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Farming can be hard at the best of times

And that’s without any pressure from the markets, regulations or inflation

The three main issues are Time, Money and Decision Making

Farmers never have enough time, they are often only just breaking even, and there is so much complexity to deal with its overwhelming

This is why we at Conscious Cattle focus on

Time Management: reducing wasted time wherever we can, prioritising the important tasks, and making time for the things that matter

Financial Planning: eliminating liabilities and financial drains, generating the maximum regenerative profit, and planning ahead for every eventuality

Holistic Decision Making: defining the whole that we manage, clarifying our desired quality of life, and aligning all our decisions with creating it

This is all before looking at anything to do with land or cattle

Without this solid base to work from, we are making things so much harder for ourselves

With time, money and a plan, regeneration becomes easy

Then we can move onto the meat of the matter

Planning and designing our farm and the stages we will do it in

How to implement the infrastructure that will allow us to have full control on where the cattle are grazing each day

Planning our grazing to maximise land regeneration, forage production and cattle health

Breeding the most fertile, docile and resilient cows

Handling our cattle in the safest and calmest ways, whilst giving them the highest quality of life

And throughout all of this, maintaining and improving our mental resilience and our physical health!

If this is something you would benefit from

We are running a competition until 31st October

1st prize is a full year of Conscious Cattle coaching FREE

2nd prize is 70% off!

Comment ‘COW’ and I’ll DM you the link

#regen #regenerativeagriculture #cattle #holisticmanagement #pastureraised

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@milliedeboo.designs X @shh.industries denim jacket.

made from some salvage Japanese denim I got from a Greek lady who made her own jeans in Melbourne for 40 years. Milly designed and putting it all together I hand embroidered the Irish heart shield on the back.

For our very special Lisa’s 60th bday (very late)

Been waiting to make something like this with Milly for too long

Had to have a boogie in it to @clam.dirt new album

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AGROFORESTRY: Wind Shelter

Shelter from the wind is essential for our cattle

Although their thick coats normally protect them

When they get wet, all the air trapped by their fur which acts as insulation gets pushed out

The water then sits directly on their skin and absorbing heat from their bodies

Water has a very high latent heat of evaporation, which is what makes it so good at cooling

When the wind blows across them it acts like a refrigerator, cooling their bodies

This means they need to eat more just to maintain their internal temperature

This will affect their immune system and their growth rates, ultimately costing you money!

Hedgerows and trees surrounding our fields will slow the wind and reduce this effect

Therefore they are well worth prioritising and investing in.

Using a planning process like the @regrarians Platform will help you put them in the right place with the right pattern with the right process!

#regenerativeagriculture #wind #agroforestry

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Trees planted in prepared soil grow way faster than trees stuck in compacted corn/hay ground.

Strip tillage with a combination of a subsoiler and a tiller/harrow is where convergent evolution has landed in the U.S., Australia, and Switzerland/The EU.

A huge thanks to Bob and Darren (@regrarians) for advising and workshopping this over the years. We’ve built more implements than is reasonable, so you don’t have to.

Comment “Forest,” and I’ll send you the podcast.

If you own or manage 20 to 50+ acres of farmland in the eastern half of the United States, and you’d like allocate financial capital to planting trees for profit and conservation as a long-term asset on your land, just comment “Trees,” and we’ll be in touch.

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The first time pigs go through a paddock, it looks like you've wrecked it.
Jason Hagan from McIvor Farm Foods on why that's exactly what should happen.
On ground that's never had pigs, they turn it over hard. Jason says it ends up looking like a big composted heap, and you'd swear you'd ruined the paddock.
But they're not being destructive. They're searching for minerals the grasses don't have.
Then the system kicks in. The disturbance opens the ground, seeds germinate, and better grasses come through. By the second, third and fourth pass, the pigs graze more and dig less, because they're finally getting the nutrients they need from the pasture itself.
The paddock improves. More grass, better grass, every rotation.
And the feed backs it up. A fully balanced mash of lupins, wheat and barley with the lysine and minerals in it, plus oregano as a herb. Non-GMO, no soy where they can avoid it. As clean as they can get it.
Trust the disturbance. Read the paddock over years, not weeks. 🌱
smartsoiledu.com
#JasonHagan #McIvorFarmFoods #PasturedPigs #Smartsoil #RegenerativeAgriculture #RegenAg #SoilDisturbance #PastureImprovement #RotationalGrazing #FarmersOfAustralia #HealthySoil #PasturedPork #FarmSmarter #AnimalImpact #LandRegeneration

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Two kilos of feed. One kilo of weight. Pigs are remarkable converters.
Jason Hagan from McIvor Farm Foods on why he walked away from the conventional outdoor piggery model.
He'd worked in an outdoor bred system before, built on the UK model where pigs are set stocked. It worked on paper. But you're left with a barren paddock, and Jason knew there had to be a better way.
So they followed Darren Doherty's Keyline design and rebuilt the whole system. Forty-metre strips through the paddock, poly wire to create cells, and the pigs moved through the landscape cell by cell, always with an eye on ground cover.
The water moves with them. The shelter moves with them. And they've always got fresh grass, which means a genuinely good diet alongside the grain that gets the fat to meat ratio right.
Same animal. Same conversion efficiency. Completely different outcome for the land.
That's the difference management makes. 🌱
smartsoiledu.com
#JasonHagan #McIvorFarmFoods #PasturedPigs #Smartsoil #RegenerativeAgriculture #RegenAg #KeylineDesign

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sat - sat, timelapse trials

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When you’re planting trees in pasture, you don’t want to till up more ground than is necessary, for both fuel usage and forage availability. From Darren J. Doherty of @Regrarians, out of Castlemaine, Australia, is a new ripper-rotor. It’s a Yeomans shank (subsoiler), followed by a power harrow.

The goal is to break up compacted ground, reduce herbaceous competition, and aerate the ground all without deleting soil structure. Good soil prep is vital for trees.

Darren has been working on agricultural machinery for tree planting since 1993. He’s an advisor of Propagate, and has worked closely with Bob Walker on our team, on similar implements. We have a similar version (subsoiler + harrow) for ground that isn’t rocky, along with a similar setup with just coulters.  We’ve had both Darren and Bob on the Plant The Trees podcast → Comment the word “forest” below, and I’ll send it to you.

If you’re in Australia, and you’d like to plant 10-30+ ha of trees, just reach out to Regrarians.

If you’re in the eastern half of the United States, and you’d like to plant trees on 20-50+ acres of non-forested land that you own or manage, just comment the word “Trees” below, and I’ll send you more information.

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You’ll always hold a special place in our family, ‘Maine 🖤 took us in like we’d always been there. It’s like we inherited an extended family. After three beautiful years, the party is finally over 🥺 (& party we did lmao)

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Gone Fishin’ - our entry for a John West competition, 2011.

#artordie #indiefilm #throwback

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The Aeroplane Song - Dirty Cosby, 2009.

#artordie #indie #y2k #throwback #alternative

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Master tree growers course complete, The 134th edition hosted by the Otways agroforestry network

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