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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...

Database Developed for Residue Tolerance Limits Issue 

The National Pork Board and the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) have jointly developed a searchable database with pharmaceutical manufacturer...

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...

Omega-3 Pork Cites Health Benefits 

Canadian pork, enhanced with Omega 3, will soon be available in select U.S. supermarkets. Manitoba-based Prairie Orchard Farm's Omega-3 pork received...

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,...

Brace for Higher Feed Costs 

The feedgrain price situation has been the talk of the meat industry this week with quite a bit of speculation as to...

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...

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...

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...

Corn Again! 

Not since the colonists sat down with the Native Americans to learn how to raise maize have U.S. citizens been so enamored with corn. Questions about...

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