Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Determining the biological and metabolic differences between slow and fast growing pigs raised in commercial conditions
October 22, 2013By John Patience
With escalating feed prices, increasing litter sizes, and ever-evolving disease challenges, the difficulties of transitioning pigs during the weaning process is a major priority for pork producers....
Swine Health - PRRS
An Interferon-inducible Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus Isolate
October 14, 2013By Yan-Jin Zhang
The objective of this project was to determine the full length sequences of an interferon-inducible PRRSV strain A2MC2 and determine whether it can induce neutralizing antibodies. Type I interferons...
Swine Health - General Disease
Quality control assessment of blended source vitamin D supplied to feed manufacturers for use in swine diets
October 8, 2013By Darin Madson
Clinical cases of metabolic bone disease in swine, such as rickets and osteomalacia, have been linked to hypovitaminosis D. Since...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance in Food Animal Production: Partnership between National Antimicrobial resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) and Academia
October 3, 2013By Wondwossen Gebreyes
Collaborative partners including four Universities (Ohio State, Minnesota, North Carolina State and Iowa State), industry and federal...
Animal Science
Precision nutrition for pork niche markets: Characterizing feed intake, growth rate, and fat deposition of purebred Berkshire pigs housed in Iowa hoop barns
October 1, 2013By John Mabry
Niche marketing continues to grow in Iowa and the United States as the demand for high quality pork increases. Previous research on meat quality of pork has demonstrated that purebred Berkshires...
Animal Well-being
Reviewing the State of Scientific Evidence and Developing Recommendations about Pain Mitigation Strategies in Piglets Undergoing Routine Processing Procedures
September 23, 2013By Annette O’Connor
The following non-technical summary describes the recommendations from a review and decision-making process conducted between August 2012 and August 2013 by the panel at the request of the...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Occurrence and Movement of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Resistance Genes in Tile-Drained Agricultural Fields Receiving Swine Manure Application
September 20, 2013By Michelle Soupir
The use of antibiotics by the swine industry to increase production efficiency and treat disease is thought to contribute to antibiotic resistance in the environment. When manure from hog operations...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Impact of Mitochondrially Targeted Novel Antioxidant on Pig Feed Efficiency
September 4, 2013By Don Beitz
Oxidative stress is considered a potential cause of decreased feed efficiency in animals. Therefore, incorporating antioxidants into livestock feeds may improve feed efficiency by decreasing...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Using high-fiber diets to limit energy intake in developing gilts: effects on puberty, reproduction, culling rates, lifetime productivity, and progeny health and growth
August 27, 2013By Philip S. Miller
The effects of developing gilts limiting energy intake, using a high-fiber diet, compared to a corn-soybean meal based diet were evaluated. The high-fiber diet used contained 40% soybean hulls....
Human Nutrition
Systematic Reviews of Observational and Experimental Human Studies Related to Pork Intake and Type 2 Diabetes, Insulin-Resistance Syndrome or Its Components
August 16, 2013By Nicolas Stettler
The objective of this research was to perform a systematic review of the scientific literature related to pork intake and type 2 diabetes, insulin-resistance syndrome (metabolic syndrome) or its...
Pork Safety
Depletion of penicillin G residues in sows after intramuscular injection
August 13, 2013By David Newman|David Smith|Sara Lupton|Weilin Shelver
A total of 126 heavy sows were treated with a 5x dose of penicillin G procaine via intramuscular (IM) administration for 3 consecutive days using 3 injection patterns. Sets of 18 animals (6 per...
Animal Well-being
Translactational analgesia to reduce pain during piglet castration
July 19, 2013By Jennifer Brown
Commercially reared piglets receive a number of routine management procedures including castration, tail docking, teeth clipping, and vaccination. Castration of pigs is done primarily to avoid boar...
