Don’t eyeball it! 👁️

🤝 How can producers know the vitamin and mineral statuses of animals in their operation? By eyeballing their feed? There’s a better way (of course) to do it, and a new three-part publication series from Iowa Pork Industry Center can help producers learn how to properly take feed and biological samples as part of the diagnostic process.

    • Lead author and graduate student Sarah Elefson says vitamin and mineral status are key for swine diets, so the volumes teach stuff like the importance of proper blood sampling techniques, ways to avoid inaccurate vitamin and mineral analysis, and the potential effect of storage on the nutrient status of tissues. 

🔍 The pdfs of part 1, part 2, and part 3 are available for download, if you want to learn more!