Dietary fibre, the missing nutrient in pig production

Modern pig production faces two main challenges: maintaining health and securing consistently high performance. These two challenges sometimes contradict each other, but the balance of a healthy pig that is performing at its optimum level is often to be consolidated in the gut. Improving gut health can be assisted with the use of dietary fibre.   The pig’s gut is a key factor for health and consistent performance. ‘Gut health’ is an underestimated factor. Not only is the