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  1. Cost of Production Records: The First Key to Marketing Management

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-6/cost-production-records-first-key-marketing

    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 ...

  2. Dangerous Gases and Fires Can Make Silos Death Traps

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-3-issue-6/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 ...

  3. Using Total Quality Management to Organize Labor and Work

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-4-issue-1/using-total-quality-management-organize-labor-and

    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 ...

  4. Your Milk Check is Under Attack! Where are all the Federal Order 33 Pool $$'s Going?

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-4-issue-3/your-milk-check-under-attack-where-are-all-federal

    Cameran Thraen OSU Extension State Specialist, Marketing and Policy I n this column I am going to address an issue that should be of concern to every dairy farm family in Ohio and the Federal Order 33 marketing area. In fact it should be a great concern t ...

  5. Compare Your Dairy Farm With NY Dairy Farms

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-4-issue-1/compare-your-dairy-farm-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 ...

  6. Dairy Policy and Market Watch

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-1/dairy-policy-and-market-watch

    Dr. Cameron Thraen, Additional milk marketing information by Dr. Thraen Policy Watch I have just returned from Chicago were a 50 plus group of who's who in the dairy industry gathered for a two-day brainstorming event. Sponsored by Cornell's Dai ...

  7. Western Dairy Management Conference and Study Tour

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-1/western-dairy-management-conference-and-study-tour

    Tom Noyes Ohio State University Extension and the Agricultural Technical Institute are coordinating a dairy study tour to the Western Dairy Management Conference in Reno, Nevada followed by a tour of northern California's dairy and agriculture indust ...

  8. A New Voice for Ohio Dairy Producers

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-1/new-voice-ohio-dairy-producers

    Tim Demland, Additional information about Ohio Dairy Producers   Over the course of time, individual dairy producers have disagreed on many issues. With the current availability of technology, wide market fluctuations, and increased regulation, however, a ...

  9. Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Releases New Rules for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO)

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-5-issue-1/federal-environmental-protection-agency-epa-releases

    Maurice Eastridge On December 16, 2002, the Federal EPA released the new revisions to the Clean Water Act for CAFO. To be considered a CAFO, an operation must first meet the definition of an animal feeding operation (AFO). An operation is an AFO if animal ...

  10. 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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