Match Nutrition to Genetics for Greatest Dividends
The U.S. pork industry maintains profitability largely through continued improvement in productivity and cost control. Increases in lean mass and reproductive...
Setting a Course For Survival
Detailed plan of action helps keep hundreds of contract growers throughout the Midwest competitive. About three years ago, when the streak of hog profits...
Organic Copper and Zinc Oxide Have Additive Effects on Diets
Nutritional supplements provide potential feed savings. University of Illinois researchers report finding an additional performance response to organic...
Rethinking the Corn-Soy Diet
Supplementing L-Lysine is about as common in swine diets as supplementing with salt. Acommon rule of thumb when formulating swine diets is that 3 lb. of L-Lysine plus 97 lb. of corn...
Surviving Escalating Feed Prices
In today's production environment, financial and nutritional audits offer guidance in dealing with high nutrient costs and helping identify options. As...
Ad-Lib Feeder Boosts Sow, Pig Performance
The constant push for production efficiency has producers extending weaning ages, increasing nutrient demands of sows nursing a larger litter, longer.
A recent study by University of Minnesota researchers in a 1,275-sow commercial herd showed ...
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...
Nutrition
Feeding Frequency Has Limited Impact On Group-Housed Sows
Kansas State University (KSU) researchers recently concluded that increasing the number of daily...
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...
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...
