
What breed would you recommend for Colorado climate?
I would use what the local ranchers are raising. They would already be adapted to your environment
3 moves per day x 30 days rest = 90 paddocks. Average paddock size? Who has enough land to do this? These are very discouraging numbers.
@@davidpeightal4918 you need to size your herd for what your land can feed in a drought year. To start out move AT LEAST every 3rd day. As you see progress, move more often. You need to have evough of a herdsize for more frequent moves to be cost effective. At smaller numbers, multiple moves per day may not be cost effective, but still good for the health of the herd/flock. Depending on your microclimate and how many acres it takes to support an animal unit a smaller herd/flock on smaller acreage will have smaller paddocks. The size of the paddock is relative to the herd/flock size. Someone with 3 cows vs 30 cows vs 300 cows vs 3000,...measure the paddocks in feet vs yards vs acres,...
@@user-kv2pt4lu9y thank you for taking the time. I’m trying to figure out how to determine paddock size per animal unit. I know it varies by region and other factors. But I’m wondering if there is some kind of rough formula or visual image of how the paddock should look when first vacated to figure out the ideal paddock size. And would a 3 day paddock need more than the 30 days rest? i.e. Is the 30 day rest for a 1/3 day paddock?
I know there are many variables. And thanks again.
Use less animals until you have enough land. This is the very first rule of grass management. Also those 3x moves means they graze LESS from each paddock such that recovery is even faster than before. Greg has some videos where he explains more and even uses a white board. He has books, and gives presentations. Most everything he teaches can be learned here in the hundreds of videos he has posted. I went back to the beginning and watch all of them where the wind noise doesn't knock out all the meaningful audio.
This flylessness situation is a new thing-I wonder if the swallows have noticed.
@@davidpeightal4918 a grazing stick might be a tool to help you to estimate forages in a paddock.
@@wadepatton2433 thank you.
How far north would the south polled breed thrive? Would they continue to thrive when foraging through snow? Would they continue to do well if they were fed rolled grass bales?
We have them in Minnesota. Just make sure that they can grow winter hair. Some South Poll will not have adequate winter hair..A good breeder will know which cattle to sell north
how do you water the herd with three moves a day?
Iirc he said he leaves the lane open back to the water, so they can walk back to get water.
They use all sorts of watering points. There are different strategies for each situation/location as far as how they access them. Greg's watering points installations and pond management (NO COWS IN POND) is exemplary, the best I've ever seen. He has a few dozen videos on such.
Hello, thank you for your show may I ask do you have ....""permethrin""... sprayed on your clothes??
Noooo, I ain’t spraying that crap on my clothes. It has chemicals in it that will make you glow in the dark!! Just kidding, but seriously don’t put that crap on your clothes.
Well I do. I work in the fields/woods/pastures/streams doing boundary surveys and we would get 10x more tick bites if we didn't ALL use Permethrin on our clothing. We run into very heavy tick infestations sometimes (most often where farm animals have been gone for a year or three). And if you've ever had hundreds of microscopic tiny seed ticks come charging up your pants or bare leg you understand.
With Lymes disease and RMSF and other tick-borne diseases being a real and present threat to us each day, we keep our clothes treated to minimize exposure. WE STILL GET BIT, but not nearly so much. I've had RMSF once already and many friends suffer from Lymes. Permethrin is supposed to be perfectly safe once it bonds to the clothing. Never ever get that stuff on your skin. It's simply necessary in my work.
GPF is probably not that ticky at all-it's properly managed. Everywhere I go is "between management". Even with treated clothes I've probably had 30-40 tick bites this year. Most from work.
Typical corporate tactics. They found out that chrysanthemums repel ticks, then they found out that flowers can't sue them; so they figured here's something they can steal (oh, sorry, 'get for free for themselves from our common heritage' like when they drill deep and drain our aquifer , and sell the water as our wells go dry). You or me might think "let's sell chrysanthemum extract to keep the ticks off people". But it'
's not enough for them to make money, they wish to stop us from making any, so they want something they can patent. So they have chemists isolate an active ingredient and modify it into an unnatural compound (more poisonous, if possible) that they can patent. This causes us several problems, since we took the stuff out of the context of the complex chemistry of the plant which protects the plant from the toxic stuff (tick killing neurotoxic chemicals, in this case) that they're trying to sell us. The plant might have 50 or 60 compounds to protect themselves from the toxins they make, but we don't.
So since pyrethroids are neurotoxic, the symptoms to look out for (probably years from now) might be tremors, tingling, numbness, shooting, stabbing, or prickling pains, difficulty breathing or sleep apnea, confusion, headache, memory loss, tourettes', tardive dyskinesia(spasticity) etc.
How 'bout trying chrysanthemum extract or maybe yarrow or yarrow extract? I bet you could find more stuff if you looked.
Rubbing yarrow leaves on our skin works well for me and my crew.
Before anybody tells me that's inconvenient, let me say ain't it funny how it's inconvenient to find a plant that grows all around us, yet it's somehow convenient to get some chemical that's only manufactured at one factory halfway around the world! Hmm...
Did Greg or Jan ever sometimes want to trade the 4 wheeler for a horse? :)
NO!!!!
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Hahahaha! I knew that was coming.
Yeah, "josh" they know horses.
I know enough not to use them for work vehicles.
Doe goats and wethers are more readily contained by fencing than Billy goats. Why not simply buy a handful of doe goats each Spring?
Given Sheep frequently twin and lambs are market ready in half the time of Cattle why doesn't Greg and Judy run more Sheep and fewer Cattle?
He loves raising cattle. It is not all about money. He primarily raises to sell to other ranchers.
My understanding is sheep give a quicker return on investment but cattle are more profitable long term.
I have to think that Mr. Judy understands his context well enough, after near 30 years of regenerative ranching, to have the right mix of livestock for his operation and the acreage he controls.
He is open to suggestions, I am sure, as his mentors and interns alike provide him with ideas and feedback.