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...
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...
Lactating Sows Feed Themselves
New feeder design improves sow body condition and helps boost pigs-born-alive average. About three years ago, Iowa Select Farms set out to do a better...
How to Manage High Input Costs
Changing times call for changing strategies in buying and selling. The time-honored strategy of buying low, converting efficiently and selling high is...
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...
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...
Ractopamine Improves Growth, Carcass Value
When finishing pigs were fed a control diet vs. ractopamine-supplemented (Paylean from Elanco Animal Health) diet for 27 days prior to slaughter, ractopamine improved growth and feed conversion, decreased backfat and improved loin thickness...
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...
Curing Water Wastage In Postweaning Pigs
It is often thought that pigs at weaning are substituting water for feed consumption, resulting in a temporary weight loss, as they adapt to eating solid food. But researchers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada have discovered that most water usage after weaning is actually water wastage...
