University of Illinois Scientists Find High-Protein DDGS Provide Valuable Feed Options for Swine Producers

Grainnet.com
Date Posted: February 5, 2010

As swine producers continue to find ways to survive in today’s economic situation, researchers at the University of Illinois are exploring alternative feedstuffs in growing pig diets to provide producers with more options.

Hans H. Stein, U of I associate professor in the department of animal sciences, said his team’s research has shown that high-protein distillers dried grains can replace 100 percent of the soybean meal in a diet fed to finishing pigs without any effect on growth performance or carcass characteristics as long as the diets are fortified with crystalline Lysine, Threonine and Tryptophan.

High-protein distillers dried grains are produced through a fractionation technology.

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