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Emergency Preparedness Through a Farm Walk Through
course on animal handling. You may want to have disposable plastic boots available for biosecurity and so ... the tour, have a discussion with first responders about gas detection equipment that they have ... available if they need to enter a confined space. Hydrogen sulfide, methane, carbon monoxide, and ammonia ...
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Considerations for Managing Higher Fertilizer Prices on Your Dairy
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 ... is highly unlikely. The critical phosphorus soil test level for corn and soybean is 20 ppm and 30 ppm ...
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Antibiotic Stewardship in Calves – Part 2
sometimes I see them referred to as “grass puppies” on social media because of their bouncy and curious ... tied to dehydration. The tricky part about diarrheal diseases is that they can be caused by a plethora ... muzzle, and breathing rate. Eyes can be scored according to discharge levels. A score of 0 is a healthy ...
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Valuing Bedded-Pack Manure
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-6/valuing-bedded-pack-manure
will be 10 to 16 lb/ton. About 2 lb of this nitrogen is in the ammonium form and the remainder will be ... in the organic form. While ammonium nitrogen is immediately available to a growing crop, organic ... nitrogen takes time in a field to mineralize and become available over three or four years. The phosphorus ...
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Face-to-Face Again with the 2021 Ohio Dairy Challenge
provided to students. On Friday afternoon, the students and judges spent about two hours at the farm ... Matthew, Caleb, and Hayden Brightbill. The family’s operation includes about 690 cows and 700 youngstock. ... Drs. Maurice Eastridge and Benjamin Wenner for the OSU Columbus campus. Additional information about ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins, and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
can be helpful to compare the prices in Table 1 to the 5-year averages. The price of NEL is about 6% ... income over nutrient cost (IONC) for cows milking 70 lb/day and 85 lb/day is about $9.18 and $9.63/cwt, ...
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VOLUME 23: ISSUE 6
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-6
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Answering Farmers’ Questions About the Pandemic in 2021
recommendations based on the available scientific data at any given time. There are coronaviruses on my farm — is ... up the population achieve some level of immunity which ultimately stops the spread. How do you get ... herd) has some level of immunity to a virus. This means if someone who didn’t have enough immunity ...
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Livestock Medication Records: Are They Really Necessary?
animals and it is the responsibility of the owner to ensure that a safe product is available to consumers. ... use of livestock medications in the United States and establishes tolerance levels for residues in ... are from the document Adequate Drug Treatment Records Help Ensure Food Safety, available at this FDA ...
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H2Ohio Cover Crop Usage
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-5/h2ohio-cover-crop-usage
hand-in-hand with several of the BMP’s that H2Ohio uses, allowing for higher levels of control of the nutrient ... is not present. Cover crops are available to be used in a conservation crop rotation with small ...