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Using Dairy Manure with Newly Planted Corn and Soybeans
the On-farm Research link on the OSU Extension Agronomics Crops team website at ... university trials of surface applied dairy manure, only about half the ammonium nitrogen applied seemed to be ... tilled are not good candidates for a drag hose. No-till fields, stale seed beds, fields with dead or ...
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Current Dairy Industry Outlook and Dairy Margin Coverage Sign-Up
US dairy herd continued to shrink in January of 2024 by about 23,000 head compared to December 2023 ... Jason Hartschuh, Extension Field Specialist, Dairy Management and Precision Livestock, Ohio State ... Agency (FSA) office through April 29 th. The DMC program provided about $2.80/cwt of support in 2023 for ...
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Dairy Sustainability – The Jargon, the Dairy Story, and the Opportunity (Part I)
total, its estimated that man-made activities in the US emit about 6,300 million metric tons of CO ... and Dr. Joanne Knapp, Fox Hollow Consulting, LLC Everyone wants to talk about carbon, but who is going ... to do anything about it? Dairy farmers and allied dairy industry partners are stepping up to the ...
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BroadbandOhio Accelerator Project
https://comdev.osu.edu/programs/economic-development/broadbandohio-accelerator-project
The BroadbandOhio Community Accelerator will be a collaborative effort by BroadbandOhio, Ohio State University Extension, Heartland Forward, and Benton Institute for Broadband & Society to help local governments throughout Ohio receive expert instruct ...
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Spring Forage Establishment
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-26-issue-2/spring-forage-establishment
Jason Hartschuh, Extension Field Specialist, Dairy Management and Precision Livestock, Ohio State ... Recommendations (https://forages.osu.edu/forage-management/soil-fertility-forages). Phosphorus levels for grass ... sure to take extra caution to follow replant intervals. Another option for weed control and a good ...
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Assessing Forage Stands and Winter Damage
Jason Hartschuh, Extension Field Specialist, Dairy Management and Precision Livestock, Ohio State ... a useful publication; “Alfalfa Stand Assessment: Is this stand good enough to keep?”, in which they provide ... operation practices, options such as Teff grass, Italian ryegrass, or Berseem clover are good options for ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins, and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
50%. The cost of NE L is about 55% lower than the 5-year average ($0.09/MCal). However, the cost of ... by about 40%. These changes can be largely attributed to a lower reported cost of feeds providing ... used for average US cows weighing 1500 lb and producing milk with 3.9% fat and 3.2% protein. For the ...
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Why Do Cows Bunch?
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-26-issue-2/why-do-cows-bunch
cow behavior have been my livestock and my “cow whisperer” farmer clients. A first question to ask ... temperatures are at 68 degrees F or higher. This often can occur in May in the US eastern corn belt. Walk your ... the US eastern corn belt in the early morning or late afternoon. Sun rays that enter a barn and expose ...
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US Dairy Herds and Policy and the 2022 Census of Agriculture
24,094 US farms sold milk during 2022 (see Figure 1). The largest number of dairy farms with milk sales ... 1,000 or more cows accounted for 66% of all US milk sales (see Figures 1 and 2). The comparable share ... was 57% in 2017. Dairy Farm Transition, 2017-2022: Fewer US farms sold milk in 2022 than 2017 at all ...
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New Factsheet: Avian Influenza Detected in Dairy Cattle
the front page of our web site: https://dairy.osu.edu/ ...