Publications

Cervantes-Pahm, S. K., Y. Liu, and H. H. Stein. 2014. Comparative digestibility of energy and nutrients and fermentability of dietary fiber in eight cereal grains fed to pigs. J. Sci. Food Agric. 94:841–849.

Cervantes-Pahm, S. K., Y. Liu, and H. H. Stein. 2014. Digestible indispensable amino acid score and digestible amino acids in eight cereal grains. Brit. J. Nutr. 111:1663-1672.

Cervantes-Pahm, S. K. Y. Liu, A. Evans, and H. H. Stein. 2014. Effect of novel fiber ingredients on ileal and total tract digestibility of energy and nutrients in semi-purified diets fed to growing pigs. J. Sci. Food Agric. 94:1284-1290.

Kim, B. G., D. M. Wulf, R. J. Maddock, D. N. Peters, C. Pedersen, Y. Liu, and H. H. Stein. 2014. Effects of dietary barley on growth performance, carcass traits and pork quality of finishing pigs. Rev. Colomb. Cienc. Pecu. 27:102-113.

Mumm, R. H., P. D. Goldsmith, K. D. Rausch, and H. H. Stein. 2014. Land usage attributed to corn ethanol production in the United States: sensitivity to technological advances in corn grain yield, ethanol conversion, and co-product utilization. Biotechnol Biofuels 7:61.

Stein, H. H. 2014. Illinois soybean farmers can support the livestock industry. Page 5 in Illinois Field & Bean, March 2014.

Accomplishments

Chelsie Parr, Jessica Lowell, and Diego Navarro all successfully defended their Master's theses in April. First, Chelsie presented her work on "Evaluation of high-protein canola meals fed to growing chicks and weanling pigs."

Chelsie with her Master's thesis committee after her successful defense on April 10.

The next week, Jessica defended her thesis, "Comparative digestibility of energy and nutrients in feed ingredients fed to sows and growing pigs."

Jessica with her Master's thesis committee after her successful defense on April 14.

Finally, on April 17, Diego defended his thesis, "Amino acid digestibility and concentration of energy in processed soybean and rapeseed products fed to pigs" April 17.

Diego with his Master's thesis committee after his successful defense on April 17.

Chelsie and Jessica will be graduating in May and moving on, while Diego will stay with the lab and start work on his Ph. D. Congratulations to all three!

Congratulations to Caroline Gonzalez-Vega, who was chosen by the Department of Animal Sciences to receive the Mitchell Fellowship in Animal Nutrition. Caroline also won the Wilson G. Pond International Travel Award, given by the American Society of Animal Sciences. In the next newsletter, we'll have more information about the awards and Caroline's plans for them.

Lab activities

Caroline finished a study of additivity of values for apparent and standardized total tract digestibility of calcium in mixed diets. She also started an experiment to determine calcium requirements in weanling pigs.

John finished an experiment to create diets that are deficient only in threonine and lysine. Using these diets, he started an experiment to determine the threonine requirement in growing pigs.

Gloria started an experiment to determine DE and ME in rice products fed to weanling pigs.