Nutrition
Consistent, Targeted Nutrition Improves Efficiency
Apr 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Joel DeRouchey and Mike Tokach Kansas State University Manhattan, KS
Nutritional programs can certainly play a major role in the amount of weight variation within a common group of pigs. The ability to minimize this variation...More
Nutrition News
Check Feed Particle Size To Improve Feed Conversion
Dec 13, 2007 3:55 PM
Pork producers know the impact of particle size on feed efficiency. As particle size is reduced, digestibility of the diet and feed efficiency are improved...
Swine Vets Group Addresses Injectable Iron Issue
Dec 13, 2007 3:53 PM
Tom Burkgren, executive director of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, has submitted a letter to the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) regarding the shortage of injectable iron dextran...
Feed Additives
Ractopamine Improves Growth, Carcass Value
Dec 15, 2007 4:37 PM
When finishing pigs were fed a control diet vs. ractopamine-supplemented (Paylean from Elanco Animal Health) diet for 27 days prior to slaughter, ractopamine improved growth and feed conversion, decreased backfat and improved loin thickness...
Additives to Improve Flowability of DDGS Studied
Dec 15, 2007 4:31 PM
University of Minnesota (U of M) researchers have found that in-creasing moisture content of dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS) from 9% to 12% clearly and significantly reduced the flowability of the feedstuff...
Feed Quality
By-Products Spur Interest in Enzymes
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jerry Shurson University of Minnesota St. Paul, MN
Skyrocketing feed costs has producers and nutritionists taking a closer look at enzymes to improve digestion and absorption of dietary components. There...
Mycotoxin It's All in the Feed
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Paul Armbrecht, DVM Lake City, IA
Mycotoxins are fungi capable of producing mold on virtually all small grains, including corn. The term mycotoxin means poison from a fungi. Only about...
Feed Storage and Handling
By-Products Spur Interest in Enzymes
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jerry Shurson University of Minnesota St. Paul, MN
Skyrocketing feed costs has producers and nutritionists taking a closer look at enzymes to improve digestion and absorption of dietary components. There...
Use Pig Age to Guide Creep Feeding
Mar 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Lora Berg
The length of time pigs are offered creep feed has little impact on how much they will eat or weight they will gain. The durations of creep feed availability...
Dietary Ingredients
Consistent, Targeted Nutrition Improves Efficiency
Apr 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Joel DeRouchey and Mike Tokach Kansas State University Manhattan, KS
Nutritional programs can certainly play a major role in the amount of weight variation within a common group of pigs. The ability to minimize this variation...
Computer Spreadsheet Aids in DDGS Decision
Apr 4, 2008 11:07 AM
An Excel spreadsheet developed at the University of Illinois helps pork producers determine the value of feeding distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to their pig...
Nutrition Requirements
Consistent, Targeted Nutrition Improves Efficiency
Apr 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By Joel DeRouchey and Mike Tokach Kansas State University Manhattan, KS
Nutritional programs can certainly play a major role in the amount of weight variation within a common group of pigs. The ability to minimize this variation...
Variation: You Can Manage It, But You Can't Avoid It
Apr 15, 2008 12:00 PM, By John F. Patience Prairie Swine Centre Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Prior to the widespread adoption of all-in, all-out (AIAO) production systems, variation in growth was largely a cost. Pigs were sorted from pens when...
