Dairy Excel: Can you employ minors on your farm?
Chris Zoller, agricultural extension agent in Tuscarawas County, writes about labor laws involved in emploing minors in agriculture.
Dairy Channel: Ohio’s governor signs bill to releasefunding for farmland preservation
Ernie Oelker, agricultural extension agent in Columbiana County, writes about how the new funds will be used.
Dairy Excel: Pool riding help may be on the way
Cam Thraen, dairy marketing and policy state specialist with Ohio State University Extension writes about the Dairy Option Pilot Program that provides one-day workshops designed to provide dairy producers an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the futures and options markets.
Dairy Channel: I had to understand the title.
Dianne Shoemaker northeast Ohio district dairy specialist with OSU Extension, writes about the International Animal Agriculture and Food Science Conference she attended in Indianopolis, and came away from without an answer to the question, "how do they convince a buffalo that she really wants to be milked?"
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.
