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Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
A study to assess the tissue residue depletion profile of ampicillin in cull sows and its association with plasma, oral fluid and urine ampicillin concentrations
The use of more stringent penicillin detection methods in edible tissues at processing and a zero tolerance for the presence of detectable residues in some territories has resulted in an...
Environment - Environmental Footprint
A Life Cycle Analysis of Land Use in US Pork Production
The goal of this study was to analyze land use in the production of US pork using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). LCA is a comprehensive methodology for quantitatively analyzing potential...
Public Health - MRSA
Alternatives to antibiotics? Effects on MRSA prevalence in swine production systems
Antimicrobial resistant bacteria in animal products are of major public health concern. The concerns about prudent use of antimicrobials have largely focused on feed grade antibiotic products...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of two novel live attenuated swine influenza vaccines against newly emerging H3N2 virus infection and transmission
After the 2009 pandemic, variant H3N2 swine influenza viruses (H3N2v SIV) carrying genes from pandemic H1N1 emerged in pig farms. The objective of this study is to investigate whether the two live...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Enhancing feed utilization and nutrient digestibility through management of particle size and feed processing options
The overall goal for this experiment was to determine the impact of average particle size of corn, wheat and corn DDGS with two different grinding technologies on the digestion of energy and...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluating the use of long-term conditioning or extrusion to extract nutrients from low energy feedstuffs
A shift in three major issues affecting feed manufacturing for pork production has occurred simultaneously in recent years. First, high...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Optimal dietary protein for the development of gilts. NPB #15-119 (14-235-Year2)
This experiment was undertaken to develop diets that could be fed ad libitum to developing gilts that would result in differences in growth rate or body composition during development. A further...
PEDV Diagnostic Approaches to Assess Sow Immunity and Piglet Protection
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) was first detected in the U.S. in May 2013 and spread rapidly across the country. PCR assays were quickly developed to detect the presence of PEDV RNA in...
Animal Well-being
Development of a practical, cost-effective pain mitigation technique for castration of piglets
 There is a growing trend towards the development of “welfare-friendly” management practices in production animals....
Human Nutrition
Comparison of red meat versus high carbohydrate diet as a means of preventing tissue-specific down-regulation of insulin receptors
The effect of diet on physiological and chemical balance was assessed when mature, obese gilts were fed either a high fat ground beef (GB) or a high carbohydrate corn/soybean diet (CON). A pool of 21...
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