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  1. Factors to Consider in a Program for Heat Detection

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-4/factors-consider-program-heat-detection

    point to remember about estrous detection in cattle is that the only definitive sign that a cow is in ... metestrous bleeding and occurs about 35 to 45 hours after the end of estrus.  This is not an indication of ... from about 18-24 days and averages 21 days. If a cow is showing estrus more frequently than this, she ...

  2. Information on the Environmental Protection Agency Air Quality Program

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-7-issue-2/information-environmental-protection-agency-air

    to 4 years from now). For detailed information about the Agreement, click here. ...

  3. Ohio State Team Promotes Nature-based 'ECO-farming'

    https://southcenters.osu.edu/news/ohio-state-team-promotes-nature-based-eco-farming

    demonstrates and teaches about what it calls “ECO-farming,” a new approach aimed at boosting a farm’s ...

  4. More Milk- Good for Me? Good for Our Industry?

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-8-issue-5/more-milk-good-me-good-our-industry

    of milk per cow has increased at the rate of about 250 lb per cow per year for the past 45 years. ... the market. When milk volume increases to the point whereby we are oversupplying the market by about ... cow numbers. The average decrease in cow numbers during the last 10 years is about 0.5% annually, ...

  5. Collaborative Graduate Research Highlights in Soil, Water and Bioenergy Resources Program

    https://southcenters.osu.edu/newsletter/winter-2017-achievements-edition/collaborative-graduate-research-highlights-in-soil-water

    to learn more about newly developed lab and field research techniques. That work experience he ...

  6. Viable Alternatives for Animal Protein Feeds

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-6-issue-2/viable-alternatives-animal-protein-feeds

    risks in the event that additional cases of BSE exist in the US, the FDA has proposed prohibiting the ...

  7. How the Weather and Feed Shrink Affect Your Bottom Line

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-18-issue-3/how-weather-and-feed-shrink-affect-your-bottom-line

    we think about minimizing feed shrink, we typically focus on forage shrink and forget how quickly ... feeding a silage-based ration, feed cost will increase by about $0.60/cow/day. If these losses could be ... or minus 10 lb, even if they count by fives. The accuracy error is typically about 1%, but varies ...

  8. Economics

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

    Competitiveness gives guidance about competitive levels and what to do if you are asking your cows to do too much. ...

  9. Research, Education, and Extension Collaboration between the Ohio State University South Centers and Jiamusi Branch of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences

    https://southcenters.osu.edu/newsletter/research-education-and-extension-collaboration-between-the-ohio-state-university-south

    agriculture with reference to China.” The Chinese scientists showed a tremendous interest to learn more about ...

  10. 2016 Corn Silage Crop in Ohio

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-18-issue-5/2016-corn-silage-crop-ohio

    shrink by 2 percentage units has a value of about $2/ton. Homolactic inoculants (these are the ‘standard ... a theoretical length of cut (TLC) of about ½ inch is acceptable (longer with kernel processing and BMR silage), ... of the silage for about 60 days will increase the digestibility of the silage, and thus optimize ...

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