Natural Farming Methods Include High-Density or "Mob" Grazing
The essential economics of Natural Farming with grass fed beef are simply how to lower costs and raise profits by:
- Getting off the corn standard and switching to grass-fed beef cattle production,
- Figuring out how to direct-market your beef to local (big-city) clients who prefer to pay extra for higher-quality food,
- Going off feeding hay in the winter by mob grazing (intensively-managed grazing).
Earlier I've said I was going to have to do some homework in this last area. So I’ve begun. But I wanted to let you in on this as well.
I had a long list of PDF’s to give you and included the links to them as I found them on Google and updated them later by hand to make sure they work. If you want an updated list, see the end of this post for the exact words to type into Google to get the same results (and links you can actually use.)
Of particular interest right now is this Greg Judy from near Columbia, Missouri. His is a name that keeps coming up. I’ll be quoting him in a later post to follow (tomorrow).
PDF mob grazing references:
Mob grazing gets the most out of forage
CHAD Peterson sent his first mob- grazed cattle to the feedlot last … Mob grazing acclimated them to close eating quarters like they face in the feedlot. …
magissues.farmprogress.com/AMA/AM05May09/ama036.pdfMob grazing offers 200% more forage
GREG and Jan Judy say mob grazing has nearly zeroed their input costs. For example, they once spent $5000 per year frost-seeding and reseeding clover. Now …
magissues.farmprogress.com/MDS/MS08Aug09/mds043.pdfGrazing program maximizes profit
GRAZIER Greg Judy believes a technique called “mob grazing” is better for … He has been using the mob concept, also known as high-intensity grazing, …
magissues.farmprogress.com/MOR/MR06Jun07/mor014.pdfGrazing former CRP land takes care
king or mob grazing during the forages’ dormant season. Animal performance may be sacrificed, however, with mob grazing. Stands seeded to weeping lovegrass …
magissues.farmprogress.com/TFS/FS09Sep09/tfs007.pdfKeep learning; apply what you learn
“mob” grazing techniques, has found bison will not tolerate quite as much crowding as cattle. Historical reports say bison grazed by the hundreds of …
magissues.farmprogress.com/AMA/AM05May09/ama039.pdfMob Grazing Missouri Farm Practice
Using what he often calls “mob” grazing, or high-stock-density grazing,. Judy estimates he’s only taking about. 30% of the forage from each paddock …
magissues.farmprogress.com/wfs/WS08Aug09/wfs046.pdf
Mob Stocking
in mob grazing is that it is less forgiving to the bottom enders. In a smaller herd, lower performance animals don’t get. As the plant matures, …
www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/May08_Salatin.pdfMay-June 2007.pub
did not go into brain-shutdown mode. Their incredible experiences with. “mob grazing” is shared on pages 4 and 5. Folks, this is BIG! …
www.pharocattle.com/May_June_2007.pdfMicrosoft PowerPoint – INTENSIVE GRAZING 05_19_08.ppt …
May 19, 2008 … plants. Mob grazing can replace clipping. … Mob Grazing. • 1000000 pounds of cattle per acre stock d itensy. Mob Grazing …
msucares.com/crops/forages/intensive_grazing05_19_08.pdfMFSI’s Return to Your Roots Newsletter Mob Grazing proves to …
Mob Grazing proves to. Benefit Grass and Cattle www. mvskokefood.org. By Rita Williams … few “mob grazing” consult- ants springing up around the …
www.mvskokefood.org/news/June%20Newsletter.pdfMOB-GRAZING OF MORPHOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT . AESCHYNOMENE SPECIES”
Two studies were conducted using the mob-grazing technique to … “Mob-grazing” with a high stocking density on limited land area for a short period of …
www.tropicalgrasslands.asn.au/…/Vol_21_03_87_pp123_132.pdf
Now, if you want to search for this yourself in Google, type in “mob grazing filetype:PDF” and it will give you all sorts of PDF files.
So have fun with this!