Altering dietary protein and fiber levels could play a role in changing emissions of methane and ammonia from swine and excreta when using intensive production systems, say researchers.
US pork producers and feed suppliers are increasingly worried about feed safety due to the discovery and spread of African swine fever (ASF) in China where some feed ingredients, including soy bean meal, dried distillers grains and solubles (DDGS), amino...
Adding more dietary tryptophan, light to piglet production post-weaning may not improve stress response or mitigate the negative effects of weaning, but does maintain feed intake, say researchers.
Limiting nutrition to pregnant cows, may mean long-term effects for calves and lead to ways to improve cattle nutrition in the future, say researchers.
Scientists at the University of Nottingham are working with one of China’s biggest feed and pig producers to “transform” Southwest China’s feed industry by increasing the nutritional value of crops via genetic engineering.
Adding a blend of β-carotene and vitamins may improve cattle pregnancy rates for an initial round of fixed-time artificial insemination, say researchers.
As concerns about the presence of African swine fever (ASF) overseas continue, a series of questions for swine producers to ask their feed companies about feed origins and feed safety measures are being developed.
If sows are fed within the last three hours before farrowing, they will repay with a shorter farrowing time and considerably fewer stillborn piglets, according to a Danish researcher.
