Environment - Air
Effectiveness of Biofilters in Reducing Aerial Pollutant Emissions
The objectives of this research were to evaluate the effectiveness of two wood chip biofilters in reducing particulate matter, ammonia,...
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Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of Choice White Grease and Beef Tallow to Improve Pork Quality when Pigs are Fed Distillers Dried Grains
The feeding of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) is becoming a common place in the swine industry to help reduce feed costs. However, there can be reduced growth performance, carcass...
Animal Science
Association of compositional traits and structural soundness with the ability of commercial line of sows to complete parities four and five – NPB#06-192. (A continuation of the original project 2005 titled: Association of compositional, structural soundness, and health with the ability of a commercial line of young sows to successfully complete parity one (NPB#05-081) and the 2006 project titled:
Poor sow longevity has both economic and welfare ramifications for the commercial swine industry. According to PigCHAMP™...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a modified live vaccine against PRRSV with optimal DIVA marker potential
Work in our laboratories is exclusively oriented towards the development of a new generation of PRRSV vaccines that would confer broad protection. We work, through different basic and applied...
Public Health - Other Zoonotic Diseases
Noroviruses in finisher swine: prevalence and relatedness to human noroviruses
Noroviruses (NoVs) are the leading cause of foodborne illness. A potential exists for interspecies transmission of NoVs or the emergence...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effects of rapid introduction and removal of high and low digestibility corn distillers dried grains from the diet, and dietary inclusion rates on growth performance and carcass characteristics of growing-finishing pigs
Due to inevitable price fluctuations of feed ingredients, pork producers and nutritionists are frequently seeking low cost feed...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Characteristics and Eating Quality of Bacon and Sausage from Finishing Pigs Fed Medium and High Levels of Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) from Ethanol Production
An experiment involving 60 crossbred pigs was conducted at the University of Kentucky to assess the effects of feeding high levels of corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) on...
Animal Well-being
Effect of Timing of grouping of sows during early gestation on welfare and performance of sows and group pens with electronic sow feeders
This study proposed to look into the effect of the timing of mixing of sows in large groups during early gestation on sow performance by...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Incidence and severity of Arcanobacterium pyogenes injection site abscesses with needle or needle-free injection methods
The pork industry loses a substantial amount of money each year due to the trimming of pork carcasses in processing plants. A large portion of carcass trimming is due to the presence of abscesses on...
Animal Well-being
Developing best management practices for on-farm euthanasia of young pigs using carbon dioxide gas
The use of carbon dioxide has the potential to be a practical method of on-farm euthanasia for young pigs in farrowing as an alternative to blunt force trauma, where the pigs’ small...
Swine Health - PRRS
Subverting the function of PRRSV nucleocapsid protein for innovative vaccine design.
This research proposal was conceived as a three-year project, with this report encompassing Year 1. PRRSV is recognized as one of the major virus threats facing the swine industry in the...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Identification of markers associated with sow lifetime productivity for whole genomic selection
Sows are more productive today than ever before. However, concurrent with increased prolificacy, high sow death losses and replacement...
