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2007 Ohio Dairy Challenge Contest
Dr. Maurice Eastridge, Extension Dairy Specialist, The OhioStateUniversity The 2007 Ohio Dairy Challenge was held November 9-10 and was again sponsored by Cargill Animal Nutrition. The Dairy Challenge provides the opportunity for undergraduates at Ohio St ...
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Dairy Policy and Market Watch
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-10-issue-1/dairy-policy-and-market-watch
Dr. Cameron Thraen, Milk Marketing Specialist, The Ohio State University (top of page) Market Watch For dairy farmers, the milk price has been outstanding over the past 12 months. Will this price strength continue into 2008? To address his question, we wi ...
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Dairy Policy and Market Watch
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-10-issue-2/dairy-policy-and-market-watch
Dr. Cameron Thraen, Milk Marketing Specialist, The Ohio State University Market Watch- 2008 For dairy farmers, the milk price has been outstanding over the past 12 to 13 months. Will this price strength continue into and throughout 2008? Clearly with sign ...
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rbST Safety Around the World
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-10-issue-2/rbst-safety-around-world
Dr. Normand St-Pierre, Dairy Management Specialist, The Ohio State University (top of page) Summary rbST has not been legislatively banned in any country because of human safety concerns. Currently, rbST is registered for commercial sale in 20 countries. ...
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Testing Milk for rbST
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-10-issue-2/testing-milk-rbst
Dr. Normand St-Pierre, Dairy Management Specialist, The Ohio State University (top of page) Summary Tests based on monoclonal antibodies cannot distinguish rbST in the presence of the four other variants in milk. The theoretical concentration of rbST in m ...
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The Safety of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I (IGF-I)
Dr. Normand St-Pierre, Dairy Management Specialist, The Ohio State University Summary The IGF-I in human plasma is found at concentrations that are 10.5 to 77 times greater than that in bovine milk. The IGF-I concentration in bovine milk is quite variable ...
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The Environmental Impact of rbST
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-10-issue-2/environmental-impact-rbst
Dr. Normand St-Pierre, Dairy Management Specialist, The Ohio State University Summary Often forgotten in the rbST debate is the positive environmental impact of technology in general, and rbST in particular. A recent study calculated the amount of various ...
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Costs and Returns on Ohio Dairy Farms
Dr. Cameron Thraen, Milk Marketing Specialist, The Ohio State University A chart is attached which shows the net returns to dairying in Ohio by month over the 2003 through 2008 period. Net returns are expressed per hundredweight of milk. The data source i ...
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Cost of Nutrients and Benchmarks of Profitability for Ohio Dairy Farms
Dr. Normand St-Pierre, Dairy Management Specialist, The Ohio State University. As we do in all issues of this newsletter, we used current market prices of 29 feed commodities traded or available in Ohio to determine the implicit costs of nutrients and est ...
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Taking Control of Feed Costs
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-10-issue-3/taking-control-feed-costs
Dr. Normand St-Pierre, Dairy Management Specialist, Ohio State University Extension (top of page) I remember thinking that $3.00/bu for corn was outrageous, that $300/ton for soybean meal was a rip-off, and that $200/ton for cottonseed must have been a re ...