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.
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."
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: 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.
Dairy Channel: Ag 101: Do cartwheels through life
Dianne Shoemaker, northeast Ohio district dairy specialist with OSU Extension, writes about Greco-Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner, and how he grew up on a Wyoming dairy farm, and learned to do cartwheels through life.
Dairy Channel: Financial opportunities available for family livestock and poultry farms
Ernie Oelker, agricultural extension agent in Columbiana County, writes about loan and financial assistance programs for the family farm.
Dairy Channel: How the West is done: Ohio dairy players hit the road for...
OSU Extension northeast Ohio district dairy specialist Diane Shoemaker writes about the OSU trip through Arizona to the Western Dairy Management Conference.
Dairy Channel: How the West is done: Ohio dairy players hit the road for...
OSU Extension northeast Ohio district dairy specialist Diane Shoemaker writes about the OSU trip through Arizona to the Western Dairy Management Conference.
Dairy Excell: Are you producing top-quality silage?
Dennis Weilnau, agricultural extension agent in Stark and Summit counties, shares forage management goals presented by Cornell veterinarian Bill Stone at the recent Northeast Ohio Dairy Management Conference in Canton.
Dairy Channel: Setting the record straight: mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease
Columbiana County agricultural extension agent Ernie Oelker takes the opportunity to provide further clarification about cattle diseases currently in the news.
