Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Influence of Rapid Introduction and Removal of Dietary DDGS on Pig Performance and Carcass Characteristics
January 28, 2009By G.C. Shurson
Pork producers and nutritionists want to use feed ingredients that will optimize pig performance at the lowest cost. Inclusion of DDGS in the diets for grower-finisher pigs may be economical at...
Swine Health - General Disease
The effect of cross-fostering on the transfer of cellular and humoral maternal immunity to Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
January 25, 2009By Thomas W. Molitor
Enzootic pneumonia resulting from Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections is an important disease to the US swine industry. Antibodies and immune cells specific to this agent can be detected...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a New Generation of Antisense Antiviral Drug against PRRSV
January 23, 2009By Yan-Jin Zhang
This project has explored a novel class of antiviral drugs to suppress PRRSV replication. These drugs were designed on the basis of PRRSV genomic sequences. Their specific binding to the virus genome...
Swine Health - PRRS
Assessing the use of biofilters and antimicrobial filters to reduce the excretion of PRRS virus into the environment
January 22, 2009By Scott Dee
As area-based PRRSV control and eradication programs move forward, the ability to minimize the risk of PRRSV-excretion into the environment from infected populations becomes important. This study...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of crude glycerin in swine
January 22, 2009By Brian Kerr
The objective of the proposed research was to determine the variation in metabolizable energy (ME) content of crude glycerin samples from a several biodiesel production facilities using different...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of a non-antibiotic selection vector for a live vaccine against PWD
January 20, 2009By Weiping Zhang
Porcine post-weaning diarrhea (PWD) continues causing substantial economic loss to swine producers. Vaccines strategy especially live attenuated vaccines could be the most effective and most...
Environment - Air
Field and Wind Tunnel Evaluation of Vegetative Buffers for Particulate Trapping and Odor Reduction Near Swine Production Facilities
January 14, 2009By Thomas J. Sauer
Growing number of swine operations have turned to natural buffers (also called shelterbelts or vegetative buffers) as part of their odor mitigation strategy. However, there is little to no data on...
Swine Health - PRRS
Implementation of a PRRSV Strain Database (Renewal of NPB project #06-127)
January 7, 2009By Kay S. Faaberg
The PRRSV strain database (http://prrsvdb.org) has been supported by the National Pork Board for four years. The database (PRRSVdb; 9,531 sequences) is...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Effect of soybean peroxidase activity on phenolic compounds, ammonia, and other organic compounds in swine manure
January 6, 2009By Brian Richert
A simulated manure system was used to evaluate the potential for soybean peroxidase (SoyP) added to swine manure to control phenolic and other odorous compounds in head space air and manure. The SoyP...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of Edible Vaccines against PRRSV: A Proof of Concept Study
December 22, 2008By Chenming (Mike) Zhang
The overall objective of this project is to develop edible vaccines to combat the devastating porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) as an alternative to current MLVs. The goal is to...
