Resources: Swine

With the ever-fluctuating costs of soybean meal and amino acids, it is very important to use diets like the example attached to determine which diets to use. In research completed at the KNG Product Development Center, we showed that these ...

Producing lean pork requires the right balance of amino acids in the diet. In grow-finish diets, lysine (Lys) is the first-limiting or essential amino acid (standard) that is required, followed by threonine, methionine and tryptophan (Trp) as other key essential ...

In previous research with NutriVantage® (swine, poultry, beef and dairy cattle) Technology, we have observed both significant performance and economic responses with these technologies for animals and birds raised under a variety of conditions at the Kent Nutrition Group Product ...

Pig producers face many challenges in raising cost-effective pork to feed a growing world population. High-quality feed and nutrition are extremely important for achieving optimum pig health and pork production efficiency. Recently, there has been increased interest in alternatives to ...

Butyric Acid is well known in the livestock industry as an indicator of poor fermentation in silages. It is produced by Clostridium in an aerobic environment when the pH of the silage does not drop fast enough to encourage the ...

Have you thought about raising pigs for consumption or sale?  Here are a few things you want to consider: Volume and Space. Pigs are social animals and so keeping multiple pigs keeps them happier and healthier than raising a single ...