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  1. Nutrient Losses from Dairy Operations and Their Environmental Issues

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/january-2016/nutrient-losses-dairy-operations-and-their-environmental

    20 to 80% of the total N in fresh manure. Farm animals may contribute up to 50% of total ... risks that directly affect human health (respiratory diseases; WHO, 2005). Farm animals in the North ... (OH), farm animal operations are responsible for most P loads causing eutrophication and harmful algae ...

  2. CFAES Faculty Seek to Broaden Ag Extension Training in Nigeria

    https://ipa.osu.edu/news/cfaes-faculty-seek-broaden-ag-extension-training-nigeria

    Director of the Innovative Agricultural Research Initiative (iAGRI), a major food security project in ...

  3. Facilities and Equipment

    https://dairy.osu.edu/resources/facilities-and-equipment

        Agricultural Equipment Compost Dairy Barns Midwest Plan Service Public Utilities Commission of Ohio ...

  4. Feed Prices are A-Changin'!

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-12-issue-4/feed-prices-are-changin

    (predicted) and 75% confidence limits for feed commodities used on Ohio dairy farms.   ...

  5. Ohio State Alumni Association Supports Sokoine University of Agriculture’s Drive to Build Stronger Alumni Relations

    https://ipa.osu.edu/news/ohio-state-alumni-association-supports-sokoine-university-agriculture%E2%80%99s-drive-build-stronger

    through the Innovative Agricultural Research Initiative, or iAGRI. The iAGRI project is a major food ... security project funded by USAID and seeks to improve SUA’s teaching and research capacity, as well as ... other U.S. land grant universities, in addition to facilitating collaborative agricultural research ...

  6. Controlling Feed Costs for Dairy Cattle

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-9-issue-3/controlling-feed-costs-dairy-cattle

    it can quickly place a farm in financial hardship when milk prices are moderate to low. There are ... > $6.00/cow/day. Feed efficiency on dairy farms affects IOFC. One common method to calculate feed ...

  7. Handling Abrupt Changes in Silage Dry Matter Concentrations

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-15-issue-4/handling-abrupt-changes-silage-dry-matter

    and alfalfa) on commercial dairy farms greater than 10 percentage units.  Often, these large changes ... mixed on a farm using as-fed concentrations, the DM concentration of silage can have a marked effect on ...

  8. Milk Production Enters Slow Growth Phase- Will Milk Prices Rebound?

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-4/milk-production-enters-slow-growth-phase-will-milk

    and cash inflow. However, as often happens with farm production, and dairy is not the exception, rapid ... income flowing onto the farms was put to good use by producing more milk. With the weather back to more ... and then again during the March to July period. In the second half of the year, when farm level ...

  9. Fertility Management of Meadows and Pastures

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-3/fertility-management-meadows-and-pastures

    lb/acre). Potassium soil levels should be 125 to 200 ppm (250 to 400 lb/acre). On many livestock farms that ...

  10. Where to Test Forages for Nitrates.

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-14-issue-4/where-test-forages-nitrates

    farms now considering early harvest of drought-stricken corn for silage to salvage some value from the ...

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