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  1. Health Insurance Deductions and Health Savings Accounts

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-8-issue-6/health-insurance-deductions-and-health-savings

    Mr. Donald J. Breece, Farm Management Specialist, OSU Extension Center at Lima Health insurance ... costs are a major farm family expense. As a result, much attention is focused on adopting a health ... than qualified retirement plans) to the proprietor and family. The farm operator is not an employee. ...

  2. Management of Dry Cows to Promote Udder Health

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-8-issue-4/management-dry-cows-promote-udder-health

    generally regarded as the most costly infectious disease on dairy farms. For most farms, the main bacteria ... until that time, total DCT is recommended. *A complete list of research references is available on ...

  3. Vegetable Growers: Disease Alert

    https://wayne.osu.edu/news/vegetable-growers-disease-alert

    going to stay isolated on one farm or field; it can move through the air and spread over a long ...

  4. The Costs of Nutrients, Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices and the Current Dairy Situation

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-14-issue-6/costs-nutrients-comparison-feedstuffs-prices-and

    uncertainty regarding milk prices and too much certainty regarding (high) feed costs.  We have a proposed farm ... long-term average net farm income is about $1.50/cwt of milk.  An “error” of $1.00/cwt on the insured margin ... represents about 66% of the average net farm income.  If this is a safety net, the holes in the net seem ...

  5. Anybody going to Reno?

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-17-issue-1/anybody-going-reno

    a spectrum wide enough so that farms of all sizes can learn and find actionable items to bring back to their ... own farm. This year, the Western Management Conference will be held from Tuesday, March 3 through ...

  6. TRAINING DAIRY FARM WORKERS

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-1/training-dairy-farm-workers

    Nothing! Now imagine having your first job on a dairy farm and not knowing how to do what you have been ... dramatically. Margins for acceptable error have decreased. Equipment has become more complicated. Farm work is ... were not raised on a farm. New employees who have worked for another dairy farmer are likely to bring ...

  7. Colostrum Management for New Born Calves

    https://wayne.osu.edu/news/colostrum-management-new-born-calves

    total coliform count.  The most reliable methods for measuring colostrum quality on the farm are the use ...

  8. Dairy Quality Assurance: Past, Present, and "Oh!", What A Future!

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-7-issue-4/dairy-quality-assurance-past-present-and-oh-what

    One of the most successful means has proven to be the implementation of the on-farm quality assurance ... most effective. Upon completion of on-farm third party audits and verifying the regular use of Best ... utilizes a team of advisors in developing a farm specific herd health plan". The NYSCHAP offers ...

  9. Food Waste

    https://wayne.osu.edu/news/food-waste

     The researcher went on to say “Only in rare circumstances is that date about food safety, but people ...

  10. Cover Crops after Corn Silage Harvest

    https://wayne.osu.edu/news/cover-crops-after-corn-silage-harvest

    of the OSU Extension Ag Crops Team. ...

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