Swine Health - PRRS
Investigation of factors impacting the rate of PRRSV transmission in nursery and finisher pig flows and assessment of transmission rate and timing on economic performance
June 18, 2007By Locke Karriker
As stated in the contract, we require a lay interpretation of the project, suitable for public release by the Board. Please include contact information, should the public want to contact you...
Estimation of the mass balance of nutrients for specific production phases and the flow of nutrients through a swine farm
June 5, 2007
Three experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, seventy-six crossbred pigs (28 kg body weight) were used to evaluate the effects of reducing dietary crude protein (CP), phosphorus (P), and trace...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Manure-Phosphorus in Soil: Detection and Mobility of Phytate
June 5, 2007By Shiping Deng
Annual swine effluent application in western Oklahoma for 11 consecutive years did not lead to significant accumulation of soil phosphorus. Similar trend was shown in a century-old field experiment...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
The effects of water delivery of probiotics or organic acids on weanling pig performance, intestinal health and integrity, and immune status
June 1, 2007By John Scott Radcliffe
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Management guide for reduced usage of antibiotics in swine production
May 31, 2007By Hans Stein
A summary of research conducted to investigate possibilities for reducing the negative impact of discontinuing the use of antibiotic growth promoters has documented that many management tools are...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Impacts of growth promoting antibiotics on growth performance, economics, and the development and persistence of antibiotic resistance in nursery and finishing pigs
May 30, 2007By Eric Van Heugten
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a Broadly Protective PRRS Vaccine
May 27, 2007By Gregory Tobin
The current vaccines against PRRSV protect pigs exposed to the strain used to make the vaccine, but not to the many field strains that herds encounter. The lack of protection against heterologous...
Swine Health - General Disease
Expanding the immune toolkit for assessing pig health and improving swine disease and vaccine studies
May 8, 2007By Joan K. Lunney
Swine disease and vaccine research will be advanced by the development of sophisticated tools to measure swine antibodies or immunoglobulins (Igs). Swine produce antibodies, or Igs, in response to...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Prevalence and Levels of Salmonella spp. on Retail Pork Cuts
May 4, 2007By Wendy Warren-Serna
Study Approach: A total of 4,000 retail pork products were examined during January – March, 2007, from 4 locations in the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, including Green Bay, WI,...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Development of a Microarray for the Rapid and Simultaneous Detection and Tracking of Bacterial and Viral Foodborne Pathogens
May 3, 2007By Wondwossen Gebreyes
We developed a microarray for the rapid detection and characterization of three important bacterial pathogens including Campylobacter, Salmonella and Yersinia and a viral pathogen including...
Environment - Other
Estimation of the mass balance of nutrients for specific production phases and the flow of nutrients through a swine farm
April 16, 2007By Scott Carter
Results from these experiments suggest that dietary manipulation can have dramatic effects on the mass balance of nutrients during the finishing phase. Altering the dietary crude protein and...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of cost-efficient herd testing protocols based on testing of pooled samples using ELISA
April 2, 2007By Claudia Munoz-Zanai
The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using pooled serum samples for detection of PRRSV-infected sow herds by ELISA. In order to achieve this objective, 113 true positive...
