Traditionally a pig’s diets\u00a0is created based on two pieces of criteria, growth and cost. A\u00a0diet that\u00a0focuses on maximizing growth and minimizing\u00a0 costs\u00a0overlooks some externalities such as environmental impacts. Nitrogen and phosphorus are\u00a0two nutrients\u00a0implemented\u00a0in a\u00a0pigs diet to\u00a0enhance growth, although\u00a0excessive amounts of\u00a0these two nutrients in a diet will\u00a0cause more of the nutrients to go undigested\u00a0and excreted by the pig. When manure is disposed the excreted phosphorus and nitrogen\u00a0build up in soils resulting in pollution of\u00a0surface and ground water.\u00a0This paper proposes a linear model which considers environmental impacts\u00a0as well as\u00a0economic impacts with the intentions of helping hog farmers and mill operators develop\u00a0cost effective pig diets while not harming the\u00a0environment. The authors developed a multi-criteria model that considers minimum nitrogen and phosphorus excretion and minimum costs. The models were based off real world diets and costs from Quebec and France and then compared. After making the comparisons the results showed that it is possible to limit the amount of harmful nutrients excreted while still keeping costs down. This information has value to producers, mill operators and also policy makers who can set limitations or incentives to help protect the environment from soil saturation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Traditionally a pig’s diets\u00a0is created based on two pieces of criteria, growth and cost. A\u00a0diet that\u00a0focuses on maximizing growth and minimizing\u00a0 costs\u00a0overlooks some externalities such as environmental impacts. Nitrogen and phosphorus are\u00a0two nutrients\u00a0implemented\u00a0in a\u00a0pigs diet to\u00a0enhance growth, although\u00a0excessive amounts of\u00a0these two nutrients in a diet will\u00a0cause more of the nutrients to go undigested\u00a0and excreted by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16108,19,14948],"tags":[4564,6784,190,583,577,1287,3457,27280,17163,20007,158,21998,2771,169,18118,187,15459,14,33,17743,20912,20911,6053,69],"class_list":["post-12844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition-pork-insight-articles","category-pork-insight-articles","category-swine-innovation-pork-insight-articles","tag-comparison","tag-cos","tag-cost","tag-costs","tag-diet","tag-diets","tag-economic-impacts","tag-environment","tag-formulating-diets-for-growing-pigs-economic-and-environmental-considerations","tag-gh","tag-growth","tag-httpwww-prairieswine-comformulating-diets-for-growing-pigs-economic-and-environmental-considerations","tag-iron","tag-manure","tag-meta-analysis-of-phosphorus-utilisation-by-broilers-receiving-corn-soyabean-meal-diets-influence-of-dietary-calcium-and-microbial-phytase","tag-nitrogen","tag-ped","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-prod","tag-some","tag-t","tag-use","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12844"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12851,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions\/12851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}