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...
Animal Science
Development of a three dimensional digital model of the skeleton and muscular anatomy of the pork carcass including several learning modules
February 12, 2010By Steven J. Jones
Increase demand for pork requires that new uses for existing muscles in the pork carcass be utilized in new and novel ways. To do this, different fabrication procedures need to be developed and then...
Swine Health - PRRS
Rational Design of a New Generation of PRRSV Differential (Marker) Vaccines (Renewal, 2007)
May 13, 2009By Fernando Osorio
Both industry and scientific experts alike agree in that an effective, broadly protective vaccine against PRRS is a very important tool to help in the control of this disease. Our laboratory pursues...
Swine Health - PRRS
Predictors of response and genetic resistance/susceptibility in pigs to infection with Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus
May 4, 2009By Donald G. Levis PhD
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) has caused devastating losses to swine herds on a worldwide basis. It has been estimated that PRRSV costs the United States pork industry...
Swine Health - General Disease
Identification of a putative viral co-factor different from PCV2, in animals with PMWS.
July 11, 2008By Israrul Ansari
During the last two years, the availability of effective vaccines against PCV2 and their extensive successful use under field conditions to control PMWS have allowed to convincingly demonstrate that...
Environment - Air
Facilitating Use of the Odor Footprint Tool by Nebraska Pork Producers
July 5, 2008By Richard R. Stowell
The goal of this project was to make Odor Footprint Tool (OFT) resources readily usable by pork producers and their technical advisors as a planning and screening tool when siting swine facilities....
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Corn distillers dried grains (DDGS) for growing-finishing swine
July 3, 2008By Philip S. Miller
A nutrition study was conducted to investigate the feeding value of DDGS for growing-finishing swine. Specifically, growing-finishing diets were developed that contain 0 (control), 5, 10, and 15%...
Swine Health - PRRS
Rational Design of a New Generation of PRRSV Differential (Marker) Vaccines (Renewal Summer 2006)
June 24, 2008By Fernando Osorio
This project is based on two main premises: 1) the conviction that the use of vaccines will always be a cost-efficient method and the preferred approach to control PRRSV infections, and 2) the notion...
Swine Health - General Disease
Characterizing level of PCV type 2 virus in serum and expression of PMWS in different populations of pigs
May 19, 2008By Rodger Johnson
Selection for resistance to PCV2 virus is possible. It can be accomplished by serially scoring pigs for symptoms of PCVAD from 60 to 125 d of age, weighing pigs at these ages, and measuring serum...
