By rebooting herd instinct, IMG (Instinctive Migratory Grazing) breaks current stockmanship, cattle behavior, and grazing paradigms many levels.
- Herds migrate around pastures as a herd so they don't need constant attention or additional fencing
- Ranches not dependent on water lines and windmill can begin regenerative grazing with no infrastructure changes
- Rebooted cattle are easier to handle. We don't know what the upper limitations are, but one man making pasture moves or penning 1,500 to 1,800 head are fairly common. In one instance a single person moved over 3,000 head of mixed cattle classes out of a 1,200 hectare pasture alone in under three hours.
- Changes epigentetics so they graze for nutrition, often grazing things they normally don't eat, including leafy spurge, locust, iron weed and others
- Don't "back graze" prefring to eat a wider variety of plants with more nutrition than recovering plants
- Cattle consume only the top third to half during the growing season allowing for more complete recovery of all plants
- Cattle consuming only the top third to half of plants during growing season, have rumens working at peak effeceincy, which lessens heat stress
- Cattle density changes to fit the forage conditions, assuring they always have the right amount of feed without making a wrong guestimate
The herd rebooting page contains videos explaining much of the stockmanship. It's difficult at best to learn without hands on supervision, so please visit schools and services page for schools to reboot your herd, or two day stockmanship clinics while listening to this video below from the Western Sustainability Exchange as you would a podcast. I'm mainly moderating while Fernando Falomir from Understanding Ag, Pedro Calderon, senior bison manager for the American Prairie Reserve, been and Riki Kremmers who has been running an IMG grazing program on the family ranch at Lance Creek, Wyoming describe how it works in their various environments while you peruse through the links in the header.
The following link is a recent Grazing Grass podcast, interviewing Riki Kremmers on how they've tripled their stocking rates implementing IMG on their ranch in Wyoming.
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Desertification of the Southwestern USA is easy to see. Below is an abandoned mower from when native grass hay was cut on this very spot less than 70 years ago.
Stocking rates in the region this picture was taken in has gone from 80 acres per cow to over 180 acres per cow in the last 20 years. It is possible to regenerate these grasslands through planned biological regenerative grazing using IMG. During the IMG schools, there is discussion on how to plan, and keep the plan flexible, as well as designing water plans at a minimal cost and keeping labor costs low.