A cold and wet spring which delayed seeding and sprouting has resulted in a late harvest
\nthroughout most of Saskatchewan, if not the Western Canadian Prairies. Although, a
\nlong, dry and sunny fall could significantly improve the outcome, it is reasonable to predict that
\nthe harvest will result in significant amounts of grain that is immature, frozen and or
\nsprouted. Discounted, frost damaged wheat, canola or barley can represent an opportunity for pork
\nproducers. Producers should have the grain tested for fibre content (ADF and NDF) and use
\nappropriate equations to adjust the DE content. However, these equations are not accurate if the
\ndamage is severe (bushel weight of 40 or below for wheat or 45 for barley). The energy content
\nof severely damaged grain should be discounted by 10% and\/or it should be diluted with
\nundamaged grain.
\nIf ergot or mould is suspected, again the grain should be tested. It should then be mixed with
\n\u201cclean\u201d grain to ensure the toxin does not exceed the recommended levels. None of this grain
\nshould be included in rations destined for the breeding herd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A cold and wet spring which delayed seeding and sprouting has resulted in a late harvest throughout most of Saskatchewan, if not the Western Canadian Prairies. Although, a long, dry and sunny fall could significantly improve the outcome, it is reasonable to predict that the harvest will result in significant amounts of grain that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931],"tags":[6699,25194,8882,2096,364,2349,2344,18304,1156,13897,3965,6700,27278,6104,2294,6904,46,108,9474,1344,2341,20007,763,269,2776,20774,2503,6149,1324,17743,5269,1665,23609,20911,1579,1301,934],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prairie-swine-centre","tag-6699","tag-aggressive-cross-bred-boars-in-minnesota","tag-al","tag-alternative","tag-barley","tag-breed","tag-breeding","tag-bushel","tag-canola","tag-canola-press-cake-has-higher-ndf-content","tag-content","tag-damaged-crops","tag-energy","tag-equations","tag-ergot","tag-fee","tag-feed","tag-feeding","tag-feeding-2009-crop","tag-fibre","tag-food","tag-gh","tag-grain","tag-heat","tag-ingredients","tag-low-test-weight-wheat","tag-mold","tag-mycotoxins","tag-pork","tag-prod","tag-report","tag-saskatchewan","tag-spring","tag-t","tag-test","tag-weight","tag-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","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=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17587,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/17587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}