Swine Health - PRRS
The effect of PRRSv infection on the thymus – a source of immune dysregulation?
March 7, 2016By Crystal Loving
PRRSv infection has been shown to cause an acute lymphopenia (loss of cells in the blood), lymphadenopathy (increased size of lymph nodes due to increased cell numbers) and thymic atrophy (decreased...
Swine Health - General Disease
Understanding and searching for immune protection against group C rotavirus in piglets
March 2, 2016By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Rotavirus is not a new disease within the swine industry; however, there is an evidence of re-emergence and importance in neonates and early weaned piglets. Group C rotaviruses often cause...
PEDv Survivability in Manure-Amended Soil and Evaluation of Lime Application to Soil as a PEDV Biosecurity Measure
February 25, 2016By Amy Schmidt
This project was conducted in an effort to determine the transmission risk for PEDv in stored manure and manure-amended soil. Specific...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Effects of Preweaning factors on Sow Lifetime Productivity
February 16, 2016By Mark Knauer
The objective of the study was to associate preweaning factors in gilt multiplication with the subsequent...
Effect of GnRH-II on feed efficiency and immune function of growing/finishing pigs
February 10, 2016By Brett White
Animal Science
Understanding the biology of seasonal infertility to develop mitigation strategies for swine
February 8, 2016By Jason W. Ross
Mitigating seasonal infertility is critically important to increased production efficiency for American pork producers. Elevated ambient temperature is a significant factor contributing to...
Pork Quality
Determination of the correlation of loin quality parameters with fresh belly characteristics and fresh and processed ham quality
February 1, 2016By Dustin Boler
One of the key challenges currently facing the pork industry is a lack of insight into the relationship between loin, belly, and ham quality. Most published research focuses on loin, belly, or...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Evaluating strength, sharpness, and detection of swine-use hypodermic needles
February 1, 2016By Steven Hoff PhD
A previous study (circa 2000) investigated swine-use hypodermic needle strength and detection. At that time, needle...
Pork Quality
A systematic review of patterns in tenderness metrics of North American based pork from 1994 to 2014
January 22, 2016By Annette O’Connor
Pork value is determined by its composition and by consumer satisfaction. Several metrics of pork are considered indicators of tenderness and overall quality. We conducted a systematic review to...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Improving milk production efficiency and mitigating feed costs in lactating sows through dietary crude protein abatement and crystalline amino acid supplementation under thermo neutral and thermal stress environment model
January 19, 2016By Nathalie L. Trottier
Objectives:To determine if lactating sows can be fed diets containing less protein in order to reduce the quantity of nitrogen excreted into the environment. To determine if sows fed...
