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Composition of Corn Silage Harvested in 2011
late, resulting in a late harvest. Overall, the yields of forage appear to be quite good for this ... be assessed. The new crop corn silage should be analyzed, be allowed to stay in storage for at least ... NY, the corn silage harvested this year have similar concentrations of NDF and starch as compared to ...
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Busted: rbST Milk Myth Machine is Revealed
milk purchasers and resellers, including the Kroger Company, used this argument in deciding to stop ... disheartening if it was anywhere close to being true. In a June 29 guest editorial in the New York Times (hardly ... a bastion of conservatism...), Henry I. Miller advocated "... the use of rBST to help increase the ...
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15- Measures of Competitiveness
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-4/15-measures-competitiveness
farmers ask: how much debt can my dairy handle? While the debt to asset ratio looks at the overall debt ... a dairy, cows generate the money needed to make principal payments. If debt per cow is too high When debt ... additional debt -increase net income per cow and pay down debt -withdraw less from the farm for family living ...
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When is the Best Time to Market Cull Cows?
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-7-issue-3/when-best-time-market-cull-cows
for other Ohio regions, but not markedly so. Compared to January 2005, prices of nutrients (Table 1) ... currently wise to reduce the safety margins of dairy rations for net energy and undegradable protein. ... Meanwhile, the markets are willing to pay you for increasing your usage of rumen degradable protein and ...
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Using Manure with Growing Crops
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-8-issue-6/using-manure-growing-crops
source of nitrogen for growing crops. However, the large volume of manure needed to meet the nitrogen ... Mr. Glen Arnold, Extension Agriculture Educator, Putnam County Applying animal manure to a growing ... crop can add an additional window of time rarely utilized for manure application. Also, applying animal ...
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Cost of Nutrients and Benchmarks of Profitability for Ohio Dairy Farms
used these results in combination with component prices for Federal Order 33 to calculate a benchmark ... feed commodities traded or available in Ohio to determine the implicit costs of nutrients and estimate ... Results for the nutrient costs are reported in Table 1. Net energy for lactation is still at a very high ...
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Ohio Will Host the Professional Heifer Growers
rapidly growing and important organization has as their mission: Heifer growers dedicated to growing ... high quality dairy replacements. One of the goals of the organization is to provide educational ... programs and professional development opportunities for heifer growers. That opportunity will be available ...
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Dairy Management Workshops
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-9-issue-3/dairy-management-workshops
include Finpack assessments and a visit to each farm by the instructors for assessing opportunities for ... Management Education grant was received to offer the program "Teaching Management Skills to Dairy ...
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Selenium Yeast for Dairy Cattle
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-6/selenium-yeast-dairy-cattle
Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of selenium (Se) yeast for dairy and beef animals. Prior to ... concentrations of sulfate. The addition of Se-yeast to diets for dry and prefresh cows may improve calf health. ... In Ohio, all diets fed to dairy animals (calves, heifers, and dry and lactating cows) should be ...
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Milk Price Outlook
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-1/milk-price-outlook
prices farmers receive for Grade A milk should increase during November due to Class I forward pricing in ... result from slackening demand for cheese and other dairy products. Even though the BFP may decline, ... will decline through the early part of 1988. The BFP likely will fall to $11.90, the historical average ...