The research conducted to support the viability of each of the industries in Iowa is supported by the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station.

The year of 2009 continued to be an extremely trying year for animal agriculture in Iowa. Record high feed prices were a disaster for the cattle feeding, dairy and swine industries where record losses were reported by these industries.

Since animal agriculture makes up 46 per cent of the agriculture income and provides significant jobs for people in the state, this has serious consequences for the economy of the state as well as the future of these industries.

Long term viability will be dependent upon improving the efficiency of operations so that they can become more profitable.

The research reports present a variety of research as it relates to the animal agriculture industries in Iowa.

Some research relates to improving production efficiencies while other research relates to improving environmental quality, animal product food safety and animal behaviour and well-being.

Swine Reports

Several leaflets were published on poultry in ISU's Animal Industry Report 2010. Click on the titles below to access the leaflets:

• AS Leaflet-R2491 Survival and Growth of Clostridium perfringens on Commercial No-Nitrate-or-Nitrite Added (Natural and Organic) Bacon and Ham by Armitra Jackson, Gary Sullivan, Joseph Sebranek, James Dickson
  
  
• AS Leaflet-R2492 Use of Natural Ingredients to Control Growth of Clostridium perfringens on Frankfurters and Ham by Armitra Jackson, Gary Sullivan, Joseph Sebranek, James Dickson
  
  
• AS Leaflet-R2493 Use of Natural Ingredients to Control Growth of Listeria monocytogenes on Ham by Steven Niebuhr, Gary Sullivan, Armitra Jackson, Joseph Sebranek, James Dickson
  
  
• AS Leaflet-R2494 Improving the Control of Listeria monocytogenes on No-Nitrate-or-Nitrite-Added (Natural or Organic) Frankfurters with Clean Label Antimicrobials by Kohl D. Schrader, Joseph C. Cordray, James S. Dickson, Aubrey F. Mendonca
  
  
• AS Leaflet-R2495 Effect of EDTA and Lysozyme on the Antimicrobial Activity of Ovotransferrin against Listeria monocytogenes by Kyung Y. Ko, Aubrey Mendonca, Dong Ahn
  
  
• AS Leaflet-R2496 Influence of Zn2+, Sodium Bicarbonate, and Citric Acid on the Antibacterial Activity of Ovotransferrin against E. coli O157:H7 and L. monocytogenes in Model Systems and Ham by Kyung Y. Ko, Aubrey Mendonca, Dong Ahn
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2533 Financial Perspectives on the Use of Vegetative Environmental Buffers for Swine Odor Management by John C. Tyndall, Robert C. Grala)
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2540 Genome-Wide Association Studies for Important Economic Traits in Domestic Animals Using High Density SNP Genotyping by Danielle M. Gorbach, Bin Fan, Suneel K. Onteru, Xia Zhao, Zhi-Qiang Du, Dorian Garrick, Jack Dekkers, Max F. Rothschild
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2541 Associations of Gilt Body Composition, Growth and Structural Soundness Traits with Sow Lifetime Reproductive Performance by Marja Nikkil?, Ken Stalder, Benny Mote, Timo Serenius, Max Rothschild, Locke Karriker, Jay Lampe, Bridget Thorn
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2542 Maximizing DDGS for Finishing Pigs in Bedded Hoop Barns by Mark Honeyman, Dave Stender, Wayne Roush, Don Hummel
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2543 Optimizing Energy Use in Pig Production: An Examination of Iowa Systems by Pete J. Lammers, Mark S. Honeyman, James B. Kliebenstein, Jay D. Harmon, Matthew J. Helmers
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2544 Independent Study 490A: Do Gilts Adapt to a Confined Farrowing Stall After Being Housed in a Loose Deep Bedded Gestation Environment? by Alicia Arp, Anna K. Johnson
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2545 Loading Gantry Versus Traditional Chute for the Finisher Pig: Effect on Fresh Pork Quality Attributes When Properly Loaded at First Pull by Nick L. Berry, Anna K. Johnson, Steven M. Lonergan, Tom J. Baas, Locke Karriker, Ken J. Stalder, Jeffery Hill, Collette Schultz-Kaster, Neal Matthews
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2546 Loading Gantry Versus Traditional Chute for the Finisher Pig: Effect on Fresh Pork Quality Attributes at Close Out by Nick L. Berry, Anna K. Johnson, Steven M. Lonergan, Tom J. Baas, Locke Karriker, Ken J. Stalder, Jeffery Hill, Collette Schultz-Kaster
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2547 Willingness to Approach Behavior and Feed Disappearance of Weaned Pigs Following Vaccination with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae by Anna Johnson, Thomas J. Fangman; Roy Edler, David A Baumert; Paul DuBois
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2548 A Comparative Study of Hoof Growth in Sows When Housed in Individual Stalls: How Does Parity Affect This? by Allison M. Meiszberg, Anna K. Johnson, Linda I. Engblom, Kenneth J. Stalder, Lori L. Layman, Locke A. Karriker
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2549 A Comparative Study of Hoof Lesion Presence in Sows When Housed in Individual Stalls: How Does Parity Affect This? by Allison M. Meiszberg, Anna K. Johnson, Linda I. Engblom, Kenneth J. Stalder, Lori L. Layman, Locke A. Karriker
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2550 To Determine the Active and Inactive Hours for Sound Sows When Housed in Individual Pens by Allison M. Meiszberg, Anna K. Johnson, Kenneth J. Stalder, Locke A. Karriker
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2551 Effects of Pre-Sorting Prior to Loading on Transport Losses of the Market Weight Pigs during Loading and Unloading by Leah Gesing, Anna Johnson, Josh Selsby, Ken Stalder, Michael Faga, Corky Feuerbach, Howard Hill, Ryan Bailey, Matthew Ritter
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2552 The Effect of Selection for Residual Feed Intake on Lesion Scores in Yorkshire Gilts by Larry J. Sadler, Anna K. Johnson, Steven M. Lonergan, Jack C. M. Dekkers, Daniel Nettleton
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2553 The Effect of Selection for Residual Feed Intake on General Behavioral Activity in Yorkshire Gilts by Larry J. Sadler, Anna K. Johnson, Steven M. Lonergan, Jack C. M. Dekkers, Daniel Nettleton
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2554 Reproductive Performance of Yorkshire Sows Selected for Residual Feed Intake by Jennifer Young, Rob Bergsma, Egbert Knol, John Patience, Jack Dekkers
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2555 Performance and Carcass Composition of Yorkshire Pigs Selected for Low Residual Feed Intake under Ad Libitum and Restricted Feeding by Nick Boddicker, Nicholas K. Gabler, Michael E. Spurlock, Dan Nettleton, Jack C. M. Dekkers
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2556 ANEXdb: An Integrated Animal Annotation and Microarray EXpression Database by Oliver Couture, Keith Callenberg, Neeraj Koul, Sushain Pandit, Remy Younes, Zhi-Liang Hu, Jack Dekkers, James Reecy, Vasant Honavar, Christopher Tuggle
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2557 IGF-1 Concentration at a Young Age is Associated with Feed Efficiency in Pigs by Kim L. Bunter, Weiguo Cai, David J. Johnston, Jack Dekkers
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2558 Transcriptional Profiling of the Caloric Restriction in Key Metabolic Tissues of Pigs Differing in Feed Efficiency by Sender Lkhagvadorj, Long Qu, Weiguo Cai, Oliver Couture, Lloyd Anderson, Jack Dekkers, Dan Nettleton, Chris Tuggle
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2559 Determining Optimal Maximum Culling Parity in Commercial Swine Breeding Herds by Caitlyn Abell; Kenneth Stalder, Anna Johnson, Locke Karriker, Gordon Jones
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2560 Sow Reproductive Stayability and Lifetime Traits by Linda Engblom, Ken Stalder, John Mabry, Justin Holl, William Herring, Matt Culbertson
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2561 Lifetime Reproductive Traits in Landrace, Yorkshire and Crossbred Sows by Linda Engblom, Ken Stalder, John Mabry, Clint Schwab
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2562 Culling, Mortality and Lifetime Production among U.S. Sows by Linda Engblom, Ken Stalder
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2563 Efficiency of Niche Pork Production in 2007 by David Stender, James Kliebenstein, Richard Ness, John Mabry, Gary Huber, Mark Honeyman
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2564 Efficiency of Niche Pork Production in 2008 by David Stender, James Kliebenstein, Richard Ness, John Mabry, Gary Huber, Mark Honeyman
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2565 Returns and Costs of Niche Pork Production in 2007 by David Stender, James Kliebenstein, Richard Ness, John Mabry, Gary Huber, Mark Honeyman
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2566 Returns and Costs of Niche Pork Production in 2008 by David Stender, James Kliebenstein, Richard Ness, John Mabry, Gary Huber, Mark Honeyman

Further Reading

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