Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Electronic Veterinary Prescription Certificates
June 30, 2010By Scott Hurd
Producing healthy pigs is essential for food safety, animal well-being, and the competitiveness of the swine industry. Antibiotics play an important role in the production of healthy pigs....
Animal Well-being
The influence of small versus large pens on the welfare of the grow-finisher pig
June 30, 2010By Anna Johnson
Industry accounts have suggested that growth performance traits and morbidity / mortality may be compromised when pigs are reared in large pen configurations. Therefore, the objective of this study...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effects of Dietary Aflatoxin on Hepatic Gene Expression in Swine
June 30, 2010By Kristi Cammack
Aflatoxins, especially aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), can be high in dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) when concentrated during the ethanol production process. Increased use of DDGS in...
Public Health - Worker Health & Safety
Hydrogen Sulfide Spatial Distribution and Worker Exposure in Swine Houses
June 24, 2010By Robert Burns
Hazards conditions to human and animal health can occur in swine barns due to sudden bursts of high concentration hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas released when manure slurry is agitated during...
Environment - Water Usage / Conservation
Water Consumption and Conservation Techniques Currently Available for Swine Production
June 23, 2010By Robert Burns
Water conservation is important in any industry and swine production is no exception. Many water conservation technologies and practices...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Development of equations to predict the metabolizable energy content of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) samples from a wide variety of sources.
June 23, 2010By Michael Ellis
Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS), a byproduct of ethanol production from corn that is becoming available in increasing quantities, is a potentially valuable ingredient for use in...
Swine Health - General Disease
The Impact of Weaning Age on Pig Gut Mucosal Defense and Susceptibility to Post-weaning E. coli Disease
June 22, 2010By Adam Moeser
Post weaning enteric disorders continue to be a major source of mortality, morbidity, and production inefficiency in U.S. swine production. F 18 E. coli is one of the most important enteric pathogens...
Swine Health - PRRS
Year 2 funding support for the PRRS Host Genetics Consortium: A proposal to study the role of host genetics and resistance to PRRSV
June 22, 2010By Raymond R. Rowland
The PHGC represents the first-of-its-kind approach to food animal infectious disease research. The NPB, PRRS CAP, ARS, USDA AFRI, private companies, and universities have come together to conduct...
Swine Health - PRRS
Vaccination of pigs with alphavirus replicon particles expressing PRRSV ORF 3, 4, 5 and 6
June 21, 2010By D.L. Hank Harris
The objective of this project was to evaluate alphavirus replicon particles (RP) expressing various PRRSV proteins as vaccine candidates. Previous work has identified the minor structural...
Swine Health - General Disease
Expanding the immune toolkit for assessing pig health and improving swine disease and vaccine studies NPB project
June 21, 2010By Joan K. Lunney
Keeping pigs healthy and productive is a major goal for producers and researchers. Preventing disease, using biosecurity and planned vaccinations, are hallmarks of well-managed swine facilities....
Public Health - MRSA
Quantitative Risk Assessment of Human MRSA Caused by Antibiotic Use in Swine
June 18, 2010By Tony Cox
Recent news stories, and many web sites and blogs, have suggested that routine use of antibiotics on pig farms may be threatening public...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a rapid, swine-specific test to simultaneously detect multiple immune proteins (cytokines) affected by PRRSV infection
June 18, 2010By Jane Christopher-Hennings
Cytokines are small secreted proteins which mediate and regulate immunity to viral infections in swine and other species. Evidence suggests that PRRSV does not induce early, effective...
