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TRAINING NEW EMPLOYEES FOR PRODUCTIVITY AND LONGEVITY ON YOUR FARM
Ernie Oelker The Ohio State University, Extension Agent Trumbull County Who ever heard of training a dairy farm employee? Don't you just hire people who already have the skills and experience that you need? Perhaps not. It appears that candidates for ...
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AND THE WINNER OF THE 2005 DARWIN AWARD IS...
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-2-issue-9/and-winner-2005-darwin-award
Normand St-Pierre, Ph.D. The Ohio State University Summary The Darwin Awards go annually to people who have shown incredible, stupid behavior and an apparent complete disregard for basic common sense. The human species is better served by having their gen ...
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TRAINING DAIRY FARM WORKERS
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-1/training-dairy-farm-workers
Introduction What do you like to do that you don't do well Easy question for most people! Nothing! Now imagine having your first job on a dairy farm and not knowing how to do what you have been hired to do. Most people gain more satisfaction from doi ...
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A Few Tactical Changes to Improve Your Bottom-Line
Normand St-Pierre Department of Animal Sciences We all know that current milk prices are... well... dismal. And there are no sign of much relief on that front anytime soon. But milk price is only one component of the net income equation. The number of c ...
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Progressive Dairy Producers Begin 2000 Membership Drive
Deb Ayers, PDPO Treasurer, Perrysville, OH Progressive Dairy Producers of Ohio (PDPO) is currently working on membership for 2000. Active membership fees for new members will be $50 per herd and $0.50 per mature cow over 100 cows. Current members renewing ...
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Third Annual Dairy Farm Employee Short Course
The Third Annual DAIRY FARM EMPLOYEE SHORT COURSE will be held March 15-17 at the Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster, OH. The Short Course is designed for recently hired dairy farm employees or individuals pursuing work as dairy farm employees. P ...
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Price Outlook
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-2/price-outlook
Cameron S. Thraen Agricultural, Environmental, and Developmental Economics, The Ohio State University Dairy Economist, Extension Specialist The Class IV market continues to be the driver for the class prices. Cheese is now moving to government storehouses ...
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Should I Sell My Development Rights?
Jim Skeeles Extension Ag Agent, Agriculture & Natural Resources/Community Development Lorain County First, let's make sure we know what it means to sell development rights. What does selling development rights mean Most of us own real est ...
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Safety Training
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-3/safety-training
Terry Beck Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent, The Ohio State University Extension Wayne County What do you tell your new employees about safety? The old timers I have talked to say that their safety training was, There is the shovel, there is th ...
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Is Your Herd Positioned for Profit?
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-4/your-herd-positioned-profit
John M. Smith, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Community Development Agent, The Ohio State University Extension Auglaize County Is Your Herd Positioned for Profit? John M. Smith OSU Extension, Auglaize County Agriculture & NRCD With the curre ...