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OSU Extension Offers Dairy Forum, Open House Aug. 8-10
Minimize Shrink,” “Managing the Costs of Production,” “Services Provided by the American Jersey Cattle ... who wants to learn the latest research on Jersey cattle, milk production and developing a Jersey ... feature seminars designed to share information on efficiently managing dairy operations and the ...
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Shrimp Production Opportunities Continue to Expand
October 6, 2004 PIKETON, Ohio — Production opportunities for growers delving into the shrimp ... aquaculture and in some livestock, such as swine. Because of the environmental push away from animal-based ... products, fish-free meal — a plant-based material — has come on the market as a substitute feed. Part of the ...
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Worried About Fuel Prices? Grow Cover Crops for Fertilizer Needs
vegetables to evaluate their biomass production and nutrient management capabilities. He found nine varieties ... that generated the minimum nitrogen requirements and recycling for crop production: cow peas, hairy ... especially cow peas and winter peas, produced enough nitrogen to support crop production without the need to ...
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Strategies to Help Control Mastitis to be Discussed at Dairy Conference
October 30, 2001 COLUMBUS, Ohio- Effectively managing the period between lactation and calving of ... production. Richard Meiring, of Ohio State University's Clinical and Veterinary Preventive Medicine, said ... "Management techniques that are conducted during lactation to prevent infections are not normally followed ...
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Worried About Moldy Corn? Test Grain to be Certain of Mycotoxins
up in dried distillers grains, the byproduct of ethanol production that is fed to livestock." ... farmers do not feed any grain with more than 5 parts per million vomitoxin to swine. "Avoid feeding ... more that 20 percent of the diet fed to swine and 40 percent of the diet fed to other animals." ...
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Cuyahoga County Extension Office Will Be Working Remotely
https://cuyahoga.osu.edu/news/cuyahoga-county-extension-office-will-be-working-remotely
and they will remain accountable for program management needs. Please note that most Extension-planned ...
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OARDC Receives $2 Million Grant to Support Growing U.S. Greenhouse Tomato Industry
rapidly growing sector of U.S. vegetable production. Annual losses of as much as $1 million due to tomato diseases ... Meanwhile, disease management costs can be prohibitive for smaller operations. “Greenhouse tomato producers ... list diseases as the highest risk factor to their productivity and profitability,” said Sally Miller, ...
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One-Stop Agronomic Resource Still Going Strong After 40 Years
providing Ohio farmers with everything they ever wanted to know about crop production and management with ... production, multiple cropping, pasture and grazing management, alternative crops, seed quality, weed ... of recommendations and information about crop production to producers in an all-in-one reference ...
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Ag Economist: Look to Long-Term Sustainability to Solve Food Crisis
specifically oil production. "The days of cheap oil are over. There are indications that the world has ... peaked in oil production, and oil is at the core of many of the world's problems," said ... becoming uneconomical." Another element is the growing gap between agricultural production and global ...
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Producing Vegetables in Tunnels: Workshop
https://cuyahoga.osu.edu/events/producing-vegetables-tunnels-workshop
Tunnels 201: Making More of Tunnel Production... These workshops will address many questions about ... using low, mid, and high tunnels to protect crops, increase farm productivity and profit potential, ... enhance crop diversity, and lengthen production-marketing periods, all at nearly any scale and in nearly ...