natural fly control
Greg uses tree swallows for fly control on livestock
Use nature to help rid your livestock of flies. An adult pair of tree swallows consumes 8000 flies per day. Go for it!
Maximum daily gains
Greg discusses grazing boot stage forages for maximum daily gains
Learn to manage your grazing to harvest plants in their boot stage for maximum spring gains.
Planned Grazing Movement
Greg discusses best laid grazing plans need changing sometimes
Even with our best planned grazing movements, sometimes you have to change them immediately. Mother nature is always throwing you a curve ball or two!
sheep
Greg uses sheep not chemicals to control sprouts
Discard your chemicals and graze the sprouts with sheep. Your land, your health and your pocket book will thank you for that decision.
Grazing Management
Greg with the flerd (bulls, sheep and guardian dogs) one 12″ wire!
Cattle and sheep are the perfect species to graze together. The sheep parasite is ingested by the cow and cannot complete its life cycle, the sheep do the same for the cattle. You also get weeds eaten by sheep that would be left by cattle.
Grazing Management
Greg explaining their grazing program to capture boot stage forages
Boot stage forage is like rocket fuel to your livestock. Get your livestock across your farm as quickly as possible when your plants reach boot stage. There’s money in them leaves!
Grazing Management
Greg declaring our advantage of “Herbivores” that run on sunlight!
Graziers have a huge advantage with herbivores that produce a healthy protein from green blades of grass! Are you kidding me!!!!! They also create healthy landscapes that halt deserfication and restore clean water. Being a grazier is a life like no other.
Grazing Management
Greg describing runny manure causes on spring grass
Cows with runny watery manure piles may be losing weight right when they do not need to be. With spring calving, cows need to be putting on weight.
sheep
Greg Judy discussing their hair sheep program
You might want to give sheep a second look. If you have weeds and brush, turn them into cash be grazing sheep on your farm. Any broadleaf is food to a sheep!
Grazing Schools
Greg Judy discussing their lifetime grazing lease
If you want to learn more about obtaining profitable grazing leases check out our grazing school that is coming up in 3 weeks. It is held at Green Pastures Farm. Click on our grazing school tab on our website to learn more.