Centralia College has issued a report on research that
indicates that adding spray-dried animal protein to nursing-piglet rations
counters the negative impacts of vomitoxin from corn rations.
It would be nice if the researchers would also draw attention to recent findings that spray-dried pig plasma has been fingered as responsible for 17 outbreaks of Porcine Epidemic
Diarrhea in Ontario since late January.
The research at Centralia indicates that when spray-dried
animal protein is added to rations where the corn has been contaminated with
DON toxin that evolves from fusarium-mould-infected ears of corn, they fare
just as well as piglets fed corn-based rations that have no DON toxin.
DON in piglet rations sets them back; PED virus kills.
