Conferences

Dr. Hans Stein gave a conference at USAID. RUTF Alternative formula coordinating meeting, in Washington DC, on February 5-6, he talked about: "Protein Quality and the effect of protein composition on animal growth".

New Experiments

Diego Rodriguez and the visiting scholars at the farm started two new experiments about " Concentration of net energy in soybean oil fed to growing pigs" and "Growth performance of weanling pigs fed diets supplemented with coated micro minerals". 

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications:

Ibagon, Jimena A., Su A. Lee, C. Martin Nyachoti, and Hans H. Stein. 2024. Influence of particle size and origin of field peas on apparent ileal digestibility of starch and amino acids and standardized ileal digestibility of amino acids when fed to growing pigs. Translational Animal Science, 2024, 8, txae008. doi.org/10.1093/tas/txae008.

Espinosa, Charmaine D., Leidy J. Torres-Mendoza, Hans H. Stein. 2024. Nutrient composition and digestibility by growing pigs of amino acids and energy vary between wheat middlings from Europe and the United States. Animal Feed Science and Technology 309 (2024) 115905. doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2024.115905.

Dunmire, Kara M., Diego A. Lopez, Yiqin Zhang, Cassandra K. Jones, Yonghui Li, Jason C. Woodworth, Robert D. Goodband, Michael D. Tokach, Charles R. Stark, Hans H. Stein, and Chad B. Paulk. 2024. Effect of the pelleting process on diet formulations with varying levels of crystalline amino acids and reducing sugars on digestibility in growing pigs. Journal of Animal Science, 2024, 102, 1–9. doi.org/10.1093/jas/skad423