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Planning: A Vital Function of Management
For most dairy producers, this is a slower time of the year. With a bit of free time in your hands, you should manage to make room for planning. We know that you dont like sitting behind a desk to scribble numbers on a piece of paper. Thats a female j ...
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Milk Prices Flatten as Milk Output Stays in High Gear!
WHEW! In my April report (put out March 25th) I stated that the March BFP would come in at $11.57 and explained what was behind the significant decline in the February BFP. For March I was off by only 5 cents and I can live with it! Now let's turn ou ...
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Harvest Alfalfa Based on Quality Goals
How many times have you heard the statements: Timely harvest is critical for achieving optimal quality of alfalfa forage and high forage quality is critical to good performance in high producing lactating cows? But how do you know when alfalfa is at the o ...
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Milk Production Gains Strong- Outlook for Prices is Revised
Yikes! The USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Report is now out and in that report, the projected milk production for the United States is set at 161.5 billion pounds for the marketing year ending September 1999. This is up 3.2 percent over the pre ...
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Rations for Good Rumen Health
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-2-issue-3/rations-good-rumen-health
The first priority of dairy rations should be to maintain rumen health. Traditionally, forages of sufficient particle size are used to stimulate cows to chew feed during eating and cud-chewing (the latter is called rumination). Dairy cows spend about 10 h ...
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Wet Conditions Increase the Chances for Pesticide-Contaminated Forages
The use of organochlorine pesticides such as DDT, aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, lindane, etc., has been banned for approximately 30 years. Therefore, they should not present a risk of actionable residues in milk or meat products. Unfortunately, the latter ...
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Maintaining Quality Grain in Storage
If you had $15,000 to $30,000 in cash sitting in a grain bin, would you check it often? You know you would. So why not check your grain that is worth that much? When you store wheat, oats, rye, barley, grain sorghum, shelled corn, or any other grain on yo ...
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Cheese Inventories Dip- Cheese Prices Roar!
Holy Hot Cows! High heat and humidity throughout most of the United States is slowing the torrid pace of milk production this summer. The latest USDA July 15 milk production report shows production gains, while still high, are off in most of the high pro ...
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CHEESE INVENTORIES DIP- CHEESE PRICES ROAR!
Cameron S. Thraen AED/ The Ohio State University/ OSUE Dairy Economist / Extension Specialist What is going on here? What can I say! The cheese market is incredible. Repeat after me: "It has been very, very good to me." The 40-pound block cheese ...
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DROUGHT CONCERNS: BEWARE OF NITRATES!
William P. Shulaw DVM, Extension Veterinarian; Kent H. Hoblet DVM, Extension Veterinarian; Diane F. Gerken DVM, Veterinary Toxicologist. Drought Concerns Reminiscent of 1988, we are facing possible problems with feeding drought-stressed plants and poten ...