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ROASTED SOYBEANS AND COPPER INCREASE SPONTANEOUS OXIDIZED MILK FLAVOR
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 to supplement with a fat source such as roasted ... soybeans. Roasted soybeans contain approximately 20% fat that is high in polyunsaturated fatty acids: 50% to ...
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Using Manure with Growing Crops
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-8-issue-6/using-manure-growing-crops
Mr. Glen Arnold, Extension Agriculture Educator, Putnam County Applying animal manure to a growing ... manure to a growing crop allows the farmer to capture more of the manure's nutrients and potentially ... save on purchased fertilizer. The OSU Extension has applied swine manure to growing crops on several ...
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Timing Your FY-2004 Milk Income Loss Contract Payments: What you need to know!
prices were high enough to send the MILC payment rate into the negative zone and set payments at zero. ... of the fiscal year is the need to plan for the most likely pattern of milk prices and the associated ... MILC payments. There are a few simple rules that you need to keep in mind. Rule One: If your rate of ...
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Release of eXtension for Dairy Cattle
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-9-issue-4/release-extension-dairy-cattle
(http://www.extension.org) is an educational partnership of more than 70 universities to help you improve your life every day ... with access to objective, research-based information and educational opportunities. The features of ... eXtension are: 1) provides information to you any time, any place, any format and on any Internet-ready ...
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Beyond the Law of Supply and Demand for Forages
to forages  large supply, low demand, low prices; low supply, high demand, high prices. On the other ... hand, marketability is another issue, especially with respect to silages, with proximity to market being ... to tell for this year, we need to be prepared to adjust feeding programs to the supply and quality of ...
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Reporting of Independent Contractors
continue to evolve and become more consistent with non-farm labor requirements. Managing farm labor ... farmers, have been required to report all newly hired, re-hired, or returning-to-work employees within 20 ... days of hire or rehire date. Now, recent changes in Ohio law requires employers to report some ...
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Feeding Calves to Grow in Cold Weather
staying healthy- 2 universal objectives for raising calves from birth to weaning. As the seasons change, ... so must our management practices to achieve these two goals. Why? First, a calf is born with ... approximately 3% body fat. There is barely enough of that fat available to the calf to meet her energy ...
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Don't Be Surprised, Do Tax Management for 2004 Now
approaches, dairy farmers need to be thinking about the income and social security tax liability that will be ... prices for cull cows have remained high, they need to focus on their net farm income since the costs of ... inputs have also risen. How does the projected 2004 net farm income for your dairy compare to 2003? 2002? ...
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Cereal Rye – A Cover Crop with Feed Value?
on idle acres in a corn-soybeans rotation and with minimal effort or expense. According to the Ohio ... gain to see if it may fit in their total mixed ration (TMR) feeding systems. Based on feed analyses ... from five producers, the ranges for some key feed quality indicators on a dry basis were: yield of 2 to ...
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Calf Behavior and Bedding Materials
from 10 days of age to 4 weeks can average 20.6 hr/day lying down over that period. Calf lying down ... time will average 18 hr/day from 30 to 39 days of age, 17 hr/day from 40 to 49 days of age, and 16 ... hr/day from 50 to 56 days of age. Group housing systems must provide adequate space to enable all the ...