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Monitor Pasture Recovery and Animal Health

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Small scale regenerative farming..here's how I do it!

What happens here

After the cattle have grazed a paddock, the pasture is left to rest for a full 60-day rotation, allowing the grass to fully recover and the integrated manure and trampled organic matter to break down and enrich the soil. This cyclical process builds healthy, multi-species pastures (including diverse grasses, clovers, and forbs like sericea lespedeza and ragweed) without the need for dewormers or antibiotics for the animals, as the frequent rotation disrupts parasite life cycles. The result is improved soil fertility, increased biodiversity, and healthier animals that produce high-quality, grass-fed beef. This demonstrates a sustainable and natural approach to compost integration and soil management, leading to a thriving agricultural ecosystem.

Goal: Observe the 60-day pasture recovery, noting the benefits of natural compost integration on grass growth and overall animal health without reliance on chemicals.

Tools and materials

  • Cattle N/A — Observing health and well-being
  • Pasture Land N/A — Observing recovery and overall health

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difference in this beef that you see right here is that this animal and this animal and that animal is raised with care just because these are beef cows just like butt head right here just because they're beef cows doesn't mean that we have to be cruel to them and we have to be mean to them these animals should live their best life the most wonderful life possible so that our food is the best and most wonderful food so guys we should all be so blessed to live a wonderful great life with one bad moment isn't that right girl and it breaks my heart sometimes to think about that and to think about these animals as food but it also breaks my heart to think about what's happening in feedlots over medicated animals waiting belly deep in manure that is what breaks my heart and the consumer just doesn't know that if you think that the beef that you're buying in the grocery store is out on grass like this on pasture you're dead wrong guys you're dead wrong unless you're buying grass-fed beef you need to think about that just because somebody in some office says it's certified organic doesn't mean that that cow this beautiful animal hasn't been waiting belly deep in its own manure I mean it's just a sad sad thing so we're gonna go ahead and move the cows that's my soapbox about feedlot beef some feedlots are ran differently I will tell you I've visited a friend recently and he had had a feedlot and it looked clean as a whistle so again the animal's health is our major concern and our health and the health of the people that are buying the beef from the farm is a major major concern it starts in the soil it goes to the animals and then it goes to you it's all cyclic so let's open up and get these cows on this next piece of grass when I move them to a new Paddock I sing my cow song every farmer has their own cow song listen to their reaction foreign [Music] come on girls all right we're gonna open her up this is that poly electric wire it is hot in other words it has an electric fence charged to it it will not Shock you because I have a plastic handle right here I'm going to take this right back and hook it on this post right over here hook it right onto that post and that's it we're going to open it on up and these girls will come out onto some new grass come on girls foreign [Music] come on everybody this is freedom number five that's Butthead right there my favorite ones all have names you'll notice there are some flies here guys our cows don't have systemic fly…

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