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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...

Understanding The Genetics of Feed Efficiency 

The genetic makeup of maternal (sow) lines and terminal sire lines used to produce market hogs has a considerable bearing on how efficiently their progeny...

Strive to Survive 

Fifty-year-old Bob Dykhuis is taking a conservative approach to protecting his family's hog operation for future generations. He believes it's necessary...

United Soybean Board Funds National Swine Nutrition Guide 

The United Soybean Board (USB) has approved soybean checkoff funding for the development and distribution of the National Swine Nutrition Guide by the...

Feed Focus is a Balancing Act 

Cutting corn-soy diets and replacing with alternative ingredients and feeder management are ways that Dykhuis Farms reduces feed costs. With 195,000 pigs...

Sows in Groups Preferred 

Electronic feeding system Just over 10 years ago, Bryan Ruwe decided it was time to move his breeding herd from dirt lots and the hot and cold temperature extremes common to northeast Nebraska to a more controlled environment. The options ranged from individual sow stalls, the most popular choice of the day, to...

Organic Selenium Enhances Boar Fertility 

The resounding acceptance of artificial insemination (AI) by commercial pork producers necessitates the need to manage boars for maximum fertility and semen production....

Corn and DDGS Diet Switching Do Not Affect Pig Performance 

Pork producers looking to optimize feed ingredients are including distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) for grow-finish pigs when costs are in line...

Supplementing Fall-Back Pigs Pays In the Nursery 

A number of Michigan pork producers have questioned whether the “rescue decks” really pay off, according to Barbara Straw, Extension veterinarian at Michigan State University (MSU)....

Enhanced DDGS Offer Improved Swine Diets 

Enhanced distiller's dried grains with solubles (E-DDGS) provides greater energy concentration in swine diets, improving the nutritional value of DDGS for pigs...

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