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“If you get a job as a nutritionist in a feed company, your first job probably will be to update the feed ingredient database.” – Dr. Hans Stein
What you will learn:
- The biggest mistake in swine nutrition;
- Why is this a huge mistake;
- Thoughts about in-line NIR;
- Other common mistakes;
- First few diets after weaning: requirements vs. reality;
- One thing to change today on how graduate students are trained...
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“The majority of boars, if you start varying their collection schedule, it's a stress to the boar and you'll have certain boars that will start to have bad semen quality. Keep it in mind: once a week. If you have older boars, what is common is a 3-in-2 schedule (collected 3 times in 2 weeks).” – Dr. Darwin Reicks
Boars represented 50% of the final product of pig production and unfortunately get less than 1% of the atte...
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It is time for our Swine it Podcast Roundtable…
If you missed the first episode, this is a series of episodes envisioned by the Swine it Podcast and Provimi, where we will have roundtable discussions with experts of the global swine industry tackling subjects that can influence the producer’s bottom line.
On this episode, I chatted with Dr. Dean Boyd, Dr. Brent Frederick and Mark Hulsebus, about “What’s going on in
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“The reality is… if we get too much calcium in these finishing pig diets, especially, if we get over a 2:1 total Ca to total Phosphorus - even 1.5:1 we could argue - we know we’re decreasing growth.” – Dr. Joel DeRouchey
What you will learn:
- Thoughts on phytase;
- Calcium release from phytase;
- Superdosing phytase: nursery vs. grow-finishing;
- Do we give amino acids and energy release values?
- Poultry vs. pigs w...
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“There are a number of different strategies available to benefit these slow growing pigs that we identify early on. It should be a combined strategy rather than one particular intervention. You should be focusing on these pigs at several different points during their early life, in order to get the best of catching up.” – Dr. Sadie Douglas
What you will learn:
- The top 3 lessons from all her research;
- The most imp...
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“[To survive major economic challenges], in my mind, producers should have about $100 per pig marketed annually of working capital capacity. If things get really bad, and I lose $50 per pig for 2 years, we will be OK." – Dr. Brad Freking
What you will learn:
- Thoughts on WHO’s asymptomatic, presymptomatic COVID-19 cases;
- How fast are the packing plants recovering and product mix change?
- What swine professionals so...
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“Since [this research] is done in your barns under commercial conditions, your management (good or bad), your intakes (good or bad), your growth (good or bad)… You don't have to make that application or interpretation. Some of the frustration that my peers have that in terms of having a wean-to-finish [commercial research] barn is that their health status or their intake is so different that they don't necessarily see the ...