When respiratory disease or summer heat strikes a herd, the real damage is often measured not just in health challenges, but in lost performance, uneven growth and the logistical headaches that follow. Feed intake drops, growth slows and variation widens, forcing producers into multiple marketing groups that impact time, profits and revenue.

For Dr. Tom D’Alfonso, Worldwide Director of Animal Nutrition at the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC), the antidote to that cycle of unpredictability begins with a dependable nutritional foundation: consistent, highly digestible soybean meal derived from U.S. Soy.

Years of research and commercial performance data point to significant gains when inclusion rates reach 20-30% or higher depending on stage of growth. At those levels, pigs facing respiratory disease required dramatically less feed to reach target weights.

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