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Some days on a farm/homestead are celebration and some days are mourning... and some days are a bit of both, often within hours of each other. Yesterday we had a beautiful calf born and it was an easy calving by all accounts early in the morning when it was still relatively cool. This picture was while he was napping within the first hour after birth. The cow is a good mother and was very attentive staying close to the calf but it was never able to stand up and passed within a couple of hours of being born. We believe there was likely a congenital heart problem because it seemed to be breathing fine. Just goes to show that not everything is picturesque on a homestead. Like a farmer once told me years ago.. if you're going to have livestock... youre going to have dead stock unfortunately.
| 2 |  +1We just received another 200 meat birds for customers. One brooder wasnt enough, so we split the chicks across two. I really like these ceramic heaters vs using heat lamps. They pull a lot less current and dont pose fire dangers. We should be processing another batch soon thats reached maturity. Let me know if you want to know what kind of brooder heaters we use. | 1 134 |
| 3 |  +5We cut some more lumber up recently by having a guy with a mobile saw mill come and help. Scroll to the bottom to see the video. We paid him for his time and the saw mill and we did the labor of loading the logs and stacking the rough cut lumber. So far, we have tens of thousands of dollars of rough cut pine and Cyprus lumber stacked up for future building projects and about $800 in total cost to have this person cut it up for us. This time around, we onky cut Cyprus and you can see we have a lot left still.
If you missed our video on this last time, you can see how it all worked here👇
https://youtu.be/TiglC8O1xpg | 317 |
| 4 |  Just a reminder for everyone. Telegram spoofers are everywhere. They can copy your profile name and your profile picture. First time I've seen someone try to join our chat channel as us though... thats a first seeing someone impersonate us on our own chat channel. You can see how they had to zoom into their faked copy of our profile picture to crop it without edges.
I've been deleting tons of spammers recently from our channel, but some still get through.
REMEMBER WE WILL NEVER REACH OUT TO OUR FOLLOWERS VIA AN UNPROMPTED DIRECT MESSAGE. We instead connect via our comments channel first in a public forum. WE WILL NOT ASK YOU "ARE YOU READY FOR THE UPCOMING XYZ" OR TELL YOU ABOUT CRYPTO, MEDICINE, OR "INVESTMENT" OPPORTUNITIES.
Report and delete those people immediately. They are scammers/spammers. | 227 |
| 5 |  +1Even with the intense heat lately, this wasnt a bad view for the afternoon golden hour. The way the sun was setting on both the beef herd and the sunflowers in the garden were both really nice. The grass and especially the clover has started wilting in the pastures due to the heat and dry weather. We have a chance of rain this afternoon and a better chance tomorrow. If we can keep getting these shots of rain, even if its not a ton... it can get us through the 101°F days without too much pasture damage. Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing requires daily movement to a new space. The rain allows us to feed pasture instead of hay in thes dry times. | 575 |
| 6 |  Yesterday was a scorcher at 100°F and a heat index of 112°F, so we set up a misting station for the cows to hang out by. I couldnt set it up in the paddock itself because i move the cows daily and they'd knock it over trying scratch and rub against the tripod, so I rigged the tripod temporarily on an H brace. I realize its super redneck, but it was a way to provide a little relief for them in this heat. What other ways are you guys cooling off your animals out on pasture? | 372 |
| 7 |  +1Rotational grazing like standard ranchers do is NOT the same as AMP grazing like we do. A few days ago, I continued to move the cattle through their new pasture. Dry weather is tough as the grass our pastures still hasnt rebounded from the rain last week. The cows crushed oir neighbor's centipede grass as they moved through in the first picture. In the aerial picture you can see how the cattle moved through the paddocks in a counter clockwise rotation.
The concept of AMP grazing (Adaptive Multi-Paddock) is central to regenerative agriculture methods. You can see 9 paddocks that the cattle get moved across in 9 days. The cattle cant go back and visit a prior space where they liked the forage better or deposit more manure in one area than another in that field. Each paddock gets one day of intensive grazing, and then 30 days of rest and regrowth. AMP grazing is highly structured, requires daily human planning and movement, and regenerates soil dramatically better/faster than traditional "pasture rotation". | 1 967 |
| 8 |  +1Its about to get brutal here in Eastern NC for the July 4th holiday weekend. I know everyone is going to be dealing with heat, so drop a comment with a picture of your stats if you're even worse than we are. Lets see who has the hottest July 4th temps.
I dont actually remember hitting 102°F ever and then you add in the heat index, we'll be at 112°F. We will have to be out spraying cattle with water to try to get them through the hottest parts of the days as this is brutal. | 274 |
| 9 |  +2Its amazing what a little rain will do for the garden. Its perked right up. The Swiss Chard and cabbage are going strong now, there are small peppers on our plants, the bibb lettuce is doing well, and the tomatoes are shooting up. Praise God for the rain! | 1 979 |
| 10 |  +1Weve recently had dome rain in Eastern NC, which has been an absolute blessing. Still way behind for the year, but just getting some relief has helped dramatically in the short term. Even our livestock guardian dogs were happy to stand in the rain just to get wet vs going in their shelters. We had 2.25" in about 48 hours last week and then a day later we received another quarter inch in a pop up storm. You can see standing water in the pasture in the first picture but its all been soaked up by the second picture the next day. The organics weve been adding in the way of composted manure is definitely helping to reduce the standing water and runoff. Heavy storms used to pool up and stand for days or run straight into ditches due to the hard packed clay and sand in the pastures but slowly thats changing. The soils are holding more now and soaking in faster. The grass is staying green a little longer. Its incredible to watch. | 492 |
| 11 |  We continue to rotate our beef herd through the newly fenced pasture using our normal adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing where the herd spends 12-24 hours in a paddock before moving to the next paddock. Im amazed at what they clean up compared to our dairy cattle. You can see this green strip in a paddock that they just grazed is crushed in 12 hours. It was full of ragweed and other typical "weeds". However the cattle find the young versions of these weeds very palatable vs when the plant gets tall and woody.
Did you know that common ragweed has 10-12% crude protein, has 67% total digestible nutrients (better than many late season grasses), and has a deep root system capable of bringing up phosphorus and other minerals to serve as a natural supplement for cattle? Ragweed is surprisingly a good forage for many cattle during the summer because its toot system allows it to be drought tolerant compared to grasses.
Im not suggesting anyone go plant ragweed, but this is where wholesale spraying misses the mark. | 360 |
| 12 |  +2Purchased a feeder to try out for the pigs. Its a small one but if it works, I may invest in a bigger one. These Osborne feeders (in theory) should prevent us from wasting as much food as the pigs self serve and don't dump as much on the ground. The feeder has a paddle that the pigs push with their nose that allows food to drop from the hopper. In theory it should keep the feed dry and waste a lot less. It should also save time as we can feed our pigs less frequently in bulk vs smaller daily rations.
I hear these are common out west where more pastured pig operations like ours are. However around here, you cant find any of these used and they are super expensive. One farmer I know drives from NC out to Iowa to pick up big versions of these in bulk. Obviously we can't pull that off being a small operation.
Anyone here use these or know a good source for used ones on the east coast? The larger ones are made of galvanized steel vs fiberglass like this one. | 531 |
| 13 |  +2The other day I top dressed the field were planting pumpkins for the fall in. Because pumpkins are such resource hogs, I used the manure spreader to put down composted horse manure thats been sitting for a year. The rich black compost contrast to the gray soil is stark. This farm was an over 200 year old crop farm until 3 years ago. The process is slow to regenerate the soil with animals but you can see the difference. I can already tell a difference in parts of the pastures that weve had animals in and have spread manure, and how much water they hold vs how much puddles up and runs off. The difference is wild. | 1 786 |
| 14 |  Our recent loss of our lawn mower (saving for repairs) and discovery that our dairy cows can mow our yard for us has spurned a whole new set of ideas 💡
We have a back portion of our property that was logged over 2 years ago and needs to cleared/cleaned up. We started with one small test area and the cows did great. You can see what they did in the drone shot in the first picture. They cleared the test paddock #1. Now I need to bush hog and clear a perimeter with the tractor so they can create the two addional paddocks (2 &3) for the future. Since this was logged, there are stumps and trees I'll need to work around or move with the grapple on the tractor to get a perimeter fence set up. Then the cows can eat it down. I had no idea cows would eat poison ivy and Virginia creeper like candy. Lol | 520 |
| 15 |  I was expecting a lot more rain out of this tropical system than we got, so I put out seed in the small pasture area we just started leasing this year. Ive tilled it amd worked horse manure compost into the front half of it before planting. I put perennial clover and fescue in as well as some annual cover crop in the way of milo and sorghum. The milo and sorghum were both older seeds, so I dont know how well they will come up. With only about 2 tenths of an inch of rain from the storm, we're still so dry that it may not germinate. | 1 998 |
| 16 |  +1A little glimpse of God in the everyday work. We're into our 4th week without a lawn mower. I had no idea how good our dairy cows would be at mowing the yard and also at trimming down over grown vines! I figured they'd go for the Bermuda grass first, but they love the vines! Thats great because I normally have to clean those off! It still amazes me that our beef and dairy cattle turn these plants into high quality food for us. How amazing is our creator? What a mighty God we serve! | 537 |
| 17 |  +2Check out the pictures of a single day in our grazing method from the ground and the air views. When I talk to a lot of farmers/ranchers about how we rotate paddocks in our adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) system , they think it's the same as how they rotationally graze. Its not. While admirable, most ranchers may rotate their pastures, but they don't do intensive grazing on small paddocks within those fields to force the cattle to graze/trample/deposit manure uniformly. Its also not the same as what shepherds did thousands of years ago for similar reasons. This AMP method is regenerative grazing that quickly adds value to worn out land and also keeps cattle from overgrazing their favorite forage. These cattle may be in a paddock for only a matter of hours before moving on to the next space. The sad part is that we have only received a few inches of rain so far this year, so the fescue and native grasses are very dry, but its helping us put off feeding hay a bit longer.
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| 18 |  The most expensive thing each year on our farm is buying hay. In droughts like were having right now, hay is being trucked in from places like Ohio and costs $80 - $120 per bale for standard cattle hay. Horse or alfalfa hay is another $30 -$50 more. Even for small farms, that can routinely run $20K a year. People ask us why we work second and third jobs while we also farm. Its because it takes years of these investments to get animals ready for our customers' dinner tables. It takes 10 months for gestation for them to calve. Then the steers have to get 2 years old to be at slaughter weight. Thats three years of hay, grass, taxes, water, and infrastructure before you see a dime of return. Just the hay alone for those 3 years can cost them $60K even for a small farm and herd.
Remember that small local regenerative farmers like us don't get loans, grants, or insurance from the government. We pay for it all ourselves. Support your local regenerative farmer because they only have their community to count on. | 1 072 |
| 19 |  +1Woo hoo! Finally got the beef cows moved into the new pasture that we've shared so many posts about the fencing progress recently. Unfortunately, its not as lush of a grass that it was even a couple months ago when we had received a little rain. The last few months of high heat and no rain have really taken a toll on it. This is the first time its been grazed in the 2.5 years since we planted it. Ladt spring it was waste high with thick green leaves and clover that was 6-7 inches tall. Now its like standing hay with withered clover in it. Its something though and it accounts for days or weeks of not feeding hay. We need slow steady rain. Pop up thunderstorms that barely wet the top layer of sand wont cut it. | 407 |
| 20 |  +1Yesterday we hit 101°F here in Eastern NC, with a heat index of 115°F. They keep saying 50% chance of rain but we've had zero in over three weeks now. These temps along with no rain have baked the ground. Most years, we start the spring with my father's pond overflowing with rain from the winter or at least near the top. After several years of drought, this is what it looks like. Its hard to see how low it is until you step inside. You can see the top "erosion" line where the water normally sits, and its down about 15 feet. That's a ton of water in a place thats not supposed to get dry. The pond is mostly fed through groundwater (vs surface water), and everything is just so dry that its seeping out into the surrounding soil vs seeping in. We're over a foot short of rainfall just this year alone. The pastures are in bad shape and we need slow soaking rain badly. | 334 |
