Hog Solutions

Understanding and accounting for ever-changing hog and ingredient prices – all while keeping up with changes in genetics and production – is complicated. Cargill has developed hog solutions to help you cope with that complexity. Whether you’re in a profitable period, trying to maximize premium lean cuts or in a down period and simply selling commodity hogs, Cargill technology and services are built to help you maximize your returns.

Our hog finishing solutions center on our innovative technologies. Whether you are maximizing growth or minimizing cost, an analysis of energy utilization is the best starting point. Our Net Energy System is proven to be the best method to help understand the nutrient supply and demand of your hogs. Energy supply and demand can be modeled in our MAX^® system. We take your pig and business variables to provide you with the best scenarios from which to plan your business.

In addition to the technology to design the best diets for your business situation, we have the tools to make sure those diets are produced and applied to design. Our environmental app, Enteligen™ ensures that your hogs’ environmental comfort is optimal, while our nutritional additive solutions utilize ingredients have been carefully selected for their beneficial effects on feed intake, digestive functions, intestinal microflora and generally maintaining healthy hog performance add extra value. We can also offer solutions to help you manage the risk of mycotoxins challenges and flavourings to support improved feed intake.