Dairy Excel: Ohio inches forward on PDR plan
James Skeeles, OSU Extension ag agent in Lorain County, writes about how a Farmland Preservation purchase program might operate.
Dairy Channel: Software for decision-making on feeds
Ernie Oelker, agricultural extension agent in Columbiana County, writes about a new software for decision-making on feeds
Dairy Excel: Charitable gifts: Too good to be true?
Charitable gifts can solve a variety of tax and income problems for landowners, including some that are not so obvious.
Dairy Channel: Have you cleaned your ‘refrigerator?’
Dianne Shoemaker, northeast Ohio district dairy specialist with OSU Extension, writes about the dairy "refrigerator," that includes not only the bulk forage, grain and supplement storages, but also the mixed feeds as they are delivered to the varying animal groups and how refused feed is handled.
Dairy Excel: Keeping your dairy cows cool
Tom Noyes, dairy agent for OSU Extension in Wayne County write about the need to manage heat stress in a dairy herd. When a herd averages over 70 pounds of milk per day, the cows generate a lot of heat. Heat stress becomes more a big problem.
Dairy Excel: How’s your herd’s somatic cell count?
Ernie Oelker agricultural extension agent in Columbiana County. writes about somatic cell count and what it costs the dairy producer.
Dairy Excel/Dairy Channel: New employee needs good orientation
Bernie Erven, ag economist at The Ohio State University specializing in human resource issues and a member of the OSU Extension Dairy Excel team writes about that important first day on the job for new employees.
Early summer is a critical period of cool-season grass management.
Kick your grazing management into high gear to take control of growth
Dairy Excel/Dairy Channel: Farm management tip: Take a look at your farm from the...
Dianne Shoemaker, northeast Ohio district dairy specialist with OSU Extension, writes that farmers get along with their neighbors when they respect their neighbors; support their community; practice good environmental stewardship; or, in a nutshell, "Love thy neighbor as thyself."
Dairy Excel/Dairy Channel: People love progress but hate change
Ernie Oelker, Columbiana County extension agent, writes about the opposition to new large-scale dairy farms in Ohio, and how local groups are doing everything they can think of to block the development of these farms, including filing lawsuits against extension agents and university researchers who have provided information and services as requested.
