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Livestock Need Good Quality Drinking Water
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/livestock-need-good-quality-drinking-water
but levels below 3000 ppm are generally considered safe to drink. Nitrates and sulfates should be ... nitrates the level in water should be below 20 ppm as long as feedstuffs contain low nitrate levels. With ... other than making sure that water is available in sufficient quantity, little thought is given to the ...
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New Diagnostic Testing for Johne's Disease in Ohio
preparation technique that resulted in more MAP being available to inoculate on the media. An additional ... on solid media, this system utilizes a liquid media, or "broth" as it is sometimes called, ... in a sealed vial of the liquid media along with specific growth supplements and certain antibiotics ...
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Pricing Drought-Stressed and Immature Corn for Silage
normal corn silage would be reasonable. Test drought-stressed corn silage for nitrate levels before ... silage (very early milk stage) CP 10 to 11% (about 2 or 3 units higher than normal) ... NDF 50 to 55% (about 10 units higher than normal) Starch 15 to 20% ...
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Corn Stalk Nitrate Test
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are some tools available to help manage nitrogen and provide growers with some guidelines that may be ... useful on their farms. One of these nitrogen management tools is the corn stalk nitrate test. This is ... can be used to make nitrogen management decisions in future years. The stalk nitrate sampling ...
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Drought Stressed Corn as Silage
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portion of the stalk having the highest concentration of nitrates. High and potentially toxic levels of ... nitrate levels are high, raising the chopping height to 10-12 inches can be helpful, but obviously tonnage ... Typically the most frequent questions about using drought stressed corn for corn silage revolve around ...
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Frost-Damaged Forages
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/frost-damaged-forages
after a frost. Nitrate levels can be tested at most labs. A forage sample analysis is worth the vet ... article are below. “Making hay does not reduce nitrate levels in the forage, but the hay can be tested ... Extension Forage Specialist, where he addresses nitrate toxicity and prussic acid toxicity. Nitrate toxicity ...
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Teen Opportunities
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There are numerous opportunities available to teens through 4-H at the county, state, national, ... and international level. Many of these opportunities help teens develop and practice important life ... skills that will help them in the workplace such as citizenship, leadership, teamwork, public speaking ...
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2020 OSU Extension Internship Program
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available in several Ohio counties. Interns will work June 3 through August 12, 2020. While each ... news articles, exhibits, brochures, marketing materials, and resources for educational curriculum Using ... social media and technology to share research-based information Participating in field research, helping ...
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Making Corn Silage in Drought Conditions
shrink by 2 percentage units has a value of about $2/ton. Homolactic inoculants (these are the ... drought-stressed corn. Check for nitrates. Drought-stressed corn plants can accumulate nitrates which are toxic ... Ideally, corn plants should be sampled and assayed for nitrates prior to chopping (most labs offer very ...
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Should You Use A Nitrogen Inhibitor?
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questions about the use of nitrogen inhibitors. As we begin our 2015 corn planting season an appropriate ... a little about nitrogen and soil chemistry and how our crop plants absorb nitrogen. A common chemical ... process with nitrogen fertilizers such as anhydrous ammonia, urea and urea-ammonium nitrate (UAN) is the ...