Articles - Nutrition

Compilation of nutritional strategies for the management of gut health, grouped by functional additives, functional ingredients and diet modifications.

As of August 13th, 2019, the maximum copper limit allowed in piglet feed will be reduced. Faced with this change, what nutritional strategies can I use?

Although we know that the amount and the quality of nutrients induce direct effects on health, the interaction of nutrition with epigenetic modifications is normally overlooked.

The two measures studied would allow to reduce liveweight variability at slaughter by 10-15%.

Nutritional value (table comparison), production, trade and the most recent studies on soybean meal.

The critical window of opportunity around transition moments allows shaping of intestinal development, potentially leading to long-lasting effects on gut health.

Main elements that can be found in the digestive environment and how they are involved in gut health.

The objective of this article is to critically assess the use of probiotics in the post-weaning phase, and provide few suggestions to improve results when using probiotics in weanlings.

Corn is the primary grain used for ethanol production in the USA, but European and Canadian ethanol plants often use wheat or a combination of wheat and corn.

What is the "gut health" concept that everyone talks about? Why is it important?

This article describes a real project for the production and marketing of pigs that are given no antibiotics after weaning

The majority of the published work shows that the use of fatty acids in pigs has health benefits however its mode of action is still scientifically debated.

Nutritional value (comparison of tables), production, trade and the most recent studies on barley.

Fiber is being "rediscovered" due to its multiple benefits: physiological, on intestinal health and for the environment.

The effect of environment temperature on the body temperature is greater than that of ingestion and digestion of food.

Feeding corn DDGS diets to growing-finishing pigs can substantially reduce feed cost while maintaining growth performance, but it reduces carcass pork fat firmness. How to solve it?

Sow nutrition research has historically been only about 2% of the swine scientific literature, but new commercial facilities are changing this.

Intestinal integrity is just as relevant as vaccination protocols in inducing adequate immunity to environmental challenges.

Vitamin D₃ plays a central role in the immune response of swine . 25-OH D₃ may be a more efficient source to improve vitamin D status of pigs than cholecalciferol.

It is very likely that the swine nutrition industry will be shaped in the near future by the study of the microbiome.

Increasing feed intake in late gestation improves very little body weight gain of gilts and sows and increases stillborn rate.

Huge supplies, increasing production and an efficient, coordinated global chain fuels low cost soybean meal, cheap feed and high profits.

The compounds responsible of boar taint can be reduced through feeding strategies, genetic selection and good management practices.

Combining the use of low levels of dietary protein with highly digestible protein sources and certain probiotics can be a good strategy in the face of the increasing restrictions on the use of antibiotics in feed.