Swine Production

Pork Bridge Meetings 

A world of knowledge brought directly to you through the Pork Bridge Educational Series. Person involved in the daily care of grow-finishing pigs should consider enrolling.  The content deals with daily decisions related to the grow-finish process, including ventilation, handling, health regimens and feed management. MORE

Pork Producers Meeting Series

Please join your local producers for the Ohio State University Extension Swine Meeting Series. To attend a local meeting, please call and register for each meeting at a location you wish to attend. Ottowa: Putnam Co. Extension Office, Glen Arnold, 419-523-6294 or Wauseon: Fulton County Extension Office, Greg Labarge, 419-337-9210, or Florian Chirra, 419-636-5608. MORE

Feeding Recommendations for Distillers Dried Grains

Historically, distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) have not been used in swine diets according to Jerry Shurson, Swine Specialist with the University of Minnesota.  The reason being the variability in quality, nutrient content, and poor amino acid digestibility and cost when compared to corn, soybean meal and dicalcium phosphate.  Shurson’s research at the University of Minnesota has indicated newer ethanol plants do a better job of producing DDGS.  He found that they are higher in digestible and metabolizable energy, higher in total digestible amino acids, and higher in available phosphorus compared to other plants and what is listed in NRC (1998).  The use of low quality, dark colored DDGS is not recommended for swine diets. MORE