Barley continues to be a feed ingredient available to swine producers in South Dakota, that can be used as a substitute for corn. In experiments reported in the 1984 South Dakota Swine Day Proceedings we reported that pigs fed barley diets gained slower during the grower period (60 to 125 lbs) but not during the finisher period (125 to 220 lb). This experiment was designed to evaluate various levels of barley, 0 to 100% of the grain, in diets fed to pigs from an average of 80 to 220 lb market weight.
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Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University
Wahlstrom, R. C.; Hoppe, M. K.; and Libal, G. W., "Effect of Level of Barley in Finishing Diets of Swine Performance and Carcass Characteristics" (1985). South Dakota Swine Field Day Proceedings and Research Reports, 1985. 4.