Mob grazing cocklebur forest, paddock set-up.

[CRSmith]

I live in a large town, will probably never own a farm, and I am deeply fascinated by this cockleburr adventure.

[courtneyheron]

Cockelbur’s...seems this is Mother Nature’s soil structure repair force. With that said, I do appreciate your explanation on how to address this situation. Thanks for everything Greg. Also appreciate the contribution from the young interns working with you. Solid young men! Happy you all are working together.

[davemi]

The Cockleburr Saga .... Begins 🍿👨‍🌾🍿
Does Clark, MO suffer a local mob graze earthquake ?! 🙀 Stay Tuned

[seanzeringue]

Thanks for adding the calculations for animal impact! I love being able to see what the animal pounds per acre looks like! Very helpful!

[NS-pfzc]

Oh I'm on the edge of my seat! And thanks, I now know what that darn weed is that is popping up all over my garden. It looks a bit like lambsquarter when it is very young so I let some go to use in cooking. Literally a BIG mistake, haha.

[jkugler]

"Well you idiot, you should have moved'em."

I'd buy that t-shirt.

[alvisshef]

Truly I can't wait to see this area after it has been grazed. Great learning.

[Digger]

A lot of debatable comments about the toxicity. Plants that are toxic are toxic by body weight. Unless animals are starving, they generally will not eat enough of a volume of any plant that is toxic to kill them. Now consider there is a good understory of good forage under that upper canopy of cockleburs. By the time the cattle go through and select the best of what's there and trample the rest at that stock density, the chance they'd get a high enough dose to hurt them or make them ill is probably less than 1%. Greg knows what he's doing, stop worrying about it.

[tammoilliet]

Cow mobbing is way more fun than brush hogging!!

[seanbalch]

Very much looking forward to this next video

[cordelldutoit]

Hi Greg
Would it not have been better, if you had hay on hand, to keep them on the high ground during the rain and fed some hay?

[tylermccurry]

Hello Mr. Judy. I’m wondering if you have anymore pigs that you’ll be making some videos about. I know they’re not as complex to raise as sheep and cattle, but you always seem to have great information about anything you raise. I’d love to see some hog footage if you have anymore. God bless.

[tammoilliet]

I put my little herd of 9 head to a million lbs/acre on a dryland weed patch with a little grass and clover and I moved them about every hour but I also unrolled a bunch of poor quality hay in the paddocks so they had some extra feed to munch on and then they spread the hay and trampled and deficacated on it so I had the ground covered by lots of carbon. But I can totally get what Ian said about cow power, my little mop kinda felt like a garden tractor! But they also learned to eat Knapweed and Sulfur Cinqfoil!

[davidwalters]

I look forward to the results of this experiment, Greg. Get some close ups of them eating the forage below. Thanks.

[markodeen]

Greg, give us an after video so we can see what they did!

[afamilyaffair]

Uhoh....Those things I thought I'd leave alone because maybe they are sunflowers...I guess they aren't! Hello cockleburrs :/ I sure do appreciate your field talks Greg. As a transplant from CA to OK I have found your videos to be the easiest and most entertaining way to identify all these strange plants in my pastures, or, the mess that we are working hard to turn into pastures.

[markrodrigue]

It’s seems I been waiting 3 days for this insight thanks guys y’all are doing great

[PrimitiveTim]

😂 I'm pretty excited to see that paddock trampled!

[loganyoutube]

Greg, winter rye aka cereal rye is one of the best plants for out competing weeds and it also releases compounds that keep weed seeds from germinating...it also happens to be really cheap 👍🏻

[normansandersiii]

Velcro’s history comes from the observation of the cocklebur. 👍🏻🇺🇸