D6-L*ncastor Farming Saturday, March 7,1992
Feeding By-Products Benefits Hog Producers, Environment
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Months of depressed hog
prices have prompted some Pen
nsylvania swine producers to
adopt a feeding strategy that
reduces costs and makes use of
food processing wastes, said a
swine specialist in Penn State’s
College of Agricultural Sciences.
“Several producers are feeding
their hogs food processing by
products to help reduce feed
expenses,” said Dr. Kenneth
Kephart, associate professor of
animal science. “This practice cuts
costs and helps reduce the volume
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of useful materials ending up in the
state’s landfills.”
Pennsylvania’s 2,333 food pro
cessing operations generate an
estimated 4.8 million tons of solid
waste annually. As disposal costs
skyrocket, the industry is doing
everything possible to reduce
waste.
“Studies show that swine can
safely and profitably consume
food wastes and other by-products
if their nutritional value is known,”
Kephart said.
“Many by-products, such as
outdated bread or broken candy
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(Bahamas, Dominica, Dominican
Republic, Guadeloupe, Marti
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CENTRAL AMERICA 500
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bars, may not meet rigid quality
control standards set by food pro
cessors but are perfectly safe in
animal rations. If by-product feed
ing programs are well managed,
they arc perfeedy safe for both the
animals and the people who cat
their meat” Bakery by-products,
such as broken cookies, pretzels
and stale bread, can be used as a
com substitute in a hog’s diet
“The nutritional value of most of
these by-products equals or
exceeds that of com, which is the
major source of energy for hogs
and constitutes about 60 percent of
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PERSIAN GULF
(Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
United Arab Emirates)
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1,500
(Russia, Byelarus, Kazakhstan,
Moldova, Uzbekistan, Turkmenis
tan, Ukraine, Armenia, Kyrgyz
stan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan,
Georgia)
Allocation
(MX)
500
500
100
100
100
500
feed costs,” Kcphart said. “Most
bakery wastes generally can be
substituted for grain pound-for
pound as long as producers pay
close attention to salt levels.”
Milk by-products, such as liquid
whey, can supply both energy and
protein. “Hog producers generally
use soybean meal as a protein sour
ce, which constitutes about 25 per
cent of the cost of feed,” Kephart
said. “Producers can greatly
reduce or eliminate the costs of
supplemental protein by using
milk by-products.”
Food processing by-products
can be very inexpensive. Proces
sors desperate to beat soaring dis
posal costs often give them to pro
ducers for nothing, but transporta
tion, handling and storage
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concerns can make their use
impractical.
“Milk by-products, for example,
contain a lot of water and are very
heavy, which boosts transportation
costs,” Kephart said.
“Milk by-products also spoil
rapidly if not refrigerated, so they
must be used within a day or two.
Most bakery wastes arc fairly dry,
but some contain enough moisture
to cause spoilage if not used in a
week or two.
“By-product feeding is a com
plex proposition,” Kephart said.
“It’s not something any producer
should jump into haphazardly.
Factors such as nutrient content,
palatability, and effects on perfor
mance need to be carefully
considered.