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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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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...

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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...

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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 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...

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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...

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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 go through the huge impact on forage quality that altitude and latitude has.

Have you ever wondered how day length could be important in how grass grows? Not only in that it will produce more on longer days but what effect that has on its quality? We have known, for a very long time, that alfalfa hay grown at high altitudes will be much higher in nutritional value than the same alfalfa hay grown at low altitudes. Forages grown at high altitudes are lower in lignin, which makes them more digestible.

This may have to do with clearer skies that maximize photosynthesis, lower nighttime temperatures that minimize respiration, longer day length, and a dry atmosphere. The factors that favor photosynthesis, high solar radiation, long and sunny days, and...

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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.

Low and erratic rainfall environments have lost many of their best forage species by overgrazing. As we know, overgrazing is returning to re-graze too soon before the plant has fully recovered, and this happens when we allow our livestock to do selective grazing. Eventually, the best species which were perennials are replaced by annuals and invasive species as the land degrades or desertifies.

Today, I am going to talk about why it is so important to bring back perennial grasses and palatable shrubs in low-rainfall environments.

Annual and lower quality grasses along with invasive nonpalatable brush will take the place of the dead and dying better perennial grasses and palatable shrubs when these are weakened by our livestock grazing them preferentially. Once they become...

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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.

I just read a post by someone stating that he is regenerating his land with selective grazing. He wrote that not taking more than 40% of available forage allows higher photosynthesis and thus, a much higher production. Then, he added, the soil surface is shaded and the sun will not damage soil microorganisms.
He even wrote that there are various scientific papers supporting this type of grazing and most people approved of his writings and said that taking less than half of the total forage available is best for the land and for the animals.

I am going to start by defining overgrazing.

Overgrazing happens to the individual plant that is regrazed before it has completely recovered its energy reserves. This leads to weak roots, dead plants, invasive species take over, and less...

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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 how to make long-term decisions. 

As you may know, I own a grazing dairy in the hot tropics in the Gulf of Mexico with a dry tropics environment with some irrigation.

Today I will speak of how to make long-term decisions that include ALL, and not just economics or lifestyle, or workload.

If you know of someone that may benefit from this podcast, please share the link with them as it may help them make better long-term decisions.

We need to be more 'whole-istic' than the holistic people as we need to take EVERYTHING into account

The first thing you need to do is to make sure that your decision feels good. A master once responded to the question of how can I know that the decision I made was good, he answered inner peace will...

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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.

Land prices have increased over the past 50 years, so much that in most cases it is hard to pencil out a livestock operation with a land credit to buy the land and livestock.This is disheartening to many aspiring livestock producers who want to have a life in the country regenerating the land and producing the healthiest animal products possible at the same time. We now have the knowledge to do this at a very low cost but we need to have control over a piece of land as the total grazing program gives results in the short and the long term.

So, what to do if we do not have the money to buy a piece of land? Not everybody inherits land and most of us did not have that luxury. We can be creative and the first thing we need to learn is how to do numbers correctly before embarking on...