Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Effect of Lairage on Prevalence of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in market swine
December 26, 2013By James D. McKean
Industry Summary
The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is a commonly found on the skin and mucous membranes of a wide range of mammals; and usually exists in a non-clinical state. One...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Dietary effects on sow productivity to three parities
December 15, 2013By Dr. Clay A. Lents Ph.D.
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Critical appraisal of evidence that low-dose, long term (growth promotion) antimicrobial use augments public health risks from antimicrobial resistant organisms
December 10, 2013By Peter Davies
Antimicrobials are important tools for ensuring the health, welfare and productivity of pigs raised for food. Banning of antimicrobial growth promotant use in Denmark, and subsequently more widely in...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of standard methods to compare surveillance between regional porcine reproductive and respiratory virus control projects
December 5, 2013By Derald Holtkamp
The North American Swine industry is engaged in a conversation on a national porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) strategy. The parties involved in the conversation...
Animal Well-being
Establishing Bedding and Boarding Requirements for Finisher Pigs Through Scientific Validation – Micro-study
December 1, 2013By Angela Green
Transport is a critical factor affecting swine welfare in modern U.S. commercial pork production. Broad temperature ranges encountered during transport can challenge pig welfare and have been...
Swine Health - General Disease
Characterization of the genetic diversity of Mycoplasma hyorhinis field isolates by multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis (MLVA) and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST)
November 26, 2013By Alberto Rovira
Mycoplasma hyorhinis is an important pathogenic organism that inhabits de nasal cavity of swine. This bacterium has been associated with a variety of diseases in pigs, where polyserositis and...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Reducing feed cost by maximizing dietary byproduct feeding length prior to market
November 19, 2013By Joel DeRouchey
The overriding objective is to improve the industry-wide lack of knowledge in utilizing high levels of by-products (DDGS and wheat middlings) in late finishing diets prior to marketing to...
Environment - Air
Feeding amino acids to reduce air emissions and the carbon footprint of swine production
November 19, 2013By Wendy Powers
Reduced crude protein (CP) diets with synthetic amino acid (AA) supplementation has proven to be an effect way to reduce ammonia (NH3) emissions from swine housing. However, there are very...
Swine Health - General Disease
Early detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections in live pigs: Comparison of current methods and development of new assays
November 5, 2013By Maria Pieters
Detection of M. hyopneumoniae infections in live pigs is difficult for the producer, the field veterinarian and the diagnostician. This study was designed and performed with the objective to compare...
Swine Health - General Disease
Generating swine influenza virus (SIV) oral fluid diagnostic Reference Standards for community use
November 4, 2013By Jeffrey Zimmerman
Influenza A virus is an important component of the porcine respiratory disease complex (Thacker et al., 2001) and a pathogen with a major economic impact on swine production. Holtkamp (2007a,b)...
