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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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. ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. What are the sounds of a healthy farm? OARDC study records them

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/march-april-2016/what-are-sounds-healthy-farm-oardc-study-records

    farming sounds should coexist with sounds of the natural world,” says a fact sheet about the study, which ...

  6. Making Corn Silage in Drought Conditions

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-14-issue-4/making-corn-silage-drought-conditions

    shrink by 2 percentage units has a value of about $2/ton. Homolactic inoculants (these are the ... digestibility.  Generally a theoretical length of cut (TLC) of about ½ inch is acceptable (longer with kernel ...

  7. The Costs of Nutrients and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-15-issue-1/costs-nutrients-and-comparison-feedstuffs-prices

    of about 10¢/Mcal, NEL is still a highly priced nutrient  For MP, its current price (41.2¢/lb) is ... 6-year average (-9¢/lb).  Meanwhile, unit costs of e-NDF are historically high, being priced at about ...

  8. The Costs of Nutrients and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-15-issue-5/costs-nutrients-and-comparison-feedstuffs-prices

    about 10¢/Mcal, NEL is still a highly priced nutrient at 17.9¢/Mcal.  This is important because a cow ... unit costs of e-NDF are about at their historical average, being priced at 1.5¢/lb compared to the ...

  9. 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 ...

  10. Research on link between health and nature will grow in new OARDC garden

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/january-february-2016/research-link-between-health-and-nature

    come up with a concept for the garden, to make decisions about its design elements and to conduct ...

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