ESPHM review, day 2: Focus on swine nutrition How can innovation in pig nutrition be helpful for veterinary medicine?
On demand: Webinar on calcium, the double-edged sword The recent webinar ‘Calcium, the double-edged sword’, is now available for pig and poultry professionals to be...
Not all canola meal responds the same to phytase Not all kinds of canola meal respond in the same way to the addition of phytase, new US research shows. Canola...
More knowledge on calcium for better pig diets Recent research in the United States has been aimed at better understanding calcium digestibility in pig feeds....
More knowledge on calcium for better pig diets Recent research in the United States has been aimed at better understanding calcium digestibility in pig feeds....
Phosphorus digestibility of rice co-products fed to pigs Added microbial phytase makes phosphorus in rice co-products more digestible in pig diets, a US study has...
Study: Copra and palm good phosphorus source for pigs A study to determine how much digestible phosphorus in copra and palm kernel products provide when fed to pigs,...
Fermentation, extrusion enhance wheat bran for pigs Fermentation as well as extrusion improve the nutritional value of wheat bran. Fermentation of wheat bran seems...
Impact of multiphase feeding on pig preformance The animal 'Article of the Month' for May, highlighted by Cambridge Journals is entitled "The impact of daily...
High levels of phosphorus good for bone quality in pigs Wageningen UR Livestock Research determined the influence of phosphorus (P) content in the feed on growth...
PepSoyGen a reliable source of protein for piglet diets Studies recently conducted at the Kansas State University and the University of Kentucky have shown that...
New phytase now launched in Europe Following approval by the DG-Sanco Standing Committee on the Food Chain & Animal Health (Animal Nutrition) in...
Feather meal a good source of energy for pigs Hydrolysed feather meal is a co-product of the poultry processing industry that can be used as a protein source...
Phytase – major benefits for pigs Despite widespread use in monogastric diets throughout the world, the value currently obtained from phytase...
Pig Progress Editor to speak at IPPE ‘The Fourth P’ of Pig Production – will be the theme of a presentation given by Pig Progress editor Vincent ter...
UK: Pig industry slashes GHG emissions Two years after the publication of the BPEX Roadmap, the reduction in climate change potential (carbon...
Phosphorus Why life would ever be easy, right? Not only cereal prices are high, and according to Rabobank they are going...
Low-cost diets with low excretion levels – it is possible Formulating pig diets is always a compromise. Do pig producers for example choose minimal feed costs or a diet...
Harmful to pigs: Broken down phytate products Phytate is not the only element that has anti-nutritive effects in pig nutrition. When the product is gradually...
Fresh insights confirm role of vitamin D at farrowing The importance of vitamin D for sows cannot be emphasised enough. Once more its effects were shown in recent...
Superdosing: A chance to unlock gains in swine Gone are the days when phytase was only used to unlock phosphorus. Superdosing phytase – at a higher dosage than...
Epigenetics: The art of programming DNA What an animal looks like is not only just determined by its genetic material – it’s also dependent on what...
More sustainability leads to higher pig profits Profitability in swine production depends on optimising lifetime output per sow breeding place. But often...
Plant phytates do not affect added zinc in pig feed It is well known that phytates are an obstruction for phosphorus uptake by pigs. For long, the same has been...
Precise feed management at 45th Swine Research Days The latest edition of the French Pig Research Days, held in Paris, 5-6 February 2013 by the French Pig Research...
Co-products: A must for sustainable pork production Feed prices continue to rise since cereals can also be used for fuel production. Using biofuel co-products,...
Ways to ensure sufficient milk production Genetics and swine husbandry have moved on apace in 20 years, yet the swine industry globally is struggling with...
News for the Far East: Stop seeing pork as a commodity Where the Western world continues to struggle with its financial crisis, VIV Asia 2013 showed once more that...
The use of bone metabolites excreted in urine as markers... Phosphorus (P) has several physiological functions and is vital for the maintenance of the skeletal tissue. Due...