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  1. Minimizing Heat Stress in the Dairy Facility

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-8-issue-4/minimizing-heat-stress-dairy-facility

    evaluate your facility and plan for improvements as needed. The combination of soaking and blowing air ... fans provide the most airflow for the cost of operation. Keep them clean. The spray nozzles should ... water supply line limits the flow. In adding cooling, the first place to look is the holding pen. Here ...

  2. Antibiotic Stewardship in Calves – Part 1

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-5/antibiotic-stewardship-calves-%E2%80%93-part-1

    Essentially, it is the same type of certification for the well-being and proper handling of veal calves. ... of or kills bacteria. Antibiotics are not to be used to treat any other type of infection. How about ... vaccines? They’re a hot topic right now in human medicine, but their purpose is the same in livestock. They ...

  3. 15- Measures of Competitiveness

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-8/15-measures-competitiveness

    replacement heifers ? total cwt. of milk sold for the same period Total feed cost per cwt. of milk sold ... their potential, evaluate facilities. Keep dry periods below 60 days. Keep culling rates below 25 ... percent. Keep age at first calving below 24 months. Consider using BST. ...

  4. Agricultural Reflections

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-5/agricultural-reflections

    lately. The reason that I have been spending some time thinking about agriculture should come as no ... first large farms? Grain producers. Think about vegetable producers; they have some rather large farms! ... agricultural community. Why are dairy farms consolidating? For the same reasons that grain and other livestock ...

  5. Cover Crop Soil Health Workshop

    https://miami.osu.edu/events/cover-crop-soil-health-workshop

    Compaction, Soil Demonstrations, Keeping Nutrients out of Surface Water, Economics of Cover Crops, Using the ... Hardin County Extension office at 419-674-2297 for details and to register.  Participants need to be ...

  6. TRAINING NEW EMPLOYEES FOR PRODUCTIVITY AND LONGEVITY ON YOUR FARM

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-2-issue-8/training-new-employees-productivity-and-longevity

    for this person in the position? Now that you have decided what, how, and where training needs to be ... need? Perhaps not. It appears that candidates for dairy farm jobs are increasingly less likely to have ... satisfaction from their work. Job satisfaction is more important than pay rate in keeping workers happy and ...

  7. Managing Dairy Cow Heat Stress

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-19-issue-3/managing-dairy-cow-heat-stress

    of heat stress, the dairy manager needs to make sure they have an effective heat abatement program in ... more humid climates, fans should be used in combination with sprinklers (nozzles need to deliver 0.5 ... gallon/minute of water, 20 to 40 lb/square inch of pressure [psi]) which will wet the hair coat of cows. ...

  8. Become a Master Gardener Volunteer

    https://miami.osu.edu/program-areas/master-gardener-volunteers/becoming-miami-county-master-gardener-volunteer

    The first step in this process is to inquire about an application at the Miami County Extension ... for Humanity Miami County in Bloom (biannual garden tour- even years) Fall Farm Fest at Lostcreek ...

  9. Constructing New Buildings On the Farm

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-5/constructing-new-buildings-farm

    responsible for workers on your property? If you are thinking of hiring a general contractor, how will you ... contractor, are your plans specific enough to tell sub-contractors what is needed? Are the interior details ... already decided on? Are the sub-contractors all bidding on the same things? Will contracts be used, and if ...

  10. Considering Dairy Farm Construction in 2023?

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-25-issue-1/considering-dairy-farm-construction-2023

    availability is another critical component. Cows consume 30 to 60% of their water needs shortly after milking ... so waters need to be located close to the parlor or robot exits and throughout the barn. The stand-by ... water availability, lighting, floor grooving, and fan placement. If an expansion is in your future, many ...

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