Discover regenerative ranching methods in use at the Florida Living Web Farm where Jim Elizondo works with the herd of Mashona cattle. Following guidance from his mentor and ultra high density grazing expert, Johann Zietsman, Jim is implementing a variety of synergistic processes that work to restore diversity and microbial life in the soil. Learn how we are building organic matter, growing quality forage and a healthy herd in harmony with their natural environment.
VIDEO: Regenerative Ranching with Jim Elizondo
Discover regenerative ranching methods in use at the Florida Living Web Farm where Jim Elizondo works with the herd of Mashona cattle. Following guidance from his mentor and ultra high density grazing expert, Johann Zietsman, Jim is implementing a variety of synergistic processes that work to restore diversity and microbial life in the soil. Learn how we are building organic matter, growing quality forage and a healthy herd in harmony with their natural environment.
I am getting ready to expand my operation for grassfed beef,native and natural forage and overall soil health improvement. I have done a lot of research to get the right answers. Your teaching is the best and an invaluable resource for me. Thank you
Excellent interview. Jim talks about planting mimosa trees. On my farm in Virginia, we don't mow our pastures and we have honey locust, a relative of mimosa, volunteering in many paddocks. It is an excellent pasture tree that gives filtered shade, edible pods, and some nitrogen fixation. Cows will lightly browse the leaves but menacing thorns discourage heavy browsing. We also have black walnut volunteering in a few paddocks. We have 3-day graze periods and 60-day rest periods for our 22 paddocks which we strip graze with no back fence, 2 moves a day.
Such a great resource! Will put into practice ASAP
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to avoid flies on the cows back, you can try to feed garlic, in the netherlands we mix it in the mineral mixtures
DE will hurt your soil, I would think. It is insoluble, looks like flakes of glass under the microscope. As it runs off the animals and blends into the soil, it will kill earthworms and many other components of the living soil community. Am I wrong?
Makes me happy and proud to see our native Zimbabwean breeds like Hard Mashona to give it it's real name in Zimbabwe and the Tuli from Tuli District in Matebeleland Zimbabwe. Great video thanks
im in baltimore and 62, am I crazy to want to do this?
use chickens to control the flies
Excellent interview. Thank you!!
Best farmer
How about following the cows with chickens 2-3 days later. They will eat the fly larvae and break the pest cycle. Another idea is neem oil. It´s organic and not toxic to the cows, chickens, people and many beneficial insects. About the chickens, look up Joe Salatin.
Boy this man is a great guy and he is going to take the whole thing to the end!!!
What do you think about buffel grass
How is the ranch five years later ?
Good Video..are you doing anything with birds..as far as pest control..?
There's people on this comment thread complimenting this guy on a "good job". Why? All those cattle heads look sick. When you can see their bones protruding and their flanks sinking in, giving that triangle design, that's not good. They look like they are starving.
Looking forward to a 2020 update, really interested in the progress they've made.
I'm curious as to why they're seeding annual cover crops for grazing rather than creating perennial pastures. This seems like an energy-intensive method of producing animal forage, since it requires constant inputs of new seed, diesel to run tractors and seeders, etc. after each paddock is cleared out by the grazers. I expect there's some good reason for this approach, perhaps related to the near tropical climate, but I have no idea what that might be. Does anyone know?
What is the name of his farm?
Is amazing training i need this breeds i found in Tanzania please if there is any possibility help m
Great News!! Dr Elaine Ingham said best forage grew on land with a 50-50 fungal bacteria ratio. I saw this:
The Profits In Your Soil Reaching New Levels of Fertility on Farms, Pastures, and Special Crops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbGrxoJO2zY&list=LLlWpFYf3e9zq6IuGEuR4geg&index=3&t=1545s
at 34:00 she has a chart & pic which shows fungal-bacteria ratios for various crops.
at 43:22 she has another chart.
At 5:28 he has lots of flies on those cow pies. Get someone with a mobile chicken coop to drive onto the paddock 3 days after the cows left so the chickens can eat the maggots.
this guy knows a lot damn great video
Maybe having chickens to follow the cattle a few days later might break the fly cycle and generate more profit in the process? I believe people who employ this way notice the chickens eat the fly larvae from the cow pats. Just the way bird flocks might follow the giant hers across the plains.
very sharp man.. greed..capitalism.. has taken everything away
He ain't no dummy.
My yard is full of wild mulberry trees and pawpaw trees here in Kentucky I tremble back and have started maintaining them and they are growing bumper crops of mulberries and paws anyway if he wants a mulberry slips route slip so they're already started growing you'll pay the shipping on it I'll say Dave as many of them as I can dig
How do you treat for lice naturally
Closed captioning please please