Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Evaluation of a Physiological Test for Sow Longevity
June 4, 2014By W. L. Flowers
A gilt’s response to early boar exposure has been shown to be a viable option for estimating her lifetime productivity as a sow. Unfortunately, providing adequate boar exposure at...
Pork Quality
Relationship of Fat Quality to Meat and Eating Quality Traits of Pork
June 2, 2014By Tom Baas
Fat quality is an important component of overall pork quality and consumer acceptance of pork, but, prior to this research, little was known about genetic differences, relationships amongst...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Development of Strategies to Improve Sow Productive Lifetime
June 1, 2014By Jason W. Ross
Numerous factors, including herd-life (length in days), removal parity, total piglets born and the number of piglets weaned, impact sow productive lifetime. Like many complex traits that are...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a broadly protective PRRS vaccine candidate: Application of non-toxic enterotoxin and E. coli as the adjuvant-delivery system
May 27, 2014By Ying Fang
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) continues to be a threat to the swine industry. Currently, both modified live virus (MLV) and inactivated PRRS vaccines have been licensed for use...
Environment - Water Usage / Conservation
A Life Cycle Analysis of Water Use in U.S. Pork Production
May 23, 2014By Marty Matlock
The goal of this study was to analyze water use in the U.S. pork industry using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. LCAs are quantitative analyses of complex systems for the evaluation of...
Human Nutrition
The effect of increasing the protein content of breakfasts on satiety and cognitive function in undergraduate students
May 19, 2014By James Hollis
This study investigated the effect of protein consumption at breakfast on appetite and cognitive performance. Participants were provided with one of four breakfast treatments: no breakfast, No-pork,...
Propagation of PEDv in tissue culture and development of standardized reference samples for use in diagnostic testing
May 19, 2014By Qiuhong Wang
The highly contagious and deadly porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus (PEDv) was first discovered in the US in April-May 2013. Since then the virus has spread rapidly nationwide causing high...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Reproductive performance and longevity in replacement gilts allowed different amounts of floor space during the nursery phase of rearing
May 9, 2014By Mark Estienne
The annual replacement rate of commercial sows is 40 to 60% and for U.S. pork producers to remain globally competitive, research and technological advances are needed to increase sow lifetime...
Environment - Environmental Footprint
Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Production Scale Midwestern Breeding/Gestation/Farrowing Facility
May 6, 2014By Hongwei Xin
Gaseous emissions from livestock production continue to receive increasing attention due to concerns over their environmental and health impacts. Local concerns over gaseous emissions are...
Environment - Air
Testing soybean peroxidase for swine manure treatment and mitigation of odorous VOCs, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and greenhouse gas emissions
May 6, 2014By Jacek Koziel
The control of odor, odorous volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), ammonia (NH3), and greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions associated with commercial swine production is a critical...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of genetic diversity and dynamics of virus infection in a wean-to-finish pig population. Identification
May 2, 2014By Montse Torremorell
Influenza A virus (IAV) can persist in populations for prolonged periods of time. The objectives of this study were to estimate the diversity of IAV in an infected growing pig population, and...
Pork Quality
National Pork Retail Benchmarking Study
May 1, 2014By 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...
