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  1. Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-22-issue-2/milk-prices-costs-nutrients-margins-and-comparison

    reflective of the quality of forage harvested last year, as well as the increased cost of several high ... Cow-Jones Index was used for average US cows weighing 1500 lb and producing milk with 3.9% fat and 3.2% ...

  2. Raising Dairy Calves: Reading Personality of the Calves can be Important

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-20-issue-4/raising-dairy-calves-reading-personality-calves-can

    was reduced to 50% of the allowance at 42 days of age and reduced by 20%/day from day 50 until calves ... tests (novel environment, human approach, and novel object). Seven different behaviors were scored, but ... to first eat 0.50 lb/day, and 42.5 days to eat 1.5 lb/day of calf starter. Some general conclusions ...

  3. Now that the Forages are Harvested

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-2-issue-7/now-forages-are-harvested

    kernels) and corn silage (relatively dry) are at high risk for mycotoxins. If mycotoxins are suspected, ... time to consider contacting for grain and other concentrate ingredients. Minimize the risk of feed ...

  4. Zooming in on the 2020 Ohio Dairy Challenge

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-22-issue-6/zooming-2020-ohio-dairy-challenge

    and 3.2% milk protein. There were about 50 students (10 students from ATI, 5 students from Wilmington ...

  5. Dairy Market Update

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-17-issue-1/dairy-market-update

    even smaller.  Remember, at trigger levels above $6.50, the cost of margin protection becomes ... in 2015- an outcome not very likely. Remember, ‘high prices cure high prices’ and equally ‘low prices ... cure low prices’. To trigger MPP-Dairy payments at the $4 level would require world dairy prices at the ...

  6. How to Adjust a POSILAC® Supplementation Program to a Temporarily Limited Supply of POSILAC

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-6-issue-2/how-adjust-posilac%C2%AE-supplementation-program

    discontinued at the end of lactation, cows return to the level of production they would have been had ... in late lactation may cause milk production to decline to a level that is not profitable, forcing ... than one cow will increase the risk of disease transmission, increase the risk of injection site ...

  7. Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-21-issue-5/milk-prices-costs-nutrients-margins-and-comparison

    trading between $17.50 and $18.00/cwt. The number of cows being milked in the US are also still going down ... burden. To estimate profitability at these nutrient prices, the Cow-Jones Index was used for average US ...

  8. Milk Production for Ohio Dairy Herds

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-14-issue-2/milk-production-ohio-dairy-herds

    of the different testing options offered by DHI, some herds opt for no release of records, lack of ... sufficient number of test dates, and given that some of the herds consist of other breeds than the ones ... 3.81 3.21 Brown Swiss 16 19,453 4.06 3.41 Guernsey 10 15,900 4.50 3.37 Holstein 354 23,372 3.66 3.05 ...

  9. Woolly Bear Caterpillars

    https://butler.osu.edu/news/woolly-bear-caterpillars

    more species in the U.S.  Woolly bears are the caterpillar stage of a medium sized moth known as tiger ... woolly bears are highly variable in color.  The fine hairs covering the body vary from beige or yellow to ... legend by showing the amount of black varies with the age of the caterpillar and the moisture levels in ...

  10. Corn Silage Harvest Timing

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-16-issue-4/corn-silage-harvest-timing

    hybrids tested exhibited a poor relationship between kernel milk-line stage and whole-plant percentage of ... Proper harvest timing is critical because it ensures the proper dry matter (DM) content required for high ... reduced animal intake. Harvesting too dry (high DM content) promotes mold development because the silage ...

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