Defining Nutritional Requirements at Each Stage

Nutritional requirements are important factors to consider with today's modern swine genetics and production facilities. Depending on the stage of production, feeding improper or unbalanced diets can lead to several unwanted outcomes (e.g. increased pre-weaning mortality, slow growth rate, increase in disease, poor sow body condition score, etc.) that then result in lower herd efficiency and profitability for the producer.

Luckily, tools are currently available for producers and nutritionists that take the guesswork out of defining the nutritional requirements of pigs at each stage of production. These tools can calculate nutritional recommendations, with the possibility of adaptation to specific conditions. To discover and learn more about how these tools can benefit you, visit: