#165 - Dr. Phillip Miller: What can this ingredient database and modeling software do for you?

For years we have used ingredient databases such as the NRC to estimate nutrient levels for formulating diets for our pigs, but what if I told you that there is another database out there with recently updated values that also has some modeling capabilities? In this episode with Dr. Phillip Miller, we talk about a database he and his colleageus have been working on, the National Animal Nutrition Program, that has new ingredient compostion information and many other capabilities that can help nutritionists, production managers, feed mill managers, and many other employees in the swine industry.

What you will learn:

1. National Animal Nutrition Program

2. Ingredient databases source material

3. Best way to keep ingredient database updated

4. What will this modeling look like?

5. Sustainability models

6. Peer reviews and publication workshops

Meet the guest: Phillip Miller was born in Reno, NV and raised in central California. The family had cattle interests in California and Nevada. In 1981 he started his education at UC Davis where he completed a BS and MS in Animal Science and received his PhD in Nutrition in 1990 under the supervision of Lee Baldwin and Christopher Calvert. In 1990, Dr. Miller accepted a faculty position at the University of Nebraska as a swine nutritionist. His research area has focused on energy and amino acid nutrition in the growing pig and how nutrition during the gilt development period affects sow longevity. Recently, Dr. Miller, his students and collaborators have investigated the effects of nutrition on the microbiome in the pig. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Miller has advised or co-advised 20 MS and 18 PhD students. Dr. Miller has served as section and division editors for the Journal of Animal Science and currently serves as review and symposia editor for the Journal. He is chair of the Coordinating Committee for the National Animal Nutrition Program. From 2009-2012 he participated in the committee responsible for the revision of the Nutrient Requirements of Swine. He has been a member of the Swine Nutrition multistate research committee, NCCC-042 for the past 23 years. He currently holds the Kermit Wagner Distinguished Professorship in Animal Science at the University of Nebraska.