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Inside this Issue Higher corn prices drives new fat research By: Ken Palen

HIGHER CORN PRICES DRIVESNEW FAT RESEARCH

By: Ken Palen

With corn prices at Chicago (CME) bouncing over the $5.00 per bushel mark along with continued public interest in utilizing corn for ethanol production some new timely research on feeding fat is of importance in the industry. Past research on fat feeding has focused on its value in relationship to corn as a commodity.

This new research is focusing on maximizing the efficiency of fat feeding to new lean hog genetics while comparing different types of fats, not just treating fat as a general commodity. Many producers have known for years through experience of feeding fats that not all fats are the same and do not always pro-duce the same feeding results. Actual measurements are always very difficult to achieve at the farm level.

Researchers at the University of Illinois, at Urbana, headed up by Dr J.E. Petti-grew and including the team of Y. Liu, D.Y. Kil, V.G. Perez-Mendoza presented, in abstract from (unpublished), research at the March, 2010 Midwest ASAS meet-ing showing some interesting data helping to determine more accurate energy feeding values of different fats. The first study was to compare choice white grease (CWG) which is basically pork fat to soybean oil (SBO) from crushed soybeans. This study used 135 pigs with an average weight of 64.8 kg (143 lbs) randomly assigned to 5 dietary treatments. Diets were corn, soybean meal as follows:1. Control – corn, soybean meal (No Fat)2. 3% Soybean Oil (SBO) added3. 6% Soybean Oil (SBO) added4. 3% Choice White Grease (CWG) added5. 6% Choice White Grease (CWG) added

Two phases were fed Phase I, day 1 – 21 and Phase II, day 21 – 49. Diets were balanced to contain equivalent standard-ized ideal digestible lysine/Mcal of ME.

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Results of this study showed that all pigs fed all Fat Diets had improved gain to feed versus controlAll Pigs Phase I Phase II Overall % ImprovementG/F .41 versus .38 .33 versus .30 .36 versus .33 9 %

Pigs fed 6% Fat versus 3% Fat had higher improved overall G/FDifferent Diets 3% Fat 6% Fat % ImprovementG/F .35 .38 8.6%

Pigs fed choice white grease (CWG) versus soybean oil (SBO) had an improvement in G/F and in Average Daily Gain (ADG)

CWG versus SBO CWG SBO % ImprovementG/F .42 .40 5 %ADG 1.28 1.19 7.6 %

In conclusion the researchers said these results support a greater energy value for Choice White Greases (CWG) versus Soybean Oil (SBO) with CWG showing a 33% higher Net Energy than SBO.

The second study compared several different fat sources to see if the results would show differences as shown between CWG and SBO.

Treatments were as follows:1. Control – corn, soybean meal (No Fat)2. 6% Soybean Oil (SBO) added3. 6% Choice White Grease (CWG) added4. 6% Palm Oil (PO) added5. 6% Animal Vegetable Blend (AVB) added6. 6% Tallow (TA) added

Experimental design included 144 pigs weighing an aver-age of 73 kg (161 lbs) randomly assigned to the above 6 dietary treatments. There were two diet phases, Phase I, 1 – 19 days, Phase II, 19 – 47 days.

Researchers reported the results showed that pigs fed all fats had higher (improved) gain to feed by (P < 0.01) in each phase and overall. A table published in the National Hog Farmer magazine August 15, 2010 issue showed an overall average of 12% improvement in feed efficiency to pigs fed all fats versus control with no fat, with CWG the best and AVB and TA being the next best. Researchers also reported that ADG was higher to fat fed pigs in Phase I and pigs fed CWG had greater (P < 0.05) ADG than pigs fed SBO in Phase I.

Researchers reported in conclusion, different fats produced different practical results, consistent with different energy values. As the full report of this research gets published, more details on the results of individual fat quality will become available. These results do show that with today’s genetics there are excellent opportunities to improve costs by improving feed efficiency by feeding fats but the quality of the fat is very important.

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