Monitor Water For Health
Monitoring pigs' water intake could be the difference between spotting health problems early and missing the signs until catastrophe strikes. Water is...
Feeding Them Right
The sow herd is the engine that drives a pork production system. When things do not go well in the sow herd, the consequences ripple, and sometimes crash,...
DDGS Fact Sheet Offered by Iowa State
Iowa State University has released the first in a series of fact sheets on corn co-products from the ethanol-making process...
Glycerin for Hogs?
The rapid expansion of ethanol and biodiesel plants has led to questions about the use of byproducts from alternative fuels...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
