The impact of grinding technology on pig diets

Grinding is a feed technology that is used to reduce the particle size of a feed ingredient. This article discusses the impact of grinding feed ingredients on nutritional value, digestibility and feed utilisation by pigs. Grinding is performed using different types of mills including roller mills and hammer mills. Roller mills improve energy efficiency and provide a more uniform particle size, but a hammer mill system can be installed for about 50% of the cost of a roller mill. Therefore, the