Pork Quality
National Pork Retail Benchmarking Study
May 31, 2017By David Newman
The primary objective of this project was to benchmark fresh pork quality at the retail store level. A great deal of variation in pork quality exists in the retail marketplace, leaving consumers with...
Animal Science
Effects of genetics and dietary fiber on production variables in response to repeated exposures to heat stress
May 31, 2017By Lance Baumgard
Despite aggressive heat stress abatement strategies, the U.S. swine industry loses ~$900 million annually. Sources of reduced revenue include: slower growth rates, inefficient feed utilization,...
Pork Quality
Prediction of Pork Quality using Raman Spectroscopy
May 30, 2017By Steven Lonergan
The objective of the project was to develop an approach to use Raman spectroscopy to predict sensory quality of fresh pork loins. Pork loins (n=200) were selected during fabrication on seven...
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...
