Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of a microbially-converted soybean meal as a substitute for fishmeal and a dietary acidifier in nursery pig diets and its effect on post-weaning diarrhea
September 3, 2015By Crystal Levesque
There is concern that current demands for fish, and its resultant by product fishmeal (FM), are at unsustainable levels, as such, efforts are being placed on finding alternatives sources of...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Improving nutrient utilization and biological and financial performance through the use of super-dosing of phytase in grow-finish diets
September 1, 2015By John Patience
The objective of this research was to determine the impact of feeding grow-finish pigs super-dosed levels of phytase on the digestibility of nutrients, and pig growth performance. The enzyme...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Systematic Review of Antibiotic Resistance of Public Health Importance in Environments near Swine Operations
August 31, 2015By Randall Singer
Systematic reviews are a rigorous knowledge synthesis technique first developed in the health sciences to summarize information from numerous randomized trials examining the clinical efficacy of an...
Pork Quality
Influence of iodine value and packaging type on shelf life of HRI packaged bacon slices
August 16, 2015By Terry Houser
Over the last decade, a great deal of research has been done investigating how diet manipulation influences pork quality. Most...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of diagnostic performance characteristics of commercially-available CSFV tests
August 15, 2015By Yaowalak Panyasing
Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is endemic and circulates in many regions of the world; therefore, the potential re-emergence of CSFV is a continual risk. It is in the pork producers' best...
Utilizing feed sequencing as a biosecurity intervention for preventing PEDV cross-contamination in the feed manufacturing process
August 14, 2015By Jason Woodworth
The contamination of feed and feed ingredients with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV) is a major concern to the swine industry and knowing feed or feed ingredients can support PEDV transfer,...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of an in vitro digestibility procedure for dietary fiber in high fiber feed ingredients fed to growing pigs
August 7, 2015By Gerald Shurson
Use of high fiber feed ingredients in commercial swine diets is a common strategy to decrease feed costs during times of high corn and soybean meal prices. However, the addition of high fiber...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Improving energy utilization in high by-product diets with copper
August 4, 2015By R.D. Goodband
The overriding objective is to determine if energy utilization from diets containing high levels of by-products and differing in energy content can be improved with supplemental Cu in commercial...
Public Health - MRSA
Prevalence and characterization of Staphylococcus aureus in pigs in the USA
August 3, 2015By Peter Davies
Over the last 10 years, concerns have grown about the possible importance of livestock reservoirs as a source of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). S. aureus is a normal...
Public Health - Salmonella
Evaluate the dissemination of Salmonella in the environment following land application of swine manure
August 3, 2015By Siddhartha Thakur
There is tremendous pressure on the US pork industry to ban the prophylactic and growth promotion use of antimicrobials in feed due to the generation of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacterial...
