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  1. Oats as a Late Summer Forage Crop

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-22-issue-4/oats-late-summer-forage-crop

    per acre and applying 50 lb/acre of nitrogen at planting.  With most seed oats or triple cleaned feed ... are present, a chemical application of Glyphosate plus 2,4-D can be used to clean fields up before ...

  2. Free Stall Bedding Options: Important considerations from the cow's perspective

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-9-issue-1/free-stall-bedding-options-important-considerations

    low risk of abrasion, thermal insulation, be clean and dry, and also be easy to maintain and clean ... for bacterial growth), and clean cows. Sand kicked into the alleys can also improve cow footing; ... health, increasing the duration of the lameness event and contributing to the higher prevalence of ...

  3. Sesame

    https://dairy.osu.edu/node/23

    available on a for-sale basis, but now it is available at no cost and thus no license is required. The ...

  4. Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-22-issue-6/milk-prices-costs-nutrients-margins-and-comparison

    feeds are cheap on a historical basis. For this issue, a price for ring dried blood meal was not ...

  5. Controlling Flies on Farms

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-10-issue-3/controlling-flies-farms

    from their breeding sites. Sanitation Flies around dairy buildings develop in moist manure or other wet ... A thorough sanitation program is a must to hold down fly populations in and around livestock buildings. (a) ... require special attention. It is best to clean these pens once a week. Using sawdust instead of other ...

  6. Considerations When Fat-Reduced Corn-Distillers Grain with Solubles Is Fed to Dairy Cows

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-21-issue-1/considerations-when-fat-reduced-corn-distillers

    dependent upon its inclusion rate. Typical DG contains high fat (10 to 13% on a dry matter (DM) basis) and ... distillers grains with solubles (RFDG; 5 to 8% fat on a DM basis) are another type of DG and produced by ... up to 30% (DM basis) by replacing SBM, corn, and/or some forages and did not have negative effects on ...

  7. Molds and Mycotoxins

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-11-issue-5/molds-and-mycotoxins

    as nutritious as clean corn.  Molds consume nutrients, usually the most digestible one, thereby ... lower concentrations of starch and fat than clean corn.  If allowed, cattle will select against ... distillers grain with about 3 ppm DON (on a dry basis).  Some extremely high concentrations of DON have been ...

  8. Ohio Dairy Risk Management Series Held in November 2020 Offered a Range of Important Information to Dairy Producers

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-1/ohio-dairy-risk-management-series-held-november-2020

    can be found at https://farmoffice.osu.edu/events/archived-videos. Session one was presented by Mark ...

  9. Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins, and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-22-issue-5/milk-prices-costs-nutrients-margins-and-comparison

    not imply that the bargain feeds are cheap on a historical basis. For this issue, a price for ring ...

  10. 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

    in DM correlate with a recent rain or snow event.  Because diets are formulated on a DM basis but are ... exposed to rain and snow events which can abruptly, but transiently, change the dry matter (DM) ... diet composition.  For example, if a simple diet was 50% silage and 50% concentrate on a DM basis and ...

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