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Crop Strategies for New England Dairy Farms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Sherrill B. Nott
Sherrill B. Nott*
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
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Recent changes in feed, livestock and fertilizer prices as well as breeding and agronomic practice developments have created substantial interest in their implications on profitable dairy farm cropping programs. The movement in soybean oil meal prices from under $100/ton in early 1972 to over $400/ton in the summer of 1973 increased the interest in alternatives to soybean oil meal. Dairymen searched for feed ingredients which were relatively cheap per unit of protein. As a consequence, interest in the protein content of alfalfa as influenced by variety, harvesting systems, and method of storage has been substantial in the past few months. Although soybean oil meal prices are expected to drop below the peak levels, the issues raised by the high price levels during 1973 need to be examined.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , October 1974 , pp. 26 - 34
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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