Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Critical appraisal of evidence that low-dose, long term (growth promotion) antimicrobial use augments public health risks from antimicrobial resistant organisms
December 10, 2013By Peter Davies
Antimicrobials are important tools for ensuring the health, welfare and productivity of pigs raised for food. Banning of antimicrobial growth promotant use in Denmark, and subsequently more widely in...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of standard methods to compare surveillance between regional porcine reproductive and respiratory virus control projects
December 5, 2013By Derald Holtkamp
The North American Swine industry is engaged in a conversation on a national porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) strategy. The parties involved in the conversation...
Animal Well-being
Establishing Bedding and Boarding Requirements for Finisher Pigs Through Scientific Validation – Micro-study
December 1, 2013By Angela Green
Transport is a critical factor affecting swine welfare in modern U.S. commercial pork production. Broad temperature ranges encountered during transport can challenge pig welfare and have been...
Swine Health - General Disease
Characterization of the genetic diversity of Mycoplasma hyorhinis field isolates by multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis (MLVA) and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST)
November 26, 2013By Alberto Rovira
Mycoplasma hyorhinis is an important pathogenic organism that inhabits de nasal cavity of swine. This bacterium has been associated with a variety of diseases in pigs, where polyserositis and...
Environment - Air
Feeding amino acids to reduce air emissions and the carbon footprint of swine production
November 19, 2013By Wendy Powers
Reduced crude protein (CP) diets with synthetic amino acid (AA) supplementation has proven to be an effect way to reduce ammonia (NH3) emissions from swine housing. However, there are very...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Reducing feed cost by maximizing dietary byproduct feeding length prior to market
November 19, 2013By Joel DeRouchey
The overriding objective is to improve the industry-wide lack of knowledge in utilizing high levels of by-products (DDGS and wheat middlings) in late finishing diets prior to marketing to...
Swine Health - General Disease
Early detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections in live pigs: Comparison of current methods and development of new assays
November 5, 2013By Maria Pieters
Detection of M. hyopneumoniae infections in live pigs is difficult for the producer, the field veterinarian and the diagnostician. This study was designed and performed with the objective to compare...
Swine Health - General Disease
Generating swine influenza virus (SIV) oral fluid diagnostic Reference Standards for community use
November 4, 2013By Jeffrey Zimmerman
Influenza A virus is an important component of the porcine respiratory disease complex (Thacker et al., 2001) and a pathogen with a major economic impact on swine production. Holtkamp (2007a,b)...
Animal Science
Investigating Biological Reasons for Seasonal Infertility
November 1, 2013By Aileen Keating
The US swine industry suffers major economic losses to heat stress during the summer months. Reasons for this fiscal hardship include seasonal infertility and poor sow performance during and...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Improving fiber digestibility in DDGS from ethanol production
October 31, 2013By Sabrina Trupia
The objective of this project was to assess effects of pretreatment methods (chemical, enzymatic, and mechanical) on the digestibility of energy in DDGS. Combinations of different methods were...
Animal Well-being
Systematic literature review and needs assessment of housing systems for gestating sows in group pens with group feeding
October 25, 2013By Mhairi Sutherland
Gestation sow housing is a current contemporary animal welfare issue. The current political atmosphere is driving producers to consider changing back to group housing systems for gestating sows. It...
Environment - Water Usage / Conservation
Evaluating Nutrient (nitrogen and ortho-phosphate) Export with Subsurface Drainage Water from Spring Applied Swine Manure to Soybean Planted Micro-watersheds
October 23, 2013By Kapil Arora
The objective of this project is to evaluate the impact of spring applied swine manure for soybean crop on sub-surface drainage water quality from non-replicated micro-watersheds. To evaluate this...
