Animal Well-being
Using conveyor belt to load and unload pigs to promote self-movement of piglets
April 3, 2017By Donald Lay Jr
Pigs are not accustomed to climbing sloped ramps. However, sloped ramps are impossible to avoid in regular management and handling practices due to design of the physical facilities at finishing...
Swine Health - PRRS
Mechanism of Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of PRRSV
March 22, 2017By Susan Carpenter
One of the challenges in developing effective vaccines for PRRSV is the limited understanding of how neutralizing antibody inhibits PRRSV replication, and how variation in PRRSV leads to escape from...
Animal Science
Effects of dietary protein patterning on weight loss and resistance training-induced changes in body composition, skeletal muscle, and indices of metabolic syndrome
March 7, 2017By Dr. Wayne W. Campbell PhD
The purpose of this study was to assess whether redistributing equivalent total daily protein intakes from one high protein-containing meal into multiple moderately-high protein-containing meals...
Human Nutrition
Effects of Dietary Protein Patterning on Weight Loss and Resistance Training-Induced Changes in Body Composition, Skeletal Muscle, and Indices of Metabolic Syndrome
March 7, 2017By Dr. Wayne W. Campbell PhD
The primary aim of this study was to assess the effects of within-day dietary protein intake distribution on dietary energy-restriction and resistance training-induced changes in lean body mass and mid-thigh muscle area, and to assess the effects of within-day dietary protein intake distribution on dietary energy-restriction and resistance training-induced changes in appetite, glucose response, and MetS parameters.
Animal Science
Practical evaluation of linoleic acid and antioxidant supplementation for lactating sows housed under high ambient temperatures
February 23, 2017By Eric Van Heugten
High producing sows are under catabolic (resulting in tissue loss) and oxidative stress during lactation and this will impair sow reproductive performance. Moreover, reduced feed intake during...
Prediction of pork loin quality and tenderness with the VQG pork loin grading camera
February 15, 2017By Dr. Steven Shackelford Ph.D.
The VQG pork loin grading camera was developed jointly by USDA-ARS researchers at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in collaboration with E+V, a company that develops and markets image analysis-based systems for the meat, poultry, and livestock industries.
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluating the effects of chemical treatments to reduce the likelihood of PEDV transmission by feed manufacturing equipment.
February 14, 2017By Jason Woodworth
The overall objective of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of various chemical mitigation products applied to different feed manufacturing surfaces on the reduction of porcine...
PED virus re-infection rate of sow herds, associated risk factors, production impact and time to achieve stability
February 10, 2017By Robert B. Morrison
The purpose of this study was to quantify the rate of sow herds re-breaking with PED virus and evaluate the impact on performance. The study involved participants’ data from an existing...
Pork Quality
Consumer Valuation of Pork Chop Quality Information
February 8, 2017By Ted Schroeder
Pork quality variation has been well documented and overall eating quality of fresh unenhanced pork chops has been linked to product color and marbling. The National Pork Board is working with USDA...
Assessing PEDV infectivity of samples collected from a PEDV contaminated feed mill
February 2, 2017By Phil Gauger
Introduction of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) into swine herds not only had a significant impact on animal health, but continues to be significant for pork producers and the feed...
