Feed Quality Archive
USDA Plans Survey of Flood-Ravaged Crops
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has announced it is taking several steps to assess the impact of massive rainfall and flooding on the 2008 crop acreage...
By-Products Spur Interest in Enzymes
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
Mycotoxins are fungi capable of producing mold on virtually all small grains, including corn. The term mycotoxin means poison from a fungi. Only about...
Aggressive Amino Acid Use Helps Offset High Feed Costs
Rapidly rising feed costs has everyone looking for ways to relieve the pain. Implementing technologies designed to improve feed efficiency or reduce input...
Using Corn Distiller's Syrup in Swine Diets
Currently, dry milling ethanol plants produce primarily two co-products wet corn distiller's grains (WCDG) and corn distiller's liquid solubles (CDLS)...
Proper Amino Acid Ratios Cut Costs, Nitrogen Excretion
Determining proper amino acid ratios in growing pigs' diets limits feed expense and reduces nitrogen excretion, according to a research report from the University of Kentucky...
Effects of Dietary Ingredients On Carcass Quality Measures
Three separate Kansas State University (KSU) research trials confirm that adding fat to swine diets increases carcass iodine values. The exact impact on the carcass depends on the fat source...
Selenium Source Matters in Sow Diets
Organic selenium is showing superior results to inorganic selenium, reproductively, and especially in enhancing the selenium status of newborn and weanling pigs...
Adding Glycerol Improves Pelleting, Provides Nursery Growth Alternative
A Kansas State University (KSU) research team recently investigated whether glycerol, a byproduct of the biofuels industry, could decrease diet cost by replacing corn as an energy source. They also looked at...
Additives to Improve Flowability of DDGS Studied
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...
