The efficiency of feed pea and faba beans usage in feed mixture for pigs

Abstract

The agricultural company which produces the feeding mixtures endeavor to substitute a part of the feeding dose of soybean meal (content of crude protein: 48 %; below as SBM48) by peas and faba beans coming from the own production with the respect to the economic preferability. Peas are favorable to include into the feeding mixtures when the price of SBM48 overcomes 7.50 CZK / kg, while faba beans by the price of SBM48 higher than 11.40 CZK. By the current prices of feeding cereals (at the beginning of 2008) the level of the cost-effectiveness of breeding and fattening in pigs is 38.20 CZK / kg. The integration of peas into the feeding mixtures the level of the cost-effectiveness decreases to 37.20 CZK / kg of the live animal weight at the slaughter stage. The work also evaluates the economical profit in relevance of market price of final product (pigs in body weight of 108 kg). By the end of 2008 was this price at level of 34.00 CZK / kg of body weight. The cost for feedstuffs was 17.00 CZK and the total costs for pig production in case using of self-made feedstuffs was 27.50 CZK / kg. That is way the economical profit could be 6.50 CZK per kilogram of body weight or the lost of 4.20 CZK could be in case of calculation of feeds market prices. This lost can be decreased by compounding of pea into feed mixture. In the work we determined the economical limitation for pea or faba bean usage and can be a guide for agriculture economist to make decisions in accordance with the market price of different sources of crude protein.

Keywords

• fattening pigs
• price
• feed pea
• faba bean
• soybean