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Tunnel Ventilation- Fad or Fan?
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-9/tunnel-ventilation-fad-or-fan
Richard Stowell  Extension Agricultural Engineer I have received numerous questions from dairy producers this year about tunnel ventilating freestall barns. Unfortunately, very little information is available on system and cow performance with these syst ...
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Milk Price Inversion in Ohio Federal Milk Marketing Orders
Cameron Thraen  Dairy Economist, OSUE  Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics Consider the following set of events. You open up the envelope from your favorite milk buyer expecting to find a price per hundredweight of $14.77 plus some a ...
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Milk Price Outlook
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-11/milk-price-outlook
The announced Basic Formula Price (BFP) for the month is $16.04 per cwt. for milk testing 3.5 percent butterfat. This price is up $0.94 over the last month price and $3.21 higher than a year earlier. The current butterfat differential for is 27.3 cents. A ...
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15 Measures of Competitiveness
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-11/15-measures-competitiveness
You see mission statements everywhere these days. Is it just the current "thing" to do or is it an important tool for your business. Of course, I'm going to say it is an important tool! But why It is critical for the long-term success of yo ...
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Ohio's Dairy Industry is Turning it Around
Out of forty producers who attended a mini conference on the future of the dairy industry in Ohio, forty stood-up to show their commitment to establishing a new association of progressive dairy producers in Ohio. The problem of a declining dairy industry ...
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Milk Price Outlook
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-12/milk-price-outlook
Cameron Thraen, Dairy Economist The announced Basic Formula Price (BFP) for the month is $16.84 per cwt. for milk testing 3.5 percent butterfat. This price is up to $0.80 over the last month price and $3.88 higher than a year earlier. With weakening butte ...
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Key Factors to Success
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-12/key-factors-success
Don Rogers, a keynote speaker at the Ohio Dairy Conference, suggests 10 key factors for success in the dairy industry. 1. Herd size. It's not that you are big or small, but rather that you are sized to match your resources efficiently. Herds of less ...
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A Great Success!
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-1-issue-12/great-success
With over 300 attendees, the first Ohio Dairy Conference attracted considerably more people than expected by the organizing committee. Despite the strain imposed by this unexpected attendance, the program was kept on schedule and most of the attendees rel ...
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Planning: A Vital Function of Management
For most dairy producers, this is a slower time of the year. With a bit of free time in your hands, you should manage to make room for planning. We know that you dont like sitting behind a desk to scribble numbers on a piece of paper.  Thats a female j ...
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Milk Price Outlook
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-2-issue-1/milk-price-outlook
Cameron Thraen, Dairy Economist  thraen.1@osu.edu Milk Prices/Incomes High in 1998, Expect Declines but not Disaster in 1999.  January 28, 1999  Expected stronger growth in milk production and softening of commercial demand to push milk prices back to ...