Dairy Excel: See the potential for the trees: Managing all your farm’s crops
Farmers should pay attention to trees, one of the most ignored crops on most farms.
Dairy Channel: No two cows are alike
Diane Shoemaker writes about feral calves or cows with brain gaps.
Dairy Excel: Pay attention to calf health: It’s the basics of your milking string...
Diane Shoemaker explains how your calves' health is important to your pocketbook.
Dairy Excel/Channel: Ohio close to final permit rules
Ernie Oelker writes of the Ohio Department of Agriculture takeover of responsibilities for permitting large-scale livestock, poultry and dairy operations.
Frost seeding improves pastures, forage
Frost seeding of legumes in February and early March can be used to improve pasture quality and yield.
Dairy Excel: Buy/sell agreements are smooth business transition
Even farm business owners need to consider how their operations will continue in their absence, or when they want to retire.
Dairy Channel: More ways to mess up your farm
Dianne Shoemaker, northeast Ohio district dairy specialist with OSU Extension, finishes her list of 10 things people do to mess up their farms.
Dairy Excel: Is contract heifer raising in your future?
Tom Noyes, dairy agent for OSU Extension in Wayne County and a member of OSU's DairyExcel team, writes about the upcoming contract heifer raising conference.
Dairy Channel: Reduce manure phosphorus to improve dairy profits, protect water resources
Ernie Oelker, agricultural extension agent in Columbiana County, and a member of OSU's DairyExcel team, writes about reaching the goal of reducing excess feeding of phosphorus and nitrogen in the forms of protein and non-protein nitrogen for dairy cattle.
Dairy Excel: Orientation: Make a good first impression with a new employee
Bernie Erven, ag economist at OSU specializing in human resource issues and a member of the OSU's DairyExcel team, writes what you can do during a new employees first few hours on the job.
