Infectivity of swine manure from pits on sow farms at varying lengths of time post infection with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV)
August 25, 2016By S Tousignant
This project was designed to test manure from manure lagoons on sow farms across the midwest for the presence of viable PEDV in an effort to understand the risk of transmitting this virus...
Public Health - Worker Health & Safety
Assessment of Injuries in Pork Production Facilities
August 25, 2016By Bruce Alexander
Working with pigs has its own inherent risks. The occurrence of injury in people working in agriculture is often higher than most other...
Swine Health - General Disease
Assessing the effects of medium chain fatty acids and fat sources on PEDv by qRT-PCR and bioassay
August 19, 2016By Cassandra Jones
Research has confirmed that chemical treatments, such as medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) and commercial formaldehyde, can be effective to reduce the risk of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV)...
Other
Pork variety meat offal global safety and quality literature search and industry survey
July 15, 2016By William Benjy Mikel
The ability of the pork industry to enhance profitability is best found through the utilization of low value products that are not commonly...
Other
Pork offal bone literature review and industry survey
July 15, 2016By William Benjy Mikel
The ability of the pork industry to enhance profitability is best found through the utilization of low value products that are not commonly accepted for consumption in the United States, ie offal...
Development of swine influenza virus platform vector vaccines to control swine influenza virus and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
June 28, 2016By Ben Hause
Influenza A virus (IAV) causes significant losses to the swine industry. Here we constructed a novel attenuated live IAV vaccine designed to elicit an immune response to conserved IAV proteins by...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Correlation between physical characteristics of diets and absorption of energy by pigs
June 27, 2016By Hans H. Stein
Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), wheat middlings, and soybean hulls are cost-effective co-products that may replace some corn in swine diets. However, these co-products contain more...
Animal Science - Reproductive & Growth Physiology
Effects of betaine and heat stress on lactation and post-weaning reproductive performance on sows
June 27, 2016By Kara Stewart
Heat stress has multiple negative impacts on animal metabolism and physiology and is thought to cost the swine industry more than $360 million per...
Swine Health - General Disease
Live-animal assay for identifying correlates of cross-protection for swine influenza virus vaccines when vaccinated in the presence of maternal antibody.
June 21, 2016By Crystal Loving
Experimental live-attenuated influenza virus (LAIV) vaccines, delivered into the nose, have been shown protect pigs against influenza infection, more so than traditional inactivated commercial...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of on-farm PRRSV surveillance guidelines for the modern pork industry
June 2, 2016By Jeffrey Zimmerman
Oral fluids (OF) are a convenient surveillance sample because they (1) are easily collected by a single person; (2) can be collected frequently without stress to pigs or people; and (3) provide...
