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  1. Dairy Numbers Considered: A look at 2019 and 2020

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-1/dairy-numbers-considered-look-2019-and-2020

    to $800. Positive net returns are needed to make principal payments, generate family living, pay ... Dianne Shoemaker, Dairy Farm Management Specialist, Ohio State University Extension The first half ... Uniform Price (Table 1) averaged $15.85/cwt in 2020, $1.36 lower than 2019’s $17.21/cwt.  USDA’s 2020 Ohio ...

  2. Feed and Nutrient Costs in Dairy Production: Will it Get Any Worse?

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-13-issue-1/feed-and-nutrient-costs-dairy-production-will-it-get

    market.  In January, the Cow-Jones Index for Ohio stood at $5.41/cwt.  A Cow-Jones of ~ $8/cwt indicates ... costs.  Effective risk management might be imperative. Figure 1. The Cow-Jones Index from January 2005 ... Dr. Normand St-Pierre, Dairy Extension Specialist, The Ohio State University  The spot market for ...

  3. OSU-ACET Index Insurance Program

    https://ipa.osu.edu/worldwide-projects/africa/osu-acet-index-insurance-program

    agricultural credit using index insurance The Ohio State University (OSU) and the African Center for Economic ... financial risk management practices employing index insurance. Some potential impacts of the OSU/ACET ... Results should be available in early 2015 before the launch of the second follow up survey that will take ...

  4. 2018 Dairy Farm Business Summary Now Available

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-21-issue-6/2018-dairy-farm-business-summary-now-available

    average continue to generate substantial positive net returns.  If those returns are “enough”, depends on ... Dianne Shoemaker, Field Specialist, Dairy Production Economics, Ohio State University Extension ... The 2018 dairy analysis work is in the books and is very reflective of Ohio’s dairy industry.  Several ...

  5. Feed and Nutrient Costs in Dairy Production: Where are we now?

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-13-issue-2/feed-and-nutrient-costs-dairy-production-where-are

    central Ohio, week of April 11, 2011. Returns to Dairy Producers: the Cow-Jones Index Using a ‘standard’ ... the Cow-Jones Index for Ohio stood at $10.64/cwt.  A Cow-Jones of ~ $8/cwt indicates that milk is ... sector.  We have monitored this index since 1998.  Results since January 2005 are shown in Figure 1.  ...

  6. Protecting Income Over Feed Cost Margin on U.S. Dairy Farms

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-15-issue-5/protecting-income-over-feed-cost-margin-us-dairy

    imminent and underinsuring when risks seem remote (Newton et al., 2013a). The long term result may be ... candidate, The Ohio State University, and Dr. Marin Bozic, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied ... current risk management and U.S. dairy policy innovations designed to provide an effective dairy safety ...

  7. Does TMR Sampling Provide Useful Nutrient Composition Data?

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-18-issue-5/does-tmr-sampling-provide-useful-nutrient

    DM and CP; however, using results from a single sample had a high risk of being wrong (>10% ... Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University 1 Laboratory data from total mixed ration (TMR) samples have ... samples are taken and results are compared to the specifications of the formulated diet. Although using ...

  8. Economics

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-10-issue-5/economics

    Prices Dr. Normand St-Pierre, Dairy Management Specialist, Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio ... StateUniversity Currently, feed costs account for close to 60% of milk revenues on the average Ohio farm.  The ... Cow-Jones Index, a measure of profitability in the dairy sector, has been under the $8 profitability ...

  9. Nothing Stands Still: High Moisture Corn and Corn Silage is Different in Summer than in the Fall and Winter

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-13-issue-3/nothing-stands-still-high-moisture-corn-and-corn

    Dr. Bill Weiss, Dairy Nutrition Extension Specialist, The Ohio State University (top of page) pdf ... reported that in vitro starch digestibility (an index of starch digestion in the rumen) in corn silage ... matter) did not change greatly over storage, probably because it was very high initially, but starch ...

  10. Dietary Calcium and Magnesium Deficiency in Dry Cows

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-13-issue-1/dietary-calcium-and-magnesium-deficiency-dry-cows

    Dr. Bill Weiss, Dairy Nutrition Extension Specialist, The Ohio State University (top of page) pdf ... a much greater risk for other health disorders, such as mastitis, metritis, and displaced abomasum.  ... and just adequate in phosphorus and 2) feed anionic diets [i.e., diets with a negative or dietary ...

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