Thinking ahead for silage safety
While injury and fatality statistics for silage harvesting and storage are not easily tabulated, few operations present more hazards.
Many thanks for another year of Ohio State Fair memories
Thank you to the parents, members and everyone else, for another great fair.
You can pay for employees’ time, but how do you really motivate them?
Farmers should take time to examine the five functions of management: planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling.
Domestic milk prices strong compared to world markets
The Class III price moved from $24.31 in April to $22.57 in May followed by $21.36 in June.
Dairy farming across the Big Pond
This marked the third year for the OSU Dairy Industry Study Abroad.
Don’t roll your eyes at others’ advice
We are bombarded with advice from all directions. It comes first from our parents and family, and then it is spoken by friends, teachers, 4-H advisers, and other adults (like Extension educators!).
OSU Extension planning meetings to help dairymen assess options.
Changes loom on the horizon for both crop and dairy farms as provisions of the 2014 farm bill are implemented.
Battling the phobia of GMOs
The opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is mounting another charge, this time through various state ballots designed to put into law the mandatory labeling of GMO-derived ingredients in food.
First 24 hours critical for calf colostrum
Colostrum, the first milk given by the dam (mother), is packed with antibodies that act as a passive immune system until the calf's immune system produces antibodies itself. But you have only a 24-hour window to get that colostrum in the calf.
Protect our food and agriculture
I think most of us remember vividly where we were on Sept. 11, 2001.
I know all of our lives have changed because of this...
