Feeding Wheat to Hogs: What to Know

Wheat has been fed to hogs in varying amounts for many years. Interest in wheat as a swine feed depends largely on the price relationship between wheat and other cereal grains. There have been periods in recent years when wheat has been competitively priced with other cereal grains, justifying its use in swine diets. When wheat is competitively priced with other cereal grains, it becomes especially attractive to Oklahoma pork producers since Oklahoma is a major wheat producing state. Wheat production in the state ranges from 100 to 200 million bushels annually. Often the state’s wheat harvest is five times as great as the combined production of sorghum grain, barley, corn and oats. Feeding wheat to hogs is viewed as a grain marketing alternative by some wheat producers who also raise hogs.