Converting CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) dead field into lush pasture!

Converting CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) dead field into lush pasture! Transitioning into a thriving pasture from a dead thatch field that was idle for 20 years is done with animals, lime and management. Grazing multi-species animals certainly puts pressure on the CRP field weeds as well as adding biology.

[laughterofelijah]

Such a gorgeous field I just about fell out of my chair! All that diversity I lost count of what was out there! Thanks for showing us how it's done and what's possible with passionate management.

[kennethheern]

Greg, I just planted a small bottom field. I put endophyte free fescue, orchard grass, red clover and crimson clover in it. I've been thinking about adding some eastern gamma to it early next spring. This video made up my mind.

[rev]

Greg, thanks for sending your books to me AND for signing them! I was delightfully surprised.
Your field looks like a forest of forage replete with Eastern Gama grasss (a.k.a. Ice Cream Grass). I look forward to learning from you...

[HeritageFarmsTexas]

Love to hear your passion. We’ve followed your recommendations, but on a weekly turn as we are weekend warriors. So far so good. Thanks.

[roxroxutube]

Greg, I never imgined that this topic would be amongst my must-watch videos.

Your positivity and enthusiam are infectious. My family is from Missouri and listening to you gives me a sense of being with kin.

Your project epitomizes the fact that profitability and healthy ecology can both exist in harmony.

Looking at the plants in this video makes me wonder if you've considered bringing honeybee hives into the pastures ahead of the cattle? So many flowers!

Thanks for sharing your story with us!

[eddeetz]

It's great to see a better model of farming that is a win for farmers, animals and the environment. Also to connect to buyers on utube. That field was a bute!

[mohammadshafique]

Mr Greg Judy has u made hay of such grass? If so plz upload such video. Also name gresses growing in this pasture

[hooverelondono]

What a bonanza God Bless your labor of love

[jaymecurry]

Thanks Greg for your videos! I don't have cows to trample carbon BUT I do have my lawn mower, lol!! My dairy goats have a 4 acre lot and we rotate them through 21 paddocks. I asked my husband the other night after trampling carbon, Does it look like cows have been through here? Thank you so much for your wisdom! I look forward to every video!!

[LtColDaddy]

CRP … they don’t know what they are doing. I have a lot of CRP ground. One way to get past the 50% requirement is to utilize “incidental” grazing by being required to cross areas to get to the 50%. You just move them real slow, 1 or 2 moves per day.

I was actually coached how to pull it off by my county guy. They do watch you though. I parked some equipment on CRP ground and they happened to check the satellite.

[raybankes]

i so want to see this shade mobile you spoke of, as the flock of 88 sheep i help with in Eastern Wash state really needs so me portable shade as much of the land we have does not have much, and some paddocks have zero shade. Please let us know as soon is you can.

[kendawson]

I have heard that if the grass in a field is too high, it will irritate the eyes of the animals as they graze leading to pick eye or eye infections. Have you have any issues with that and if not, why do you think you have not had that issue?

[TheRfmodulator]

I'm sorry to hear about your fence falling down, occasionally... i hope you didn't lose too much sleep over it.

[markstahl]

Does the shape of the paddock effect how well the cows trample the residual forage? In other words is long and narrow better than short and wide or square shaped?

[tammoilliet]

Really hope to see the shademobile on video, I've always thought about that. What is your opinion on cows needing shade on a hot sunny day? Is it absolutely necessary for cows to have shade on a typical summer day to maintain performance? How hot is too hot with no shade?

[tomf.]

For the type of management you do, is CRP redundant and actually taking land backwards with too much rest? I understand in a traditional till/spray landscape there may be a wee benefit but in a regenerative farming practice, that is better that CRP is it not?

[iowahawkeyes]

Greg- What's the best way to control or get rid of all the little "woodies" that grow up in the CRP? I have quite a few throughout a CRP field that has been turned back and being rotationally grazed.

[linseycollins]

Yeah here in ne colorado it just isn't that easy. I wish it was. I'd love it if things came back like that around here. And I even water because of so little rain.

[leen]

Great video Greg! So will you come back and clip that with the brush hog once its grazed and how do you handle the nutsedge in the low wet pastures? Thx

[vitomilillo]

Teacher how come come I can’t watch TAL video.Says private??? I guess one is better than none. God Bless y’all