By Duane Reese, Nebraska University Extension Swine Specialist and Al Prosch, NU Pork Central Coordinator - Rising soybean meal prices have prompted some pork producers to consider reducing the amount of soybean meal in grow-finish swine feeds in an attempt...
By Ruurd T. Zijlstra and John F. Patience for Prairie Swine Centre - Field peas are used increasingly as a source for protein and energy in swine rations in Western Canada. The variability of the DE content of field peas has been described in the 1997...
By Dr. John T. Brake, North Carolina State University - Animal agriculture contributes more than 55 percent of the total annual agricultural income in North Carolina. The basis for all of animal agriculture is a dynamic feed milling industry, which provides...
By Audet I, Laforest JP, Martineau GP, Matte JJ. Dairy and Swine Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of dietary supplements of vitamins on vitamin status, libido,...
By Ruurd T. Zijlstra, Tom E. Sauber, and John F. Patience for Prairie Swine Center - High-oil corn is used as a source of nutrients, especially energy, to meet requirement of pigs. In the present study, DE content and digestibility of energy and amino...
By Mick Hazzledine, Premier Nutrition Products Ltd - This is a report from The 14th Annual JSR Technical Conference held on the 16 September 2003 which examines the feeding of heavy pigs, the economics of production and environmental impact.
By Dana R. Cooper, John F. Patience, Ruurd T. Zijlstra and Meike Rademacher - Defining nutrient requirements and feeding strategies for the modern high-producing sow is a step leading to greater efficiency in the breeding herd. Results demonstrated that...
By Allen Harper, Extension Animal Scientist Swine, Tidewater AREC and Mark Estienne, Swine Research Physiologist, Tidewater AREC.
By Dr Morgan Morrow, Swine Veterinary Specialist, North Carolina State University - In response to growing concern by consumers about the prevalence of antibiotic use in feed animals, the Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) recently approved a resolution...
By Alison Orr, Raelene Petracek, Murray Pettitt and Eduardo Beltranena. This report by the Prairie Swine Centre looks at how micronization and flaking grain can affect the nutrient utilization.
By Bob Thaler, Extension swine specialist and Hans Stein, assistant professor, animal science, South Dakota State University - Due to changes in crop rotations, field peas are now more commonly grown in central South Dakota.
By Brian Andries, Prairie Swine Centre Inc - Maintaining high levels of feed intake during lactation will not only benefit the litter currently on the sow but subsequent litters as well as improve the sows overall productivity. Problems arise, especially...
By Eduardo Beltranena IAZ PhD, published by Prairie Swine Centre - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) published in the Canada Gazette (Part 1; 2000 February 05) the proposed new regulations for the mixing of medicated feeds. These minimum compliance...
By Ruurd T. Zijlstra, Shaoyan Li, and John F. Patience - Carbohydrases in 25% canola-meal diet consumed freely by weaned pigs: increased daily gain (up to 13%), increased feed intake (up to 16%), did not affect feed efficiency, reduced viscosity of digesta...
By E.C. Baudon, J.D. Hancock, and M.D. Tokach and published in Kansas State University's Swine Day 2003. In this article, a total of 107 mixed-parity sows (parities one to four) was used to determine the effects of particle size of corn in lactation...
By Eduardo Beltranena, Hagen Schulze, Raelene Petracek and Alison Orr - This article from the Prairie Swine Center looks at how the dietary inclusion of specific feed enzymes can offer the potential of further increasing the nutrient availability of wheat...
Ontario Pork Newsletter - The world's first case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) was diagnosed in Britain in 1986 by Britain's Central Veterinary Laboratory. The exact cause of BSE continues to be debated, but it is known that it is associated...
By Nick Bird, FarmEx - This article looks at the effect irregular and missed feeding times has on the production of finishing pigs. As far as can be determined, every missed meal is lost growth. Lost growth means feeding a pig to keep it alive, but it's...
By Larry L. Berger, Ph.D. University of Illinois. This article provides an update for nutrition professionals on the current understanding of both the physiological and pharmacological roles of zinc in animal diets.
By John F. Patience, A. Denise Beaulieu, Ruurd T. Zijlstra, Doug A. Gillis and James Usry, Prairie Swine Centre Inc. - Successful formulation of low protein diets increases our flexibility in formulating practical diets, provides us with another tool...
By Brian Andries - This article is from Prairie Swine Center and looks at how maintaining high levels of feed intake during lactation will not only benefit the litter currently on the sow but subsequent litters as well as improve the sows overall pro...
By Eduardo Beltranena, John F. Patience, Alison Orr and Claire Jardine - The rapid changes occurring in the management of the weaned pig, concurrent with rapidly increasing expectations of animal performance, suggest that diet formulations acceptable...
By Ronald O. Ball and Sönke Möhn, Swine Research and Technology Centre, University of Alberta - This paper, presented at the January 2003 Banff Pork Seminars, discusses how the Kyoto agreement affects pork producers.













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