Selecting the right feed bag for the right product

This begins with a true story from my early days as a commercial nutritionist in the U.S. At some point, I designed a piglet feed line based on high levels of molasses. Now, most such feeds contain at maximum 4% molasses because it takes special facilities to handle more than that during mixing, but, we did have such facilities so the molasses level was well over 10%.

All these ideas on molasses levels were based on work I had done for my master’s degree at Kansas State University under Professor Dr. Joe Hancock, where we fed feeds with 20% molasses in post-weaned pigs with great success. We replaced all-lactose in the feed with molasses and pigs loved it. No diarrhea, no problems at all. In fact, we observed a trend for higher feed intake, and that was good enough for me to run a commercial trial when I found the right opportunity.