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Highlighting Research: 7 Student, Faculty & Staff researchers and the questions they are answering
Dairy Nutrition and Sustainability For Graduate researcher April White, how diets, digestibility and the ... dairy cattle’s feed efficiency, improving sustainability of dairy products while reducing the physical ... management practices for vegetation within utility-scale solar by grazing sheep and/or making hay. Beyond ...
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US Dairy Herds and Policy and the 2022 Census of Agriculture
dairy herds. The sizeable economies of size are largely due to non-feed cost per cwt of milk ... produced. Given the large difference in non-feed cost per cwt across dairy herds, it is not surprising that ... a profound decline, even within the context of the long-standing decline in dairy herds. The economic ...
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Dairy Sustainability – The Jargon, the Dairy Story, and the Opportunity (Part I)
practices and feed efficiency of the whole herd. For example, capturing methane from manure using anaerobic ... approaches in forage selection and harvesting, herd health, parlor technologies, and feeding management, have ... the use of methane mitigating feed additives. Incentives are coming into view for such a practice to ...
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Why Do Cows Bunch?
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-26-issue-2/why-do-cows-bunch
dairy consulting, I have observed some unusual bunching behavior of dairy cows in well managed and ... lower in milk fat. Dairy farmers provide their cows with quality feed, housing, stalls, and ... The dairy farmer will look over the cow pen and notice the cows are bunched up and huddled into a big ...
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Current Dairy Industry Outlook and Dairy Margin Coverage Sign-Up
Jason Hartschuh, Extension Field Specialist, Dairy Management and Precision Livestock, Ohio State ... US dairy herd continued to shrink in January of 2024 by about 23,000 head compared to December 2023 ... University Extension Dairy margin coverage (DMC) sign-up is currently underway at your local Farm Service ...
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Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference
information about the feeding of dairy cattle to the industry. Undergraduate students are encouraged to apply ... The Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference is a collaborative effort between The Ohio State ... University, Michigan State University, Purdue University, and the allied dairy industry to provide current ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins, and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
dairy farms, March 15, 2024. Economic Value of Feeds Results of the SESAME™ analysis for central Ohio on ... Actual, breakeven (predicted) and 75% confidence limits of 26 feed commodities used on Ohio dairy farms, ... can be helpful to compare the prices in Table 1 to the 5-year averages. With some lower reported feed ...
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Greenacres Livestock Position
https://ansci.osu.edu/april-29th-2024-april-22nd-2024-april-15th-2024/greenacres-livestock-position
be have a large project management component for research as well. This individual will be a part of ... projects. Apply here: Greenacres Farm Sales LLC- Livestock Field Coordinator (paylocity.com) ...
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Disease Prevention: Making the Most of Your Spring (and every day) Cleaning Practices
microorganisms that cause the most problems in your herd are covered. Actively manage your disinfectants. Some ... Medicine, The Ohio State University Cleaning and disinfection (C&D) practices are often laborious and ... disinfection practices on any given day. Some things are difficult to control, for example, temperature and ...
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Using Dairy Manure with Newly Planted Corn and Soybeans
In recent years, dairy farmers and commercial manure applicators have been moving towards applying ... dairy manure to newly planted corn and soybeans. Applying dairy manure to fields after crops are planted ... university trials of surface applied dairy manure, only about half the ammonium nitrogen applied seemed to be ...