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Purchasing Low-Cost Opportunity Feeds, Feeding to Nutritional Requirements, Managing Feed Wastage Reduces Feed Costs

A swine nutritionist with Western Ag Supply says by purchasing low-cost opportunity feed ingredients, feeding according to nutritional requirements and managing feed wastage pork producers can reduce their feed costs and improve their profitability.
“How to Save Money on Your Hog Operations” is the focus of the second webinar in the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board’s 2023 spring seminar series. Dr. Dan Sotto, a swine nutritionist with Western Ag Supply, says with feed costs making up 65-70 percent of a typical farm’s budget there’s a growing need to make every dollar count.

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We found something in bin 12 that no pig farmer ever wants to see. Feed caked up solid in the boot, and when that line is feeding thousands of hogs, you fix it today, not tomorrow. That is just where the day starts. The pigs worked half the gates loose again, so Tork and I are going pen to pen putting them back together. Then it is the barn door repair, rebuilding the wash room, and a walk through a freshly washed barn getting ready for the next group. Pig farming is fixing the same things over and over and keeping the barns running no matter what.