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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 ...
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Environmental Streptococcal Mastitis
J. S. Hogan and K. L. Smith, Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University Introduction Environmental streptococci have emerged as pathogens that uniquely affect mammary health as a primary cause of both subclinical and clinical mastitis. The b ...
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Agricultural Reflections
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-5/agricultural-reflections
Ben Schmidt OSU Extension Agent, Paulding Co. Every once in a while we should stop and reflect on life and the world around us. It is really important to have time to reflect so that one can put things in perspective. It just so happens that I have been ...
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Ohio Will Host the Professional Heifer Growers
Thomas Noyes OSU Extension Wayne County The Professional Dairy Heifer Growers Association was established in 1997 at the National Meeting of Dairy Heifer Growers in Atlanta, Georgia. Today there are almost 500 members including heifer growers, veterinar ...
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Cost of Production Records: The First Key to Marketing Management
Ernie Oelker Trumbull County, Extension Agent Total economic cost of production is a very important number that all dairy farmers should carefully monitor. According to Dr. Cameron Thraen, Dairy Marketing Specialist, Agricultural, Environmental and Deve ...
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Dangerous Gases and Fires Can Make Silos Death Traps
John M. Smith Auglaize Co., Ext. Agt. This is the time of year when farmers begin storing their silage feeds for the coming winter. And their silos can become towers of death if safety practices are not followed carefully. Silos can be dangerous in two ...