A new section of the Pork Checkoff website contains information for producers who want to optimize their feed costs and maximize production efficiencies.
The new Nutritional Efficiency section includes information about the recently founded nutritional efficiency consortium; the consortium’s research and activity priorities; the research funded by the consortium and a subsection with links to additional information or resources.
Twenty four organizations have joined to form the nutritional efficiency consortium. Included in those are state pork associations, state and national corn grower associations and several allied industry partners. Their objectives are to determine research and producer educational opportunities that will help alleviate the increasing costs of producing pork, specifically addressing feed costs and maximizing growth and performance efficiencies. The program’s specific objectives can be found in the introductory page to the new online resource.
Resources that are available today include the video and audio presentations offered at the Distillers Grains: Implications for the U.S. Pork Industry conference that took place in Nov. 2006 in Des Moines, Iowa.
The video and audio require you to use Internet Explorer as your browser. The picture is an example of one of the videos you can find there.