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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.

I have heard a lot of criticism and also good things about a grazing program called Tall Grazing. In it, they try to always allow the grass plants to grow tall before grazing them, and they also want the said plants to remain tall or with a very high residual and trampled after grazing.

While allowing the grass plants to grow tall before grazing is a good thing, allowing the livestock to select the best and leave the rest is not good for the plant’s energy reserves and very bad for the establishment of new seedlings of the best forage species.

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If you are one of my students in the Total Grazing Program, you know that we need to have our livestock consume the grass as efficiently as...

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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. 

 If you are thinking about your future plans, maybe it is time to start making them become real.

I usually start by managing the way I would manage when I accomplish or reach my goals.

For example: why would I place the ear tags on my newborn calves at birth if it will be impossible to do when I reach 300-400 cows calving in a 45-day long calving season where 90% of them will calve in 30 days? So, I work as if my herd was already that size and diminish my workload in the meantime.

It is important to plan ahead and consider alternatives so that when the time comes we already have the answer and the experience to make it achievable.

The Bible says that a King, before embarking on a war with another kingdom, carefully considers his advantages and stores, before he...

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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. 

Today, I am going to talk about unintended consequences of our actions and decisions. 

Every action we make has a reaction, and every decision we take has a consequence. The same happens when we do not act or we choose not to make a decision. Not taking a decision or not acting is in itself of our choosing. 

What does this have to do with raising livestock and managing our grasses? 

When we make correct actions and take correct decisions we will be rewarded, and when we take incorrect decisions we will pay the consequences. 

The implications and effects on our grass health and the vigor of our management will be immediate, medium-term, and long-term. The implications and effects in our genetics thriftiness, resiliency, hardiness, and profitability will...

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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. 

Does your livestock come to you when they see you? Or do they try to get away? Or even worse, do they attack you? Today, I will talk about low-stress stockmanship.

Low-stress stockmanship means that your livestock is handled and managed by you, in such a way, that they feel confident and trust you. Their cortisol levels that are called stress hormones, are low and their oxytocin levels that are called content hormones should be high or level. 

This can be measured by blood samples or can be observed in our livestock demeanor when handled or in our everyday moving them. 

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Did you know that when we manage or handle our livestock...

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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’t listened to those podcasts I recommend you do as they are essential to your success.

Today’s 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:

• Ballpoint pen
• Staples
• Shirt buttons
• Zippers

What do they have in common? They are simple, do what they are supposed to do at a low cost, and they basically...

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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. 

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. 

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.

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Soil, in your farm or ranch, should be alive...

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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. 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?

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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:

1. Monitoring your animals

2.  Monitoring your grass

3.  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.

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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...

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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.

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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 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’s 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.

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