I haven’t listened yet, but am very interested in the cow topic. I have a four acre pasture and I’m trying to figure out how small my paddocks can be for a couple of feeder cows to do sort of a mini-mob grazing. If I take Salatin’s information of 100 cows on 100 acres with cows being on the same piece of land 3-4 times a year it tells me I should be able to cut four acres into about 90 paddocks for 3-4 cows and be in good shape. Say about 40 x 45 foot paddocks.
I’ll find out if Jack talks about anything like this in that last segment.

Regarding overly protective parents and bus stops, this has been bugging me for a while. On my commute to work (into Massa-f’ing-chusetts), I got behind a school bus that was making stops. It stopped right in front of the 20mph “school zone” flashing sign for a pick-up. I thought to myself “That’s ironic there’d be a school bus stop right at the beginning of the school zone. It must be going to a different school because it’d be nuts if it were actually going to THIS school.” Then, the bus drives forward 100 feet and turns into the school!!

My timing has been such that I’ve been behind that bus a few dozen times now, and it always makes this stop. There are usually several children at the stop, and a parent sitting there in a parked car with the engine running and a couple of the children inside the car so they don’t get hot or cold or whatever. When the bus gets there, the children get out of the car and into the bus, to be driven a whole whopping 100 feet to the school. If you won’t let them walk, why don’t you just drive them to the school instead of sit there with the engine running for 15 minutes? In case anyone is wondering, it’s a simple road with one lane in each direction and a sidewalk along the road going straight to the school. And, a crossing guard holding a stop sign that’s actually visible from the bus stop. By the way, this crossing guard never has to do anything since no children walk, but he’s always looking at every car going by giving us the evil-eye “I know you’re going to run over children and I’m going to get you in trouble” look. He stands there looking back and forth into the distance as if he’s a guard on a tower of the great wall of China searching the horizon for an invading enemy.

Sorry Jack I just have to rant… this is driving me nuts. I can’t believe the amount of collective stupidity involved by everyone related to this school bus stop.

Regarding the “Can’t Carry at Work” guy.
I had the same problem, but my state specifically states parking lots are legal even for posted locations (EXCEPT Nuclear Plants). It was a pain taking off the gun, putting it in its box, then taking my holser off, etc. It was even worse trying to get it back on in the car while sitting etc, actually it was literally a pain in the ass. Then I found the VanGuard 2 (Glock and S&W M&P only not shield) “holster” It is actually a trigger cover that snaps on (and off quickly) with a strap the goes over the belt. I just take the whole thing off (don’t draw my gun) real easy as I use it appendix carry, and it goes in the box. Also no worries with re-holstering as the trigger is covered at all times.
Here is a link to the website, it is great and I highly recommend it. (NO AFFILIATION OTHER THAN I OWN ONE)
http://raven-concealment-systems1.mybigcommerce.com/vanguard-2-holster-full-kit/

As far as using a firearm for home defense, my grandfather used to have bird shot rounds in his pistols for the first two rounds. His thought was that he may not need to kill a person or may miss on the first two shots, but if he needed to move onto that third round he needed to be fully ready to put them down.

When I was a kid, after playing all day in the Southeast Texas Big Thicket, I would come in covered with chiggers and sometimes ticks. My grandmother would make me strip outside and then take a bath with a high concentration of bleach. That would kill the chiggers, but make my skin feel like I’d been in an over-chlorinated pool for way too long. She never did give me anything to keep them away (probably nothing worked).

Chiggers, A bath with a high concentration of Epsom Salts has provided relief for me.

One quick comment regarding silvopastoral systems. (And I apologize for getting to this late in the game. I’m new to the podcast and don’t always hear them fresh off the airwaves.) Unless you live in the southern US and are using a fast-growing tree, e.g. loblolly pine, you should not expect to have sawtimber-sized trees at 30 years. Jack mentioned black walnut in the context of being able to capitalize the investment in a 30-year timeframe and potentially have the timber value meet or exceed the value of the farm. This is not feasible in 30 years with any hardwood for 2 reasons, growth rates, and grade. It is possible to achieve sawtimber-sized hardwood trees in 30 years in some parts of the country and with certain species–most species in the hardwood growing regions of the US will not do it biologically. The issue with achieving high-value sawtimber and veneer, however, relates to grade. Veneer grade logs are graded on several criteria including size, color, uniformity, percent heartwood, defects, sweep, crook, etc. High value sawtimber and veneer grade walnut will typically not have more than 8 rings/inch. That is a radial measurement, so that means that on average, as the tree was growing what is heartwood today, it needs to have been adding 1 inch of diameter every 4 years. Many veneer buyers won’t look at a log unless it is 16″, inside bark, on the small end (maybe smaller if there is a very low sapwood:heartwood ratio). Even with a buyer who will take a short log, that means an 18″ tree, outside bark, at chest height. 18 inches at an average of 1 inch every 4 years is 72 years. Now most reasonable people know that trees can add diameter faster when young because a single year’s worth of wood is being added to a smaller cylinder. Nonetheless, one shouldn’t expect to even enter into the veneer and upper grade sawtimber markets until your trees are at least 50 and in most cases 60. Open grown trees will grow faster than trees in a closed canopy, but keep in mind that there may be a grade deduction because of too-fast growth.

Don’t be discouraged; however, you will most likely make more from the trees’ walnut production over those 50 years than you will get from timber. And, that is cash flow early in the investment period, so the NPV of the walnut production will very likely look better on the balance sheet than the timber.

Key point: Expect to get Grade 2 and better trees in a silvopasture system with walnuts, with veneer comprising 5% or less of the total volume. Harvest the nuts because those buggers are going to meet or exceed the timber value in the long run.