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Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute: Dairy Outlook
University Extension The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of ... important risk management tool. Improved prices will likely result in increased cow numbers which are ... projections provided in this report are well researched given the information available today but are subject ...
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Assessing Milk Price and Risk Management for 2023
make sure we are assessing what the 2023 milk price may be and how to manage the risk of a milk price ... to produce feed. This makes it very important to manage the milk price risk for 2023. The September ... common risk management tools used in Ohio are the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program and the Dairy ...
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Happy Retirement to Dianne Shoemaker
retirement, and hope that we can someday look back on our careers with the same pride and sense of ... Extension Award winner for farm business management education efforts that help dairy farms improve ...
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Pricing Standing Forage Crops – Your One-Stop Shop
Dianne Shoemaker, Farm Management Specialist, Ohio State University Extension; Dr. Mark Sulc, ... available at https://forages.osu.edu/forage-management/forage-economics. These include: Factsheet: ... “Pricing a Standing Oat/Spring Triticale Haylage”. Some farms grow these crops for cover crops while they ...
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Manure Spill Prevention
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-20-issue-5/manure-spill-prevention
fertility level. Improper storage management includes not monitoring storage closely enough, resulting in an ... manure hauled and applied. Hopefully, all goes well, without any accidents or manure spills, but hope is ... one important component of that plan. A good start to preventing manure spills is to understand some ...
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Forage Planting – How to Do It Well
(https://forages.osu.edu/forage-management/soil-fertility-forages). Forages are more productive where soil pH is above 6.0, but for alfalfa, it should be 6.5 – 6.8. ... fertility are in the recommended ranges. Follow the Tri-state Soil Fertility Recommendations ... interim). Plant high quality seed of known varietal source adapted to our region. Planting “common” seed ...
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Dairy Youth Events at the 2010 Ohio State Fair
management, nutrition, animal welfare issues, and health. It takes an “army” of loyal volunteers to manage ... we have an even more unique opportunity to “tell our story” to consumers. 2010 is recorded, but it ... the OSU judging teams managing the parlor, it was more than an annual event; it was a learning ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
value added by some suppliers in the form of nutritional services, blending, terms of credit, etc. Also, ... April F. White, Graduate Research Associate, Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State ... within a commodity type can vary considerably because of quality differences as well as non-nutritional ...
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Considering Corn Silage Cost of Production
Dianne Shoemaker, Dairy Farm Management Field Specialist, Ohio State University Extension The cost ... 11 to 28 ton/acre in 2017, 17 to 28 ton/acre in 2018, and 10 to 25 ton/acre in 2019. While some corn ... 3). What inputs were the biggest contributors? The largest are shown in Table 2. Seed, fertilizer, custom ...
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Valuing Bedded-Pack Manure
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-6/valuing-bedded-pack-manure
Glen Arnold, Manure Management Field Specialist, Ohio State University Extension Due to the ... increase in fertilizer prices, there is renewed interest in the nutrient value of manure. This article will ... Extension has a good publication available on-line at http://extension.psu.edu/plants/nutrient-management ...