Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of Late Finishing Space Allowance and Marketing Strategy and the Strategic use of Hyper-Doses of Phytase to Improve Production Performance and Profits
September 19, 2023By Eric Van Heugten
This project was designed to evaluate the impacts that hyper-dosing levels of phytase (defined here as 4,500 to 5,000 FTU/kg of feed) on growth performance, carcass characteristics, and serum chemistry of late-finishing pigs housed under space restriction or marketed using two different marketing strategies.
Public Health - Influenza
Risk assessment model to reduce bi-directional interspecies influenza transmission in an indoor hog grower unit
August 28, 2023By Max J. Moreno-Madriñán
The purpose of this project was to produce effective risk assessment models to compare the likely effectiveness of different management and biosecurity practices and policies to prevent transmission of different influenza strains.
Human Nutrition
An analysis of pork intake, its association with diet, and modeling its nutritional impact on the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
August 14, 2023By Victor L. Fulgoni, III
Analysis of intake of pork, its association with diet and health markers using NHANES 2001-2018, and modeling the nutritional impact of removing/adding servings to the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended healthy dietary patterns.
Human Nutrition
Investigating the Role of Pork Consumption on Cognition and Brain Health through Innovation in Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience
August 13, 2023By Aron Barbey
This research program applied interdisciplinary methods in nutritional cognitive neuroscience to investigate the role of pork consumption on cognitive performance and brain health.
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.
Swine Health
Classical Swine Fever PCR Negative Cohort Study
August 8, 2023By Jeff Zimmerman
Partnering to expand testing capacities, support further evaluation and validation of two commercially available CSF PCR assays, and enhance preparedness across the NAHLN.
Pork Quality
Using Clean Label, Natural Antioxidants to Prevent Lipid Oxidation in Frozen, Food-Service Bacon Made from Bellies with Three Iodine Value Ranges
August 2, 2023By Terry Houser
This study confirms previous research that bacon is highly susceptible to lipid deterioration when using an oxygen permeable food-service packaging format and frozen storage conditions.
Public Health - Community Health
Improved Spatial Analysis to Understand Swine CAFOs and the Surrounding Environment and Public Health Concerns
June 30, 2023By Dr. Kaushi Kanankege
The objective of this study is to quantify the status quo how the human or environmental exposure to hog CAFOs may be measured, accounting for site-specific social, geographical, and environmental factors.
Public Health
Self-reported respiratory health symptoms and respiratory protection behaviors of young adult hog producers in the United States
June 28, 2023By Carolyn Sheridan
Assessing reported respiratory health symptoms and changes in reported respiratory protection behaviors of young adults and veterinarians in swine production.
Human Nutrition
Effects of Consuming Ounce Equivalent Portions of Fresh Pork Versus Nuts, Beans and Eggs, as Defined by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans on Essential Amino Acid Substrate Availability for Protein Anabolism
June 25, 2023By Wayne W. Campbell
Introduction The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) recommends consuming avariety of “Protein Foods” based on “ounce-equivalent” (oz-eq) portions. No study has assessed the same oz-eq...
Animal Science
Assessing the effects of farrowing crate design and mothering phenotype on pre-weaning piglet survival and performance using imaging technologies
June 7, 2023By Tami Brown-Brandl
Actual piglet mortality is a combination of a set of complex interactions between sow, piglet, environmental, and management factors. While crushing by the sow may be the ultimate cause of piglet mortality, there are many factors influencing the outcome, including hypothermia, starvation, and others. This study’s goals were to create a better environment for the piglets and the sow and to work towards methods of selecting sows with better mothering ability.
