Human Nutrition
Investigating the Role of Pork Consumption on Cognition and Brain Health through Innovation in Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience
August 13, 2023By Aron Barbey
Lean pork consumption is linked with functional efficiency within the visual and ventral attentional networks of the brain, as well as favorable brain age, motivating the design of randomized controlled trials to establish the role of lean pork consumption in cognitive performance and brain health.
Animal Science
Development of an Integrated Computerized Sensing System for Reproductive Management of the Swine Breeding Herd
March 4, 2023By Robert V. Knox
Modern breeding farms rely on consistent flow of pigs through the production system. Reduced fertility can seriously disrupt animal production, flow and profit. These problems can originate from an...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Identification of Protective Antigens of African Swine Fever Virus
March 4, 2023By Daniel Rock
African swine fever (ASF) is an acute viral disease of domestic swine with mortality rates approaching 100%. Currently endemic in extensive regions of Eurasia, ASF is “out of Africa”...
Pork Quality
Increasing the Value of Heavy-Weight Pork Carcasses
June 1, 2022By Dr. Anna Dilger Ph.D.
Increasing the value of heavy weight pork carcasses by modifying current shoulder fabrication specifications.
Pork Quality
Increasing the value of heavy weight pork carcasses by evaluating belly and ham characteristics
May 31, 2022By Bailey Harsh
Determining effects of increasing carcass size on ham and belly processing and quality characteristics.
Pork Quality
Characterizing the amount, variability and cellular mechanisms of intramuscular fat deposition throughout the loin using barrows and gilts from two genotypes
February 26, 2021By Dr. Anna Dilger Ph.D.
Capturing genetic potential for greater sow lifetime productivity.
February 26, 2021By Robert V. Knox
These results confirm that, in a population of contemporary replacement gilts managed in a commercial farm environment, the protocol used to expose gilts to boar stimuli has a major impact on the efficiency of inducing a pubertal estrus (HNS) response.
Animal Science - Heavy Market Pig
Projecting changes in pig growth, pork quality, eating experience, and muscle physiology due to increasing live and carcass weights
January 1, 2019By Dr. Anna Dilger Ph.D.
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Moderating body temperature decline in low birth weight piglets in the early post-natal period to improve survival and enhance animal welfare.
December 21, 2018By Dr. Michael Ellis Ph.D.|Katherine Vande Pol|Naomi Cooper
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effects of body weight and research conditions on the determination of the productive energy content of corn germ meal fed to growing-finishing pigs.
June 29, 2018By Dr. Michael Ellis Ph.D.
Corn germ meal (CGM), a co-product of the corn wet milling industry, is an ingredient that could be used to reduce the cost of swine diets. Efficient use of any ingredient requires an accurate...
