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DDG/S Offers Savings to Pork Producers
9/18/2008
DDGS Offers Savings to Pork Producers
With the current prices of corn, soybean meal (SBM), and dicalcium phosphate, DDGS (a co-product of the ethanol industry) can offer substantial savings to pork producers. With corn at $5.10/bu, SBM (46% protein) at $311/ton, and dicalcium phosphate at $1,000/ton, pork producers can lower the cost of a ton of complete feed by $8.11 when adding 10% DDGS to the total diet with current DDGS ($140/ton) and limestone ($40/ton) prices. This would result in an approximate savings of $2.70/pig.
With this amount of savings, Dr. Bob Thaler, Extension Swine Specialist, recommends that producers add 20% DDGS to grow-finish diets, which would lower diet costs by $16.22/ton or $5.40/pig marketed.
From a growth and efficiency standpoint, you can add higher levels of DDGS (30%). However, once you get above 20% DDGS in late finishing diets, you run the risk of "soft" fat in the bellies. Some people are feeding 30% DDGS in the grower phase and then backing it off to 20% or lower the last month of growth to avoid that problem.
Also, I’d recommend that producers consider adding 30% to gestation diets, and 10% to lactation and late nursery diets.
When producers incorporate DDGS into their feeding programs, they need to make sure they balance on available amino acids and not protein since those values are different from those values from SBM. Also, they need to balance on available phosphorus to get the full economic and environmental benefit of feeding DDGS.
Check with the suppliers and plants to make sure the DDGS is free of mycotoxins because they could cause problems in the swine herd. To reduce the variability in nutrient content between ethanol plants, it is recommended that producers identify plants that produce high quality DDGS and buy only from them.
For more information on feeding DDGS to swine, check out the SDSU Extension Extra 2035 - Use of DDGS in Swine Diets or the Dept of Animal & Range Sciences webpage http://ars.sdstate.edu/SwineExt/ddgs.htm. Also, additional information can be obtained from your local county Extension Educator or Dr. Bob Thaler at 605-688-5435.
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