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  1. Winter Calf Management

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-21-issue-6/winter-calf-management

    Jason Hartschuh, Extension Educator, Crawford County, Ohio State University Extension Winter ... winter calf supplies still in the back corner of the barn. Even though we know winter is coming, it never ... seems like we are ready when the first blast of winter comes. Calves are most comfortable when the ...

  2. Emergency Forages to Plant Yet This Year for Mechanical Harvest

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/emergency-forages-plant-yet-year-mechanical-harvest

    challenging. Earlier planting dates provide more autumn yield. Oat or spring triticale plus winter cereals ... Winter cereals (Winter rye, Winter wheat, Winter triticale) can be added to oat or spring triticale to ... add a forage harvest early next spring. Winter rye can also contribute a little extra autumn yield to ...

  3. Assessing Calf Death Losses in a Beef-Dairy Crossbreeding Program

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-4/assessing-calf-death-losses-beef-dairy-crossbreeding

    compared with spring, winter and fall (Figure 2). This trend is likely due to a drop in prepartum DM intake ...

  4. Prepare to Evaluate Forage Stands for Winter Injury

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/prepare-evaluate-forage-stands-winter-injury

    few weeks, especially in southern Ohio. While winter injury in forages is very hard to predict, this ... winter has presented some very tough conditions for forage stands. This is especially true of legumes ... the soil temperatures this winter in Ohio do not pose a concern. The greater concern we have for ...

  5. Milk Prices, Costs of Nutrients, Margins and Comparison of Feedstuffs Prices

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-2/milk-prices-costs-nutrients-margins-and-comparison

    the winter issues at $2.98/lb and milk fat at about half of that at $1.44/lb. The Class III future for ...

  6. Time to Take the Last Forage Cutting

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/time-take-last-forage-cutting

    in the taproots that are used for winter survival and regrowth next spring. This fall rest period is ... last harvest of alfalfa to ensure good winter survival and yield potential for the following year can ... regrow and use up root reserves for that limited regrowth prior to winter dormancy.  Cutting in between ...

  7. Ventilation System Maintenance Is Critical to Keeping Cows Comfortable

    https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-23-issue-2/ventilation-system-maintenance-critical-keeping-cows

    me that we still had not gotten around to winter fan maintenance as belts squealed and louvers hung ...

  8. The 2019 Forage Performance Trials Report

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/2019-forage-performance-trials-report

    trial seeded in September of 2018, winter injury differed among varieties. Visual stand density ranged ... biomass production the following spring. Varieties of annual ryegrass, red clover, crimson clover, winter ...

  9. 2018 Forage Performance Trials Available

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/2018-forage-performance-trials-available

    and winter injury, ground cover and spring biomass production in the spring 2018 of 22 cover crop ... varieties including rape, turnip, annual ryegrass, radish, Balansa clover, winter pea, and hairy vetch. ...

  10. Late Summer Planting of Perennial Forages

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/late-summer-planting-perennial-forages

    existing stands were damaged by the winter followed by the heavy rainfall this year. The month of August ... winter. Typically, the main risk with forage seedings this time of year having sufficient moisture for ... October and November, the disease develops during the winter, and seedlings literally "melt ...

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