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Precision Feeding: a Modern Swine Feeding Solution
Precision feeding as a modern solution for swine feeding to individual requirements and capturing the most value in your farm operation The Banff Pork Seminar is a technology transfer meeting for the pork industry that has been held in Banff, Alberta, Canada since 1972. The conference program is coordinated by the Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science, University of ...
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A Budget Friendly Farrowing Feeding Solution
Focus: The New Gestal Swine Feeding System Optimizing Farrowing Sow Feeding at a Budget Price Pork producers are trying to improve the way they work. They wish to make effective decisions, increase cost savings, and improve sow performance and profitability. They also have to deal with challenges such as labor management. Since the owners of Jyga Technologies are pork producers too, they face ...
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Swine Feeding System for Group-Housed Sows: Do Producers Need to Train Their Animals?
A major concern for many producers who are evaluating the use of electronic sow feeding (ESF) in gestation barns is the impact on labor/staff and how a system that utilizes technology may increase either the time needed to manage group housing, or the quality of staff required to manage group housing, or both. As is the case with conventional European ESF’s, there is indeed a training ...
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The Complete Pig Feeding Guide
The most important part of swine production is in knowing the correct way to feed pigs. Whether browsing through a piglet feeding guide or studying swine management techniques, pigs need a high energy diet that is low in fiber that contains ample protein. Pigs will consume enormous amounts of food quickly. To raise and maintain a healthy stock, maximize growth and reproduction, and increase ...
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Feed Blending in Farrowing: An Optimal Feeding Solution
The Next Frontier in Lactating Sow Nutrition Advances in research regarding the nutrient requirements of the lactating sow have academics and producers alike realizing the need for feeding precisely to the needs of the herd, which can vary considerably from published values. For example, in the Swine NRC (Nutrient Requirements of Swine, published by National Research Council in 2012) gilt and ...
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Producer of pet and livestock vitamins and minerals relies on rotary batch mixers
ADM Alliance Nutrition, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of vitamin and trace mineral pre-mixes, ingredients and food additives used in manufacturing pet food products. In addition, about 10 per cent of the company's output is mixes for bovine and swine feed. "We run about 1100 pre-mixes from 400 different powdered ingredients largely for pet food producers," notes Alliance ...
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Project - Brandegurg Germany
Plant’s power: 500 kW/h Daily feeding: pig slurry; corn silage; rye meal Goal: Reduce the product’s viscosity into digesters to increase the concentration of Dry Matter To see video, please click ...
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Swine Production Tips and Feeding Strategies to Dodge Temperature Variations : Beating the Heat in Farrowing!
The effects of heat stress on lactating sows has been studied by several research institutions worldwide. We can look at primiparous (first parity) or multi-parous sows but the results are similar (Williams, 2009) For this discussion, let us look at farrowing room environment conditions of 68°F (desired) vs. 77°F (hot). The period that should be most scrutinized is the ambient ...
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Housing options for a small group of pigs: a beginner’s guide
If you’re thinking about raising some pigs of your own, take into consideration one of the most important aspects in raising the animals: their housing. How will you plan on housing your pigs? Several options exist other than the traditional “hog barn” which is most efficiently used with large groups of animals. If you are looking at raising just a few animals, consider these ...
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Kinds of pig feed
The pig is an omnivorous animal, and its recipes can be said to be varied and eat everything. Pig feed can be divided into protein feed, energy feed, roughage, green feed, silage, mineral feed, feed additives, and vitamin feed if it is divided into eight categories according to nutrition. 1. Protein feed, 2. Energy feed, 3. Coarse feed, 4. Green feed, 5. Silage, 6. Mineral feed, 7. Feed ...
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Choosing the right feeder for a small group of pigs
Choosing the right feeding equipment is just as important as providing proper housing for any group of finishing pigs. Over the years, advancements in improving feeding efficiency and waste reduction has led to countless feeder options available to producers. Gone are the days where pigs were fed from the “slop bucket” or by simply throwing feed on the ground. Whether you’re ...
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Is Technology Part of Pig Farming
Are you familiar with the acronym IoT? It means the Internet of Things and talks about the ways that technology has spilled over into our homes. We have “smart” televisions, phones and even smart lightbulbs. As we add more and more of these devices into our homes, they are actually “learning.” This is called machine learning as well as AI (artificial intelligence), and it ...
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Fattening your Pigs: Liquid vs. Dry Feeding
In the pig industry, there are those who adhere to one set of practices and those who cling to others. However, with the development of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s Farm Excellence Network and its farmer to farmer learning initiatives, debates about practices and policies are sure to provide clarity and improved farm patterns. The issue of fattening pigs with liquid ...
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The KAHL Crown Expander - a Way out of the Feed Structure Dilemma
Introduction: For some time now, more and more have turned away worldwide, particularly in Germany, from the hitherto customary fine grinding of pig and poultry feed. For a time, fine grinding was seen as key to achieve high feed conversion rates and good pellet quality with low fines. But today, it is recognised more and more that the vulnerability of our livestock is growing with the genetic ...
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Antibiotics and the Livestock Industry
The Earth’s population has more than quadrupled in the last 150 years, which has led to dramatic changes in the livestock industry because farmers had to increase the density of animals in order to meet demand. As a result of the increased proximity of animals to one another, disease became a huge problem. Subsequently, antibiotics began being commonly used on livestock farms. Originally, ...
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Seeing the Value in Uniform Market Animal Weight
Although average market pig weights have improved in recent decades thanks to lean growth and feed efficiency, recent Purdue Extension research reveals that producers still make market animal sorting mistakes that increase sort loss and reduce the number of pigs sent at optimal market weight for ...
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The Importance of Feed Intake in Lactation on a Sow’s Productivity
Feeding Systems in Farrowing: The Questions of a Producer Alain and Donald Lefebvre are the owners of Ferme Aldo. In 1999, they decided to do a research on feed intake at their farm. Although this was some years ago, the results are still relevant to swine production today. The findings of the study, generated using Gestal feeders, from the ALDO farm were conclusive: maximizing feed intake ...
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African Swine Fever devastates swine herds across Europe
How to protect yourself from the dangers of African Swine Fever. This year has seen the return of one of the most devastating agricultural viruses for pigs. With over 100 reports of the highly contagious outbreak of African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV-Asfarviridae) across Europe and Asia recorded during the start of autumn. Although African Swine Fever was believed to have been wiped out ...
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China’s Rising Soybean Consumption Reshaping Western Agriculture
Global demand for soybeans has soared in recent decades, with China leading the race. Nearly 60 percent of all soybeans entering international trade today go to China, making it far and away the world’s largest importer. The soybean was domesticated some 3,000 years ago by farmers in eastern China. But it wasn’t until well after World War II that the crop gained agricultural ...
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Animal Feed Machine Feeding Poultry With Feed Pellets
Still buy pellet feed for pig? If you are still buying feed pellets from commercial feed factory or feed shop, then your cost per year for buying feed may be a lot big. Why not choose an animal feed machine to make feed pellets by yourself to save cost. You can find a feed pellet mill to reduce your cost by making your own pellet feed with such a machine using grains like corn powder, wheat, rice ...
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