Greg explains how to grow clover without planting it on your farm!

Published 2024-07-02
Greg explains how to grow clover without planting it on your farm! You've got to take advantage of your cow herds hooves to help you plant and invigorate the seed bank on your farm.

Hope to see some of you at the Powerflex Retail Store grand opening at Seymour Missouri on July 12-13th. I will be giving some grazing talks highlighting the successes and failures of Green Pastures Farm.
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All Comments (21)
  • @Evpat2000
    Absolutely beautiful, thanks for sharing!
  • Greg I agree Jan needs to add some bee hives over at the bull farm get those bees making clover honey.
  • @rodolpheROGER
    Monsieur Judy on your remark about whitetail deer food plots you are so right! Owning myself some woods and marshes I can't wait to improve them as sylvo pastures by thinning the pines and finding new Zealand Kaku grass and "lotier des Marais" to seed at first (it will drain the swamps, they do it in Brenne, Sologne in France, lands of poor shalllow sandy soils over by clay under, drained by monks in the Middle Ages through ditches and ponds! Your tuition videos are priceless! God bless you all and your family and your interns! Have a good summer and all seasons to follow!
  • @tritchie6272
    Tree's, shade in the summer and windbreak in the winter. I'm guessing the key is having the Right amount for your operation. As thick as that pasture is,the cattle that get it might think they are in Paradise.
  • @triciahill216
    Greg - We didn’t get around our farm fast enough this year and the clover in our last main pasture laid over and browned up. When we brought our cattle (South Polls) in to graze it about a week ago, they mostly went for the goldenrod and other weeds and forbs because the clover wasn’t vegetative. In the fields where the clover was still green, the cattle went right for it earlier this season but seemed to balance their intake of clover with weeds, forbs and some grasses (previously rolled out seedy hay on fields with GJBU). Question: Will the clover that laid down brown and has now been trampled by herd recover? Thank you.
  • Greg- Do you have any problems with thistles? I constantly fight thistles in my pastrue, wich is not rotatioally grazed. If rotating solves that then I'm sold. Thank you for all you do.
  • @duotronic6451
    At 0:30 look close at the dangling wire. Something is wrong. That wire should be connected to something or removed. If it flops around in a wind storm, it will short. Call the utility company. Send a photo.
  • @papaal7014
    Greg, couple years back you spread clover seed on a neighboring farm where you were going to buy his hay. How did that come out.?
  • Purple Martin/18 free choice mineral feeder….Combo….🤔. Gregarious bird like purple martins probably wouldn’t mind a RV style nest box🤔🤔long time subscriber. Watch every video keep the education coming 👍👍
  • Sir I was wondering if you knew anyone out west that rotational grazes sheep and cows that have to deal with large ani.als elk, bear and wolves? I'm interested in the fencing and layout.
  • I don't know why but my swallow house I put up are full of Martin's. Purple an brown chested Martin's. I've got a few swallow but for some reason Martin's beat them in this year 🤷‍♂️
  • Mr. Judy; what do you think of Bahia grass? It takes over here in northwest / west Louisiana. Of course we know it’s drought resistant. So we get it probably from pasture mismanagement. I grew up working on a 1300 acre cattle farm doing everything wrong. Bahia took over hay meadows except where we had hybrid Alisha.
  • Thanks for the video! It looks great there like all your farms. For the first time I got some birds foot trefoil. I seed it in 2020 or 2021 so I understand what you mean by in the seed bank. I also have seeds from across our property because we are across from a native prairie. I bet birds and animals bring it over to our property. Just like you said rain brings on the clover for sure.
  • @Hilltopblues
    Greg in the arid west. Would alfalfa be a better choice?