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)...      
       
      
    Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
    Improving fiber digestibility in DDGS from ethanol production
    October 31, 2013By Sabrina Trupia
          
        The objective of this project was to assess effects of pretreatment methods (chemical, enzymatic, and mechanical) on the digestibility of energy in DDGS. Combinations of different methods were...      
       
      
    Animal Well-being
    Systematic literature review and needs assessment of housing systems for gestating sows in group pens with group feeding
    October 25, 2013By Mhairi Sutherland
          
        Gestation sow housing is a current contemporary animal welfare issue. The current political atmosphere is driving producers to consider changing back to group housing systems for gestating sows. It...      
       
      
    Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
    Determining the biological and metabolic differences between slow and fast growing pigs raised in commercial conditions
    October 22, 2013By John Patience
          
        With escalating feed prices, increasing litter sizes, and ever-evolving disease challenges, the difficulties of transitioning pigs during the weaning process is a major priority for pork producers....      
       
      
    Swine Health - PRRS
    An Interferon-inducible Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus Isolate
    October 14, 2013By Yan-Jin Zhang
          
        The objective of this project was to determine the full length sequences of an interferon-inducible PRRSV strain A2MC2 and determine whether it can induce neutralizing antibodies. Type I interferons...      
       
      
    Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
    Monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance in Food Animal Production: Partnership between National Antimicrobial resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) and Academia
    October 3, 2013By Wondwossen Gebreyes
          
        Collaborative partners including four Universities (Ohio State, Minnesota, North Carolina State and Iowa State), industry and federal...      
       
      
    Animal Well-being
    Reviewing the State of Scientific Evidence and Developing Recommendations about Pain Mitigation Strategies in Piglets Undergoing Routine Processing Procedures
    September 23, 2013By Annette O’Connor
          
        The following non-technical summary describes the recommendations from a review and decision-making process conducted between August 2012 and August 2013 by the panel at the request of the...