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  1. Pay Attention to Dairy Cow Stocking Density

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-19-issue-2/pay-attention-dairy-cow-stocking-density

    stocking density can affect a dairy cow, you have to know something about how a dairy cow ideally will ... producers, Dr. Peter Krawczel from the University of Tennessee, Animal Science Department talked about ... the typical lactating dairy cow spends 3 to 5 hours /day eating, about 0.5 hours/day drinking, 2 to ...

  2. Cost of Nutrients and Benchmarks of Profitability for Ohio Dairy Farms

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-9-issue-2/cost-nutrients-and-benchmarks-profitability-ohio

    year average of about $0.07/Mcal. Presently, feed energy is the predominant factor driving the price of ... effective NDF (a major feature of forages) is about at its historical average. Thus, dietary energy is ... in central Ohio. Most people think that corn grain at $3.95/bu is highly priced. Certainly, this is ...

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

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-17-issue-5/milk-prices-costs-nutrients-margins-and-comparison

    historical 6-year average of about 10¢/Mcal, NE L is currently a relative bargain at 4.9¢/Mcal.  This is ... the daily cost of providing this nutrient is only about $1.56/cow/day (i.e., 10.5 lb × $0.149 per lb). ... Appendix A few people have asked that I publish the results using the 5-nutrient group (i.e., replace ...

  4. New Information on Feeding Behavior and Intake by Lactating Cows

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-7-issue-5/new-information-feeding-behavior-and-intake-lactating

    either once, twice (about 8 hours apart), or 4 times (about 6 hours apart) per day. For cows fed once ... daily, feeding twice daily increased eating time by 10 minutes/day (about a 3% increase) and feeding ... of Idaho. They fed Holstein cows (average production about 90 lb/day of milk) the same diet to two ...

  5. Health Benefits, Risks, and Regulations of Raw and Pasteurized Milks

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-7-issue-4/health-benefits-risks-and-regulations-raw-and

    and Applied Nutrition and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published guidelines that established ... lost during handling, pasteurization, packaging, and oxidation of milk; about 70% of the remaining ... consumption. Dairy Division, Indiana State Board of Animal Health, Indianapolis, IN. PMO. 2001 Revision. US ...

  6. Establishing Alfalfa

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-20-issue-2/establishing-alfalfa

    time period to establish alfalfa seedings.  Have you thought about what needs to be done to ...

  7. 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 ... several long stems remain, reduce TLC, if you cannot find any stem pieces that are about an inch long, ...

  8. Dairy Management Workshops

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-9-issue-3/dairy-management-workshops

    improvement.  If you have any additional questions about the program or about how producers can register, ...

  9. Using Total Quality Management to Organize Labor and Work

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-4-issue-1/using-total-quality-management-organize-labor-and

    of the farm and the people that make up the farm. TQM is not just a change in process. Rather, it ... and evaluation is the essence of TQM. TQM and Hired Labor Some people believe that employee motivation ...

  10. Stable Nutrient Costs and Income for September

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-7-issue-5/stable-nutrient-costs-and-income-september

    substantial changes in the structure of the U.S. dairy industry lately, enough so that old price benchmarks ... may not be appropriate anymore. There will be more about this in the December issue of Buckeye Dairy ... historical average of about $6.00/cow/day. Thus, profitability of Ohio dairy farms should still be good and ...

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