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Chopping Soybeans for Silage
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-9-issue-2/chopping-soybeans-silage
plant dry matter) to cause problems. Under normal growing, R-7 stage beans contain about 10% fat (whole ... adequately. If your soybeans contain much more than about 10% fat, they should be blended with other crops ...
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Safety Training
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-3/safety-training
a close call safety story; here is mine. I was 14. The family had been baling hay all day. It was 5 p.m. ... tractor from being tipped. It never crossed my mind as a 14 year old that the wagon would tip. After all, ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
settled at $23.35/cwt, an increase of $2.20 over January and $6.10 over February of last year. For the ... the feed costs to produce a hundredweight of milk in Ohio are in the $10.50 to $11.00/cwt range. This ... in Table 1. Compared to its historical 6-year average of about 10¢/Mcal, NE L is still priced above ...
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Dairy Policy and Market Watch
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-9-issue-1/dairy-policy-and-market-watch
challenge filed here in Toledo, Ohio (Bridgewater Dairy, LLC, et al.-vs- USDA) will push the USDA/AMS to ...
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Dairy Feed Bunk Management
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-19-issue-5/dairy-feed-bunk-management
spend 4 to 6 hours per day eating, ideally divided into 9 to 14 separate meals or feeding sessions. The ...
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Feeding Lower Quality Hay Crop Forages
corn silage = 10; 10/0.40 = 25% alfalfa). If the alfalfa contained 50% NDF, then the diet should ... contain 20% alfalfa (21- 11 = 10; 10/0.5 = 20%). Additional supplemental protein may be needed because of ...
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Update on Footbaths for Dairy Cattle
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-8-issue-6/update-footbaths-dairy-cattle
Footbaths are generally viewed as helpful when disease is present at a low (<10%) level. When more ... treatment. Size the treatment bath to be at least 8 and preferably 10 feet long. Maintain a 5-inch solution ... chemicals are effective for around 150 to 200 cow passes. Copper sulfate at 5 to 10% has been the most ...
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Austin Ayars Memorial Scholarship Launched
been a premier site for dairy judging teams from across the United States to visit and evaluate high ...
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Milking Machines and Milk Quality
average vacuum in the claw during milking of 10.5 to 12.5" Hg. This normally indicates that the set ... 14 to 15" Hg for high lines. Measurement: Measurement of effective reserve and manual reserve on ...
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The Land of “MILC and Honey”- Dairy Policy Watch 2013
representative farms (~1/10th of US milk supply). Program/Herd Size Catastrophic Margin Mean Reverting Margin ... Milk Income Loss Contract 1-49 head 16.0 1.06 1.4 0.09 0.7 0.04 4.0 0.27 50-99 head ... 7.2 0.47 50-99 head 33.1 1.60 1.7 0.08 >0 >0 9.8 0.47 100-499 head 92.8 1.56 1.4 0.04 ...