{"id":2101,"date":"2013-05-13T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2013-05-13T10:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T14:50:39","slug":"yes-its-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/yes-its-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, it’s true…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20130512_10\"<\/a>….Greg and Jan Judy’s Green Pastures farm certainly lives up to its name.\u00a0 More than 50 would-be grazers attended Greg’s three-day program near Moberly, Missouri last week to study the power of mob grazing.<\/p>\n

It’s been a cold, wet spring but the proof was there as you drove down the road.\u00a0 Greg’s green pastures alongside neighbors who were still feeding hay!<\/p>\n

\"20130512_21\"<\/a>The featured speaker was Ian Mitchell-Innes who practices a version of what might be called “Mob Grazing for Dummies”.\u00a0 Ian’s approach is throw you in the shallow water so you don’t have to drown.\u00a0 He has become something of a missionary in the battle to save the microbe.\u00a0 There’s no doubt in Ian’s mind that we can feed the world’s hungry, if we can just get the politicians and experts out of the way.<\/p>\n

We like to think we have pretty good grass at Thistle Hill but \"20130512_30\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Greg’s fields clearly win first prize.\u00a0 While he generally puts a lot of pressure on the ground, the secret is to move the herd quickly.\u00a0 And his stocking rate is very conservative with plenty to spare for emergencies.<\/p>\n

And the proof of course is in the eating….what the cows eat.\u00a0 The\"20130512_63\"<\/a>se young heifers have certainly come out of the winter….and it was a brutal one….none the worse for wear.\u00a0 Greg’s cows are South Poll, an animal developed in Alabama by country musician Teddy Gentry, who has become a leading expert on the production of grass fed beef.\u00a0 We have Senepol cows from Teddy’s farm\u00a0at Thistle Hill, one of the four breeds which make up the South Poll cross.<\/p>\n

We use our Devon bulls on them and like the result very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….Greg and Jan Judy’s Green Pastures farm certainly lives up to its name.\u00a0 More than 50 would-be grazers attended Greg’s three-day program near Moberly, Missouri last week to study the power of mob grazing. It’s been a cold, wet spring but the proof was there as you drove down the road.\u00a0 Greg’s green pastures alongside neighbors who were still feeding hay! The featured speaker was Ian Mitchell-Innes who practices a version of what might be called “Mob Grazing for Dummies”.\u00a0 Ian’s approach is throw you in the shallow water so you don’t have to drown.\u00a0 He has become something of a missionary in the battle to save the microbe.\u00a0 There’s no doubt in Ian’s mind that we can feed the world’s hungry, if we can just get the politicians and experts out of the way. We like to think we have pretty good grass at Thistle Hill but Greg’s fields clearly win first prize.\u00a0 While he generally puts a lot of pressure on the ground, the secret is to move the herd quickly.\u00a0 And his stocking rate is very conservative with plenty to spare for emergencies. And the proof of course is in the eating….what the cows eat.\u00a0 These young heifers have certainly come out of the winter….and it was a brutal one….none the worse for wear.\u00a0 Greg’s cows are South Poll, an animal developed in Alabama by country musician Teddy Gentry, who has become a leading expert on the production of grass fed beef.\u00a0 We have Senepol cows from Teddy’s farm\u00a0at Thistle Hill, one of the four breeds which make up the South Poll cross. We use our Devon bulls on them and like the result very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,22,54,59,60,31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food","category-holistic-management-international","category-judy","category-mitchell-innes","category-mob-grazing","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}