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,...
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...
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 ...
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...
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,...
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...
