Greg and Jan Judy of Clark, Missouri run a grazing operation on 2200 acres of leased and owned land. Greg and Jan went from near bankruptcy in 1999 to paying off a 200-acre farm and house in 3 years with custom grazing on leased land and are debt free. They own 6 farms and lease 17 farms. They graze South Poll cattle, St Croix hair sheep, guardian dogs and Shiitake mushrooms.
Greg wrote a book in 2001, entitled “No Risk Ranching, Custom Grazing on Leased Land”, which details the methods they used to build their operation from scratch. In 2008, Greg wrote a second book, “Comeback Farms, Rejuvenating Soils, Pastures and Profits with Livestock Grazing Management”. Greg’s second book covers all the methods they use with Holistic High-Density Grazing, multi-species grazing, grass-finishing animals, and eliminating costly inputs. In 2021, Greg wrote his 3rd book entitled “Greg Judy’s How to Think Like a Grazier”.
Greg started his own YouTube channel, “Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher,” and posts 5 videos a week sharing their successes and failures of building a profitable grazing operation. The channel now has 140,000 subscribers from all over the world.
Greg gives talks and schools all over the US, Germany, England, New Zealand & Canada teaching the benefits of planned grazing, leasing land, multi-species grazing, custom grazing, agroforestry, and wildlife management. The Judy’s hold a spring and fall grazing school at their farm at Clark, Missouri, teaching the principles of planned grazing. Greg and Jan also have a boys and girls ranch internship program that teaches young folks how to manage their own future profitable grazing operation. Greg quit his off-farm job in 2009 and is now a full-time rancher. The Judys’ website is: https://greenpasturesfarm.net