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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.
Last blog, we finished the three-part series called Monitoring for Success. I explained the importance of monitoring your livestock, your grass, and your soil.
If you haven鈥檛 listened to those podcasts I recommend you do as they are essential to your success.
Today鈥檚 topic is Elegant Simplicity as it relates to managing a farm or ranch with livestock.
Anybody can complicate something to make it appear sophisticated or to make him or her look like they know a lot. What not everybody can do, is make a complex matter simple to learn and implement.
Consider some inventions that are easy to use and are common today:
What do they have in common? They are simple, do what they are supposed to do at a low cost, and they basically haven鈥檛 changed much ...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.聽
This is the third part of the series: The importance of monitoring for success.
I have explained why monitoring is so important and that you get what you inspect, not what you expect.聽
We know that if we fail to plan, we are planning to fail, but then we need to inspect or monitor to make sure we are getting the results we expected when we planned.
If we do not monitor, we may make huge mistakes, especially when we use methods that contradict nature.
Today we will talk about monitoring your soil, your soil should improve under the total grazing program, if it does not, we need to know why, and to know we need to monitor.
Please share the link to anyone who may benefit from this podcast, thank you for your continued support!
Soil, in your farm or ranch, should be alive with microorganisms, la...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum profitability while improving your land the fastest.
Today, in this second part of the series, the importance of monitoring, we will talk about the importance of monitoring your grass.
How important can monitoring your grass be to your success in a grazing operation?
We know that grass rate of growth is continually changing in response to growing conditions.聽We also need to know how much grass we have on hand and we do not know how much will grow in a given year as every year is different.
Today we are going to consider desirable plants per square yard, leaf-to-stem ratio, bare ground as a percentage, green leaves size and vigor, root depth and vigor, are the roots fat and deep or skinny and short?
If you know of anyone who may benefit by listening to this podcast please share the link to reach as many livestock producers as possible. Thank y...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum profitability while improving your land the fastest.
This is part one of a three-part series on monitoring your grazed livestock enterprise:
Monitoring your animals
聽Monitoring your grass
聽Monitoring your soil
We will start with the importance of monitoring your animals.
It has been said that you get what you inspect, and that failing to inspect sets you up to fail. For the most part, this is true and in the livestock business, it is essential to monitor your livestock's health and well-being.
If you know of anyone that may benefit from this information please share this podcast so that more people can benefit. Thank you!
What makes a cow, sheep, or goat healthy? What can we observe in a healthy animal? How can we make sure all of our livestock are in good health and thriving?
It is extremely important that we detect an anima...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum profitability while improving your land the fastest.
After managing livestock all my life it is apparent that they need a routine to do better and to be comfortable with us and the life we give them.
We need to form a good relationship with our livestock, one in which they expect the best of us and feel good being with us.
This also has to do with low-stress stockmanship or better, building a relationship with our livestock that respond to our position, movements, attitude, and a stable routine.
Have you ever seen your livestock stressed when you arrived late to feed them or give them a new grass break? It is due to the way their rumen functions, it is a batch system where the microorganisms there take time to reach an equilibrium between the different microorganism groups which digest different parts of the daily food intake.
Some will digest f...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum profitability while improving your land the fastest.聽
Today, I will talk about the difference between the Total Grazing Program and other grazing programs out there.
I hope your holidays were great and that this New Year鈥檚 Eve brings peace and resolution to be better in all aspects of our lives!
I have been studying and implementing different types of grazing programs all my life, and ever since I can remember this has been the topic in my family. My grandfather, father, aunt, and uncles were all cattlemen and cattlewomen.
I love to observe nature and how plants, soil, and wildlife respond to different ways of grazing. And after teaching the Total Grazing Program and traveling to teach courses and consult over many countries in different parts of the world, I can attest that the major problem is overgrazing.
Overgrazing needs to be defined corre...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum profitability while improving your land the fastest.
In many parts of the world different pest insects attack our forages, this can have dire consequences as the grass that we were counting on to go into the Fall and Winter can be decimated by insect pests consuming it or destroying it.
Today, I am going to go over what has worked for me for many years now.
If you know of someone that can benefit from this information I am going to give, please share this link with them. Thank you.
There are many factors that influence when an insect pest will create problems with your forage: temperature, day length, moisture, ambient humidity, growing conditions, etcetera.
This is why insect attacks happen in certain parts of the year, and now we know what those insect pests require.
If we study insect pests we will learn that they have a very simple digestiv...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum profitability while improving your land the fastest.
The definition of common sense is: sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. It is the ability to reach intelligent conclusions, a choice showing good sense. Tempered and refined by experience, training, and maturity. Using wisdom.
Why is common sense important in life?
Common sense is a form of practical decision-making and the ability to imagine the consequences of something you do. It stops us from making irrational mistakes and makes it easier to make choices on what to do. We aren't born with common sense, we develop it over time.
We all are born with an ability to build common sense through your genetic intelligence, and as you grow and develop, your common sense will also grow and develop with you.
So there you have it, common sense is learned or...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum profitability while improving your land the fastest.
Today I am going to talk about a saying: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going".
How does this apply to our lives in ranching/farming?
Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.
This is good advice, as perseverance, a strong will, patience, courage, and determination are good traits to have and will take us far.
Is聽your livestock like that? Do they have the determination to live and produce? Are they hardy and hearty? Are they able to survive and produce with less than optimum inputs? Can they successfully wean a calf every year without pampering? Can they do this at the very high stocking rate required for maximum productivity a...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum profitability while improving your land the fastest.
Now, I am going to talk about why pink eye, foot root, and other health problems like grass staggers or grass tetany occur mostly on cool season grasses.
We need to understand that cool-season grasses and warm-season grasses are very different. This means that we need to manage them differently in terms of stage of maturity at grazing, best genetics for each one, and under the Total Grazing Program and I am going to explain why this is so important.
First, most of the energy in cool-season grasses is in the form of sugars, while in warm-season grasses most of their energy is in the form of oils or fats.
Why is this so important?
Sugars or soluble carbohydrates in cool-season forages can create acidosis, just like feeding too much molasses or starchy grains which digestion creates lactic acid w...
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