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2016 Ohio Watershed Academy
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/events/2016-ohio-watershed-academy
leaders in Ohio to facilitate and participate effectively in collaborative watershed management ... initiatives. Increase your knowledge and skills in watershed management Credit hours available through the ...
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How the Weather and Feed Shrink Affect Your Bottom Line
over 15 mph are not the consistent norm, we often have wind speeds around 10 mph. In order to manage ... other sources of losses that should be considered and managed. Two sources of shrink are losses during ... rot. Many of our commodity bays are tall enough to dump directly into, minimizing losses that occur ...
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Carbofuran
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1551
Carbofuran is a broad spectrum insecticide that is sprayed directly onto soil and plants just after emergence ... California. The major source of carbofuran in drinking water is leaching of soil fumigant used on rice and ... suggest human source Leaching of soil fumigant used on rice and alfalfa TREATMENT OPTIONS Granular ...
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Harvest Alfalfa Based on Quality Goals
NDF concentration by 2 to 6 units under good conditions. In our experiences, NDF concentration of ... from the soil surface near the base of the plant (as described in the chart), and correctly identify ... estimate of quality of the standing alfalfa forage for purposes of making informed harvest management ...
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Western Dairy Management Conference and Study Tour
coordinating a dairy study tour to the Western Dairy Management Conference in Reno, Nevada followed by a tour ... opportunity to attend the premier Dairy Management Conference in the country and the opportunity to meet and ... talk with some of the top dairy managers. The tour to California will afford participants the ...
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Goodlatte-Scott vs. the Dairy Security Act: Shared Potential, Shared Concerns and Open Questions
This paper reports our analysis to-date of expected short-term impacts of 2 major dairy safety net ... (G-S). Our results suggest that both DSA and G-S are very effective in providing catastrophic risk ... generous margin insurance induces a long-term oversupply of milk. Our analysis suggests that under the ...
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Heat Stress- Where Do You Start?
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-3/heat-stress-where-do-you-start
our cows are stressed an average of 1,200 hours. During an average heat stress hour, the ambient ... becoming more acute because our cows are producing an increasingly amount of heat due to their higher ... stress for cows during the summer. Our better cows produce 6,500 BTU/hour, regardless of their location. ...
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MarketView...U.S. Dairy Outlook Brief 2010
highlighted? Why with so many additional cows in milk, did the price manage to climb to over $20/cwt? In the ... market, absorbing all of our considerable government stocks of nonfat dry milk, then bleeding into the ... management front, and let the natural exodus of cows and farms continue. At some point, the balance between ...
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Managing Farm Financial Stress
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-18-issue-6/managing-farm-financial-stress
community, a program entitled “Managing Farm Financial Stress” has been scheduled for Friday, December 16 at ... participants with tools and information that can help them manage through the current financial situation and ... Recognizing and managing/coping with the stress of financial hardship; Jim Foley, Director of Community ...
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Ohio Livestock Coalition Launches New Website
program was founded in 1997 to help farmers identify and address key management issues affecting ...