Environment - Air
Vegetative Environmental Buffer Builder and Economic Review: A Decision Support Tool for the Pork Industry
May 30, 2017By John Tyndall
This project created a user-friendly online decision support tool for livestock producers (and their advisors) to design and plan for the use of Vegetative Environmental Buffers (VEB) for odor...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Improvement of Interferon Biotherapeutics for Foot-and-mouth Disease in Swine
May 26, 2017By Dr. James Zhu
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Novel feed processing methods of cold pelleting and fine ground corn segregation to maximize feed efficiency, nutrient utilization and economic return
May 22, 2017By Charles Stark
Swine producers continue to grind to extremely fine particle sizes, which inherently produces a significant portion of the diet that is fine powder. The fine particles (< 150 microns) create...
Swine Health - PRRS
Improving the performance of PRRSV oral fluid diagnostics
May 10, 2017By Jeffrey Zimmerman|Luis Gimenez-Lirola
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Prevalence and characterization of Salmonella from head meat and trim for ground at pork processing facilities
May 4, 2017By Roger B. Harvey
Recent research has reported that if superficial lymph nodes from cattle carcasses were included into ground beef, there was an increased risk of Salmonella contamination of ground beef. This...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Alternative antibiotic technologies for weaned pigs
May 3, 2017By Ross Beier
New technologies are needed to help livestock producers maintain health and wellbeing of their animals while minimizing risks of disseminating antimicrobial resistant bacteria to humans or animals....
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Identifying the Mechanism and Subsequent Remediation of Foaming in Swine Manure Management Systems
April 26, 2017By Steven Hoff PhD
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Do probiotics, an antibiotic alternative, mitigate or contribute to emergence and persistence of antimicrobial resistance in gut bacteria?
April 4, 2017By T.G. Nagaraja
The use of antimicrobials in feed and their positive benefits on growth performance during the nursery stage of swine production system is well established. In the past, producers have widely used...
Animal Well-being
Using conveyor belt to load and unload pigs to promote self-movement of piglets
April 3, 2017By Donald Lay Jr
Pigs are not accustomed to climbing sloped ramps. However, sloped ramps are impossible to avoid in regular management and handling practices due to design of the physical facilities at finishing...
Swine Health - PRRS
Mechanism of Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of PRRSV
March 22, 2017By Susan Carpenter
One of the challenges in developing effective vaccines for PRRSV is the limited understanding of how neutralizing antibody inhibits PRRSV replication, and how variation in PRRSV leads to escape from...
Human Nutrition
Effects of Dietary Protein Patterning on Weight Loss and Resistance Training-Induced Changes in Body Composition, Skeletal Muscle, and Indices of Metabolic Syndrome
March 7, 2017By Dr. Wayne W. Campbell PhD
The primary aim of this study was to assess the effects of within-day dietary protein intake distribution on dietary energy-restriction and resistance training-induced changes in lean body mass and mid-thigh muscle area, and to assess the effects of within-day dietary protein intake distribution on dietary energy-restriction and resistance training-induced changes in appetite, glucose response, and MetS parameters.
Animal Science
Effects of dietary protein patterning on weight loss and resistance training-induced changes in body composition, skeletal muscle, and indices of metabolic syndrome
March 7, 2017By Dr. Wayne W. Campbell PhD
The purpose of this study was to assess whether redistributing equivalent total daily protein intakes from one high protein-containing meal into multiple moderately-high protein-containing meals...
