Closing the gap between potential and performance

22-10-2015 | | |
Supplementing Milkiwean diets next to the sow s milk increases within-batch homogeneity at weaning. Photo: Trouw Nutrition
Supplementing Milkiwean diets next to the sow s milk increases within-batch homogeneity at weaning. Photo: Trouw Nutrition
The most important time in the life of good ?performing pigs is likely to start during gestation. As from that moment, until roughly six weeks after birth, the young piglet is ‘programmed’ by nature. The right nutrition will help the animal live up to its potential.   Agriculture is an increasingly vital industry. The challenge faced by the farming industry, in terms of global pressure, is to double food production and half the pressure on the planet to feed 9 billion people by the year 205


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Redacteur 1

Vincent
ter Beek

Redacteur 2

Kees van
Dooren

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Treena
Hein

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