Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Occurrence and Movement of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Resistance Genes in Tile-Drained Agricultural Fields Receiving Swine Manure Application
October 24, 2011By 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...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Regulation of Amino Acid Transport Efficiency by the Porcine Mammary Gland
October 14, 2011By Nathalie L. Trottier
Industry Summary: Modern swine production systems require highly productive animals. Thus, continued development of nutritional strategies to improve milk production and litter weight gain is...
Environment - Air
Effects of inclusion of corn distillers dried grains with solubles in the diet of finishing pigs and gestating sows on nutrient excretion and gaseous emissions
October 12, 2011By Scott Carter
Three experiments were conducted to determine the effects of DDGS on nutrient excretion and gaseous emissions by swine. In Exp. 1, a total of 80 pigs initially weighing 36.8 kg were blocked by...
Animal Well-being
The effect of alleyway width on sow behavior and welfare in a free-access gestation stall system
October 1, 2011By Ed Pajor
The use of traditional gestation stalls is currently under public scrutiny due to restrictions on sow movement and social interaction. But...
Swine Health - General Disease
Antigen-specific T cell responses associated with PCVAD pathogenesis
September 30, 2011By Carol Wyatt
This project was intended to determine whether or not pig with PCVAD had T lymphocytes that responded to different epitopes of the PCV CP, when compared with vaccinated pigs or pigs that had been...
Animal Science
Determinants of Profitability in Alternative Swine Production Systems
September 2, 2011By Gary Apgar
Production and financial records for 42 niche pork producers from 2006 are analyzed for the determinants of profitability. All of the producers were specialized in “natural” pork...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Preparing for the inevitable increase in fiber content in practical pig diets
September 1, 2011By John Patience
Our approach was to evaluate the best ways to characterize dietary fiber from corn co-products, and to determine the site of digestion of dietary fiber in the pig to better understand its...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
The influence of increasing dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acid concentration on postpartum hypophagia and energy output in the milk via alterations in lipolytic activity and insulin sensitivity of the adipose tissue.
August 31, 2011By Denise Beaulieu
Introduction:In the hog industry it is imperative that we maximize the reproductive performance of sows in order to optimize pig flow and thus improve the economics of pork production....
Animal Science
Improving net returns in pork production by improving our management of the fallback pig: Characterizing biological and physiological differences in fallback pigs to determine optimal management and handling practices
August 13, 2011By John Patience
The last decade’s unprecedented rise in litter size has resulted in an increased number of fallback pigs. Fallback pigs are those that fail to achieve performance in the barn equal to that of...
Swine Health - General Disease
Improvement of vaccine protection against swine influenza: Proof-of-concept
August 6, 2011By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Swine influenza is a growing problem in the U.S. swine industry although the disease and etiology have been known for a long time. Historically, swine influenza in the U.S. had been only due to...
Swine Health - General Disease
Genetic assessment of VDL SIV isolate pool for evidence of the swine flu strain reported to be infecting people and development of a high-throughput differential test for the novel strain
August 6, 2011By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
A novel H1N1 influenza virus (initially named “Swine Flu” and now referred to as “2009 pandemic H1N1”) emerged and caused widespread clinical disease in US and other...
Public Health - MRSA
Occurrence and molecular epidemiology of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on-farm, at slaughter and pork.
August 3, 2011By Wondwossen Gebreyes
This study was conducted on ten conventional swine farms in Ohio to investigate the occurrence and prevalence of specific bacteria known to be resistant to methicillin called methicillin-resistant...
