Assess Pasture Condition

and show you the pasture that i harrowed last fall after we moved the cows out man look how pretty that is it's just beautiful if you're a tractor guy if you're a farm guy that is just beautiful so i'm over here at my first cow pasture this is right outside my front door and this is what i harrowed you're going to get some drone footage of this and you'll see little specks of green grass dark green grass that's where we got out here and we raked out the manure so wherever there was a manure pet or wherever a cow took a pee pee there's dark green grass what we're doing here is a regenerative farm in other words we're not going out here and throwing thousand dollars worth of or thousands of dollars worth of fertilizer out on our land and wasting that time and wasting that money and wasting that diesel fuel when our cows will do it for us simply by providing them with hay and letting them work the land hay minerals and ruminant animals moving throughout your farm so this land was a bit over grazed last year and i haven't got my grazing program 100 percent dialed in yet it's a first generation farm this is only my third year with cal so we're making progress you can see lawn versus pasture now when we get the drone up in the air you'll get to see what we're gonna do is we're dragging this pasture which is across the road from my home that pasture land over there the cows have been over there most of the winter and there's about 42 to 46 acres total in that large pasture over there what we're going to drag is probably 35 acres it's going to take us somewhere in the neighborhood of an hour and 10 minutes to drag 35 acres with that batwing 35 acres in an hour and 10 minutes that is impressive and what we're doing is simply taking big old poopy piles and making them into smaller poopy piles what that does is disperse the nutrient all over the land instead of having a clump of green grass a clump of green glass a clump of green grass that's hard to say we have dispersed green grass and we have more nutrients spread upon the land thus more earthworms more microbes more soil microbes that are going to help heal our land and that's what regenerative farming is all about one