Research being conducted on behalf of Swine Innovation Porc is helping Canadian pork producers reduce feeding costs by replacing traditional feed stuffs with lower costs alternative ingredients.
A swine nutritionist with the Prairie Swine Centre reports pork producers are sacrificing growth rate in order to save money on feed ingredients.
A nutritionist with the Prairie Swine Centre says, at a time when feed grain prices are rising and hog prices are not, pork producers can reduce their feed costs by substituting a variety of alternative ingredients into the diet.
The Executive Director of the Western Canadian Feeds Innovation Institute says, as feed grain prices rise, livestock producers will be scrambling to source affordable feed grains.
A Research Scientist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development says the speed with which feed ingredient quality can be assessed using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy is the main factor driving of interest among pork producers in the technology.
A researcher with the Prairie Swine Centre is advising pork producers to consider nutritional variability when including alternative feed ingredients in swine rations and to err on the side of caution.
The head of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Seed Increase Unit says new hulless barley varieties offer swine producers a range of nutritional advantages over covered barleys.
A swine nutritionist with the Saskatoon based Prairie Swine Centre in Saskatoon reports prairie pork producers are considering a range of alternative feed ingredients in response to rising feed costs.
