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Industry Partners
Prairie Swine Centre is an affiliate of the University of Saskatchewan
Prairie Swine Centre is grateful for the assistance of the George Morris Centre in developing the economics portion of Pork Insight.
Financial support for the Enterprise Model Project and Pork Insight has been provided by:
Nutrition
The goal of the Nutrition Research Program at the Prairie Swine Centre is to increase net income for pork producers through improved nutrition. This includes the development of feeding programs which emphasize economic efficiency, meat quality, and market value, also understanding feed and fibre sources and the modifications of these to meet the needs of the pig, changing economics and opportunities to favourably impact meat quality.
The Swine Nutrition Research program is designed to address three main areas:
1. Improving metabolic efficiency through nutritional management
2. Improving reproductive efficiency through nutritional management
3. Improving carcass quality of pigs and taste quality of pork
Current Projects in the Nutrition Research Program Include:
- Starch in the diet of growing pig
- Energy metabolism in the growing pig
- Enhancement of pork with Omega-3 Fatty Acids
- Peas in the diet of the growing pig
Sow Nutrition
- Omega-3 Fatty acid and their effects on sow reproductive efficiency
- The effect of DDGS in the diet of the lactating sow
- Validating methods to measure nutrient output in the milk of the lactating sow
