NOVUS: New book delivers insights on today’s sows

Today’s sows are designed for more – more piglets, a longer lifetime in production. It’s appropriate then that NOVUS, with its Made of More™ approach, will debut a new book on this topic next month.

NOVUS will launch its latest book, Nutrition and Production Strategies for Today's Sows, on September 5. The book features 12 chapters carefully curated to serve as a reference guide, highlighting best practices and considerations for sow production.

This is the intelligent nutrition company’s second book focused on sows; Nutrition of Hyperprolific Sows was published in 2019.

“The response we received from the first book was outstanding,” says Marisol Castillo, executive manager of global swine solutions at NOVUS. “The primary focus of that book was nutrition. We knew there was much more to share about modern sows – their physiology, how environment affects performance, and insights on the gilt phase. There’s just so much research out there that we wanted to share.”

The topics covered in the new book include sow and gilt nutrition, genetics, breeding, lactation, farrowing, and mortality. The authors come from familiar companies and respected academia. The book's contributors are:

• Bruno A. N. Silva, Ph.D., Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG/ICA)
• Laura Greiner, Ph.D. and Dalton Humphrey, Ph.D., Iowa State University
• Austin Putz, Ph.D., Hendrix Genetics
• Ioannis Mavromichalis, Ph.D., and Efstratia Papanikou, Ph.D., Ariston Nutrition Consulting International
• Teresa Mogas, Ph.D., University of Barcelona
• Antonio Palomo Yagüe, Ph.D., Swine Technical Manager, Archer Daniels Midland Company
• Carlos Piñeiro, Ph.D., Animal Data Analytics SL, and Yuzo Koketsu, Ph.D., Meiji University
• Timothy Safranski, Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Luis Sanjoaquin Romero, DVM, Sigmavet/ThinkinPig
• Déborah Temple, Ph.D. and her team at Animal Welfare Education Center (AWEC), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
• Hans H. Stein, Ph.D., and Su A. Lee, Ph.D., Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois
• Brad Lawrence, Ph.D., NOVUS

The book’s co-coordinator is Carlos Lasagna, DVM, of Martini S.p.A.

“Because so many things can impact sow health and performance it was important to seek perspectives from a variety of sources,” says Castillo. “The chapters include detailed research, new ways of thinking, and first-hand accounts from people who have dedicated their lives to this industry.”

A free digital version of the book is available for download starting September 5. Those who want to receive the book in their inbox can sign up on the waitlist.

Those interested can still obtain a free digital version of the first NOVUS sow book by visiting the NOVUS website. In 2022, the company also published the poultry book, Breeder Management and Nutrition: Moving the Industry Forward. It is also available for digital download.