July 7, 2023 | Poultry, Uncategorized
By Ky Meeks, Ph.D. Modern turkey toms grow faster and larger than they did 60 years ago, growing to nearly 50 pounds by 20 weeks of age (Aviagen Turkeys, 2022; Hybrid Turkeys, 2022b). At the same age, this is more than double the weight of the random-bred control...
June 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
By: Bart Borg In our last article, we discussed the value of corn micron size for the growing pig relating to feed conversion improvement. In this period of high-priced corn, it is very important to monitor and manage grind quality targets both for average micron size...
April 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
By: Bart Borg, Ph.D. Optimizing corn particle size is one of those “must be’s” that easily fits into the category of “the basics”, but it is not top of mind every day and can easily get off track. The potential negative financial impact, especially at $6.50/bu corn,...
March 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Bart Borg, PhD Amino acid nutrition for all species has evolved over the past several years into a very refined understanding of animal requirements as well as methods of measurement and diet formulation. The three components that are required for accurate nutrient...
February 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Written by: Bart Borg, PhD Since the early days of multisite swine production becoming a production model that with its implementation brought great improvement to pig production the fine tuning of specific production practices within the model have been under...
