By, Russell Gilliam
Let's face it: raising profitable pigs is hard work. Optimizing your bottom line while staying competitive is a challenge on its own, but add fluctuating feed costs, new regulations and an unpredictable market to the mix and...
Kent Nutrition Group (KNG) continues to uncover dietary options to help manage market hog growth rate and weight gain to help keep pigs at viable weights until packing plant capacity is available.
As processing plants continue to face pressure to...
Medium-chain fatty acids deliver broad-spectrum support for biosecurity and pig performance.
Your pigs are under continuous risk of disease challenges that could come from up the road or across an ocean. How do you make sure you’re addressing every route...
As work at meat processing plants slows during COVID-19, hog producers may want to feed pigs cheaper diets and hold them longer.
University of Missouri Extension swine nutritionist Marcia Shannon says producers can feed more fiber and less fat to...
Dietary Strategies in Diets without Zinc Oxide for Nursery Pigs
Wade Hutchens
Farmscape for May 22, 2020
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The Executive Director of the Swine Health Information Center says, by sourcing feed ingredients from foreign animal disease free regions, the risk of importing these infections in feed is minimal. In...
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The Feed Outlook tables were reposted on April 16, 2020 to correct an error in the 2019/20 December-January feed and residual and ending stocks. No other components of the supply and...
As a livestock producer, you may be unfamiliar with the processes involved in complete feed manufacturing. To start this conversation, let's first understand the FSMA and what it means for your feed mill to be in compliance with the...
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Pigs depend on their daily feed to supply not only protein and energy but also their needed mineral requirements. Typically, trace mineral supplementation has been based on dated National Research Council (NRC) recommendations. Yet, swine...
Cargill provides an essential service to the world: delivering the food, feed, and ingredients that nourish people and animals. As individuals, families, and communities around the world face challenges and uncertainty caused by the spread of COVID-19, our mission...