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.
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!
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.
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.
If you can learn to read the perfect manure pile, your animal performance will skyrocket. By adjusting how the animals graze your pastures your profits will soar. Check out our grazing school in 3 weeks to learn more.
Move em fast enough so that the animals do not take a second bite from the same plant. Get the best of both worlds with faster moves in the spring you get excellent animal performance and quick recovery on your grazed grass plants,
Cattle are like people, they enjoy going to new places and exploring new terrain with succulent food sources!
An adult pair of tree swallows will eat 8000 flies per day. That is 8000 flies that are not sucking the blood out of your livestock animals.
When it rains and will not stop, you have management issues with mud and pugging conditions. Check out what we do with monsoon weather to keep our animals clean and well fed .
Greg discusses winter stockpile management in March mud month! Every day you graze you are putting money in your pocket. Every day you feed hay, money is going out of your pocket.