Resources by Gonzalo Ferreira
Title | Available As | Summary | Date | ID | Author |
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Previniendo accidentes de trabajadores rurales ligados al manejo de silajes | Jun 19, 2017 | DASC-100s | |||
Dairy Pipeline, June 2017 | Jun 22, 2017 | DASC-101NP | |||
Previniendo accidentes de trabajadores rurales ligados al manejo de silajes | Jul 24, 2017 | DASC-102s | |||
Preventing silage-related injuries and fatalitites among farm workers | Jul 25, 2017 | DASC-103NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline, October 2017 | Oct 4, 2017 | DASC-105NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline, March 2018 | Mar 1, 2018 | DASC-110NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline - June 2018 | May 30, 2018 | DASC-115NP | |||
Preventing injuries and fatalities during the harvesting and chapping of crops for silage | Aug 28, 2018 | DASC-117NP | |||
Previniendo daños y muertes durante la cosecha y picado de maíz y sorgo para silaje | Aug 28, 2018 | DASC-118S | |||
Dairy Pipeline, March 2019 | Feb 27, 2019 | DASC-123NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline, June 2019 | Jun 3, 2019 | DASC-126NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline, July/August 2019 | Jul 8, 2019 | DASC-127NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline, November/December 2019 | Dec 16, 2019 | DASC-130NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline, April 2020 | Mar 31, 2020 | DASC-134NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline, July/August 2020 | Jun 30, 2020 | DASC-137NP | |||
A Decision-Making Tool to Determine the Feasibility of Purchasing Virginia Milk Commission Base | Dairy farmers are usually subject to net income fluctuations
due to volatility in both milk and feed prices.
Risk management tools, such as hedging milk prices in
the futures market, may be used to protect dairy farmers
against milk price volatility. Alternatively, dairy
farmers selling milk in Virginia can buy Virginia milk
commission base (MCB) to obtain higher milk prices
and, therefore, sustain or increase net cash flows. |
Mar 23, 2018 | DASC-30P (DASC-111P) | ||
Silo Management, Learning From The Experts | This video intends to help stakeholders improve their silo face management practices, prevent spoilage and waste! Learn to properly face bunker silos. |
Jul 9, 2014 | DASC-39NP | ||
Dairy Pipeline, October 2014 | This DAIRY PIPELINE contains timely, scientifically based, useful and applicable information that we seek to share with the dairy industry each month. We welcome use of this material in appropriate publications as well as for the formulation of recommendations. If you redistribute an article, we ask for a courtesy notification to be emailed to dascweb@vt.edu with the article title and the publication in which it will appear. |
Sep 30, 2014 | DASC-42NP | ||
Dairy Pipeline, March 2015 | This DAIRY PIPELINE contains timely, scientifically based, useful and applicable information that we seek to share with the dairy industry each month. We welcome use of this material in appropriate publications as well as for the formulation of recommendations. If you redistribute an article, we ask for a courtesy notification to be emailed to dascweb@vt.edu with the article title and the publication in which it will appear. |
Mar 2, 2015 | DASC-47NP | ||
Manejo del becerro recién nacido - Newborn calf management | This video intends to facilitate the learning process about newborn calf
management by Hispanic employees. The video is narrated in Spanish and
subtitled in English so that English-speaking employers can also improve
communication with their labor force. |
May 5, 2015 | DASC-49S | ||
Income Over Feed Costs in the Dairy Enterprise | Typically, feed costs are directly related to milk
production, so the more you feed, the more you
produce. However, milk production is not necessarily
related to profitability. Production-oriented
management, which focuses on maximizing outputs
(i.e., milk yield) through increased utilization of inputs
(i.e., feed), does not necessarily ensure the dairy
business will be profitable.
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Sep 1, 2020 | DASC-51P | ||
Global milk prices lower than in 2009 | The price of milk in the global market has been decreasing substantially during the last
year. The last bid from Global Dairy Trade resulted in a price for whole-milk powder
equal to $1,590 per metric ton. This price is 13 percent lower than the minimum price
for whole-milk powder reported by Global DairyTrade in 2009. |
Aug 5, 2015 | DASC-57NP | ||
Dairy Pipeline, January/February 2016 | This DAIRY PIPELINE contains timely, scientifically based, useful and applicable information that we seek to share with the dairy industry each month. We welcome use of this material in appropriate publications as well as for the formulation of recommendations. If you redistribute an article, we ask for a courtesy notification to be emailed to dascweb@vt.edu with the article title and the publication in which it will appear. |
Jan 7, 2016 | DASC-73NP | ||
Are you Delivering A Homogeneous Ration To Your Cows? | Matching nutrient requirements with nutrient
supply is essential for maximizing feed efficiency
in dairy farming systems. To accomplish
this, feeding a consistent and homogeneous
ration is critical. In Summer 2015, the
variation of the composition of total mixed
rations (TMR) was monitored on 7 dairy
farms in Franklin County, Virginia. |
Nov 3, 2015 | |||
Management of compost-bedded pack barns | Mar 11, 2016 | DASC-78NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline, April 2016 | This DAIRY PIPELINE contains timely, scientifically based, useful and applicable information that we seek to share with the dairy industry each month. We welcome use of this material in appropriate publications as well as for the formulation of recommendations. If you redistribute an article, we ask for a courtesy notification to be emailed to dascweb@vt.edu with the article title and the publication in which it will appear. |
Mar 31, 2016 | DASC-80NP | ||
Corn for Silage: Planting density effects on dry matter yields and nutritional composition | Milk prices have shrunk substantially in the last year. Because forages are much cheaper than concentrates, increasing the inclusion of forages in rations for dairy cows can help sustain margins and profitability. On the flip side, forage stocks could decrease faster as the inclusion of forages in dairy rations is increased. As a consequence of the limited forage stocks observed after drought seasons, increasing interest has emerged to replenish forage stocks of corn silage faster through greater corn planting population rates. Previous studies have shown that under non-extreme weather conditions forage biomass of corn for silage increases or does not change when planting population increases. |
Mar 31, 2016 | |||
Determining Harvesting Time for Corn Silage | May 5, 2016 | DASC-82NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline, June 2016 | This DAIRY PIPELINE contains timely, scientifically based, useful and applicable information that we seek to share with the dairy industry each month. We welcome use of this material in appropriate publications as well as for the formulation of recommendations. If you redistribute an article, we ask for a courtesy notification to be emailed to dascweb@vt.edu with the article title and the publication in which it will appear. |
May 31, 2016 | DASC-84NP | ||
A Current Update On Baleage Technology | Last March, Dr. Wayne Coblentz, a forage
scientist from the USDA-Dairy Forage Research
Center (Marshville, WI), updated us
about baleage technology during our 2016
Area Dairy Conference. |
May 31, 2016 | |||
Winter Crops as a Feed Source for Dairy Cattle | Jun 27, 2016 | DASC-85NP | |||
Dairy Pipeline, October 2016 | This DAIRY PIPELINE contains timely, scientifically based, useful and applicable information that we seek to share with the dairy industry each month. We welcome use of this material in appropriate publications as well as for the formulation of recommendations. If you redistribute an article, we ask for a courtesy notification to be emailed to dascweb@vt.edu with the article title and the publication in which it will appear. |
Sep 29, 2016 | DASC-89NP | ||
Comparative Nutritional Quality of Winter Crops for Silage | In a few past issues
of the Dairy
Pipeline, I reported
the initial stages
of a Conservation
Innovation Grant
(CIG) project of the
Department of
Dairy Science, and funded by Natural Resources
Conservation Services, in which
we were comparing the nutritional quality
of different winter crops for silage. |
Sep 29, 2016 | |||
Comparative Nutritional Quality of Winter Crops for Silage | Feb 23, 2017 | DASC-93P | |||
Dairy Pipeline, March 2017 | This DAIRY PIPELINE contains timely, scientifically based, useful and applicable information that we seek to share with the dairy industry each month. We welcome use of this material in appropriate publications as well as for the formulation of recommendations. If you redistribute an article, we ask for a courtesy notification to be emailed to dascweb@vt.edu with the article title and the publication in which it will appear. |
Feb 28, 2017 | DASC-95NP | ||
Monitoring Your Debt Status | Farm debt needs to be monitored closely so
that it does not become an unmanageable
snow ball. There are different ways for monitoring
debt status. One of them is the debt to
asset percentage. To calculate your debt to
asset percentage, simply get your last balance
sheet and divide your total debt (or total
liabilities) by the total assets and multiply by
100. A debt to asset ratio of 35% implies that
for every $100 of assets the farm owns, the
farm still needs to pay $35 to a lending
source. In general terms, a good debt status
implies a debt to asset percentage below
30%, whereas a poor debt status implies a
debt to asset percentage above 70%. |
Feb 28, 2017 | |||
Preventing silage-related injuries and fatalities among farm workers | Jun 19, 2017 | DASC-99 |