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...
Biofuels’ Impact Highlights NIAA Annual Meeting
“Biofuels Energy: Animal Agriculture at the Crossroads” will be the theme of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture’s Annual Meeting (NIAA), April 2-5 at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento, CA...
Smaller Crop Fuels Higher Corn Prices
Readers are probably tired of hearing about the impact of ethanol on the livestock industry and I'm certainly tired of writing about it. I would rather write about...
Bioenergy Web Site
To help farmers better understand alternatives to fossil fuels, Purdue University has developed a bioenergy Web site that highlights research techniques...
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...
Nutrition Linked To Lameness
A number of minerals and feed ingredients used alone or in combination may help minimize osteochondrosis.
A team of Kansas State University (KSU) researchers...
Have Your Pigs Had Their Vitamin C Today?
Nutritional interventions show promise in preparing pigs' immune systems to better deal with porcine circovirus-associated disease challenges...
Livestock No Longer Drives Corn Price
There continues to be widespread discussion about the impact that ethanol production will have on livestock sectors, in general, and the pork sector, in particular. It is an important debate...
Nutrition
Feeding Frequency Has Limited Impact On Group-Housed Sows
Kansas State University (KSU) researchers recently concluded that increasing the number of daily...
