AGRICULTURE REPORT - Special Feed for Swine May Help Farmers' Crops, the Environment

the phosphorus to the crops.

Other scientists also have worked with low-phytate feed in recent years. For example, in research reported in two thousand four, University of Kentucky researchers gave pigs and chicks low-phytate feed. The substance phytase was added to the feed. The researchers said it helped break down the phytates.

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