Dairy Excel: New Year’s resolutions for dairy producers
Dennis Weilnau, agricultural extension agent in Stark and Summit counties and a member of OSU's DairyExcel team, urges dairy producers to build their New Year's resolutions around improvements.
Dairy farm management retreat useful for current and future generations
With harvest completed for many and winding down for others, there seems to be more time this fall than in recent years to accomplish...
Preparing the farm for a New Year
Well, we’ve made it through yet another year. The Christmas presents have been opened, you’ve probably eaten more than you should have (I know...
Measure your farm’s financial health
How well each farm would fare through the coming years of substantially lower milk prices would be heavily influenced by the financial health of the farm going in.
Always prepare for manure spills
The consequences of a manure spill and the degree of negative impact it has, along with the cost, all depend on how prepared you are to deal with it.
Artful dodgers: Milk plants pool and depool
Large volumes of milk swing in and out of the Mideast milk marketing order, forcing local milk producers to shoulder more costs.
Dairy Channel: Manure application: Look at tile lines
How would you like 280 bushels per acre average over more than 500 acres of corn? Ernie Oelker connects soil productivity, vertical tillage and yield expectations.
Crop inputs sure are expensive
Crop input prices increased dramatically during the past year. Fuel and fertilizer are the main culprits and these price increases promise to shrink profits severely in 2006.
Knowing your farm’s numbers will help you plan for low milk prices
It is discussed everywhere. In hard copy, in the coffee shop, and on the Internet: 2015 will not be the year that 2014 was.
Dairy, large and small, in a digital world
Dairy was a data-driven industry long before any other species of livestock or agronomy crops, and it continues to implement cutting-edge technology.
