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Implement Rotational (Mob) Grazing for Pasture Revitalization

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What happens here

Begin by setting up electric fence lines to create small, temporary paddocks within your larger pasture areas. The video demonstrates moving cattle to a fresh paddock twice a day, a process that takes only a few minutes. This 'mob grazing' technique ensures that cattle consume approximately one-third of the available forage, leave one-third standing, and trample the remaining one-third. The trampled organic matter, along with the manure and urine distributed across the pasture, acts as a potent natural fertilizer. This continuous movement prevents overgrazing, allowing plants ample time to recover, and naturally corrects soil pH, reducing the need for artificial soil amendments. The frequent rotation also disrupts parasite life cycles, contributing to healthier livestock without the need for chemical de-wormers.

Goal: Actively manage cattle by rotating them frequently through small paddocks, a practice known as mob grazing, to naturally fertilize and revitalize the pasture while preventing overgrazing.

Tools and materials

  • Cattle
  • Electric Fence
  • Fence Posts

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on under the ground folks today on the Stoney Ridge Farm Channel we're going to take you out in the cow pasture and we're going to talk to you about regenerative farming and what I've learned and what you need to know about mob grazing your cows everything you need to know ask questions post comments and let me know what you think about this I don't believe in the food system in this country cow should not be confined to tight spaces and have to wait belly deep and manure for human consumption you shouldn't have to feed these animals antibiotics in order for them to thrive they should thrive in a healthy environment just like this good morning folks and welcome back to the Stoney Ridge Farm it's an absolutely gorgeous day here we are going to show you and talk to you a little bit about regenerative farming about moving your cattle about grazing about overgrazing and everything you want to know about starting your own regenerative farming operation whether you've been farming for the last 50 years doing at Grandpa's way or Great Grandpa's way if you want to inspire change if you want to build the soil build the land and save on your fertilizer bill today is your day to enjoy the Stoney Ridge Farm so let's get busy we're going to feed the baby chicks and we're going to head over to the cow pasture cheers grab your coffee let's go have some fun foreign [Music] folks welcome back to the Stony Ridge Farm Channel if this is your first time here your 50th time please hit that like button subscribe the channel we're providing you great information what I've learned here on our first generation regenerative Farm here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina and you can see it's absolutely gorgeous out here it's about 55 degrees we're the second day of May of 2023 and we're going inside the garage building here to check on the baby chicks so inside the brooder right here we have our baby chicks these are 100 white leghorn laying hens and 35 Cornish cross meat birds and you'll see us processing the meat birds in a very soon future video so we've got the light turned off these chicks are old enough and I'm doing what's called hardening them off we'll go ahead and plug in this light real quick so we have a little fluorescent light in here we don't have heat we're not providing the chicks with supplemental heat right now they're Feathering out and pretty soon these birds will be ready to move outside to our eggmobiles which will be traveling…

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