ISSUE FOCUS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE February 2023 43 period of pigs. Thanks to a significant improvement in the feed-to-meat conversion, daily gain, and carcass characteristics, it did not take long until this technology generated a high portion of the US-pig industry market share (>25%). For most pig producers globally, late finisher efficiency and performance are important concerns, as animals are generally less efficient during this period. Due to this inefficiency, late finisher feed cost is critical to the total production cost of pork meat. A solution to this problem is improving efficiency and daily growth rate with technologies like Ambitine®. Next to a positive ROI, better feed conversion efficiency also leads to reducing the carbon footprint of pork meat production, which is a rising area of concern. Agrimprove and PMI jointly decided to investigate if the excellent results consistently seen in the US can be repeated in the rest of the world. Therefore, teams simultaneously pursued registration and arranged performance trials at local production sites to make this technology available globally. A GLOBAL SUCCESS Even though some factors of pig rearing are similar in every region, there is no guarantee a technology has the same effect everywhere. In other words, it is not because Ambitine® improves late finisher performance in the US that the results will be repeated in other continents. Factors like feed formulation, climate, housing, management, and genetics can cause performance variations in different regions. Even though the researchers were confident that the mode of action of Ambitine® is robust enough to show improvements regardless of all these variables, it was decided to gather more data under regional differences (i.e. Asian with a very specific high heat/moisture climate and Europe with its complex wheat-barleysoy based diets). Supplant D Late finisher performance • Lowers late finisher stress • Reduces FCR by 2.6% • Increases ADG by 4,2% agrimprove.com Ambitine®
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