The institute also announces plans to fund research on other dairy ingredients.
The American Dairy Products Institute (ADPI), Elmhurst, Ill., said it executed three contracts to fund research trials to study the role of feeding dairy permeate to pigs.
"About 75-80% of total U.S. permeate produced annually is fed to pigs," says Dr. Jim Sullivan, ADPI Center of Excellence member and an expert on animal nutrition. "While previous research has documented the value of feeding permeate to pigs, commercial practices for pig production have changed dramatically in recent years. These new research projects will determine the value of feeding permeate in controlled research trials under conditions that are relevant to today's commercial pig raising practices.”