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The Costs of Nutrients and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
Ohio State University Until the crops are in, feed markets will be highly reactive to Chinese buying ... a very low stock-to-use ratio (i.e., small carry-over), then small changes in projected supply or demand ... can have disproportionate effects on feed prices. The uncertainty might be hard to stomach until ...
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Key Factors to Success
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-12/key-factors-success
Don Rogers, a keynote speaker at the Ohio Dairy Conference, suggests 10 key factors for success in ... sized to match your resources efficiently. Herds of less than 100 cows should focus on maintaining low ... must focus on capital, labor and facilities efficiency. Herds in the 100 to 200 cow size appear to be ...
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2006 Ohio Dairy Challenge Contest
provides the opportunity for undergraduates at Ohio State University to experience the process of ... farm records to provide a summary of the strengths and opportunities for the operation in the format of ... Moritz, Maureen O'Brien, and Amanda Todd. The top 4 individuals for the contest selected to ...
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Fungicide Use on Alfalfa
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/fungicide-use-alfalfa
This week I was asked about applying fungicides to alfalfa because of the wet weather pattern we ... are experiencing. There are indeed some foliar fungicides that are labelled for alfalfa. The benefit ... to their use depends greatly on the weather conditions, with positive yield responses occurring when ...
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Observations from Tour of Matlink Dairy in New York
some excess electrical power for sale to the local utility, Niagara Mohawk. The heat generated also ... tour to Matlink Dairy. Located in Clymer, NY (the very southwest corner of New York) just outside the ... village of Clymer, the 600+ cow dairy farm needed to make improvements in the dairy manure management and ...
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Feeding Glycerol to Dairy Cattle
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-9-issue-2/feeding-glycerol-dairy-cattle
ingredient for dairy cattle. Feeding glycerol may have to be limited more when diets are rather high in NFC. ... for animal feed. So, additional research is going to be needed to determine the variation in ... ingredients are listed in order from highest to lowest concentration), you will find glycerin (another name ...
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Nutrition of Jersey Cows- Little Holstein Cows or a Breed Apart?,
mastitis and lameness, and greater longevity, while their temperament and size means they are friendly to ... the above factors, it is likely that interest in the Jersey breed will continue to increase. In ... which guidelines for Jersey cows can be based. This article reviews some of this information. Feed ...
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MarketView...U.S. Dairy Outlook Brief March- May 2011
production year to the 3,250 reported for the 2010 production year. To keep up with the daily dairy futures ... production for the United States over the last 10 years. This edition of MarketView will highlight a few of ... feed prices back in early 2009 has all but vanished, as milk output has now returned to its long term ...
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Stretching Corn Silage Supplies
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-3/stretching-corn-silage-supplies
NDF). To account for a loss in effective NDF, total NDF intake should be increased by 1.1 x 2 = 2.2 ... (minimum concentration for adequate forage diets) to about 35% (i.e., 21% forage NDF (requirement with ... corn silage was harvested last September. The silage is fed to 150 lactating cows at the rate of 40 ...
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Weather Update 5/12/2015
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-12/weather-update-5122015
After some early week rain of less than 0.25 inches in most places with isolated totals to 0.50 ... half of May will be warmer than normal by several degrees with increasing chances for rain. However, ... most places will see 1-2 inches of rain which is still normal to a bit below normal. Therefore, ...