The Fats and Proteins Research Foundation (FPRF) is pleased to announce the 2021 “Bisplinghoff Research Innovation Award” has been presented to Merlin D. Lindemann, Ph.D, PAS, for his many years of research on the use of rendered products in swine nutrition. Dr. Lindemann is a professor of Animal and Food Sciences at the University of Kentucky. His work has been instrumental in establishing the value of rendered products in pig diets.
In his recent research on rendered products, Dr. Lindemann found that feeding poultry byproduct meal or meat and bone meal in up to 5 percent of the diet of nursery or grower pigs provided important minerals, positive economical options, and were preferred by pigs when started in the nursery diets immediately at weaning.