Fine-Tuning Lactation
Sow studies evaluate the validity of National Research Council amino acid recommendations. Sows are different enough in feed intake and milk production...
Irradiating Spray-Dried Plasma Improves Nursery Pig Performance
Feeding irradiated, spray-dried animal plasma in the nursery may help get pigs off to a better start, compared to feeding them non-irradiated plasma in...
DDGS Boosts Sow Nutrition
High-producing lactating sows can thrive using 15% distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to help meet their nutritional needs. Equally important,...
Organic Acids a Popular Antibiotic Alternative
The 2006 European ban on antibiotics as growth promoters is a well-accepted regulation, says Martin Verstegen, an animal nutrition professor at Wageningen...
Spreadsheet Identifies Limiting Amino Acids
One of the best ways to reduce nitrogen excretion by pigs is to reduce the dietary protein level by supplementing with amino acids. This requires knowledge...
Boron Shows Promise In Curbing Lameness
Osteochondrosis a big word that has all but dropped out of the swine industry's vocabulary has resurfaced in a small study conducted by swine veterinary...
DDGS Web Site Launched
A new Web site on distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) has been launched on a new University of Illinois (U of I) Extension Web site at http://ilift.traill.uiuc.ed/distillers/....
Feeding Trials Cut Nitrogen Excretion Rates
Iowa State University (ISU) leads a four-year air emissions project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducting animal feeding studies...
Netting Pig Profit with Net Energy
The Europeans are eons ahead of U.S. producers in managing the energy portion of a pig's diet. Defining an ingredient's true energy value requires a system...
Joint Study Probes How Corn Traits Impact Pig Performance
Researchers from Golden Harvest Seeds, Inc. and Iowa State University (ISU) have united to learn how corn kernel traits influence pig weight gain and performance....
