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  1. Early-Spring Planted Forages for Dairy Farms

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-21-issue-2/early-spring-planted-forages-dairy-farms

    digestibility is high. When fed as the sole forage in a diet, milk production will not be as good compared to ... Dr. Mark Sulc, Extension Forage Specialist, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science and Dr. ... Challenging growing conditions in 2018 left many dairy farms looking at short forage supplies heading into the ...

  2. Multi State Dairy Beef Program Being Offered

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-2/multi-state-dairy-beef-program-being-offered

    5 at 12:00 p.m. EST, for a series titled “Management Considerations for Beef x Dairy Calves.” Dairy ... and how crossbred dairy calves fit into the beef production system. The April 28 meeting will feature ...

  3. Highlights from the Recent USDA Dairy Forecast

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-5/highlights-recent-usda-dairy-forecast

    2021 milk production was 2% higher than the same month in 2020, the number of dairy animals peaked in ... production for July 2021 was 14 lb higher than July 2020, averaging 2,015 lb/cow. Corn and soybean meal ... than the previous month’s projection.  USDA ERS is expecting milk production to be 227.8 billion lb for ...

  4. Answering Farmers’ Questions About the Pandemic in 2021

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-5/answering-farmers%E2%80%99-questions-about-pandemic-2021

    involved in production agriculture, our lives and routines may have been disrupted, but our daily business ... everyone of the importance of having a robust food production system to ensure a nation’s food security. ... becoming fully vaccinated (individuals need both doses of a two-dose series). If an individual doesn’t ...

  5. Managing for High Quality Stored Forage

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-20-issue-3/managing-high-quality-stored-forage

    for each one dollar invested in sealing a bunker silo. In a dry hay production system, forage baled ... Extension The forage harvest season is well underway, starting several weeks ago with some of the small ... grains, particularly cereal rye, and progressing into our more traditional forage legumes or legume/grass ...

  6. Assessing Winter Damage and Evaluating Alfalfa Stand Health

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-21-issue-2/assessing-winter-damage-and-evaluating-alfalfa-stand

    Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator, Wayne County and Mark Sulc, Extension Forage Specialist, ... significant winter injury. Forage growers should plan to spend time assessing winter damage and evaluating the ... health of their forage stands, particularly alfalfa stands. Assessment and stand health evaluation can ...

  7. USDA Releases July Dairy Outlook

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-4/usda-releases-july-dairy-outlook

    here: https://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde. Production and Use Data According to data from the ... numbers were 4,100 higher than the same week one year ago. Milk production in May was 0.5 lb less than ... Actions taken by some cooperatives and handlers may have discouraged higher production Increased feed ...

  8. Protein and Amino Acid Nutrition of Fresh Cows

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-22-issue-6/protein-and-amino-acid-nutrition-fresh-cows

    completed a trial evaluating how dietary protein and amino acid supplementation affected production during ... the first 3 or 4 weeks of lactation and to determine how production was affected after treatments ... stopped (i.e., carry-over effects). The forage in the diets was a blend of about 68% corn silage and 32% ...

  9. Making High Quality Baleage

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-21-issue-3/making-high-quality-baleage

    proper fermentation, baleage production is not recommended Wait for the forage to dry down further before ... disappeared due to winter kill and small grains matured before we could make hay. Making the forages that you ... have at the highest quality possible will be key. One way to maintain forage quality with small dry ...

  10. Feeding High Ash Forages

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-21-issue-6/feeding-high-ash-forages

    State University We have received reports of some forages, including cover crops that were planted in ... late summer, having very high concentrations of ash. Ash in forages is comprised of minerals contained ... concentrations decrease as plants mature and is greater in forages grown in soils that contain high ...

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