00:00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Garrett, uh, Verna's out there. Right now we're drilling in the cold season mix into our intensity rotational grazing project. 00:00:09 We worked very closely with TJ from Bio Till. He's brought us a lot of education, a lot of help on it. I wanted to share with you what's in this mix. 00:00:17 There's 64 pounds of oats, 40 pounds a piece, a pound of African cabbage, a pound of bayou kale, three pounds of mehi Persian clover for a total of 107 pounds. 00:00:31 You know, I, I've never really heard of Mehi Persian clover until I got to working with TJ or, or African cabbage 00:00:36 or bayou kale for that exam, for that matter. But, but here we are putting it out for the second year in a row. 00:00:42 TJ really selected all of the species in this mix because they provide great tonnage, they provide great forage, 00:00:49 and they grow in our cool season environment. So, you know, this stuff should be coming up here, end to April and May when the soil's still 00:00:56 cool, things like that. When the weather's still cool, we'll get those cattle out there grazing sooner, and then we'll come back later in the 00:01:03 season, probably the middle of June. We'll put in the warm season mix. Uh, it's a lot more work than I've ever really put in the 00:01:09 pasture before growing up here in Iowa and really have those grown pastures that we turn the cows out on. 00:01:15 I've really come to think that bro, not a great option for, for forage. Uh, a lot of tonnage. 00:01:20 It's really green early in the year, but by the middle of June it's done. And then we're really on the hope philosophy. 00:01:25 We just hope that we have enough feed to make it to the end of the season. The cows kind of get antsy. 00:01:30 They're, they're not really happy. Uh, I don't know that it puts the best weight on if it happens to be a wet year. 00:01:36 Uh, the grass is pretty washy, is what my dad always said, and I don't think the cows are satisfied anyway. 00:01:41 So what we're trying to do is to put more cows on less acres, because our biggest expense is the fixed cost of the land. 00:01:48 And so let's try to, let's try to improve the land, and that's what we're doing with this mix here. The other thing we did this year that was a little unusual, 00:01:55 but it's inexpensive. It's only $3 an acre. The intelligence dry seed treatment that we get for like our corn and soybeans. 00:02:02 We all, we also this year put it on this pasture mix. In the seed treatment, there's zinc, manganese, and copper, and there's also several different strains of biology. 00:02:12 The bacillus and derma are in there to promote a healthy root system and really to outcompete disease. 00:02:17 I've, I've said it many times in my crop ground. Fusarium is prevalent. Well, it's also prevalent in my pastures. 00:02:23 So we need this biology in there to outcompete disease, so we have healthier root systems. That's what the first strain of bacillus and tric derma is. 00:02:32 Then we also have the Michal in there, and really what you know, Clint, I called Clint today and I'm like, well, what? 00:02:38 Explain to me in greater detail what these do. The michal is the, is a beneficial infection of the root. It really helps turn on the phosphorus pathway. 00:02:47 It's really considered by many people to be an extension of the root, and a lot of people say 00:02:53 that it really helps with water uptake. Well, of course it does. If the root is healthier and it's extension of the root, it stands, the reason that 00:02:58 It, it would help with water uptake. The mycorrhizal also helps with carbon sequestration. So again, it probably seems unusual that we would, uh, uh, 00:03:07 that we would treat the seed that's going into the pasture. But I really don't really don't feel that I'm 00:03:14 rotating corn and beans anywhere. I don't raise many beans. I'm now rotating corn and cattle 00:03:18 and I'm trying to put more cattle, hopefully three cows per acre on this land. Whereas before with it was the Broome, 00:03:24 it was one cow on every acre and a half or two acres. So we're trying to go six X with the cow numbers on the ground and have the grazing. 00:03:32 We need to be able to produce the forage to do that. TJ and I have been working for here the last couple years is to try to increase the cow numbers, 95 00:03:39.585 --> 00:03:40.925