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Gearing Up for Spring Planting
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-2/gearing-spring-planting
of all tractors that will be used. Service all tractors. Get any needed fertilizer on hand or order ... it to be spread as soon as the field is fit (hopefully you pulled a soil sample last fall, and if ... not, do it ASAP and send to the lab). Calibrate the fertilizer spreader. Buy the seed (including any ...
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What Are Your Bedding Options- is $100/ton Straw an Option?
rye straw are 1 ½ to 2 tons per acre; it is recommended that you do not use spring nitrogen fertilizer ... a great bedding source but also removes coverage that helps prevent winter soil erosion. One option for ... this may be to bale the residue and then plant a cover crop to protect the soil from erosion and ...
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Early-Spring Planted Forages for Dairy Farms
adapted to cool wet soils. Forage varieties have been developed and are marketed. Spring barley will ... well-drained soils that are not heavy textured. Barley is the earliest maturing of the small grains planted in ... the spring. Spring triticale is a cross between wheat and rye and is well-adapted to a range of soils ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
April Frye White, Graduate Research Associate, Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State ... that of May at $24.23/cwt, followed by $22.84/cwt in August. Nutrient prices When comparing the prices ... in Table 1 to the 5-year averages, the current prices of nutrients are good. The price of NE L is ...
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USDA Releases March Dairy Report
University Extension The United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (USDA ERS) ... https://farmoffice.osu.edu/farm-management/enterprise-budgets ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
December at $16.12/cwt, followed by a further decrease to $15.56/cwt in February. Nutrient prices It can be ... nutrient costs to this time last year, however, NEL and MP are about 42 and 36% higher than January 2020 ... estimate profitability at these nutrient prices, the Cow-Jones Index was used for average US cows weighing ...
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Update to the OARDC Feed Energy Equation
been made since then, but our lab is in the process of making a major update to the equation. Because ... the equation is summative, an equation component for one nutrient can be changed without affecting the ... (Mcal/lb) = 0.015*((NDF-Lignin)*(1-[(Lignin/NDF) 0.667])) where all nutrients are entered as % of DM. Those ...
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NEW RELEASE: 15 Measures of Dairy Farm Competitiveness
Management Proper utilization of manure nutrients Minimize the cost of nutrient management and reduce ... and milk prices create many challenges for dairy farm families, thus management of key financial ... up-to-date information on dairy farm financial management and to address other key issues of management on ...
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Nutrient Losses from Dairy Operations and Their Environmental Issues
to be good environmental stewards and having a good nutrient management plan is necessary to mitigate ... nutrient losses and environmental (air, soil, and water) impacts. Among the livestock sector in Ohio, dairy ... and is a pollutant that can contaminate air, soil, and water when manure is not properly managed. For ...
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Happy Retirement to Dianne Shoemaker
Extension Award winner for farm business management education efforts that help dairy farms improve ... retirement, and hope that we can someday look back on our careers with the same pride and sense of ...