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  1. Use 2022 Profitability As a Catalyst for Retirement Savings

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-24-issue-5/use-2022-profitability-catalyst-retirement-savings

    For many farm managers, it typically means prepaying expenses for the upcoming year or by investing in ... social security retirement will be minimal. In high profitability years, managers should maximize the ... Extension Typically as we move into the final quarter of the year, farm managers will start to examine their ...

  2. Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-25-issue-2/milk-prices-costs-nutrients-margins-and-comparison

    University Milk Prices In the January issue, the Class III for February was $17.95/cwt and March was ... prices are all lower for March than for January, contributing to a lower Cow-Jones Index in this issue. ... to February and March. Nutrient Prices It can be helpful to compare the prices in Table 1 to the ...

  3. USDA Dairy Report: March 2023

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-25-issue-2/usda-dairy-report-march-2023

    average number of cows and milk production per cow in January 2023 were higher than the same month a year ... compare various costs for January 2022 and January 2023.  These items are summarized in the table below. ... Margin Program, in January 2023, the spread between milk prices and feed costs ($7.94/cwt), narrowed ...

  4. Feeding for Milk Components

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-25-issue-2/feeding-milk-components

    annual milk solids yield per cow is higher in the US than for New Zealand, Germany, and Argentina (Figure ... 1). Except in only selective markets today in the US, dairy farmers are paid for milk by processors ... solids, especially yields of fat and protein to improve farm profitability. In a recent survey (Nichols, ...

  5. Northeast Ohio Regional Dairy Conference

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-25-issue-1/northeast-ohio-regional-dairy-conference

    who use activity monitoring systems in the management of their farms will be held to allow anyone ... University of Kentucky, an expert in animal behavior and precision dairy technologies, and he will be ... information that these systems provide to improve farm management.  A discussion panel of local dairy farmers ...

  6. Memorial Scholarship Launched by the Ayars Family

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-25-issue-2/memorial-scholarship-launched-ayars-family

    scholarship fund in honor of their late son, Dr. Austin Ayars.     Dr. Austin Ayars Features of his life and ... education of students, aimed especially for those with interest in dairy cattle.   ...

  7. Considering Dairy Farm Construction in 2023?

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-25-issue-1/considering-dairy-farm-construction-2023

    Jason Hartschuh, Field Specialist, Dairy Management and Precision Livestock, Ohio State University ... water availability, lighting, floor grooving, and fan placement. If an expansion is in your future, many ... industry, with fewer new construction projects being planned. In October 2022, the architecture billing ...

  8. Leadership Changes in the Department of Animal Sciences at The Ohio State University

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-25-issue-1/leadership-changes-department-animal-sciences-ohio

    teaching, research, and outreach education in dairy cattle nutrition and management; however, special focus ... Sciences after serving in the interim role since October 2021. Her four-year term began on January 1, 2023. ... Dr. Lyvers Peffer joined the Department of Animal Sciences as an assistant professor in 2005, becoming ...

  9. Methane Mitigation Strategies for Dairy Farms

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-24-issue-6/methane-mitigation-strategies-dairy-farms

    emissions. Therefore, in all cases, a change in forage management to decrease enteric CH4 emissions needs to ... and intensity, it can only be used in production systems where feed intake is closely managed due to ... diversity of management systems with such feedstuffs, additional research in needed in how these compounds ...

  10. A Farm Advisory Team Can Help You Succeed

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-24-issue-5/farm-advisory-team-can-help-you-succeed

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273124170_An_Advisory_Team_Approach_to_Your_Farm_Management Conducting a SWOT Analysis of Your Agricultural Business, Ohio State University Extension, ... University Extension Managing all the complexities of a dairy farm is no easy task.  Weather, animal ... nutrition and health, crop variety selection, managing people, and monitoring financial performance are just ...

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