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Early-Spring Planted Forages for Dairy Farms
the spring. Spring triticale is a cross between wheat and rye and is well-adapted to a range of soils ... generally has NDF concentrations around 50% and CP concentrations between 12 and 16%. Invitro NDF ... adapted to cool wet soils. Forage varieties have been developed and are marketed. Spring barley will ...
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Heat Stress in 2021: Will it be Intense?
the U.S., heat stress is estimated to generate between $1.69 and $2.36 billion in total annual loss to ... factors in the humidity as well. For this reason, we utilize a temperature-humidity index (THI). While ... increased breaths per minute, which should be between 40 to 60 under normal conditions. While not ...
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Monitoring MUN in Dairy Cows- Ohio Data
low-producing herds. The herd level MUN concentrations varied between 5.0 and 15.1 mg/dl in the low producing ... herds (overall average 11.3 mg/dl) and between 10.1 mg/dl and 19.2 mg/dl in the high producing herds ... 2.4 times more likely and cows with MUN levels between 10.0 and 12.7 mg/dl were 1.4 times more likely ...
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Use 2022 Profitability As a Catalyst for Retirement Savings
retirement benefits is based on your 35 highest years of earnings. If you pay in at the minimum level, your ... social security retirement will be minimal. In high profitability years, managers should maximize the ... wages or profit that is subject to social security tax (to help with 35 high year average). According to ...
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Dairy Outlook: July 2023
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-25-issue-4/dairy-outlook-july-2023
2023. Input costs and drought conditions have contributed to high dairy cow slaughter so far this year. ...
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About SNAP-Ed
https://hamilton.osu.edu/program-areas/snap-ed/about-snap-ed
a partnership between the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services and Ohio State University Extension in an ... county level is provided by the SNAP-Ed staff. The program targets food stamp program participants; ...
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Harvest Management of Sorghum Forages
a dry matter basis. For lactating cows, forage with NDFD levels of 50% are usually acceptable, and ... between 40 to 60 days after planting (30 to 50 inches tall). Heifer diets could utilize this forage ... Forage having NDFD levels as low as 35 to 40% with high NDF levels are acceptable for dry cows or beef ...
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JIT Inventory: Amazon-Yes, Dairy Producer-No
This land amount will vary based on soil quality, weather, forage yield, harvest and storage losses, ... milking cow. High production herds (100 lb milk/cow) will require 15% more land (1.7 to 2.3 acres/cow) ... These forages will have high sugar content and will replace corn silage with added ground corn. Plan for ...
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Results from Research Supported by the Ohio Dairy Research Fund
the overall gas and odor levels at the manure storage pond were generally not high enough to cause air ... quality concerns. The mean NH 3 levels varied from 1.2 to 7.4 ppm; H 2 S 2 to 72 ppb (parts per billion); ... indicated that hot months generally had relative high odor levels. If odor is a concern to neighbors and ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
prices are all lower for March than for January, contributing to a lower Cow-Jones Index in this issue. ... at these nutrient prices, the Cow-Jones Index was used for average US cows weighing 1500 lb and ...