Grazing Management
Greg Judy article, “Grass Finishing Beeves in The Mob”
Make it simple by keeping one herd as many days of the year as possible. Putting grass finishers in with the cow mob eliminates tons of labor. You will grow more grass!
Make it simple by keeping one herd as many days of the year as possible. Putting grass finishers in with the cow mob eliminates tons of labor. You will grow more grass!
Cows are always happy to move. Just remember when you go down hills with them, get out of the way or you may get run over!
Let the animals do the work of building soil on your farm with each grazing day.
Keep it simple and easy to move. Check out this video that shows our economical movable water tank that does not tear up your pasture. Puggy conditions? No problem with this setup.
2019 grazing school at Green Pastures Farm was one of our best ever. Folks were there to learn new ideas and implement them on their own farms.
With the spring flush you need to be focused on capturing as much energy from the grass as possible. This puts weight back on your cattle after exiting winter.
With hi-tensile electric fence, sheep fence becomes very economical. It is highly effective if it is built right.
With the spring flush of grass focus on getting as much energy into your animals as possible. Move them onto larger paddocks at least twice per day for maximum animal performance. Your in the solar energy business, now go move your livestock!!
With our ATV, geared reels and step-in posts daily moves with temporary fencing is a breeze.
We are going to reverse the trend of get big or get out. We need more small farms not less. Our national food system is broken and along with it our nations soils. We can regenerate our soils and livelihoods with ruminant animals leading the way.