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
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...
Feed Association Launches Safe Feed, Food Web Site
Aug 4, 2009 2:35 PM
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) is announcing the launch of a new Web site dedicated to the Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program for mills and other facilities that produce livestock feed, pet food and related ingredients...
Dietary Ingredients
Reversing Equity Drain in the Pork Industry | Cash for Clunkers
Sep 15, 2009 12:00 PM, By Dale Miller Editor
Marketing groups called for a $200-million sow buyout. Like the $3 billion national effort to rid the roads of inefficient, gas-guzzling vehicles, the...
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...
Nutrition Requirements
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...
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...
