Commercial nutritionist objective – Profit!

During the ABCA Technical Seminar organised in Bangkok on 12 March, ahead of the VIV Asia 2013, Paul Toplis of Primary Diets gave a presentation on advanced piglet nutrition. He presented data on the lifetime performance effects of high versus low cost starter diets on light, medium and heavy weaning pigs. Only pigs weaned above 9.5kg appeared to be more profitable on low cost diets with light and medium pigs having lower lifetime feeding costs despite the higher cost of the starter diet. It im