Pork Quality
Determining Pork Fat Quality as Measured by Three Methods with an Industry Standard Marketing Plan for Pigs Fed 20% DDGS
June 11, 2014By Bryon Wiegand
Fat quality affects the entire pork chain as both fresh and further processed products are subject to fat oxidation, color change, and shortened shelf-life in light of poor fat quality. The...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Development of novel foot and mouth disease virus with multiple mutations for evaluation as live attenuated DIVA vaccine candidates
June 10, 2014By Teresa De Los Santos
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an extremely contagious viral disease of a variety of wild and domestic cloven-hoofed animals, including pigs. The disease is distributed worldwide and has great...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Evaluation of a Physiological Test for Sow Longevity
June 4, 2014By W. L. Flowers
A gilt’s response to early boar exposure has been shown to be a viable option for estimating her lifetime productivity as a sow. Unfortunately, providing adequate boar exposure at...
Pork Quality
Relationship of Fat Quality to Meat and Eating Quality Traits of Pork
June 2, 2014By Tom Baas
Fat quality is an important component of overall pork quality and consumer acceptance of pork, but, prior to this research, little was known about genetic differences, relationships amongst...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Development of Strategies to Improve Sow Productive Lifetime
June 1, 2014By Jason W. Ross
Numerous factors, including herd-life (length in days), removal parity, total piglets born and the number of piglets weaned, impact sow productive lifetime. Like many complex traits that are...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a broadly protective PRRS vaccine candidate: Application of non-toxic enterotoxin and E. coli as the adjuvant-delivery system
May 27, 2014By Ying Fang
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) continues to be a threat to the swine industry. Currently, both modified live virus (MLV) and inactivated PRRS vaccines have been licensed for use...
Environment - Water Usage / Conservation
A Life Cycle Analysis of Water Use in U.S. Pork Production
May 23, 2014By Marty Matlock
The goal of this study was to analyze water use in the U.S. pork industry using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. LCAs are quantitative analyses of complex systems for the evaluation of...
Propagation of PEDv in tissue culture and development of standardized reference samples for use in diagnostic testing
May 19, 2014By Qiuhong Wang
The highly contagious and deadly porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus (PEDv) was first discovered in the US in April-May 2013. Since then the virus has spread rapidly nationwide causing high...
Human Nutrition
The effect of increasing the protein content of breakfasts on satiety and cognitive function in undergraduate students
May 19, 2014By James Hollis
This study investigated the effect of protein consumption at breakfast on appetite and cognitive performance. Participants were provided with one of four breakfast treatments: no breakfast, No-pork,...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Reproductive performance and longevity in replacement gilts allowed different amounts of floor space during the nursery phase of rearing
May 9, 2014By Mark Estienne
The annual replacement rate of commercial sows is 40 to 60% and for U.S. pork producers to remain globally competitive, research and technological advances are needed to increase sow lifetime...
