Site
- Did you mean
- need full harvest required increase focus safety
Search results
-
Stay Safe Making Hay When the Sun Shines
a busy month, finishing the crop planting, caring for livestock, and harvesting first cutting of hay. Hay ... harvest can be a very labor intensive and time-consuming job. Hay harvest involves working around many ... easily shorten the harvest window making the process very challenging. Harvest your hay crop in intervals ...
-
Summer Days Ahead: Don’t Ignore Heat Stress!
require protective clothing, such as pesticide application, further increase the risk.   Heat stress is ... Mary Ann Rose, Pesticide Safety Education With the arrival of summer, the risk of heat stress ... increases.  Farmers have an elevated risk of heat stress for obvious reasons – working outdoors.  Activities that ...
-
Milk Production of Ohio Dairy Herds (2016 through 2020)
average production per cow increases about 2% annually and the most populated breeds, Holstein and Jersey, ... increased in milk yield by about 2.8% from 2019 to 2020. During this same time period, milk fat percentage ... increased about 2.6% for Holstein and 1% for Jersey and milk protein percentage remained the same. Using ...
-
Heat Stress in 2021: Will it be Intense?
Stress Threshold (tan zone), fans should be operating. As the stress increases, more heat mitigation ... increased breaths per minute, which should be between 40 to 60 under normal conditions. While not ... cattle increase their sweating. This can lead to dehydration even as it provides evaporative cooling. We ...
-
Working Safely with Anhydrous Ammonia
Kent McGuire – OSU CFAES Safety and Health Coordinator Many farmers are applying anhydrous ammonia ... https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/aex-594 Kent McGuire, OSU CFAES Safety and Health Coordinator, can be reached at 614-292-0588 or ... mcguire.225@osu.edu. This column is provided by the OSU Extension Agricultural Safety and Health Team. ...
-
Ohio State Students Take First Place at the 2021 North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge
challenge each fall semester to provide training for students in the dairy herd management course and other ...
-
Roseler and Weiss Inducted into the Ohio State Dairy Hall of Service
when speaking, teaching, or writing. Throughout his career, his research has focused on forage ... utilization, energy values of feeds, feed management, and vitamin and mineral requirements. He has served as ...
-
Did you know Ohio ranks 4th in the U.S. for combine fires?
outreach safety messages, including maintenance and prevention during summer and fall 2021 harvest ... that occur to these machines while they are harvesting summer and fall crops.  This team of ... safety education that farmers have in place for their combine harvesters. If you own or operate ...
-
Teaching Youth to be Safe Around Livestock
animals to ensure safety. Begin with the basics: Clean, Working Facilities Barns should be free of ... handling safety is keeping equipment and facilities in proper working order. Using Your Quiet Voice Did ... young important safety tips is key to their safety around livestock. Sabrina Schirtzinger, ANR Educator ...
-
One Question Could Save Someone’s Life
Extension Agricultural Safety and Health Team, https://agsafety.osu.edu/. ...