Environment - Air
Vegetative Environmental Buffer Builder and Economic Review: A Decision Support Tool for the Pork Industry
May 30, 2017By John Tyndall
This project created a user-friendly online decision support tool for livestock producers (and their advisors) to design and plan for the use of Vegetative Environmental Buffers (VEB) for odor...
Swine Health - PRRS
Improving the performance of PRRSV oral fluid diagnostics
May 10, 2017By Jeffrey Zimmerman|Luis Gimenez-Lirola
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Identifying the Mechanism and Subsequent Remediation of Foaming in Swine Manure Management Systems
April 26, 2017By Steven Hoff PhD
Swine Health - PRRS
Mechanism of Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of PRRSV
March 22, 2017By Susan Carpenter
One of the challenges in developing effective vaccines for PRRSV is the limited understanding of how neutralizing antibody inhibits PRRSV replication, and how variation in PRRSV leads to escape from...
Assessing PEDV infectivity of samples collected from a PEDV contaminated feed mill
February 2, 2017By Phil Gauger
Introduction of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) into swine herds not only had a significant impact on animal health, but continues to be significant for pork producers and the feed...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of novel reovirus-based mucosal vaccine vectors for PEDV antigen production
February 2, 2017By Cathy Miller
The goals of this project were to identify methods for the high-level expression of the PEDV S protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) from within the genome of the clinically benign virus, Mammalian...
Animal Well-being
Dynamic space requirements for non-lame and lame sows determined by lying-standing sequence profile
December 20, 2016By Julia Calderon
Understanding how sows utilize their dynamic space envelope could assist animal scientists, agricultural engineers and veterinarians when considering the dynamic space needs in gestation housing. The...
Animal Science
Ventilation improvements for controlling swine production systems
December 12, 2016By Steven Hoff PhD
Maintaining acceptable thermal and gas concentration levels during minimum ventilation periods is challenging. The small amount of fresh-air used during cold weather periods needs to be distributed...
Swine Health - General Disease
Generation of specimens of precisely known coronavirus infection status for the development and validation of highly-specific porcine coronavirus antibody assays.
December 8, 2016By Luis Gimenez-Lirola
• In the field, pigs are exposed to different coronaviruses that are known to share genetic and antigenic traits that may contribute to false-positive results. Recent evidence suggesting...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of dietary soybean meal replacement on grow-finisher pig performance when challenged with PRRS and Mycoplasma
December 8, 2016By Nicholas Gabler
The amino acids requirements of growing-finishing pigs are met by utilizing a variety of protein rich ingredients, including soybean meal (SBM) and distillers dried grains with solubles, as well as...
