Iodine Research: Slicing the Fat
A number of pork processors are concerned about the quality and cutability of fat in pork for domestic and export markets. Adding fat in the form of soybean...
Does DDGS Affect Pork Quality?
Recent trials at the University of Minnesota offer insight into the impact that dried distiller's grains with solubles has on growth performance and pork...
Tips to Cut Your Feed Costs
Extension swine specialists provide action lists to lessen the impact of escalating feed costs. There is little doubt that the ethanol boom is driving...
Rethinking the Corn-Soy Diet
Supplementing L-Lysine is about as common in swine diets as supplementing with salt. Acommon rule of thumb when formulating swine diets is that 3 lb. of L-Lysine plus 97 lb. of corn...
Nutritional Issues Can Make Pigs Sick
Ration imbalances or deficiencies can result in health concerns. Nutrition is a critical component of modern swine production...
By-Products Help Trim Feed Costs
Distiller's grains may be getting all the attention, but this 21,000-sow, farrow-to-finish operation has found many useful by-product feeds. Jimmy Tosh,...
Fiber's Role in Sow Welfare
Heavy doses of fiber curb appetite and improve welfare of gestating sows.
Hungry, pregnant females often display certain stereotypic behaviors that suggest...
DDGS Still a Lot to Learn
It appears there are as many questions as answers about distiller's grains in hog rations.
Gregg Sample summed it up best at the Distiller's Grains: Implications for the U.S. Pork Industry” meeting ...
Corn Variety Offers More Bang per Bushel
Higher energy and amino acid values of nutritionally enhanced corn hybrids are gaining pork producers' attention. One variety backed by research from...
Stage Set for Growth Of Enhanced Feedgrains
Convincing pork producers to set energy specifications in the corn that they buy has proven more difficult than expected. For Pioneer Hi-Bred Inter-national,...
