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Management
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-11-issue-2/management
may be costing you up to $1.80/cwt of milk produced. Find out how you can implement your own welfare ... reform program in your herd. Managing Debt to Preserve Future Profitability Dianne Shoemaker, Extension ... Dairy Specialist, OSU-Extension shoemaker.3@osu.edu Controlling costs has been the front-line attack for ...
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Reducing Stress for a Healthy Heart
stress. Other suggestions for managing stress include: · Begin to take note of things that cause you ... state. However, farmers may continue to experience stress related to marketing this crop with current ... prices, year end financial planning, planning for next years crop and the upcoming cold weather. Farming ...
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Working Safely with Anhydrous Ammonia
of the product, understand the potential for injury and know how to respond to an emergency. There ... procedures for connecting and disconnecting nurse tanks and applicators. Shortcuts can lead to unintended ... maintained, equipment becomes damaged, or workers are not trained to follow exact procedures. Additional ...
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Wet Conditions Increase the Chances for Pesticide-Contaminated Forages
been banned for approximately 30 years. Therefore, they should not present a risk of actionable ... weather. By understanding the conditions that contribute to the contamination of forages, the likelihood of ... an expensive incident can be reduced. Organochlorine pesticides were the first formulations to ...
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Nutrient Prices- Seasonal Increases, High Returns
developed by Dr. Bill Weiss at O.A.R.D.C. in Wooster and are probably the best break-even figures to use for ... Federal Order 33 for the month preceding each column. The cost of providing the nutrients to support this ... changed little since November (Table 1). The average cost of energy is slightly higher due to the seasonal ...
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Cost of Nutrients and Benchmarks of Profitability for Ohio Dairy Farms
average US corn yield this year? Is China buying corn? Can Brazil compensate for the US acreage ... and oilseeds markets in the next year. Because of the uncertainty, be prepared for very volatile ... a historical perspective. Some, however, were inexpensive relative to other feeds. As usual, SESAME TM ...
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Appointment of Laurie Winkelman
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-7-issue-5/appointment-laurie-winkelman
writer for Hoard's Dairyman, and she helped to develop the dairy youth ethics publication "The ... for adults and youth. Laurie is originally from Watertown, WI and received B.S. degrees in dairy ... Sciences at Ohio State University. In addition to growing up on a dairy farm, she brings a tremendous ...
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Results from Ohio State Fair Dairy Cattle Skillathon
in this educational program, about the same number as for 2004. However, less than half (44%) of the ... youth with dairy cattle on exhibit participate in the skillathon. In addition, youth do not have to have ... an exhibit at the OSF to participate in this Skillathon, thus your help in encouraging participation ...
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Ohio Dairy Producers Will Be Operating the Dairy Stand at 2004 Ohio State Fair
Products Building in the past, has provided this opportunity to the ODP. "This is just one way that we ... can show our support for the ODP", said Scott Higgins, ADA & DC Mid East's General ... enable them to offer some new and cutting edge products." The menu plans are not complete, but we ...
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March 2016
https://agsafety.osu.edu/newsletter/ag-safety-stat/march-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 ...