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Agricultural Water Use in the Allegheny/Monongahela/Ohio River Basins
2002 agricultural water use regulations in the Allegheny, Monongahela, and/or Ohio River basins. Note: Available in PDF only; not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Catalog Number:
F-201
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Body-Condition Scoring as a Tool for Dairy Herd Management
Research demonstrates that a cow's body condition relates to the animal's overall performance and that body-condition scoring can be an important tool in dairy herd management. This 10-page booklet explains body-condition scoring--a method of evaluating fatness or thinness in cows and what effects it may have on dairy herd health. Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Dairy & Animal Science
Catalog Number:
EC363
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Dairy Farm Business: Performance Feedback, Monitoring, and Incentives
The human resource objective of a dairy manager should be to maintain
a productive, stable, and committed workforce. Providing feedback, both positive and negative, is an important part of every manager’s responsibility. This 8-page publication explains the importance of feedback, characteristics of useful feedback, formal and informal performance feedback, how to give performance reviews, how to gather data for feedback, and performance incentives. A feedback sheet and performance review worksheet are also included.
Department:
Dairy & Animal Science
Catalog Number:
UD017
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Dairy Farm Feed Cost Control
This is a very specific program geared to dairy and farm management agents, dairy consultants, dairy nutritionists, veterinarians, and dairy producers with good computer skills. To use the program, one needs either Windows 95 or 98 (Excel 97) or Mac OS 8.0 (Excel 98). Note: Available in PDF only; not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Dairy & Animal Science
Catalog Number:
UD008
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Dairy Risk-Management Education: Basis and Its Importance in Risk Management
Knowing your basis is key to understanding how to use futures contracts to forward price milk. Pennsylvania dairy producers interested in locking in milk prices for a portion of a future delivery of milk must find a financial instrument to protect their milk price. This publication defines basis, explains its relationship to federal orders, describes mild components, and explains how to calculate basis and how to use basis in planning. Note: This publication is available in PDF only; it is not available from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA410
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Dairy Risk-Management Education: Economic Returns Under Multiple-Component Pricing
U.S. dairy producers shipping milk into federal milk marketing orders faced a new milk pricing system effective January 1, 2000, as a result of federal order reforms implemented by USDA and initiated by U.S. Congress. Seven of the 11 federal orders that were created employed a multiple-component pricing system that paid dairy producers on the basis of milk fat, true protein, and other dairy solids. This publication explains seasonality of milk components, impacts of herd size and management, and the impact of low component levels on milk prices.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA427
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Dairy Risk-Management Education: Factors That Affect U.S. Farm-Gate Milk Prices
Prices for milk and dairy products are driven mainly by changing market conditions and less by government intervention. Farmers, processors, retailers, and consumers should expect to continue to see volatile milk and dairy product prices in the future. This second publication in the Dairy Risk-Management Education series provides information on milk pricing, dairy product processing, the demand for processed dairy products, wholesale and retail dairy product prices, federal order and farm-gate milk prices, and market interactions.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA412
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Dairy Risk-Management Education: Managing Income Over Feed Costs
To remain profitable, producers should be monitoring and making decisions
based on their herd's "income over feed costs" (IOFC). This enables producers to make more informed decisions about feed purchases, know when to lock in milk price, or adjust the ration program to accommodate price volatility. This
fact sheet explains the various components of the tool and two approaches to monitoring IOFC.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA458
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Dairy Risk-Management Education: Tracking Milk Prices and Feed Costs
Milk and feed prices are extremely volatile from one month to the next and can have an adverse impact on a dairy farm's gross profitability. If milk prices fall and feed costs rise, farm profits can be squeezed. The key is to develop a system to monitor and budget milk prices and feed costs in order to have some degree of control over gross profits. In this 6-page publication, two measures are developed to monitor milk prices and feed costs.
Department:
Dairy & Animal Science
Catalog Number:
UA443
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Dairy Risk-Management Education: Understanding Your Milk Check: A Guide for Pennsylvania Dairy Producers
The milk business is much more competitive today. Thus, Pennsylvania dairy producers have a strong incentive to better manage their component levels and overall milk quality. The milk check provides much of the information needed to carefully monitor these important pricing incentives. This publication intends to help Pennsylvania dairy producers better understand how milk checks are paid, where the prices come from, and what factors they control.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA413
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Dairy Risk-Management Education: Using Milk Futures to Lock in Profitability
Dairy farmers are facing increased risk with regard to volatile milk prices, which presents problems for dairy producers since dairying involves large investments and large demands for cash flow each month (high costs for
feed and labor). Thus, using forward-contracting tools makes good business sense. This 6-page publication explains why to use futures, the differences between brokers and cooperatives, estimating a planning price, the procedure for locking in milk prices, analyzing cooperative contracts, and using strategy and planning.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
UA433
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Farm Economics: Analyzing Investment with Uncertain Returns: The Case of Robotic Milkers
Adoption of robotic milking technology is subject to a great deal of uncertainty related to milk price, production, labor costs, etc. This issue reports the results of research on adoption of this technology. The results show that robotic milking technology can be a profitable choice for many Pennsylvania farmers. Note: Not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
XA0016
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Farm Economics: Outcome of USDA's Class III-IV Hearing
This article discusses the changes to the pricing formulas, sample calculations for January 2001 and USDA's Interim Final Rule. Note: Not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Catalog Number:
XA0013
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Feeding Forages to Dairy Cattle
This 6-page publication explains feeding forages to dairy cattle. Note: Available in PDF only; not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Dairy & Animal Science
Catalog Number:
SC300
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Feeding the Newborn Calf
Calf health, growth, and productivity rely heavily on nutrition and management practices. Every heifer calf born on a dairy farm represents an opportunity to maintain or increase herd size, to improve the herd genetically, or to improve economic returns to the farm. The objectives of raising the newborn calf to weaning age are optimizing growth and minimizing helath problems. To accomplish these goals, it is necessary to understand the calf's digestive system, immune system, and nutrient needs, as well as the feed options available to meet those needs.
Department:
Dairy & Animal Science
Catalog Number:
UD013
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