Ethanolmania Driving By-Product Research
Swine nutritionists are scrambling to keep up with nutrient profiles. One of the hot topics concerning dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS) these...
Developing Diets for Grower Pigs
Because the nutrient requirements change quite rapidly in the grower stage, increasing dietary phases can reduce diet cost and nutrient excretion. Grower...
Early Finishing Management Affects Closeouts
Achieving good production numbers requires managing young pigs as soon as they hit the finishing floor. As pork producers, we all would like to sit around...
Feeding Early Finishers for Maximum Gain
Producers should provide optimal intake of an optimal diet for the correct weight pig. Pigs moving into the early finishing stage are entering an unprecedented...
Skyrocketing Corn Prices
My lamentations over the future of feed costs in an "ethanol or bust" world probably have gotten on a few people's nerves -- until the past two weeks...
Ethanol Production Sparks Hog Issues
Increased ethanol production is good news for corn farmers, but that may not be the case for hog farmers, says Gary Allee, University of Missouri animal scientist....
Reducing Variation In Finishing
Kansas State University research details nutrition and management steps to bolster efficiency and producer returns. Over the last 15 years, pork producers...
Irradiating Spray-Dried Plasma Improves Nursery Pig Performance
Feeding irradiated, spray-dried animal plasma in the nursery may help get pigs off to a better start, compared to feeding them non-irradiated plasma in...
An All-Out Assault on Mycotoxins
Molds and their resultant mycotoxin residues are a global problem. However, I've never seen the likely costs of doing the preventive tasks set against...
On-Farm Particle Size Analysis Is Improved
Kansas State University (KSU) researchers devise three-screen method to add accuracy to feedgrains. KSU graduate student Crystal Groesbeck, who oversees...
