Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluating the use of long-term conditioning or extrusion to extract nutrients from low energy feedstuffs
June 30, 2015By Cassandra Jones
A shift in three major issues affecting feed manufacturing for pork production has occurred simultaneously in recent years. First, high...
Determining the impact of conditioning time and temperature in pelleted diets on porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) survivability in complete swine diets
January 27, 2015By Jason Woodworth
Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) has profoundly affected the U.S. swine industry since it emerged May 2013. Since late January 2014, it has been suspected that PEDv outbreaks have been...
Animal Science
The effects of increasing niacin supplementation on growth performance, and pork quality of finishing pigs raised in seasonal heat stress
January 6, 2015By Joel DeRouchey
The overall hypothesis was that increasing the supplementation of niacin to finishing pigs during periods of heat stress can increase skin vasodilation which will improve heat abatement and...
Swine Health - PRRS
The contribution of adaptive immunity to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus infection
January 5, 2015By Melinda Wilkerson
Objectives: The purpose of our studies was to understand how adaptive immunity contributes to the susceptibility of nursery-age piglets to...
Post-processing contamination chemical mitigation strategies to control PEDv in feed and feed ingredients
November 30, 2014By Cassandra Jones
Post–processing contamination of PEDv in feed and feed ingredients is a significant concern to the swine industry. Irradiation and thermal processing have both been hypothesized as possible...
Environment - Air
Mitigation of Air Emissions from Swine Buildings through the Photocatalytic Technology Using UV/TiO2
November 1, 2014By Zifei Liu
A honeycomb photocatalytic reactor was developed for treating air emissions from swine houses. The reactor was tested in lab and in the field. When residence time was long (8 to 16 seconds), the...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluating Moderate to Severe Feed Processes in Light of Increasing Use of Wheat in Swine Diets
August 15, 2014By Michael Tokach
The overriding objective of this research was to improve the industry-wide lack of knowledge of how wheat particle size and pelleting of...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of modified live attenuated virus vaccine expressing porcine IL-18
July 1, 2014By Wenjun Ma
This proposal evaluated a live attenuated virus vaccine expressing porcine cytokine IL-18 in pigs that is expected to provide enhanced protection against different swine influenza virus (SIV)...
Swine Health - General Disease
Sequencing and characterization of genes encoding capsid proteins VP4, VP6 and VP7 from field porcine rotavirus strains
July 1, 2014By Jianfa Bai
The lack of genome sequence information largely limited our ability to generate accurate molecular diagnostics and to identify vaccine candidate for porcine rotaviruses, especially for group B and C...
Pork Quality
The Development of Equations to Predict the Iodine Value of Various Swine Carcass Fat Depots
June 30, 2014By John Gonzalez
The objectives of this study were two fold. The first objective was to analyze existing data to develop predictive equations to determine the iodine value of three economically relevant...
