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...
Pork Quality
Determining the relationship between early postmortem loin quality attributes and aged loin quality attributes using meta-analysis techniques
December 1, 2017By Dr. Anna Dilger Ph.D.
Pork Quality
Characterizing the relationship between early postmortem loin quality attributes with 14 day aged loin quality attributes and sensory characteristics
November 27, 2017By Dustin Boler
Pork Quality
Pork Supply Chain Audit
November 1, 2017By Dustin Boler
Effects of melatonin feeding before and following breeding in mature gilts and primiparous sows to reduce failures in estrus expression and pregnancy establishment associated with seasonal infertility in summer and fall
February 1, 2017By Rob Knox PhD.
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Energy and nutrient digestibility in 11 sources of wheat middlings
January 14, 2017By Hans H. Stein
Wheat middlings and red dog are co-products from the wheat processing industry and are the high-fiber leftovers from production of wheat flour. There is an estimated total annual production of...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Swine Manure Nutrient Fate and Pathogen Reduction for Midwestern Corn Production with Cover Crop Utilization
December 30, 2016By Morgan Hayes
Recently the Midwestern US has seen a push has seen a movement to improve water quality for waters eventually reaching the Gulf of Mexico; this is in an effort to reduce the hypoxic zone. Cover...
Swine Health - General Disease
Factors that influence mechanical transmission of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus at the time of Unloading Animals into Slaughter Plant Lairage
November 30, 2016By James Lowe
PEDV continues to be spread between herds in the US. Livestock transport to harvest plants has been identified as a likely route of PEDV movement between herds. In this study we assessed which...
Human Nutrition
Postprandial muscle protein synthetic responses after high quality pork consumption in lean, overweight, and obese adults
September 8, 2016By Nicholas Burd
Obesity is associated with numerous chronic diseases. Many obese individuals, however, do not display overt disease. This is due to obese...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Correlation between physical characteristics of diets and absorption of energy by pigs
June 27, 2016By Hans H. Stein
Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), wheat middlings, and soybean hulls are cost-effective co-products that may replace some corn in swine diets. However, these co-products contain more...
