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Nutrition

Sow, Pig Dietrary Adjustments Can Lower Costs | Tailor Feeding To Fit Your Pigs, Budget

Sep 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

Focus on feeding sows more efficiently and not overfeeding certain diets and special ingredients. There are two critical points to address when trying...More

Nutrition News

Veterinary Clinic Challenge: Eat Pork Each Night for a Week

Sep 25, 2009 4:48 PM

To show support for a struggling U.S. pork industry, which has weathered two years of economic hardship and put some producers out of business, a northern Iowa swine veterinary consulting clinic has kicked off “Pork Week.”...

Records Projected for Corn Use, Soybean Exports

Sep 15, 2009 11:30 AM, By Elton Robinson Farm Press Editorial Staff erobinson@farmpress.com

Importing countries are certainly taking a liking to current U.S. soybean prices, a fact reflected in USDA’s Sept. 11 World Supply and Demand Estimate forecasting record U.S. exports this marketing year...

Feed Additives

Sow, Pig Dietrary Adjustments Can Lower Costs | Tailor Feeding To Fit Your Pigs, Budget

Sep 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

Focus on feeding sows more efficiently and not overfeeding certain diets and special ingredients. There are two critical points to address when trying...

Phytase Helps Lower Phosphorus in Swine Manure | Dietary Adjustments Lower Phosphorus

Sep 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Karen Bernick

Dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS) and phytase help lower phosphorus in manure, eliminate need for supplemental phosphorus. Last year, when...

Feed Quality

Purdue Specialist Advises Testing Corn Before Feeding to Hogs

Nov 2, 2009 12:21 PM

Pork producers should test the new corn crop before feeding it, according to a Purdue University Extension swine specialist...

Sow, Pig Dietrary Adjustments Can Lower Costs | Tailor Feeding To Fit Your Pigs, Budget

Sep 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

Focus on feeding sows more efficiently and not overfeeding certain diets and special ingredients. There are two critical points to address when trying...

Feed Storage and Handling

Mixed Prospects in U.S. Grains Complex

Nov 13, 2009 11:29 AM

Rabobank’s Agri Commodity Markets Research group has issued a new report on the U.S. grains complex and highlighted key global factors that may influence grain supplies and prices for livestock producers...

Digging Deep to Capitalize on DDGS

Aug 15, 2009 12:00 PM

ver the course of three different research trials, more than 2,000 pigs were fed dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS) diets, which varied in...

Dietary Ingredients

Mixed Prospects in U.S. Grains Complex

Nov 13, 2009 11:29 AM

Rabobank’s Agri Commodity Markets Research group has issued a new report on the U.S. grains complex and highlighted key global factors that may influence grain supplies and prices for livestock producers...

Wet-Corn Webinar Scheduled for Nov. 18

Nov 11, 2009 9:15 AM

Late corn plantings, a cool summer and a record wet fall have many crop and livestock producers concerned with corn at 25-30% moisture and the presence of yeast, molds and mycotoxins...

Nutrition Requirements

Wet-Corn Webinar Scheduled for Nov. 18

Nov 11, 2009 9:15 AM

Late corn plantings, a cool summer and a record wet fall have many crop and livestock producers concerned with corn at 25-30% moisture and the presence of yeast, molds and mycotoxins...

Purdue Specialist Advises Testing Corn Before Feeding to Hogs

Nov 2, 2009 12:21 PM

Pork producers should test the new corn crop before feeding it, according to a Purdue University Extension swine specialist...


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