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Managing for High Quality Stored Forage
or relative feed quality (RFQ) values decline about 4 points per day. Rates of decline are not as ... it on top of that with a 6 mil plastic to reduce spoilage. Research has shown a return of about $8 ...
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Dairy Quality Assurance: Past, Present, and "Oh!", What A Future!
Increasing consumer expectations in reality are about the only way that an informed society can practically ... understanding of what quality assurance programs are all about. In response to marketplace demands, both the ... increased needs and demands of the consuming public as well as providing producers the best possible ...
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Soybean Meal- They're Not All the Same
soybean products. Soybeans contain about 40% protein and 20% fat [dry matter (DM) basis]. Soybean meal has ... is very through in removing most all of the fat (about 1.5 to 3.0 % fat remains). The hull of the ... separated (sold as a separate commodity), then the meal contains about 48% crude protein (about 54% CP, DM ...
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The Land of “MILC and Honey”- Dairy Policy Watch 2013
2009, where U.S. dairy farmers rapidly liquidated more than 250,000 dairy cows from the national herd ... (Figure 1), brought about a consensus among dairy industry participants that a new risk management ... to enhance milk prices by reducing the rate of growth in U.S. milk production when IOFC margins fall ...
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Update on Pricing Standing Corn for Silage Harvest
publication "Farm Custom Rates Paid in Ohio, 2002", and Purdue Extension's "Indiana Custom ... concerns about a different method of harvest (chopping vs. combining) and the potential impacts on the ... costs typically range from $3 to $4 per ton. On average, about 10% of the material put into a silo is ...
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Testing for Nitrates
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-9-issue-2/testing-nitrates
considering using grain corn for forage. With the dry conditions, concerns have arisen about the potential for ... a representative sample of corn plants into very small pieces and mix Weigh about 20 grams of the chopped corn ... silage and add 100 ml of distilled water Let the mix stand for about 10 minutes, shake vigorously, and ...
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High Quality Corn Silage: A Gift That Keeps Giving
IVNDFD. In that study, prefresh cows (starting 3 weeks before calving) were fed diets with about 47% corn ... After calving, cows were kept on the same hybrid treatments but diets changed to about 40% corn silage, ... cows were fed different corn silages). Milk yields were about 7 lb/day greater for the first 3 weeks ...
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Safety Training
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-3/safety-training
County What do you tell your new employees about safety? The old timers I have talked to say that their ... no time to do it? How about, I was smart enough to still have all my fingers so you should be too! ... sliding off came the hay about two tiers at a time and I rode it down to the ground. Wheee! I did not even ...
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Students Excelled at the 2015 Ohio Dairy Challenge
began in 2004 with about 800 cows and is currently at about 2360 cows. Cows are milked 3 times-a-day in ... contest started by the students and the judges spending about two hours at the farm on Friday afternoon, ... undergraduate teams spent about four hours reviewing their notes and farm records to provide a summary of the ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins, and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
predicted all milk price for 2018 to $15.80, down about $0.80/cwt since the last issue. In short, milk ... $11.94/cwt for cows milking 85 lb/day. For January, the IONC for our 70 and 85 lb/day cows are about ...