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Feeding for Sow Reproductive Efficiency

As recently as five years ago, many in the U.S. pork industry felt the prospects of achieving 30 pigs/mated female/year (P/MF/Y) was a dream. Today, the 30-P/MF/Y goal can be and is being achieved on some select farms

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  • Feb. 15, 2012
    Article

    Lower Fiber Diets Improve Carcass Yield

    Kansas State University researchers found withdrawing a high neutral detergent fiber (NDF) diets containing distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and wheat midds before market can improve feed/gain, carcass yield and jowl iodine value in pigs....More
  • Feb. 15, 2012
    Article

    DDGS Diet Calculation Tools

      Pork producers used an estimated 5.5 million tons of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) in U.S. swine diets during 2011, realizing savings of as much as $10/pig by replacing corn with the byproduct of the ethanol process. Charting a course to saving money on diets takes some time and calculation. To help with that step, several midwestern universities offer free, online calculators to aid the decision-making process when figuring out the potential cost savings from using DDGS at varying levels....More
  • Feb. 15, 2012
    Article

    Vitamin D-Treated Pigs Perform Better

    Vitamin D deficiency can put young pigs at risk for skeletal problems....More
  • Feb. 15, 2012
    Article

    Fixing Vitamin D Deficiency

    Meeting the vitamin D requirements of young pigs can be a complex task. Steve Henry, DVM, Abilene Animal Hospital, has made some startling discoveries about vitamin D deficiency while investigating structural problems in pigs diagnosed with periweaning failure-to-thrive syndrome....More
  • Feb. 15, 2012
    Article

    Formulating Diets For Carcass Quality

    Feeding a diet with high levels of Distiller's Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) can provide significant economic benefits for pork producers. It also can result in a negative impact on carcass fat quality as measured by iodine value. Strategies such as withdrawing DDGS prior to harvest, formulating diets based on iodine level targets and possibly feeding reduced-oil DDGS may help improve carcass fat quality....More
  • Feb. 15, 2012
    Article

    Diet Choices Drive Carcass Fat Quality

    Pork producers and their nutritionists are searching for ways to better understand how dietary fat influences the fat that is deposited in the pig carcass. Iodine value has become the focal point of this discussion....More
  • Feb. 15, 2012
    Article

    Untangling the Iodine Value Riddle

    Distiller's Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) has become the go-to ingredient to substitute for higher-priced corn in swine diets. Some packers have put producers on notice that the excessive iodine value levels in carcass fat that result from DDGS inclusion in the diets will be met with price penalties....More
  • Feb. 15, 2012
    Article

    Keeping a Lid on Iodine Values

    Iodine value pressure points have pushed producers and their nutritionists to learn more about iodine values, what affects them, and what can be done to meet packer restrictions....More
  • Feb. 15, 2012
    Article

    A Pig is What it Eats

    A recent press release announced that the ethanol industry had overtaken livestock as the largest consumer of the nation’s corn supply. The release, citing data from North American Risk Management Services, Inc., explained that ethanol production had nearly quadrupled between 2005 and 2011, now gobbling up 5.02 billion bushels, more than 40% of last year’s harvest. Corn use for livestock and poultry feed fell 22% during that period and now accounts for about 4.79 billion bushels of the 2011 crop....More
  • Feb. 1, 2012
    Article

    Focusing on Pigs’ True Amino Acid Needs

    A key determinant of amino acid requirements is whole-body protein deposition, which is very closely associated with lean tissue growth; these two measures are essentially interchangeable, according to Kees de Lange, swine nutritionist at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada....More
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