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Using Corn Distiller's Syrup in Swine Diets 

Currently, dry milling ethanol plants produce primarily two co-products wet corn distiller's grains (WCDG) and corn distiller's liquid solubles (CDLS)...

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...

Curbing Protein Cuts Smell 

An Iowa State University field trial paves the way for practical reduction of odor intensity in hog manure. A three-year study by Iowa State University...

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