Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Enhancing the Value of Swine Manure and Nutrient Availability with Application Timing and Cover Crops
March 17, 2010By Gyles Randall
The overall objective of this field study was to determine the effect of late summer and fall applications of liquid swine manure with and without an oat cover crop on the nitrate distribution in the...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Influence of dietary DDGS and glycerol on pork loin and bacon quality
March 12, 2010By Terry Houser
An important topic of discussion in the pork industry today is the fat quality of pork carcasses. It is well known that low quality fat (soft, oily fat) can have negative effects on the quality...
Environment - Other
Implementing Mass Nutrient Balance Procedures on Swine Production Facilities.
March 11, 2010By Rick Koelsch
It is often a challenge for an animal feeding operation to know when it has achieved environmental “sustainability”. Typically, environmental sustainability is measured in terms of...
Swine Health - PRRS
Role of All of the PRRSV Glycoproteins in Protective Immune Response
March 4, 2010By Asit Pattnaik
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) caused by PRRS virus (PRRSV) is of major economic significance to swine industry in the U.S.A. and worldwide. Currently, there is no effective...
Swine Health - General Disease
Strategies to include STa antigen in vaccine development against porcine post-weaning diarrhea (PWD);
March 2, 2010By Weiping Zhang
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains are a major cause of diarrhea disease in humans and farm animals. E. coli fimbriae or colonization factor antigens (CFAs) and enterotoxins including...
Environment - Other
Demonstrating Innovative Use of Precision Farming Technologies to Optimize Manure Nutrient Utilization and Reduce Environmental Concerns
March 1, 2010By Richard Wolkowski
Precision Agriculture Technologies are here to stay as more combines, applicators, and tractors are equipped with GPS receivers, steering systems and data recording systems. These technologies offer...
Animal Well-being
Assessment of lameness, pain and culling risk in sows
February 25, 2010By John Deen
Lameness has long been identified as a concern in sow herds. It is usually recognized as a painful condition and as potentially detrimental to the future productivity of that sow. Lameness is...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
Large-Scale Association Analyses of Candidate Genes for Feed Efficiency Traits in Pig
February 25, 2010By Max Rothschild
This study was conducted with the objectives of identifying genes which impact feed efficiency in pigs, quantifying those effects, and informing producers of how to utilize this information in...
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Association of genetic markers with structural soundness and its relationship to gilt development and sow longevity
February 25, 2010By Max Rothschild
Sow longevity or sow productive life (SPL) is an important complex trait for total profitability of pig production. Proper gilt development and selection are important means to reduce the culling and...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
Large scale SNP association analyses of feed efficiency and longevity
February 25, 2010By Max Rothschild
Many traits financially important to hog producers are either expensive or time-consuming to measure or difficult to successfully select animals for based on low heritability of the targeted traits....
