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Key Mastitis Control Points for Best Milk Quality
Medicine, The Ohio State University Mastitis is the most common and costly disease affecting dairy cows, ranking ... control program to improve milk quality at the herd level: Point #1: Establishment of goals for udder ... the difference in terms of consistent lying time (hours/day) is that the best dairy farm provides 2 to ...
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Forage Fertility: Where We Are and Why it Matters
producers’ ability to stay competitive. Furthermore, water quality issues in the state underscore the need ... State University Extension Hay and haylage crops are grown on just over 1 million acres in Ohio (NASS, ... 2019) and are grown on more Ohio farms (44% of all farms) than any other crop (Becot et al., 2020). In ...
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Seeding Perennial Forages in Late Summer
Science, The Ohio State University The month of August provides a window of opportunity for establishing ... November. Early versus late August plantings dramatically improve the alfalfa's ability to resist the ... be firm enough for a footprint to sink no deeper than one-half inch. Tilled seedbeds do not need ...
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USDA Releases July Dairy Outlook
%2015%20Measures%20of%20Dairy%20Farm%20Competitiveness%20Final%20%281%29.pdf, Ohio State University Extension Farm ... Budgets available at: https://farmoffice.osu.edu/farm-management/farm-budgets, and the Ohio State ... Chris Zoller, Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tuscarawas County, Ohio State ...
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Creeping Towards Harvest
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-4/creeping-towards-harvest
Haley Zynda, Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Wayne County, Ohio State ... University Extension Silage harvest- it’s the most wonderful time of the year! And by that, I mean stressful ... Since there is only one shot to get it right, you have to make corn silage harvest count. The feed you ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
April F. White, Graduate Research Associate, Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State ... farms, July 21, 2021. Economic Value of Feeds Results of the Sesame analysis for central Ohio on July 21, ... Actual, breakeven (predicted) and 75% confidence limits of 26 feed commodities used on Ohio dairy farms ...
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Harvest Management of Sorghum Forages
Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Crawford County, The Ohio State University Summer annual ... of water that must be evaporated for ensiling as yields increase. The Cornell researchers stated that ... to 60% moisture. We have also had at least one barn fire in Ohio caused by sorghum bales that seemed ...
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Steps to Speed up Field Curing of Hay Crops
Extension Educator, Sandusky County, The Ohio State University The rainy weather in many regions of Ohio and ... surrounding states is making it difficult to harvest hay crops. We usually wait for a clear forecast before ... forage quality as the crop matures. As we keep waiting for perfect haymaking weather, we will reach the ...
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Assessing Calf Death Losses in a Beef-Dairy Crossbreeding Program
Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University Many dairy herds are implementing a beef-dairy crossbreeding ... March 2020 to March 2021 from one Holstein dairy herd were assessed. All cows were housed in free-stall ... timed-AI (~60% of cows were bred on heat detection and ~40% of cows on timed-AI). Multiparous cows ...
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Promising Vaccine Development to Control Johne’s Disease
Medicine, Ohio State University Extension Johne’s disease is a chronic enteritis associated with ruminants ... lack of reliable diagnostic methods. Newborn animals are infected at the time of parturition by ... age, then vaccinated and nonvaccinated control calves were inoculated orally three times with live MAP ...