Environment - Air
Determining PM and Odor Emission Reductions of a Geothermal Heating/Cooling System in a Grow-Finish Building
November 26, 2014By Larry D. Jacobson
Throughout the U.S. there is a regulatory push to lower emissions of varies air pollutants from swine production facilities. The primary objective of this project was to determine if reductions in...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
A Meta-analysis of best practices for management and land application of swine manure in the Midwestern United States
November 26, 2014By Daniel Andersen
Many conservation practices are currently used within the swine production industry, but not universally adapted. The goal of this project was to identify currently available and technologically...
Swine Health - PRRS
Rational design of a broadly protective vaccine against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
November 14, 2014By Hiep Vu
Current PRRS vaccines are not adequately effective for control and eradication of PRRS. The main limitation of the current PRRS vaccines is their sub-optimal coverage against divergent PRRSV strains...
Swine Health - PRRS
Defining a Novel Structural Component of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus and its Role in Disease Pathogenesis
November 13, 2014By Kay S. Faaberg
The objective of this project was to characterize the makeup of nsp2, shown to be a new structural component of the PRRSV virion. Radiolabelled nsp2 protein, in the absence or presence of...
Swine Health - General Disease
Molecular Characterization and Protective/Diagnostic Application of the Capsular Polysaccharide of Haemophilus parasuis
November 5, 2014By Thomas Inzana
Haemophilus parasuis (Hps) is an important swine pathogen that can decimate a swine herd in less than 72 hours. Although this bacterium has devastating effects on pork producing facilities,...
Environment - Air
Mitigation of Air Emissions from Swine Buildings through the Photocatalytic Technology Using UV/TiO2
November 1, 2014By Zifei Liu
A honeycomb photocatalytic reactor was developed for treating air emissions from swine houses. The reactor was tested in lab and in the field. When residence time was long (8 to 16 seconds), the...
Oral fluid testing for cost-effective and efficient surveillance and control of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in swine population
October 31, 2014By Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Swine oral fluid and sampling has been recently recognized as a sample matrix and a cost effective tool for surveillance of numerous pathogens, notably PRRSV and SIV. The project was to...
Animal Well-being
A Comprehensive Literature Review on the Development, Treatment and Prevention of Shoulder Lesions in Sows
October 30, 2014By Jennifer Brown
Shoulder ulcers (shoulder lesions) in sows are most commonly observed in the first weeks of lactation, following farrowing. The prevalence of this problem varies greatly from herd to herd due to a...
Animal Well-being
Weaned pig transport: animal welfare impact of duration of trip, and provision of feed and water
October 28, 2014By John McGlone
Weaned pigs are transported on many USA farms. Some are transported short distances and others many hours. During transport...
Infectivity of swine manure from pits at varying lengths of time post infection with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus
October 28, 2014By S Tousignant
This project was designed to test manure from deep pits in 30 barns across southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa for the presence of viable PEDV in an effort to understand the risk of...
