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May 2012
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What You Need to Know about Reduced-oil DDGS
In the past few years, you’ve gone from learning about a new feed ingredient called distillers’ dried grains with solubles, to adding a bit of it to some of your swine diets, to adding significant levels to most diets. You’ve worked through suppliers and the varying quality issues to ensure your diets are meeting pig performance needs and providing value. Full story.Big Changes Ahead for Antibiotics
As of last month, the use of antibiotics on farms is forever changed. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released its final version of Guidance 209, which will implement two significant changes in how antibiotics are used on the farm. Full story.Consider Your Alternatives
The corn/soybean-meal diet has long been a pork industry standard. You’re comfortable with it. What you’re not comfortable with is today’s high price. Full story.Editorial
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Start ‘em Young
I’ve talked before about the importance of reaching out to youth, whether the message involves food choices and pork’s role in a healthful diet or the real practices on a modern farm or rallying the next generation to consider agricultural careers. Full story.Smart Thinking
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The Smell of Money is Cleaner Air
Everyone in confinement livestock production strives to improve air quality in the barn as part of the goal to improve production efficiency. A new production tool that does just that is called electrostatic particle ionization, or EPI. Full story.Business Matters
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More Pork and Corn in 2012
USDA released three crucial reports at the end of March: the Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report, the Quarterly Grain Stocks Report and the Planting Intentions Report. Full story.Pork Exec
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Can Corn Keep Up?
As pork producers around the world keep a close eye on corn markets and watch as the price per bushel continues to trend up, they ask, will this trend continue indefinitely? While the industry has evaluated grain demand factors repeatedly, a deep examination of supply factors has been somewhat absent. To discuss the grain-price trend, we need to examine both sides. Full story.Signals
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Signals: May 2012
Each year there are more Americans to feed and more pork exported but not more sows. The number of sows farrowed has declined each year since 2007. Full story.Quick Hits
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Pork Featured at Heart-health Gala
Pork tenderloin was served up in style at the Woman’s Day Red Dress Awards, which honors individuals who have made significant contributions in the fight against heart disease, particularly related to women’s health. Full story.Top Genetics on Display
During World Pork Expo, attendees will see one of the top youth swine shows — the WPX Junior National. Located in the swine barn of the Iowa State Fairgrounds, exhibitors from across the country will show crossbred barrows on Wednesday, June 6, and purebred gilts on Thursday, June 7. Full story.WPX is Back, June 6-8
Seeing the pork industry’s newest technologies, participating in business seminars and showing outstanding breeding stock are just a few of the reasons nearly 20,000 people will attend the 2012 World Pork Expo. Full story.Showcase
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