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A Great Success!
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-12/great-success
With over 300 attendees, the first Ohio Dairy Conference attracted considerably more people than expected by the organizing committee. Despite the strain imposed by this unexpected attendance, the program was kept on schedule and most of the attendees rel ...
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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 the dairy industry. 1. Herd size. It's not that you are big or small, but rather that you are sized to match your resources efficiently. Herds of less ...
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Milk Price Outlook
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-2-issue-1/milk-price-outlook
Cameron Thraen, Dairy Economist thraen.1@osu.edu Milk Prices/Incomes High in 1998, Expect Declines but not Disaster in 1999. January 28, 1999 Expected stronger growth in milk production and softening of commercial demand to push milk prices back to ...
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Planning: A Vital Function of Management
For most dairy producers, this is a slower time of the year. With a bit of free time in your hands, you should manage to make room for planning. We know that you dont like sitting behind a desk to scribble numbers on a piece of paper. Thats a female j ...
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Harvest Alfalfa Based on Quality Goals
How many times have you heard the statements: Timely harvest is critical for achieving optimal quality of alfalfa forage and high forage quality is critical to good performance in high producing lactating cows? But how do you know when alfalfa is at the o ...
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Milk Prices Flatten as Milk Output Stays in High Gear!
WHEW! In my April report (put out March 25th) I stated that the March BFP would come in at $11.57 and explained what was behind the significant decline in the February BFP. For March I was off by only 5 cents and I can live with it! Now let's turn ou ...
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Milk Production Gains Strong- Outlook for Prices is Revised
Yikes! The USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Report is now out and in that report, the projected milk production for the United States is set at 161.5 billion pounds for the marketing year ending September 1999. This is up 3.2 percent over the pre ...
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Rations for Good Rumen Health
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-2-issue-3/rations-good-rumen-health
The first priority of dairy rations should be to maintain rumen health. Traditionally, forages of sufficient particle size are used to stimulate cows to chew feed during eating and cud-chewing (the latter is called rumination). Dairy cows spend about 10 h ...
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Wet Conditions Increase the Chances for Pesticide-Contaminated Forages
The use of organochlorine pesticides such as DDT, aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, lindane, etc., has been banned for approximately 30 years. Therefore, they should not present a risk of actionable residues in milk or meat products. Unfortunately, the latter ...
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Maintaining Quality Grain in Storage
If you had $15,000 to $30,000 in cash sitting in a grain bin, would you check it often? You know you would. So why not check your grain that is worth that much? When you store wheat, oats, rye, barley, grain sorghum, shelled corn, or any other grain on yo ...