The value of feed additives: An economic analysis

Feed costs are the largest costs on a pig farm, which is why feed additives are a welcome method of doing more with less feed. Is it possible to economically quantify the effect of feed additives on a farm? Economic drivers of swine production can be common across systems or individually unique to a single farm. The common rule of thumb is that feed costs equate to 60% of a producer’s cost of production. Thus, key economic drivers are feed costs and cost of gain. But other production parame