Greg Judy: How to transition onto spring grass for maximum performance.

Greg, good morning/afternoon and question to the expert? On a 20 acre pasture such as the one you are in, how many cattle (cow calf) should I be running. I know it’s a loaded question with many variables. Just looking for some expert perspective? I have Herefords medium to large framed. I was thinking about 2.5 per acre or right around 25 pairs. I also was thinking putting out 6-10 60” round bales of quality hay. What are your thoughts? Vr Daniel

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Great to see things going as to your plan.

Separate calving question. How do you know if the calf has sucked its colostrum down? Do you stand and watch them till they suck or do you just check for vigor and assume they are feeding?

Live to hear of the sub development getting shut down

Nothing like Greg's videos with his cattle just talking. My favorite, although it will be better when the calves are running, jumping and playing in the background.

Fine office you've got there! We're getting more grass species diversity which is great. A lot of common vetch..is that a legume? 2 more inches of rain thank God!

Thanks for the video! The pasture is looking better every day. Are you getting rain? 🌧️ It looked like it was going through your area either yesterday or, last night, or today. We got some rain the other day too. I’ve been working nights at work for our refueling outage. I think I have to work 7 weeks straight of nights. This will be starting my 3rd week on Sunday night. The only problem with working nights is that it is hard going to bed with daylight.

Greg we are transitioning hay bottom ground that has been worked for as long as we have owned it (since 1945). The ground is rock hard and is hardly growing grass. What would you do. You can keep it short and simple. We are in southern mo.

Thank The Lord you got that land to graze and saved it from development! Happy Resurrection Day.

Hi Greg, short story: I was driving my highway commute by Stanford University, and I noticed they've implemented strip grazing on the grassy hills by the particle accelerator. All the cars slowed down and, for a few seconds, people were staring out at the animals working. A good traffic jam if there can be such a thing. I hope some people will become curious and learn that very important change has happened. Thanks for your videos and keep up the good work!

The grass appears to be really taking off! Almost "normal" length. Nice.

2 yo beef steak on pasture. Yum!

We love this lifestyle!

Thank you Greg! I love the part about don’t let anyone steal your dreams and also that it takes work.

So much wisdom as usual : Trust Nature, don't go against it, respect and promote and understand its laws, follow them, keep it simple, observe your soil, go down of your equipment, take a shovel (but put back correctly what you were digging !), smell your earthworms works! How fun is it to you Monsieur Judy to watch all your "workers", above and below the ground, that make their best to satisfy YOU! But you fed them ALL, give them SHELTER by not disturbing their HOUSE and providing one also by shading in summer and buffer in winter! And LUSH green grasses and légumes almost ALL year long, or Good hay unrolled on the ground to feed EVERYBODY when they will be ready to... What a fun and encouraging sight for all your students at your grazing schools! God bless you all family friends and crew and attendance ! Good health and weather to you too and all the critters around ! Bôujou amical carolinien du Nord des USA. Happy Easter !

Scott and I appreciate your advice!

Maybe you should put a mound in other pasture to provide entertainment and pick a spot that already has a heavy amount of rough brome. They will likely stomp it into extinction. I have read that smooth brome is good forage for ruminants but I guess the rough brome is what you have causes gut problems which is why cattle avoid it.

It’s getting green Greg!
Yeah!!

Greg, back in the beginning, when you were still working in town. How did you market your cattle? Sale barn?

Thanks Greg! You are the change we all want in the world and you inspire us to make it happen!

Theoretically, Greg, how many more animals can you add to your herd with the new acreage under management?

GM

Absolutely Greg. Keep the houses off the farm land

Good morning

Good morning!