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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 ...
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Using Total Quality Management to Organize Labor and Work
Chris Zoller Extension Agent ANR/CD Tuscawaras County What is Total Quality Management? Total Quality Management (TQM) is an approach to managing a business, including a dairy business. The approach is directed at attaining quality in both production and ...
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Compare Your Dairy Farm With NY Dairy Farms
Jim Poulson District Specialist Farm Management Northeast District Extension, Wooster, OH Ohio and New York dairy farms have many similarities. Therefore the 1999 New York dairy summary of business and financial records contains much information of inter ...
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Livestock Need Fresh Air
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-1/livestock-need-fresh-air
John Smith Just because it is winter and cold outsid,e don't close up the livestock buildings. Good ventilation is important to animals as well as humans, all year around. When the weather turns cold, the natural tendency is to shut the livestock bui ...
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Working With Creditors When Times Are Tight
Dianne Shoemaker A dairy farm may operate with no debt and a few do. The majority of dairy farms, however, use some form of credit to finance their operations. Credit use ranges from long-term mortgages to finance the purchase of land, to loans for buildi ...
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Are Your Cows Hot Yet?
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-2/are-your-cows-hot-yet
Dr. Normand St-Pierre and Ms. Dianne Shoemaker Did you know that, on an average, Ohio gets two days of heat stress in the month of April and ten days during the month of May? Thus, you shouldn't wait to start planning and implementing a heat abatemen ...
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Risk Management Education
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-2/risk-management-education
Mr. Robert Fleming Milk producers and the milk industry are faced with a new management challenge- managing their risk due to volatile milk prices. Understanding the complex milk marketing area requires effort and dedication but does offer substantial ret ...
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Cost of Nutrients: Ohio, May 2003,
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-3/cost-nutrients-ohio-may-2003
Dr. Normand St-Pierre, Dairy Specialist, Ohio State University The cost of major nutrients remains high. The average cost per megacalorie (Mcal) of net energy lactation (NEL) has steadily gone up over the last 6 to 8 months. As of May 2003, NEL was costi ...
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Are Ohio Dairy Farmers Satisfied With Local Suppliers?
Dr. Brian Roe, Livestock Economics Specialist, Ohio State University The face of dairy farming in Ohio is changing. The structure of dairy farming has evolved immensely in the past few years with regard to technology, size of operation, and the geographi ...