A fire broke out early Thursday morning at a sow farm operated by The Maschhoffs near Nebo, Illinois. The facility, located in Pike County, is part of the company’s breeding operations, housing female pigs essential to pork production.
Emergency crews...
Diets for pigs may vary in composition and in their concentration of the energy containing nutrients (i.e., protein, fat, starch and sugars, and dietary fiber). To our knowledge, however, there is no information on how concentration of net energy...
When piglets don’t get enough milk in the first weeks of life, the chances of them thriving dramatically decline. In the U.S. pork production system, piglets with limited access to their mothers’ milk are typically “cross-fostered” with other sows....
Ruiz-Arias, N. C., S. A. Lee, H. H. Stein. 2025. The growing area within the United States has only minor impact on digestible and metabolizable energy, and standardized total tract digestibility of phosphorus in full-fat soybeans fed to growing pigs. Animal Feed Science and...
A fire in the early hours of Sunday, April 14, caused significant damage to the Red Bud Meat Market, a well-known local business in Red Bud, Illinois.
Emergency crews from the Red Bud Fire Department were dispatched around 1:40 a.m....
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin recently met with representatives from the Illinois Pork Producers Association (IPPA) to discuss the ongoing challenges facing pork producers as a result of previous trade policies and tariffs, particularly those connected to former President Trump’s...
Values for digestible energy (DE) and metabolizable energy (ME) in feed ingredients are usually determined in growing pigs and subsequently applied to all groups of pigs. Results of recent research, however, indicate that the energy content of soybean meal...
Field peas (Pisum sativum L.) are gaining traction as a valuable ingredient in swine diets due to their high protein and carbohydrate content. Recent research conducted by the University of Illinois and the University of Manitoba explored the impact...
The Borgic family has been recognized as the 2025 Illinois Pork Family of the Year by the Illinois Pork Producers Association (IPPA) for their dedication to the pork industry and their long-standing commitment to advancing pig farming in Illinois.
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Ibagon, Jimena A., Charmaine D. Espinosa, Hans H. Stein. 2025. Production region does not influence digestibility of calcium or phosphorus in sunflower co-products fed to growing pigs, but microbial phytase increases digestibility of both calcium and phosphorus. Animal Feed Science and Technology 320, 116221 doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2025.116221...