Feed4Profit
Go Beyond Feed Formulation – Introducing Feed4Profit
New online financial modeling tool
Feed4Profit is a publicly available online tool designed to help producers and nutritionists analyze ingredient costs and make informed feeding decisions to help maximize profit per pig. By integrating diet formulation, predicted growth performance and future pricing for ingredients and pigs, users can design and compare feeding programs with different ingredients, model the performance response, and compare forecasted income and feed costs over a 12-month period.
Once you are in the tool, there is a link to a helpful how-to video tour in the upper right-hand corner. New user features (and training tools) will be shared on this page as they become functional. To get started, try comparing your summer carcass dip mitigation feeding strategies (with and without DDGS and high or low soybean meal levels) to see which program delivers more income per pig.
First-of-its-kind, easy-to-use financial model available for all swine operations
Comprehensive and credible – developed by Iowa State University, in collaboration with U.S. Soy
Integrates multiple user inputs, including diet formulation, predicted growth performance and future pricing for ingredients and pigs
Related News and Resources
Midwest ASAS Section Meeting Presentation — Modeling the economic value of soybean meal in swine diets: development of a digital dynamic calculator for market conditions
Dr. David Rosero and Dr. Bart Borg
Feedstuffs Interview — Introducing FEED4PROFIT, an online modeling tool to help maximize pig profitability
Feedstuffs, Sara Muirhead and David Rosero
Iowa State University Article — Introducing Feed4Profit: A Smarter Way to Compare Feeding Programs
Iowa State University, Marta Grant and David Rosero