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Upcoming Dairy Youth Events
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-25-issue-1/upcoming-dairy-youth-events
The Ohio State University Youth Dairy Judging Clinic, Saturday, March 11, 2023, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, OSU ... year. There is a parking fee for the Animal Science parking lot, please be sure you find the parking ... contestant if pre-registered, but $10.00 on the day of the contest. Lunch is not included in this fee. This ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
its NE L and MP contents. Appendix For those of you who use the 5-nutrient group values (i.e., replace ... a decrease to $17.63/cwt in June. Nutrient prices It can be helpful to compare the prices in Table 1 to the ... energy for lactation (NE L) is about 16% higher than the 5-year average ($0.08/Mcal), and closer to the ...
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Corn Silage and Foliar Disease
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-24-issue-4/corn-silage-and-foliar-disease
improved. When fungal disease infects corn, one of its natural responses to stop the spread of the disease ... diseases present in your corn field can help you choose the best fungicide when they are needed. Each ... did consistently lower DON levels. Â A 2021 corn silage trial in Ohio showed a vomitoxin reduction from ...
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Seeding Perennial Forages in Late Summer
made this spring, it is possible to drill in seed now, even in alfalfa. Autotoxicity will not be ... after seeding is the primary factor affecting successful forage establishment. It is best to not use ... slow the development of the desirable forage stand enough to compromise its winter survival. No-Till ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins, and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
for reasons other than its NEL and MP contents. Appendix For those of you who use the 5-nutrient group ... Nutrient prices It can be helpful to compare the prices in Table 1 to the 5-year averages. Since the ... Bargains At Breakeven Overpriced Alfalfa hay- 40% NDF Wheat middlings Mechanically extracted canola meal ...
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Considering Dairy Farm Construction in 2023?
lying down, they need to be closer at 24 ft apart or 5 times the blade diameter. It takes about 20 ft ... your herd. When remodeling with a few improvements, you may consider free stall size, bedding material, ... a 3.3% increase in total needed employees, but like other industries, it is struggling to attract enough ...
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Alternative Forages – What are they really?
lactating cows than corn silage or alfalfa silage may be. It’s along the lines of, “there’s more than one ... to question two – alternative to what? In the world of dairy nutrition, corn silage is king and ... alfalfa is his leguminous queen. Small grain silages, sorghum-sudangrass silages, and even mixed grass hay ...
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Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins, and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices
corn grain price at start of day September 27, 2021, is $60.75/ton. Due to the higher December corn ... corn silage continues to be a bargain feed in dairy cattle rations. Nutrient Prices It can be helpful ... feed Alfalfa hay- 40% NDF Solvent extracted canola meal  41% Cottonseed meal Meat meal  Corn, ground, ...
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Recommended Adjustment when Pricing Forages
concentration and applied it to alfalfa hay. If you look at the nutrient pricing article in the second part of ... Table 2, you will see ‘Corrected’ values for alfalfa hays with different NDF concentrations. If NDF is ... for legumes, grasses, mixtures, and corn silage. The basic procedure is you first calculate the price ...
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Foliar Fungicides for Corn Silage: A Benefit or an Expense?
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2019-23/delayed-corn-planting-disease-risk-corn. When a fungal disease infects the plant, you often see a natural response to the disease of an ... understatement. We have corn tasseling in one field while right next to it in another field, or even in the same ... field, it is 2 feet tall. Many of the fungal corn disease we battle in Ohio show up late enough in the ...