Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Development of equations to predict the metabolizable energy content of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) samples from a wide variety of sources.
June 23, 2010By Michael Ellis
Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS), a byproduct of ethanol production from corn that is becoming available in increasing quantities, is a potentially valuable ingredient for use in...
Environment - Water Usage / Conservation
Water Consumption and Conservation Techniques Currently Available for Swine Production
June 23, 2010By Robert Burns
Water conservation is important in any industry and swine production is no exception. Many water conservation technologies and practices...
Swine Health - PRRS
Year 2 funding support for the PRRS Host Genetics Consortium: A proposal to study the role of host genetics and resistance to PRRSV
June 22, 2010By Raymond R. Rowland
The PHGC represents the first-of-its-kind approach to food animal infectious disease research. The NPB, PRRS CAP, ARS, USDA AFRI, private companies, and universities have come together to conduct...
Swine Health - General Disease
The Impact of Weaning Age on Pig Gut Mucosal Defense and Susceptibility to Post-weaning E. coli Disease
June 22, 2010By Adam Moeser
Post weaning enteric disorders continue to be a major source of mortality, morbidity, and production inefficiency in U.S. swine production. F 18 E. coli is one of the most important enteric pathogens...
Swine Health - General Disease
Expanding the immune toolkit for assessing pig health and improving swine disease and vaccine studies NPB project
June 21, 2010By Joan K. Lunney
Keeping pigs healthy and productive is a major goal for producers and researchers. Preventing disease, using biosecurity and planned vaccinations, are hallmarks of well-managed swine facilities....
Swine Health - PRRS
Vaccination of pigs with alphavirus replicon particles expressing PRRSV ORF 3, 4, 5 and 6
June 21, 2010By D.L. Hank Harris
The objective of this project was to evaluate alphavirus replicon particles (RP) expressing various PRRSV proteins as vaccine candidates. Previous work has identified the minor structural...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Identification of SNP Markers Associated with Number Born, Number Weaned and Weaning to Estrus Interval in Commercial First Parity Sows
June 18, 2010By Gary Rohrer
The objective of this research was to identify genetic markers that would be predictive of first parity reproductive performance and rebreeding in an effort to improve the percentage of gilts...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a rapid, swine-specific test to simultaneously detect multiple immune proteins (cytokines) affected by PRRSV infection
June 18, 2010By Jane Christopher-Hennings
Cytokines are small secreted proteins which mediate and regulate immunity to viral infections in swine and other species. Evidence suggests that PRRSV does not induce early, effective...
Public Health - MRSA
Quantitative Risk Assessment of Human MRSA Caused by Antibiotic Use in Swine
June 18, 2010By Tony Cox
Recent news stories, and many web sites and blogs, have suggested that routine use of antibiotics on pig farms may be threatening public...
Swine Health - PRRS
Sequencing, Cloning and Characterization of a 2007 Vietnam PRRSV isolate
June 17, 2010By Kay S. Faaberg
Epidemics of severe swine disease, termed “Porcine High Fever Disease (PHFD)”, continue to be reported in...
