Swine - Feeding and Nutrition

• Enzymes
• Ingredients
  • Corn and Coproducts
  • Soybeans and Coproducts
  • Water
  • Pulses
  • Small Grains and Coproduct
• Processing/Quality Control
• Molds and Mycotoxins
• Regulations
• Strategies/Niche Opportunities
• Antibiotic Free
• Natural/Organic
• Functional Food

• Formulating Farm-Specific Swine Diets (University of Minnesota)

Feed Cost Management

• Investing wisely in on-farm trials
• Feeding Management - Show Me the Money

• Creep Feeding
• High-quality Post-weaning Diet is Critical to Piglet's Transition to Grain-based Diet
• Liquid Diets Improve Performance of Early-Weaned Pigs
• Peat Moss for Piglets at Weaning
• Shedding Light on Newly-Weaned Pigs

Sows

• Dry Sows Looking for Satisfaction
• Feeding Sows RIGHT All the Way Through
• Lean Sows Need to "Pig Out" Prior to Lactation
• Summer Lactation Feed Management

Grow-Finish

• Removing Trace Minerals and Vitamins in Late Finishing can Save $1 Per Pig
• Growth Models for Commercial Pork Production

Nutrient Requirements

• Nutrient Requirements of Swine (National Research Council)
• The NRC - A Culmination of 54 Years of Swine Nutrition


Nutrient Management

• Role of Diet Manipulation
• Advances in Swine Nutrition to Address Nutrient Management Issues
• Nutritional Strategies to Decrease Nutrients in Swine Manure (Order No. 04-035)
• Reducing the Nutrient Excretion and Odor of Pigs through Nutritional Means (LPES, US Department of Agriculture)


Pork Quality

• Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) Update
• Feeding Vitamin D3


Health

• Consequences of Disease on Nutrition
• Preventing and Treating Disease through Improved Intestinal Function

Resources

• Oklahoma State University Swine Nutrition Publications (Oklahoma State University)
• Prairie Swine Centre Publications (PSC)

   

  
  Nutrition Guides

• Tri-State Nutrition Guide
• Swine Nutrition Guide (KSU)

Additives

• Feed Additives for the New Millennium
• Additives for Swine Rations - Evaluation (University of Missouri)
• Adding Potassium Diformate in Grower-Finisher Swine

   

Enzymes - Phytase

• Research Looks to Put More Tools in Your Phosphorus Toolbox

 

Ingredients

• Comparative Feed Values for Swine (Order No. 03-003)
• Nutrient Testing (Order No. 03-007)
• Relative Value of Feedstuffs for Swine

   

Corn and Coproducts

• Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles and Grower-Finisher Diets
• Low Test Weight Corn - Feeding Value for Pigs
• Low Test Weight Corn - Summary of Research on Feeding to Pigs
• Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles for Swine (University of Minnesota)
• The Value of Distiller's Dried Grains with Solubles in Swine Feeding Programs (University of Minnesota) (PDF Format 650.74 KB)


Soybeans and Coproducts

• Soymeal InfoSource (Iowa Soybean Association)

• Feeding Roast Soybeans
• Feeding Green Roasted Soybeans Does Not Affect Growth Performance and Carcass Quality of Finishing Pigs
• Feeding Green Soybeans to Pigs
• Green Soybeans - Can They Be Fed?


Water

• Water Quality and Pig Performance (Order No. 91-071)


Pulses

• Pulse Canada


Small Grains and Coproducts

• Rye in Swine Diets (University of Saskatchewan)
• Flax - The Health-Giving Facts
• Sprouted Wheat for Pigs

 

Processing/Quality Control

• Common Mill Calibration Problems: How to Avoid Them on Your Farm
• Particle Size - Guidelines for Swine Operations
• Quality Control of On-Farm Swine Feed Manufacturing (University of Minnesota)
• Avoiding Drug Carryover During Feed Processing and Delivery (KSU) (PDF Format 86.36 KB)
• Effects of Diet Particle Size on Animal Performance (KSU) (PDF Format 44.11 KB)
• Testing Mixer Performance (KSU) (PDF Format 26.16 KB)

• Dwarf Bunt Infected Wheat for Pigs
• Establishing Tolerable Ergot Levels for Weaned Pigs
• Gilts Are More Sensitive to Vomitoxin Than Barrows
• Molds and Mycotoxins - Effects of Mycotoxins on Swine
• Molds and Mycotoxins - Feeding Mold and Mycotoxin Contaminated Corn to Swine
• Molds and Mycotoxins - Feeding Mold and Mycotoxin Contaminated Wheat to Swine
• No Easy Answers to the Mycotoxin Dilemma
• Solution Against Vomitoxin
• Mycotoxins in Feed, Grains and Ingredients (KSU) (PDF Format 51.38 KB)
• Laboratories

 

Regulations

• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) - Federal Feed Regulations (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
• Compendium of Medicating Ingredient Brochures (CFIA) (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
• Update on Federal Regulations for Medicated Feeds

 

Strategies/Niche Opportunities

Antibiotic Free

• Exploring Alternatives to Antiobiotics
• Feed Additives - The Search for Alternatives


Natural/Organic

• Natural and Organic Pork Production - Designing Feeding Programs (University of Minnesota)


Functional Food

• Is There a Market for Selenium-Enriched Pork?