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explained very well and in only 2 minutes too thank you good sir

Very well put. You make a great team!

Hi, is this the old Nicholas Ranch? And idea what happened to sarah or david? Grew up in ReeHeights in the 60's and early 70's. Grandpa had the grainery and carpenter /lumber shop just north of the tracks. Any idea about Lori or the other Brocks? Mosers? Any of the originals left? Thinking of moving the Moody clan back to the area and would love to know if it is feasible now that I am retired and disabled Vet? Dave, abigael, Candace, and baby bubu (Cassadra) Moody

I've seen this very thing happen to my land after it was severely overgrazed by sheep. First year was chock full of fiddlenecks, which went away after a couple years of rest. Even the sagebrushes begin to disappear when cows trample them, going for the grass underneath, as long as there is enough rest.

Most excellent analysis sir, thanks very much for diagramming it out. I've played with this puzzle on my own pasture with chicken tractors, but our rest period can be over a year, or a few months depending on where we are in the wet season (mountains of Ca). Also the terrain yields different rates and I'm sure you've covered all this in class. But this video explained in a few minutes with several hours of university professors didn't even touch! Turned on the light bulb for me.

This was great. There is so much confusion around rotational grazing but this video was very clear and concise, thank you! We have 80 acres in central Montana that we are trying to figure out how to best make a living off of with such small acreage. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

Ranching For Profit is the best kept secret in the regenerative ag movement

This is really the best way to approach business and life. Where do you want to be? Now do what you need to do to get there.

Please reconsider using this due to the possibility of chemicals from the tire leaching into the water, especially when exposed to heat and sunlight 😬 Wire ingested by cattle from the tire can also lead to the potentially fatal hardware disease.

It's more like 95% over graze from what I see in central MO.

Effectively, the hay was a value add by increasing the utilization of an asset.

This is one of the most clear videos on these topics. Thank you.

Joel Salatin's Polyface farm is super impressive, his books are great too.

Good video. I do sweat equity on my family ranch for free! Haha😊

Would your course be for someone with no experience but looking to get into the ranching industry?

Very informative but please be careful with being in a hole. Would hate to see it collapse

Thank you for the informative video... could you please guide on how to get rid of pathogen issues due to anaerobic compost. Thank you

Great thoughts!

We use poly wire and timed latches to keep them moving 2-3 times per day. I want one bite taken, and a lot of trampling, so when they come back it’s like a nice spring flush. But I’m very fortunate with the annual precip we get. I don’t have to be as smart as most guys and gals. The west is known for cattle, but people don’t realize how much premium products comes from the other side of the Mississippi. We have a lot of ponds. I don’t back fence until we get to the next pond, or if conditions require it, I’ll put up a lane.

Thank you for your video series, I have found them very helpful & inspiring. I am wondering, the concept presented in this video is true for an individual plant (leave more leaves & it will recover faster). However, cattle are preferential & highly selective in their grazing habit. This results in their favorite most palatable plants being instantly grazed severely, & more leaves will be left on the less palatable plants. Thus the "leave more leaves" strategy presented here over time will shift the plant species composition of a paddock toward a higher prevalence of less palatable plants. ? Thoughts? Thankyou.

Thank you!!

Economics: "Should I do this?" Finance: "Can I do this?" It clicked for me when you said that. Thanks for the explanation!

How big should the paddocks be?

Great framework, thanks.

Both options are giving you insites you need to make the correct business decisions so id argue you should do it both ways for a full picture, without doing it the first way you will never know that you could take your time, your truck and your rented hay ground and graze it for another 3k profit instead of a 2k loss incressing your business profit from 1k to 6k.

Is this on a float? If cows don’t use that tank, that day then it runs over your tank edge and makes an ice rink.

Wow, this couldn’t have come at a better time! Thank you for all the great points. Is there a company you recommend to do succession planning with?

What a great video! Dave, you are a true wealth of knowledge, thank you

The wisdom in what you’re doing is helpful. I’m 5 years away from starting my own rotational grazing operation to produce 3-5 families worth of annual food The principles you’re discussing are clearly scalable

Ingenious

Thank you i had a hard time understnading fixed versus working capital. Do you think they would keep the female cows and sell some of the male?

Hi. I've been watching your videos and they are very helpful. Thank you so much for the information.

Thanks Bruce and Beth for sharing your inspirational feedback.

I would strongly recommend that a heifer becomes a cow AFTER her second calving. During the first 2 pregnancies heifers need high protein. Cows on the other hand the number one thing that shortened their lives is too much protein. Ruminants that are mature can for extended periods filter urea from the blood by the saliva gland thus sending N to the rumin to digest low protein forages without issues of lacking protein. This recycled protein comes from junk in the liver, udder, and any damaged tissue as well as parasites and pathogens. With cows at weaning two days no food or water followed by 2 to 6 weeks very low protein forages will extend their calving while still having teeth into 30 or more years of age. It is key to observe when good guy fill expands to hay belly. This is the point where healthy tissues are being used for protein thus protein needs to be increased again to keep cow health increasing. Fatter cows benefit from longer low protein diets as do cows who have had plenty of high protein forage over a wetter than normal year. signs of high protein from wet year are hoof rot, pinkeye, infections especially viral showing up at all in the herd as these are excess protein issues. Proteins are the number one thing that shortens cow reproductive life span and of great important in bringing heifers into healthy mature cows. So a heifer and a cow require opposite feeding management.

Thanks, that clears up some questions and confusion that I had. I thought that a first calf heifer remained a heifer until delivering the second calf, so it's good to know that it's upon confirmed conception of the second calf.