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Milk Production Gains Strong- Outlook for Prices is Revised
Yikes! The USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Report is now out and in that report, the projected milk production for the United States is set at 161.5 billion pounds for the marketing year ending September 1999. This is up 3.2 percent over the pre ...
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Rations for Good Rumen Health
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-2-issue-3/rations-good-rumen-health
The first priority of dairy rations should be to maintain rumen health. Traditionally, forages of sufficient particle size are used to stimulate cows to chew feed during eating and cud-chewing (the latter is called rumination). Dairy cows spend about 10 h ...
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Wet Conditions Increase the Chances for Pesticide-Contaminated Forages
The use of organochlorine pesticides such as DDT, aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, lindane, etc., has been banned for approximately 30 years. Therefore, they should not present a risk of actionable residues in milk or meat products. Unfortunately, the latter ...
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Maintaining Quality Grain in Storage
If you had $15,000 to $30,000 in cash sitting in a grain bin, would you check it often? You know you would. So why not check your grain that is worth that much? When you store wheat, oats, rye, barley, grain sorghum, shelled corn, or any other grain on yo ...
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Cheese Inventories Dip- Cheese Prices Roar!
Holy Hot Cows! High heat and humidity throughout most of the United States is slowing the torrid pace of milk production this summer. The latest USDA July 15 milk production report shows production gains, while still high, are off in most of the high pro ...
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CHEESE INVENTORIES DIP- CHEESE PRICES ROAR!
Cameron S. Thraen AED/ The Ohio State University/ OSUE Dairy Economist / Extension Specialist What is going on here? What can I say! The cheese market is incredible. Repeat after me: "It has been very, very good to me." The 40-pound block cheese ...
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DROUGHT CONCERNS: BEWARE OF NITRATES!
William P. Shulaw DVM, Extension Veterinarian; Kent H. Hoblet DVM, Extension Veterinarian; Diane F. Gerken DVM, Veterinary Toxicologist. Drought Concerns Reminiscent of 1988, we are facing possible problems with feeding drought-stressed plants and poten ...
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ROASTED SOYBEANS AND COPPER INCREASE SPONTANEOUS OXIDIZED MILK FLAVOR
Jennifer S. Timmons, M. S., Donald L. Palmquist, Ph.D. Department of Animal Sciences Ration composition of lactating cows has been altered over recent years to supply the energy required to support enhanced milk production. One way to accomplish this is ...
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Now that the Forages are Harvested
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-2-issue-7/now-forages-are-harvested
Maurice Eastridge, Ph.D. The Ohio State University Department of Animal Sciences Sum up the quantity of forage available on the farm (supply) and determine tons needed until next harvest season (demand) to identify if hay will need be to purchased ...
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Handling Dairy Manure
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-2-issue-7/handling-dairy-manure
Richard Stowell, Ph..D. Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering A progressive dairy producer must consider ways of handling and managing manure that will prove reliable, efficient and economical into the coming years. Unfortunately, ...