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  1. Preparing Your Dairy Herd for the Fall Football Season

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-24-issue-5/preparing-your-dairy-herd-fall-football-season

    intake and priority of nutrient demand to milk production. As day length shortens, the cow body condition ... challenges As birds mount their annual flocking, they are drawn to indoor feeding and nesting areas in dairy ...

  2. Ohio Laws Governing Manure and Mud on Roadways

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-24-issue-5/ohio-laws-governing-manure-and-mud-roadways

    more than $1,000 in fines as well as jail time.    Another section of Ohio law, ORC 5589.10 ...

  3. Does TMR Sampling Provide Useful Nutrient Composition Data?

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-18-issue-5/does-tmr-sampling-provide-useful-nutrient

    The same basic approach as above except the TMR is sampled over multiple days and then variation is ... based on results from that study the following sampling protocol is recommended. As you walk the ... Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University 1 Laboratory data from total mixed ration (TMR) samples have ...

  4. A Diet Is Only as Good as the Data Used to Formulate I

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-16-issue-4/diet-only-good-data-used-formulate-i

    as follows: (1) sample the forages on the farm, (2) send the samples to a good lab, (3) when the lab ... to as sampling error). For corn silage, two samples could have different NDF concentrations because ... project evaluating variation in nutrient composition of feeds. Commonly, silages on a farm are sampled ...

  5. Summer Mastitis – Insights on cause, signs, and prevention

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-24-issue-4/summer-mastitis-%E2%80%93-insights-cause-signs-and

    Although it can happen year-round, cases of summer mastitis as the name implies increases from June to ... August, as the combination of wet weather and warmer temperatures encourage fly activity. It can affect ... beef and dairy cattle (heifers and dry cows as well). Below we briefly discuss the cause, the signs, ...

  6. Release of Columbo Dairy Software

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-15-issue-3/release-columbo-dairy-software

    Ohio State University Columbo is computer software that calculates the optimal forage sampling program ... in dairy herds. Based on 12 inputs, such as herd size and price of milk, Columbo determines: 1) the ... optimum sampling frequency (i.e., how often you should sample), 2) sample size (i.e., how many samples ...

  7. Recognizing and Managing Heat Stress in Dairy Cattle

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-24-issue-4/recognizing-and-managing-heat-stress-dairy-cattle

    people.  Depending upon their level of production, temperatures as low as 65 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit can ... as an indicator of potential heat stress, animals often exhibit signs that indicate their level of ... emergency. Milk production declines as animals experience greater levels of heat stress.  Under mild ...

  8. Annual Winter Forage Following Wheat Harvest

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-24-issue-4/annual-winter-forage-following-wheat-harvest

    of choices for grazing is extensive, including crops such as cereal grains, oats, annual ryegrass, ... acceptable yields. The brown midrib trait in sorghum has been shown to produce a forage as good as corn ... values as a grazed crop but only in the first harvest because they do not regrow. Companion planting with ...

  9. Corn Silage Harvest Timing

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-16-issue-4/corn-silage-harvest-timing

    stage. Appearance of the kernels should only be used as a guide of when to begin sampling for DM content, ... rows. Collect separate samples from areas that may have different dry down rates, such as swales, ... lying area and drier on knolls), and this should be considered when collecting your sample plants. As ...

  10. Establishing Alfalfa

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-20-issue-2/establishing-alfalfa

    successfully establish alfalfa? The first task is to obtain a soil sample or samples.  If the field is less ... than 15 acres, then a single soil sample will suffice.  If the field is larger than 15 acres, take ... multiple samples based upon management zones or based upon a grid pattern.  It is best to start sampling by ...

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