Coping With Costly Corn
Pork producers must make adjustments and become more efficient to keep pace with the rising cost of 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,...
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 ...
Bioenergy Web Site Developed
To help farmers better understand alternatives to fossil fuels, Purdue University has developed a bioenergy Web site that highlights research techniques and information ...
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...
Getting the Scoop on FEED DROPS
Kansas State University (KSU) researchers say check your sow feed distribution system to ensure sows are actually getting the proper amount of feed. Pork...
More Beans, Less Corn Planted
It's a big day for USDA reports on Friday and the first ones out are rather friendly for livestock feeders...
Energy, Corn Concerns
Livestock producers could soon face a double whammy: continued high energy prices and a shortage of corn for feed. The corn surplus will be gone with...
Hoosier State Embraces Hog Growth
Government officials in Indiana have said they want more pigs produced and fed out in the state and several large hog production companies have accepted...
Canadian Corn Duty Waived
I'm a big fan of the TV show, Law & Order. In fact, I have watched so many episodes so many times (thanks to the miracle of satellite TV) that I can spot the soon-to-be-tainted evidence very quickly. You know the evidence I mean...
