Company/Products Feed and nutrition Research and innovation Can you be more precise? New technology to perfect your feed regime How new data-led tech is bringing ever-greater precision to pig feeding. 19 February 2019 8 minute read By: Melanie Epp Europe Africa South America North America Asia Oceania Trouw Nutrition’s NutriOpt On-site Adviser analyses individual feed ingredients and sends the results to your smartphone Big Dutchman offers a new volume dispenser, Vario 8L, which can dispense small portions – as little as 100g of feed – just as precisely as it can dispense larger rations of up to 5kg Using SowSense, if it is determined that a sow needs extra care, Nedap’s Automatic Sow Separation gate will lead her to another area in the barn where the farmer can attend to her needs Fancom’s 3D eYeGrow provides information on average weight and daily growth rate at the herd level Our Partners Lallemand Lanxess Hamlet Protein Thermo Fisher Scientific Axcentive Melanie Epp Melanie Epp is a freelance agricultural journalist from Ontario, Canada. More from this author More Articles View all Leman Swine Conference: Controlling PEDV with bioexclusion, biocontainment and biomanagement Disease Managing disease Herd management 24 April 2024 5 minute read AASV: Paul Yeske shares research on how to use soybean meal during a swine respiratory challenge SPONSOR Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS 23 April 2024 7 minute read Soybean meal as a tactical or prescriptive ingredient when SRD challenges the herd Speed matters: Fast protein sources result in better protein utilization SPONSOR Herd management Feed and nutrition 22 April 2024 6 minute read Protein kinetics is all about the speed of protein digestion. Our Partners Lallemand Lanxess Hamlet Protein Thermo Fisher Scientific Axcentive