Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Defining the energy content (DE, ME, and NE) of drought-stressed corn and identifying risk factors that lower energy
April 21, 2014By John Patience
Record-breaking heat and lack of rainfall during the 2012 growing season resulted in drastically reduced corn yield and the prospects of a very poor quality corn crop. Unfortunately, there was...
Development and validation of isolation and diagnostic testing detection for PEDv
April 2, 2014By James E. Collins
Since the introduction of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) in the Unites States, millions of piglets have died. Key items are needed to be address to further initial PEDV research, such as...
Swine Health - General Disease
The Use of Probiotics as an Aid in the Control of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease in Neonatal Pigs
April 1, 2014By Alejandro Ramirez
In the last 10 years, Clostridium difficile has been implicated as a major cause of neonatal diarrhea in pigs. C. difficile infection (CDI) affects piglets ranging in age from 1-7 days. Clinical...
Pork Quality
Influence of commercial deep chilling processes on early postmortem events in muscle that affect ultimate fresh pork tenderness and processing quality
March 17, 2014By Steven Lonergan
Recent observations and evidence have supported the conclusion that rapid chilling (deep chilling) of pork carcasses in commercial processing plants has the potential to decrease pork tenderness....
Epidemiologic investigation on propensity for lateral spread of PED virus
March 15, 2014By Robert B. Morrison
The objectives of this study were to determine lateral transmission patterns of PEDv in the US. For objective 1, evaluation of harvest plants as points or nodes of PEDv transmission. To...
Bioassay for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus contaminated feed
March 12, 2014By Andrew Bowman
Within the past year, Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV) has emerged as a significant swine disease in the United States. This coronavirus continues to spread within the U.S. swine herd...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Comparative Digestibility of energy and nutrients in gestating sows and growing pigs
March 7, 2014By Hans H. Stein
The objective of this research was to compare DE and ME values and values for the apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of energy and...
Swine Health - PRRS
Design and analysis of PRRSv surveillance: temporal and spatial sampling, mapping, monitoring and automated rapid detection of outbreak
March 6, 2014By Chong Wang
Innovation of cost effective methods for eliminating the PRRSv from individual herds has stimulated hope that the industry may someday eliminate the virus from the U.S. However, exploiting this...
Animal Well-being
Protecting low ranking sows in group-housing systems
March 1, 2014By Yuzhi Li
Background: In group-housing systems, low-ranking sows are usually defeated and injured by high ranking sows. This results in low-ranking sows becoming fearful of further conflicts when...
Environmental stability of PEDV (porcine epidemic diarrhea virus)
March 1, 2014By Sagar M. Goyal
