Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effects of pelleting and extrusion on energy and nutrient digestibility in diets fed to pigs
September 15, 2014By Hans H. Stein
The objective of the present work was to determine if extrusion, pelleting or the combination of extrusion and pelleting has the ability to...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
National Prevalence of Salmonella Contamination in Retail Ground Pork
September 9, 2014By Thomas Wittum
Salmonella is a foodborne pathogen that may be associated with meat products. The goal of this project was to determine the prevalence of Salmonella in ground pork at retail, and to evaluate...
Animal Well-being
Comparing Heat Lamp vs. Heat Mat for Farrowing Crate Heating
September 1, 2014By Hongwei Xin
From 2007 to 2012, the average number of piglets born and piglets born alive for the US swine operation increased by 1.1 and 1.2 piglets...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Development of a Nutrition × Health Interaction Model to Study Nursery Pig Performance
August 28, 2014By Philip S. Miller
The goal of this research project was to use Porcine Circovirus 2 (PCV2) challenge model as an approach to study the interaction of nutrition and disease (e.g., PRRS, mycoplasma pneumonia,...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluating Moderate to Severe Feed Processes in Light of Increasing Use of Wheat in Swine Diets
August 15, 2014By Michael Tokach
The overriding objective of this research was to improve the industry-wide lack of knowledge of how wheat particle size and pelleting of...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Influence of grass hedges on the transport of antimicrobials, antimicrobial resistance genes, and antimicrobial resistant pathogens after land application of swine manure
August 13, 2014By Shannon Bartelt-Hunt
Pork production is a significant component of the US economy. Swine manure has commonly been applied to land as a soil amendment for crop production, as it provides a valuable source of nutrients...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Optimal dietary energy and protein for the development of gilts
August 13, 2014By Jeffrey Vallet
Sow longevity is a key component for efficient and profitable pig farming and efforts to improve it should start with the adequate management of replacement gilts. A key factor in gilt management is...
Animal Well-being
Establishing Bedding and Boarding Requirements for Finisher Pigs Through Scientific Validation – Macro Study
August 11, 2014By John McGlone
1. Establishing bedding requirements during transport and monitoring skin temperature over seasons after transport for finishing...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
National Animal Health Monitoring Survey for Toxoplasma gondii and Trichinella spiralis
August 11, 2014By Dolores Hill
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) initiated the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) in 1983 to collect, analyze, and disseminate data on animal health, management, and...
Pork Quality
Improving carcass fat quality by manipulating the amount and timing of feeding dietary fats with different iodine values
August 7, 2014By John Patience
This project speaks directly to the primary objectives of the Improving Fat Quality program, by seeking to maximize production efficiencies through optimizing the use of dietary fat and...
Public Health - Other Zoonotic Diseases
sessing predominant transmission routes for Toxoplasma gondii using NHANES 2007-2010
August 1, 2014By Dolores Hill
Toxoplasmosis, caused by Toxoplasma gondii, is one of the most common parasitic infections of humans and other warmblooded animals. It has been found worldwide, and nearly one third of humanity has...
Swine Health - General Disease
Advances in Vaccine Design: Developing A Cross-conserved Influenza Vaccine for Swine
July 28, 2014By Anne De Groot
The overall goal of this project was to implement the innovative iVAX suite of immunoinformatics vaccine design tools that have been extensively validated in pre-clinical studies of human...
