Animal Well-being
An Industry Education Program for Understanding the Basics of the Space Allocation Debate in Pig Production
January 30, 2009By James Kliebenstein
The efficient use of facility space for swine production has been a key economic and production issue since the introduction of confinement production facilities. Stocking density decisions have...
Public Health - Worker Health & Safety
Pork Industry Health and Safety Training – Seminars and Online Courses
January 30, 2009By Kelley Donham
This program was designed to provide training in occupational health and safety to managers and workers while enhancing the National Pork Board’s occupational health and safety materials...
Swine Health - General Disease
Determination of the amount of PCV2 needed for intrauterine transmission and assessment of effect of PCV2 exposure (natural and vaccine) prior to insemination
January 30, 2009By Tanja Opriessnig
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is associated with reproductive failure in pregnant female pigs; however, the role of PCV2 in semen has not been elucidated. To determine the significance of semen in...
Swine Health - General Disease
Head-to-head comparison of the level of protection and duration of immunity induced by different commercial and an autogenous PCV2 vaccine
January 30, 2009By Tanja Opriessnig
The study objectives were to compare the duration of immunity of commercially available, one and two dose, killed porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccines. Sixty, 3.5-week-old pigs were randomly...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Influence of Rapid Introduction and Removal of Dietary DDGS on Pig Performance and Carcass Characteristics
January 28, 2009By G.C. Shurson
Pork producers and nutritionists want to use feed ingredients that will optimize pig performance at the lowest cost. Inclusion of DDGS in the diets for grower-finisher pigs may be economical at...
Swine Health - General Disease
The effect of cross-fostering on the transfer of cellular and humoral maternal immunity to Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
January 25, 2009By Thomas W. Molitor
Enzootic pneumonia resulting from Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections is an important disease to the US swine industry. Antibodies and immune cells specific to this agent can be detected...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a New Generation of Antisense Antiviral Drug against PRRSV
January 23, 2009By Yan-Jin Zhang
This project has explored a novel class of antiviral drugs to suppress PRRSV replication. These drugs were designed on the basis of PRRSV genomic sequences. Their specific binding to the virus genome...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of crude glycerin in swine
January 22, 2009By Brian Kerr
The objective of the proposed research was to determine the variation in metabolizable energy (ME) content of crude glycerin samples from a several biodiesel production facilities using different...
Swine Health - PRRS
Assessing the use of biofilters and antimicrobial filters to reduce the excretion of PRRS virus into the environment
January 22, 2009By Scott Dee
As area-based PRRSV control and eradication programs move forward, the ability to minimize the risk of PRRSV-excretion into the environment from infected populations becomes important. This study...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of a non-antibiotic selection vector for a live vaccine against PWD
January 20, 2009By Weiping Zhang
Porcine post-weaning diarrhea (PWD) continues causing substantial economic loss to swine producers. Vaccines strategy especially live attenuated vaccines could be the most effective and most...
Environment - Air
Field and Wind Tunnel Evaluation of Vegetative Buffers for Particulate Trapping and Odor Reduction Near Swine Production Facilities
January 14, 2009By Thomas J. Sauer
Growing number of swine operations have turned to natural buffers (also called shelterbelts or vegetative buffers) as part of their odor mitigation strategy. However, there is little to no data on...
Swine Health - PRRS
Implementation of a PRRSV Strain Database (Renewal of NPB project #06-127)
January 7, 2009By Kay S. Faaberg
The PRRSV strain database (http://prrsvdb.org) has been supported by the National Pork Board for four years. The database (PRRSVdb; 9,531 sequences) is...
