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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins, and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
these nutrient prices, the Cow-Jones Index was used for average US cows weighing 1500 lb and producing ... cows milking 70 and 85 lb/day is about $13.50 and $13.97/cwt, respectively. Both estimates are higher ...
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Considerations for Managing Higher Fertilizer Prices on Your Dairy
is highly unlikely. The critical phosphorus soil test level for corn and soybean is 20 ppm and 30 ppm ... soil test value is above the critical level, added fertilizer is not expected to increase the yield of ... the upcoming crop. When soil test values are above the critical level, the chance of a yield response ...
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Corn Silage Harvest Safety Should Be Priority One
filled. Tower silos and areas around stored silage should be treated as confined spaces. Due to this risk ... very difficult to control or stop. Safety Around Machinery During silage harvest, there are risks of ... with a highly reflective SMV sign. During harvest, be sure to wash SMV signs and lights so that they ...
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Beat the Heat Before It's Late: Cooling Strategies for Dairy Cattle
responses of dairy cattle, you can identify those animals experiencing high heat load early on. Coupled with ... mitigate high heat load is clear and consistent across climates: shade, soakers, and fans. During summer, ... usually when the air temperature is about 72°F or when the Temperature-Humidity Index (THI) is above 65. ...
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Corn Silage and Foliar Disease
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-24-issue-4/corn-silage-and-foliar-disease
contamination of corn silage and high moisture corn with many nutritionists encouraging levels below 1 ppm in ... with DON levels as high as 17.9 ppm in one hybrid and 30.3 ppm in the other hybrid. Again, fungicide ... by at least 50%. The trial was then expanded the second year, which was a high disease pressure year ...
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Establishing Alfalfa
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-20-issue-2/establishing-alfalfa
(P) levels should be between 25 and 50 parts per million (ppm). The Mehlich III soil test P levels ... should be between 40 and 79 ppm. The recommended rate of potash is based upon the soil test level in ... ppm, the cation exchange capacity, and yield goal. If lime is required and the Bray P1 soil test value ...
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3-NOP (Bovaer™) Receives FDA Approval
Carbon price of $30/ton Milk price of $17.50/cwt Ration cost of $0.15/lb DM In the first scenario ... 3-NOP is fed. Under this scenario, the breakeven cost for feeding 3-NOP is $0.41 to 0.45/hd/day. If ...
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Establishing Alfalfa and Weed Management
be between 25 and 50 ppm. The Mehlich III soil test P concentrations should be between 40 and 79 ppm ... . The recommended rate of potash is based upon the soil test level in ppm, the cation exchange capacity, ... and yield goal. If lime is required and the Bray P1 soil test value for phosphorus is below 25 ppm ...
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Fertility Management of Meadows and Pastures
from legumes. For good yields of forage, soil P levels need to be maintained at 15 to 25 ppm (30 to 50 ... lb/acre). Potassium soil levels should be 125 to 200 ppm (250 to 400 lb/acre). On many livestock farms that ... commercial fertilizer application will not affect crop yields. Soil P levels of over 35 ppm and K levels of ...
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Current Dairy Industry Outlook and Dairy Margin Coverage Sign-Up
2024 is projected to have margins above the $9.50/cwt level, many different domestic or international ... the first 5 million pounds of milk production history if producers enrolled at the $9.50/cwt margin ... level. Farms received 2 months of catastrophic payments when the margin fell below $4/cwt. Figure 1 shows ...