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Fast Changing Feed Markets Bring Opportunities
market for sources of nutrients. As usual in this column, we used the software SESAME to compare 28 feed ... (representing an approximate increase of $0.12 to $0.15/cow/day in nutrient costs), 4) No change in the cost for ... substantial changes in commodity prices. In these instances, some producers prefer to keep purchasing the same ...
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Milk Price Outlook
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-7/milk-price-outlook
There has to be a reason for the sharpness of the drop, but I haven't heard a very convincing one ... Normand St-Pierre, Dairy Extension Specialist The May Basic Formula Price (BFP) plunged to $10.88, ... down $1.13 from the April BFP. This BFP will place average pay prices for Ohio milk producers in the ...
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Cost of Nutrients and Benchmarks of Profitability for Ohio Dairy Farms
reported in Table 1. Net energy for lactation is still at a very high price, close to two times more ... usual, we used these results in combination with Class III component prices for Federal Order 33 to ... Ohio to determine the implicit costs of nutrients and estimate break-even prices of all these ...
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Agricultural Equipment
https://agsafety.osu.edu/program-areas/agricultural-equipment
be little you can do to change these factors, but others are directly under your control. For ... backgrounds and know to use caution when approaching farm equipment on the roadway. Farms are larger than in ... the past, so operators are forced to travel greater distances on the roadways between fields. Farm ...
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June/July 2016
https://agsafety.osu.edu/newsletter/ag-safety-stat/junejuly-2016
Ag Safety S.T.A.T. – Safe Tactics for Ag Today is an electronic newsletter prepared by team ... members from the OSU Extension Agricultural Safety & Health Office. The goal is to provide seasonal ... safety-related questions or program ideas that you would like to share, please contact Dee Jepsen at ...
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Universal Design and Assistive Technology
on our doors, it may be time to start getting ready for spring field work. When working on equipment ... your help. Universal Design is the design of products or environments to make life easier for all ... independently. Ultimately, it makes it possible for someone to complete a job that might otherwise be difficult. ...
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Dealing With an Uncommon Feed Market
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-6-issue-3/dealing-uncommon-feed-market
requesting help on how to deal "with these obscene soybean prices". I imagine that most dairy ... producers wouldn't mind still paying $250/ton for soybean meal. But the rapid changes in soybean and ... corn prices have opened many opportunities for judicious ingredient substitutions in dairy diets. There ...
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Slips, Trips, and Falls
Farmers should wear the foot apparel appropriate for the job, such as steel toed and slip resistant boots. ... view.- Stay alert to items projecting from buildings or equipment. For more information about the OSU Ag ... list of work to be done on the farm such as spraying crops, side-dressing corn, baling hay, and moving ...
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Small Business Development Workshop
https://franklin.osu.edu/events/small-business-development-workshop
the Schoenbaum Family Center. Call for pricing. *Financial assistance is available. ...
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Dairy Producer Johne's Disease Survey
needed. An online survey is available for dairy producers to provide feedback on improving the ... page) Over the past few years, efforts have been made nationally to implement a voluntary Johne's ... Disease program. To continue to move this effort effectively forward, input from dairy producers is ...