Animal Health Center

Optimizing dietary energy in grow-finish pigs provides more opportunities for profitability. A Microsoft Excel-based model helps you compare levels of dietary net energy.

Illinois researchers compared weanling pigs fed diets containing 150 mg/kg copper in the form of copper hydroxychloride with pigs fed control diets containing only enough copper to meet dietary requirements.

Although less than last year, Alltech’s Annual Global Feed Survey still shows more than a billion tons of feed were produced around the world in 2017.

How accurate and precise are quick tests and labs when analyzing DON (vomitoxin)? The quick test or lab used can have a significant impact on the reliability of the data.

The U.S. Grains Council is rolling out information on the quality of the 2017 corn crop to buyers and end-users around the world, aided in many cases by U.S. farmers who are sharing their own experiences. 

When was the last time you sampled the water in your production unit?  Water quality can have a significant impact on growth and overall health.

Iron is essential for piglets to generate hemoglobin and deliver oxygen to tissues throughout its body.

Many liveborn piglets die because they starve. Improve your piglet survival rate by giving a supplemental source of nutrients the first few hours of life.

Good care and management in the farrowing house has a major influence on the number of liveborn piglets that are weaned and on how well they perform in later stages of production.

Fiber is increasingly being added to pig diets, but digestion of fiber in pigs is inefficient and poorly understood.

Active dry yeast blended with functional ingredients supports gut integrity

U.S. agricultural cooperatives are building new soybean crushing plants at the fastest rate in two decades as farmers in the world’s top producer prepare to sow another record area with soy.

Cargill announces that it will invest more than $15 million in a new piglet feed production line in Tianjin, China. The expansion will provide early life nutrition options for Chinese customers and their animals.

Training to be held at Iowa State University on January 9-11.

Kansas State University researchers say a single feed additive can minimize the risk of virus transmission as well as improve animal performance.

Researchers at Kansas State University have completed a large trial determine the feeding options that are best for pig producer’s profitability. The research is being presented as part of the 2017 K-State Swine Day.

Demand for 300-pound finishing pigs creates challenges and opportunities, but producers have the opportunity to improve on-farm efficiencies for higher profit potential.

Sows were monitored throughout gestation—identifying nutrition requirements into how much energy in their diet went for maintenance, and growth of the sow, and how much was left for the developing litter.