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Dangerous Gases and Fires Can Make Silos Death Traps
John M. Smith Auglaize Co., Ext. Agt. This is the time of year when farmers begin storing their silage feeds for the coming winter. And their silos can become towers of death if safety practices are not followed carefully. Silos can be dangerous in two ...
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Compare Your Dairy Farm With NY Dairy Farms
Jim Poulson District Specialist Farm Management Northeast District Extension, Wooster, OH Ohio and New York dairy farms have many similarities. Therefore the 1999 New York dairy summary of business and financial records contains much information of inter ...
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Using Total Quality Management to Organize Labor and Work
Chris Zoller Extension Agent ANR/CD Tuscawaras County What is Total Quality Management? Total Quality Management (TQM) is an approach to managing a business, including a dairy business. The approach is directed at attaining quality in both production and ...
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A New Voice for Ohio Dairy Producers
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-1/new-voice-ohio-dairy-producers
Tim Demland, Additional information about Ohio Dairy Producers Over the course of time, individual dairy producers have disagreed on many issues. With the current availability of technology, wide market fluctuations, and increased regulation, however, a ...
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Working With Creditors When Times Are Tight
Dianne Shoemaker A dairy farm may operate with no debt and a few do. The majority of dairy farms, however, use some form of credit to finance their operations. Credit use ranges from long-term mortgages to finance the purchase of land, to loans for buildi ...
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Livestock Need Fresh Air
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-1/livestock-need-fresh-air
John Smith Just because it is winter and cold outsid,e don't close up the livestock buildings. Good ventilation is important to animals as well as humans, all year around. When the weather turns cold, the natural tendency is to shut the livestock bui ...
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Estimating Manure Phosphorus Excretion by Dairy Cows
Dr. Bill Weiss Manure nutrient management plans are required for large dairy operations and eventually may be required for all dairy farms. An important component of nutrient management plans is phosphorous (P) balance. On average, 55 to 65% of the P fed ...
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Cost of Nutrients in Feedstuffs
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-2/cost-nutrients-feedstuffs
Dr. Normand St-Pierre From feeds to nutrients In appearance, dairy cows are feed converters. They ingest feeds and produce milk. But, we know that the amount of milk produced per unit of feed ingested is not constant across all feedstuffs. This is because ...
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Dairy Farm Labor
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-2/dairy-farm-labor
Mr. Robert Fleming About a year ago, I wrote: "Several trends are quite clear in the broad area of farm management. More farms are using hired labor, family or non-family, regularly to accomplish their goals. Farm labor laws, while still retaining so ...
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Are Your Cows Hot Yet?
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-2/are-your-cows-hot-yet
Dr. Normand St-Pierre and Ms. Dianne Shoemaker Did you know that, on an average, Ohio gets two days of heat stress in the month of April and ten days during the month of May? Thus, you shouldn't wait to start planning and implementing a heat abatemen ...