Our North Carolina Soil is Horrible! How this farm heals the land!

Through poor farming intensive farming processes, we've lost most of our topsoil. That's what our winter feeding regiment is really focused on is building soil. And I'm going to do another video in the summer where we'll talk about our summer grazing program, and I'll briefly touch on it before we talk about winter. So, in the summertime, I'm moving these cows There's about 50 cows, and we're moving them on around a half an acre to a 1-acre paddock every 12 hours. They're in there long enough to knock the tops out of grass, move to the next. Knock the tops out, move to the next. Knock the tops out, move to the next. In the summertime, our game is totally different than in the wintertime. You can't have your wintertime game on your farm or your regenerative farm just like your summertime game. You just can't do it. These cows are going to stay in this pasture, and they've got access to about 15 total acres. This is a sacrifice paddock right here. And let me tell you about sacrifice paddock. We're rolling out hay, we're setting out hay, we're putting it all out here. The cows are eating here, they're lounging here, they're pooping here, they're peeing here. They're feeding the soil. The soil pH is about four. What comes out of the backside of that cow is a just about pH neutral. We want our pH to be around six, 6.2-ish, something like that to get our good high-quality forage on our farm. In order to do this, sometimes we got to sacrifice a place in the wintertime. Taking these hay bales, these big round bales, and we're unrolling them with lightweight equipment. We're using an ATV and a Greg Judy Bale Unroller. We're using low-impact lightweight machinery to feed our cows.