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Milk Price Outlook
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-9/milk-price-outlook
for the month prior to the current BFP price report. For June this survey price averaged $13.17, which ... is $2.12 higher that the base month price for May. To arrive at the announced July BFP, NASS adds an ... adjustment to this price to reflect the prices observed in the product markets (mostly cheese value). For ...
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Estimating Manure Phosphorus Excretion by Dairy Cows
P excreted/day to pounds divide by 454. For example, a farm has a single group of 120 lactating cows, the average ... available that will do these calculations for herds with 1 to 10 groups of lactating cows and 1 to 2 groups ... excretion of P in manure is to feed only enough P to meet a cow's requirement. For most lactating cows, ...
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Topdressing Wheat with Liquid Swine Manure
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2017-06/topdressing-wheat-liquid-swine-manure
portion is readily available for plant growth. The organic nitrogen portion takes considerably longer to ... Research on applying liquid livestock manure as a spring top-dress fertilizer to wheat has been ... ongoing in Ohio for several years. There is usually a window of time, typically around the last week of ...
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Farm Labor for 2014 Versus 2015: Field Versus Livestock Workers
period of one year from October 2014 to October 2015, the average hourly wage for a field worker ... reflective of both farm productivity and farm size. We need to be aware of competitive opportunities for ... reported in the table do not include any benefits. The national average for hours worked per week was about ...
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Milk Prices May Firm as the Summer Heats Up and U.S. Milk Production Cools Off
like to follow my weekly price projections for the milk and dairy product markets, you can do so by ... the heat wave does not let up soon, look for any tightness in the cheese market to be reflected in ... still looking for butter prices to begin to increase and move into the mid $1.20's/lb toward the ...
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OARDC Biomass to Energy Program
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-7-issue-5/oardc-biomass-energy-program
and renewable energy sources will need to be developed to meet the increasing demand for ... livestock manures to produce methane-based biogas for limited heating and electrical generation is an ... reliability. Improved biogas quality may be applicable to new technologies for improved efficiency for ...
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Labor Management Series: Farm Transition to Non-Family
as the most likely candidates. For many, it’s ‘out of the box’ thinking to consider having someone ... 1 = Poor, 3 = Fair, 5 = Excellent In order for a potential successor to be successful, they must assume ... opportunity for you to understand how your successor makes decisions. Allow your successor to develop and use ...
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Soybean Meal- They're Not All the Same
ranked second to corn ($1.6 billion) for cash receipts. However, during this same time period, 1.5 more ... acres of soybeans were planted in Ohio than acres of corn. With the demand for corn to use in ethanol ... been advertised heavily during recent months the importance of the livestock industry to the market for ...
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Price Outlook
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-2/price-outlook
University Dairy Economist, Extension Specialist The Class IV market continues to be the driver for the class ... III futures contract prices continue to trade between $9.58 for the nearby to a high of $12.62 for the ... prices. Cheese is now moving to government storehouses in the form of processed cheese product. CME Class ...
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Ammonia Emissions from Dairy Farms- The Basics
allowing the State to maintain its rank of 11th in the nation for total milk production. With this milk ... plants). This processing capacity has helped the State to maintain a strong dairy industry and for the ... contract with local crop farmers for feed production and for land application of manure to provide ...