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Precision livestock farming advances swine health and welfare

2 weeks ago | ocj.com | Jason Hartschuh |Stan Smith

By Jason HartschuhPrecision Livestock Farming utilizes sensor-based technology for real-time livestock monitoring for individual livestock care and management. For swine, these sensors include fixed, mobile, and wearable sensors that work together to monitor the animals and improve welfare. Estrus monitoringWhen using artificial insemination, detecting estrus is critical so that insemination can be timed appropriately.
How to manage corn diseases

Jan 15, 2025 | farmanddairy.com | Jason Hartschuh

Corn diseases can affect both grain and forage quality requiring a multi-prong approach to managing feed quality. DON, also known as Vomitoxin, can cause significant feed quality challenges in both silage and grain. Other foliar diseases cause fewer grain quality issues unless they kill the corn plant prematurely, lowering test weight. Foliar disease can cause feed quality issues in silage, however.
Winter feed management and culling considerations for beef cattle

Jan 14, 2025 | ocj.com | Jason Hartschuh

By Garth Ruff and Jason Hartschuh, Ohio State University ExtensionAt recent a series of programs across the region, we discussed management options for winter feeding of beef cows in drought impacted areas. The following were some of the highlighted discussion points. Know how much stored forage is available Taking hay inventory now is key. Not just counting bales but knowing how many tons of forage is available versus what might have to be purchased supplementation.
Budgeting considerations for 2025 milk price

Jan 8, 2025 | farmanddairy.com | Jason Hartschuh

Budgeting is an important task every year, although on dairy farms, budgets and projected profit and losses should be updated at least quarterly. This allows you to know how profitable your farm is, so you can make adjustments before you lose money. Soon, we will know the average all-milk price for 2024, but current projections are for a yearly average price of $22.65. As a recap of 2024, the U.S. all-milk price started the year in January at $20.10/cwt and climbed to $25.50/cwt in September.
Do you know your colostrum bacteria levels?

Dec 5, 2024 | farmanddairy.com | Jason Hartschuh

Pasteurization has been used for over 100 years as a tool to decrease bacteria levels in raw milk and keep consumers of milk safe. More recently, pasteurization has also been adopted as part of many calf-feeding programs to reduce bacteria levels in milk and the transmission of diseases like Johne’s disease and bovine leukosis virus. On many farms, colostrum is not pasteurized. Instead, the dam is milked and that milk is fed directly to its calf within two hours of birth.
Winter Feeding Beef Cows on Pasture

Nov 21, 2024 | m.farms.com | Jason Hartschuh

By Garth Ruff and Jason Hartschuh2024 has been a roller coaster year with regards to pasture production and growth across much of Ohio. Here in the east central part of the state, drought took ahold in July and really hasn’t eased up much. Pasture conditions continue to rate as poor or very poor and the hay crop was just a small percentage of a normal second cutting. Third cutting hay crop was nonexistent across the area.
How does group housing for calves stack up against individual housing

Oct 24, 2024 | farmanddairy.com | Jason Hartschuh

A study was recently published in the Journal of Dairy Science summarizing the last 40 years of research on individual calf housing compared to either pair or group-housed calves. Over those 40 years, 81 peer-reviewed research studies have been conducted on these housing systems with 47 published journal articles. The study found that group-housed calves had significantly higher starter grain intake, higher average daily gain and heavier weaning weights.
Tips for feeding storm-damaged soybean grain to cattle

Oct 14, 2024 | farmprogress.com | Jason Hartschuh

By Jason Hartschuh and Garth Ruff, Ohio State UniversityThe storm damage from Hurricane Helene to soybeans has caused reports of $6 per bushel discounts due to sprouting and off-color damage. We have received a few questions about feeding these soybeans to livestock. For now, we will have to generalize the nutritional value and risks based on information from past experiences in other regions of the country, but we have submitted soybeans for feed testing.
Alternative forage options when the rain finally comes

Sep 5, 2024 | wlj.net | Jason Hartschuh

The first option for fall forage is spring oats or winter oats. These are both oats, but they are not the same. Spring oats are Ohio’s most common type of oats that have been successfully used as a forage crop planted in the late summer, but they have been planted through mid-September with yields of almost three-quarters of a ton dry matter per acre. These yields may not be enough to mechanically harvest but can be successfully grazed.
Beware of forage nitrate toxicity in dry conditions

Sep 2, 2024 | ocj.com | Jason Hartschuh

Livestock, Top Headlines By Jason Hartschuh, CCA, Ohio State University ExtensionDry weather conditions can cause unforeseen challenges with forages. We have had multiple reports of high nitrate levels this year in early harvested summer annual forages as producers needed feed. Plants readily take up nitrates from the soil, even under dry or cool conditions. Once in the plant, nitrate is converted to nitrite, then ammonia, and finally into amino acids and plant protein.