Low-cost diets with low excretion levels – it is possible

Formulating pig diets is always a compromise. Do pig producers for example choose minimal feed costs or a diet aimed at achieving low excretion levels? Recent research points out that perhaps they needn’t choose at all… Currently feed represents more than 70% of the production cost in the growing-finishing pig industry. Most commonly in Canada, pigs are fed accordingly to a three-phase feeding system with fixed energy density (3PF-FE). In this system, the growth period is split into three p