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Current Dairy Industry Outlook and Dairy Margin Coverage Sign-Up
year. As you look over your farm’s data, be sure to evaluate if your milk solids are keeping up with ... Percentages of milk fat and solids from 2018 to 2024. U.S. milk prices are being supported by strong domestic ... national trends of more dense milk. If your milk fat and non-milk fat solids have not increased from 2018 ...
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New Factsheet: Avian Influenza Detected in Dairy Cattle
the front page of our web site: https://dairy.osu.edu/ ... A new factsheet on “ Avian Influenza Detected in Dairy Cattle ” has been developed and posted on ...
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Dairy Sustainability – The Jargon, the Dairy Story, and the Opportunity (Part I)
footprint while also returning value to the farm-gate. This article series aims to get us on the same page ... Emissions on a Dairy Farm? So where do dairy farm emissions come from? The major sources of greenhouse gas ... emissions on most dairy farms are manure methane and nitrous oxide emissions (33%), enteric methane ...
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US Dairy Herds and Policy and the 2022 Census of Agriculture
and alfalfa) was below a specified value. The 2018 farm bill renamed the program, Dairy Margin ... farms. The preceding point suggests a program that bases dairy policy payments on the milk price-feed ... had 50-99 cows. Another 11,942 farms had milk cows on December 31, 2022 but had not sold any milk ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins, and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
dairy farms, March 15, 2024. Economic Value of Feeds Results of the SESAME™ analysis for central Ohio on ... Actual, breakeven (predicted) and 75% confidence limits of 26 feed commodities used on Ohio dairy farms ... prices since the January issue, the cost of net energy for lactation (NE L) has decreased by more than ...
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Why Do Cows Bunch?
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-26-issue-2/why-do-cows-bunch
farms and identified bunching on several farms. The risk factors were newly constructed barns, measured ... effective fly control program must include a combination of cleanliness, larval control through feed, ... standing, splashes manure on the udder, and elevates stress hormones. These changes increase risk of ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins, and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
confidence limits of 26 feed commodities used on Ohio dairy farms, January 12, 2024. For convenience, Table ... III milk closing price for December was $16.04/cwt, with protein and butterfat prices at $1.45 and ... the 5-year averages. Since the November issue, the cost of net energy for lactation (NE L) has ...
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Using Dairy Manure with Newly Planted Corn and Soybeans
fields for a drag hose. Additional on-farm manure side-dress plot results can be obtained by clicking on ... the On-farm Research link on the OSU Extension Agronomics Crops team website at ... 10,000 gallons per acre of dairy manure has not negatively impacted crop germination and emergence on ...
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Disease Prevention: Making the Most of Your Spring (and every day) Cleaning Practices
disinfection practices on any given day. Some things are difficult to control, for example, temperature and ... disinfection! Organic material, such as manure or feed residue, that are left on surfaces can interact with ... disinfectant companies have instructions on how to add antifreeze to their products to preserve their ...
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Spring Forage Establishment
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-26-issue-2/spring-forage-establishment
spring-establish forages is open. In the spring, the combination of weather and plenty to do make planting ... that are well-draining. Timing for seedbed prep should be based more on conditions than the calendar, ... professionally blended by the seed supplier if possible, and ask them for any information they may have on drill ...