Formulating to ideal amino acid pattern works — until it doesn’t. At some point in the displacement of soybean meal, growth begins to erode, and synthetic amino acid limits in the growing phase are much higher than are profitable for finishing pigs. Diet cost and auto-pilot formulation have become silent profit robbers without anyone knowing…except for the pig
U.S. Soy Center for Animal Nutrition and Health
Webinar Executive Summary: Lessons on the profit-robbing practice of “auto-pilot” ideal amino acid formulation for finishing pigs
Feedstuffs, Dr. R. Dean Boyd, Dr. Aaron Gaines and Dr. Bart Borg
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