January 19, 2016
Objectives:To determine if lactating sows can be fed diets containing less protein in order to reduce the quantity of nitrogen excreted into the environment. To determine if sows fed...October 14, 2011
Industry Summary: Modern swine production systems require highly productive animals. Thus, continued development of nutritional strategies to improve milk production and litter weight gain is...October 12, 2006
Conventional diets containing corn and soybean meal fed to growing pigs can be reduced in protein by replacing a portion of the protein with crystalline amino acids. Crystalline amino acids are of...October 12, 2006
Excessive production of nitrogen from livestock production systems has place a strain on the environment. Methods to reduce nitrogen losses from farm animals will become necessary to ensure a...November 1, 2004
Conventional diets containing corn and soybean meal fed to growing pigs can be reduced in protein when a portion of the protein can be replaced by crystalline amino acids. These amino acids allow the...June 2, 2003
Reducing dietary crude protein concentration leads to a significant reduction in nitrogen losses in the urine, in turn reducing ammonium concentration and ammonia emission. Amino acids, the building...January 2, 2002
September 29, 2000
Growing pigs were used to test whether decreasing dietary crude protein concentration could reduce nitrogen excretion, ammonia emission, volatile organic compounds (VOC) and odor, and to determine...September 29, 2000
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