{"id":21467,"date":"2018-08-03T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=21467"},"modified":"2018-08-03T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:17:10","slug":"recent-developments-in-nutritional-programs-for-wean-to-finish-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/recent-developments-in-nutritional-programs-for-wean-to-finish-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Developments in Nutritional Programs for Wean-to-Finish Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authors<\/strong>: Bob Goodband, Mike Tokach, Steve Dritz, Joel DeRouchey and Jason Woodworth<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference: <\/strong>Banff Pork Seminar Proceedings 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Due to the utilization of technology there has been significant improvement in wean-to-finish growth performance. In 1990, pigs grew at a rate of 575 g\/day, compared to the average today of 730 g\/day. This faster growth rate has resulted in the average market weight increasing from 110kg to 128 kg. As a result, pork production has been able to increase 38% with only increasing the annual number of hogs produced by 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Even though improved genetics and production practices have changed nutrient requirements of swine, when formulating diets to the farms specific requirements the basics still apply.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Determine the ideal energy and density of the diet based on the systems goals<\/li>\n<li>Determine the lysine and phosphorous levels based on a nutrient:calorie ratio which is based on the energy concentration.<\/li>\n<li>Balance all the other amino acids relative to lysine<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Due to new statistical modelling techniques, pork producers have the ability to determine ideal nutrient concentrations which are most economically favorable for their farm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Recent-Developments-in-Nutritional-Programs-for-Pigs.pdf\">Recent Developments in Nutritional Programs for Pigs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Bob Goodband, Mike Tokach, Steve Dritz, Joel DeRouchey and Jason Woodworth Reference: Banff Pork Seminar Proceedings 2018 Summary: Due to the utilization of technology there has been significant improvement in wean-to-finish growth performance. In 1990, pigs grew at a rate of 575 g\/day, compared to the average today of 730 g\/day. This faster growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21467","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\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21734,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21467\/revisions\/21734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}