A year in the life of a farm

[Ground Checkin' Heavies]

Awesome video, length was good in my opinion. I like following age progression as well.


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[Stick-1]

Great video, keep them coming!

[elgato]

180" with another 3-4" broke off. 4 yr old I think Ouch

Someone else can figure out how to turn it

[DamonJ]

That does stink

[Stick-1]

Yes sir, ouch!

[monsterspike]

sub 101 here. always a bridesmaid.

[texasdeerhunter]

Was he a casualty of the rut you think? That’s a bummer, heck of a buck!

[elgato]

Here's a brief clip of a controlled burn we did a couple of weeks ago in an 80 acre pine plantation.https://youtu.be/PY8kROBjYSE

[Patton]

Really enjoying the videos. Having recently tried to talk in front of a camera and do voiceovers and talk normally, I must say you do a knock out job at it.

[IkemanTX]

Loving the videos!


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[HappyM]

Great videos and thank you for sharing your experiences. I took the plunge and look forward to my spring planting. All the best.

[Ground Checkin' Heavies]

I just finished all 48 pages and all the videos. Took me about 3-4 weeks, but thank you for sharing all your knowledge and information! Truly amazing to see your results! Hope this thread stays alive.

[lovemylegacy]

Pretty sure its gonna be around for another week or 2.

[S-3 Ranch]

Gabe Brown is an inspiration ! As I start to understand his approach and have experimented with multi specie cover cropping I have been amazed at what I have learned and actually experienced. It also has made me look at large scale agriculture in a whole new light.

Last year I was driving from my home to southern Ark. for a turkey hunt. Almost every farm I saw was in full tillage mode. The wind was blowing hard and giant clouds of dust was blowing away off the fields. After a 150 mile trip I think I saw one field that was in a winter cover crop.Simple to know that the next steps were massive amounts of fertilizer, pesticides, fungicides, herbicides...much of it sprayed by airplanes on GMO crops. Nothing about that experience appeared sustainable to me.

Enough of that. I haven't finalized my summer cocktail planting rates but roughly this is what I'm planning:
Sunn hemp-5 lbs/acre
cow peas 12 lbs/acre
soybeans 10lbs/acre
pearl millet 3 lbs/acre
sunflower 3 lbs acre
grain sorghum 3 lbs acre
buckwheat 10 lbs acre
Thats rough and will probably be refined some but fairly sure that is the plant species I'm going with.

Looking ahead to the fall I can get a bit closer to my plan:
100 Lbs/acre rye or
combination of rye and wheat totalling ~100 lbs/acre
2-3 lbs acre radishes
1 lb acre turnips. And if clover
crimson at somewhere around 10 lbs/acre--That depends on what my goals fro crimson are.

I've been looking closely at my fields to determine if there are any I can skip an herbicide treatment before planting and I have selected all but one. So this spring I will FINALLY be moving forward effectively organic on the preponderance of my plots. Results to be posted here. I should add that part of the key to success with no herbicide will be the density of the summer planting chocking out weeds before they get started.

I really really like your ideas about going organic/ no herbicide, or chemicals
A buddy of mine, spends a crazy amount of money on chemicals and technology fees, every year. Your videos and internet post are fantastic and I love following them

[powderburner]

Unless I missed it. What about water? Do you have an irrigation system? Do you just depend on the rain God?

I am thinking about west texas. Ft Mckavett area. Rocks and dirt. We have an awsome pecan orchard but each tree has a water line.