Purdue Specialist Advises Testing Corn Before Feeding to Hogs
Pork producers should test the new corn crop before feeding it, according to a Purdue University Extension swine specialist...
Phytase Helps Lower Phosphorus in Swine Manure | Dietary Adjustments Lower Phosphorus
Dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS) and phytase help lower phosphorus in manure, eliminate need for supplemental phosphorus. Last year, when...
Sow, Pig Dietrary Adjustments Can Lower Costs | Tailor Feeding To Fit Your Pigs, Budget
Focus on feeding sows more efficiently and not overfeeding certain diets and special ingredients. There are two critical points to address when trying...
Cost-Cutting Measures Needed to Surive Hog Market Downturn | Adapting to Smaller Margins
The pork industry has entered a new supply-and-demand paradigm, and cost-cutting measures may be needed to survive the current downturn. Looking back...
Records Projected for Corn Use, Soybean Exports
Importing countries are certainly taking a liking to current U.S. soybean prices, a fact reflected in USDA’s Sept. 11 World Supply and Demand Estimate forecasting record U.S. exports this marketing year...
Feed Alternatives Not A Quick Nutritional Fix
Producers often get excited when they locate a source of feed alternatives at a reasonable price. But Joel DeRouchey says there's a lot to be considered...
The Right Diet At the Right Time
Diet formulation and feeding programs traditionally formulated for group averages short suits the lighter pigs and overfeeds the heavies. Driven by high...
Correction
The March 15, 2009 issue of National Hog Farmer's Technology Watch page (page 42) contains an article headlined, Injectable Product Treats Nutritional...
Rethinking the Measures Of Dietary Efficiency
The livestock industry has always competed with other sectors of the economy for corn and other feed ingredients. The most common example is the broad...
More Efficient Use of Feed
Living through the volatility of feed prices over the last two years has heightened producers' awareness of the need for continual improvement in the...
