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Gustavo Lima: High Inclusions of Soybean Meal in Grow-to-Finish Diets | Ep. 245
In this special rerun episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Gustavo Lima, PhD candidate in Animal Science at Iowa State University, discusses how grow-finish pigs respond to high soybean meal diets. He explains the initial drop in feed intake, changes in backfat, later adaptation, energy efficiency, amino acid utilization, and the rise in nitrogen excretion at higher inclusion levels. Listen now on all major platforms!
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“Once they got adapted to the diet, they can handle higher levels of inclusion of soybean meal.”
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