Greg tells you how to make a living on grazing Kentucky 31 Endophyte Infected Fescue.
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Greg tells you how to make a living on grazing Kentucky 31 Endophyte Infected Fescue. Folks we have figured out that we will not get rid of Kentucky 31 endophyte infected fescue no matter how much poison you spray on it. So, we have decided to make a good living from it by using good grazing management.
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Greg, admitting past mistakes and what you have learned since is part of why you have lots of folks who listen to you or read your 3 books. Eagerly awaiting your 4th!
Thanks!
I like to learn from the best. Greg has lived it, made all the mistakes and learned from his mistakes. He passes on his knowledge and experience to those who want this lifestyle. He teaches the youth, our future ranchers (his interns) as well as us older students with his videos and grazing schools. Some day soon I'm going to mirror his operation with my own ranch.
@@bryanblackburn7074 thanks to Greg, Joel Salatin, Gabe Brown, and others who evangelize good stewardship through internships, consulting, and classes!
Thanks Greg. We are coming into a time when the facts actual will be the only information sought. This includes all practical disciplines, industries and society constructs. Those of us who have been seeking this understanding throughout our lives will be steeped in the patients required to teach the next generations. 🥩❤️
Yep follow the money pretty much applied to every thing they tried to force on folks.
Love when you mention the date, and the sound of ruminants munching.
good morning thanks for sharing real life events and common sence last years hay unrolling has already made postive results we are ready start feeding some hay and fertilizing for next spring happy grazing chuck
Indeed. The animals are entirely capable of harvesting hay.
Excellent assessment of toxic fescue deal. Greg u did not brag about ur soil situation which is important as well. That and frost seeding clover monumental in our operation. Doc
Wisdom with Wit!
Greg, I farm in the very southwest corner of PA. We have loads of endophyte infected fescue. Thanks for giving us hope and insight. Thanks to folks like you and podcasts like Working Cows I have made many changes in my operation over the past several years. This year we may possibly have the most profitable year ever. I have switched to stockers which fits my circumstances much better. This year I had to force my herd, in some of the paddocks, to eat the fescue with the use of internal fencing. They are doing well on it they just don't like it. I wish there was someone close with South Poll cows that i could purchase stockers from. There is a farm locally that raises Belted Galloways. I am going to approach them about getting some calves next spring. A few years ago I would have said it couldn't be done but this year I may not have to feed but a few bales of hay to get through.
..this is very admirable Greg, down here in Africa (Botswana) drought is ravaging.. and this year seems to be most worse with no rain since mid Jan (tears running down my face)
Will pray for rain for you Eugene! 🌧 🌧🌧🌧🌧
Good Save cause 185 is a BEAST!!!!
Thanks for the video! I planted a diverse of plants in my pasture but I made a point to buy K31 by itself. It is amazing how my K31 looks like now compared to my other grasses. I have a co worker how loves K31 too. He said it’s farmers best friend.
Hey Greg, thank you for the great teaching. Is there a brand of Kentucky 31 fescue that you recommend?
Hello Greg, It is always interesting following your wealth of knowledge any time. The beautiful part is that you keep sharing. What's the feasibility of making profit from starting beef cattle operations the US from stratch. Like how many years projection, how does a farmer make income before being able to start selling cattle since it is somewhat a long to midterm venture? What's a good number to start with? Which part of the US is the best for start ups ?
Seems to me like the way some socalled educated folks carry on our ancestors shouldn't have lived long enough to make the next generation.
Does yt censor "glyphosate"?
Oh there’s probably pro-Roundup trolls that flood anti-roundup content with comments, so it’s easier to not mention brand names. Or even their lawyers.
the same people telling us to mask and jab are the ones telling us to spray
No its not
yeah pretty much@@ryandalion8379
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Generally accurate. Will Harris' 100000 Beating Hearts shows how farmers were sold a bill of goods. Steve Kenyon shows a graph which demonstrated when farming became unprofitable and the money went to the bottom lines of big ag.
I really get a kick out the people that won't eat anything that's had a wormer, or antibiotic, but were first in line to take experimental meds.
I'd say the same thing about people digging up their fields and planting Alfalfa -makes no real economic sense. Use animals that do well on the plants you have.
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Hey Greg. We have 100 acres converting from crop to pasture. What grasses would be your initial instinct to establish. In central Arkansas.
Prior to European settlers, what was the vegetation in your area? Seek historical records.
Dibs on 185
He will be for sale as a Macho 3 year old bull!!
Sixteen days without a new video to Rumble. Any chance of getting this straightened out? Saw the American Buffalo documentary on PBS recently, or rather most of it. Wonder how adding a few Bison cows to the herd would work out?
They load them onto their platform, I don’t have anything to do with that.
I believe bison weigh an average of 1400 to 1600 pounds, have long legs, are thin, require more costly fencing, lack the paracite resistance,...that contrasts to South Poll's 900 to 1100 pound frames, short legs, barrel of a grass fermentation tank, single strand hot wire broke, paracite resistant herd. Comparing the bison raiser i watch who sponsors many companies, some questionable, to Greg's "tickled pink" boasting of time tested fencing supplies, boots that he uses daily--- i cannot imagine that we would see bison added to the mix. However, i could be wrong... 🐑🐏🐂🐐🐇🐣🐤🐥🦆🦢 😉
@user-kv2pt4lu9y no bison are going to be coming to our farm. Been on a few farms with them, it’s a nightmare handling them. If you like hospital bills and broken gates, get yourself some bison.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher thought so, just could not picture you putting up with the long list of negatives. I cannot even imaging you having a non-SouthPoll cow on farm from your effusive praise of the breed.
Not only that but think of the healthcare costs that come with using weed killer.
As a non-farmer or rancher, my limited research has offered up only two alternatives to allowing the non-native, invasive Kentucky 31 endophyte infested fescue to grow unchecked in one's fields. The first is to manage the Kentucky 31 fescue like Greg Judy and many others are doing by rotationally grazing their pastures, and unrolling purchased hay onto their pastures as supplemental feed in the winter when the stockpiled Kentucky 31 fescue runs out. Although Greg's methods are *LABOR INTENSIVE* they free up sufficient time to allow the farmer to rotate one's livestock multiple times per day. This is accomplished by eliminating the time for fertilizing, seeding, growing, mowing, raking, baling, and transporting hay. The unrolling of hay promotes the growth of the dropped seeds of whatever grass species are contained in the hay one purchases. In addition, the rotational grazing eventually promotes the sprouting of those native & non-native grass and legume species that are sitting dormant in one's pasture's seed banks. BIodiversity is the ultimate result of Greg's method of rotational grazing utilizing multiple per day paddock moves. Improved health and tilth of the soil; improved infiltration of precipitation when it occurs; improved water retention when precipitation occurs; reduced soil erosion; increased carbon content in the soil which directly relates to water retention, the refilling of one's aquifer and the subsequent increase in drought resistance; and the return of two foundational indicator species which signify improved microbial life in one's soil; *EARTHWORMS and DUNG BEETLES.* The second methodology is far more expensive, time consuming, and ultimately might give the currently accepted methodology for Regenerative Agriculture soil improvement, as practiced by Joel Salatin, Greg Judy, Will Harris, and others a real run for their money. This methodology is promoted in large part by *Hamilton Native Outpost in Elk Creek, Missouri.* Which is the removal of invasive non-native species of grasses, legumes, forbs, thorny brush, bushes, and trees by mechanical and chemical means; to be replaced with native cool season and warm season grasses, legumes, forbs, bushes, and trees. Unfortunately, it seems that the super-hardiness of the non-native multiflora rose; autumn olive; and the Kentucky 31 endophyte infested fescue; as well the native thorny honey locust and thorny black locust will soon take over 100% reclamed pastures that mimic the once prevalent prairies of the Midwestern states. Without prescribed burns at least every 5 years, the non-native species tend to start dominating the native species, thus reducing their ability to compete for sunlight. Everything that I have learned in recent years suggests that it is *ENTIRELY FEASIBLE* to take non-native infested pastures and return them to pre-Euopean settlement prarie status. Which would allow for year round grazing, giving the farmer the ability to stockpile sufficient cool season grasses so that they could graze through an entire winter like Greg Judy does currently with Kentucky 31 fescue. Unfortunately, the cost for establishing such 100% native prairie pastures is currently anywhere from 4 times to 20 times the cost of doing it Greg's way.
Right, and that’s why it’s promoted by companies selling those mechanical and chemical means of conversion. Other big downsides are the environmental cost and that, the real people footing the bill are the taxpayers, because no rancher can make money using big machinery and chemicals. So they get government subsidies to provide food for people. So we pay for it twice: in the grocery store and on April 15th. I like Greg Judy’s way; he doesn’t make people pay twice for beef.
I'm *NOT* an advocate for *ANY* type of government subsidies, especially agricultural subsidies. As far as I have been able to determine, *EVERY SINGLE* government subsidy *DOES NOTHING* but further enrich those who are *ALREADY* wealthy. The tipping point for truly making money with government agricultural subsidies seems to be someplace between 20,000 acres and 50,000 acres of cropland that is planted primarily in corn, soybeans, or wheat. Will Harris of White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia, claims that the maximum amount of land for a farmer practicing his style of Regenerative Agriculture is roughly 5,000 acres. The *KEY* to his success was his willingness to take the massively risky chance of securing the huge loans for the millions of dollars necessary to build one of the *ONLY TWO* privately-owned, FDA approved and inspected, small-scale, large animal abbatoirs in the United States that are located on private land. With the success of the large animal abbatoir proving its worth, he and his family then borrowed the money to build an adjacent small-scale poultry abbatoir, again on land that he owns outright. As for those who wish to attempt to make a good living raising cattle, sheep, and goats on pastures and agroforested lands with 100% native North American species of trees, forbs, brambles, bushes, legumes, and grasses; then the folks at Hamilton Native Outpost claim that it is more than a pipe dream, but a reality. As they have spoken about in multiples of their KZhead videos, the eradication of the Kentucky 31 endophyte infested fescue on Midwestern lands *CAN* be accomplished *WITHOUT* using the herbicide glyphosphate *(Roundup).* They readily admit that without the kill factor of the glyphosphate, the eradication process for the various non-native species on most cropland that someone is attempting to convert to native prairie grassland pastures is going to be more problematic, as well as take longer.
@@brucemattes5015greg does alright without his own processing plant, doesn't he? Here praying the Prime Act goes through though
All that baling did reduce endophyte toxicity, but why replace it with novel? Why not orchard or native bluestem?
Neither of those species measure up to fescue for dormant winter stockpile.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher winter freezing also reduces toxicity?
How much for #185!? :)
He’s not for sale
Does the same mindset hold true for dairy goats? Aha..