Achievements

We got the visit from Gaelle Benzoni who was the first visiting scholar we had in our team way back in 2001. She was at that time a Masters Student at the University of Toulouse in France but came to the US to spend a semester with us. When she arrived, we had just acquired six metabolism crates and she was the first one in our Team to conduct a metabolism experiment (there have been a few others since then). After spending a semester with us, she returned to France, completed her Masters Degree, and started her career in the French Feed Industry. A few years ago, her company was purchased by ADM, one of the largest animal nutrition companies in the world that is based here in IL. Gaelle is now vice president, research and development, animal nutrition, in ADM - still located in France. However, this week she visited ADMs headquarters in Decatur, IL, and we had a chance to see each other again for the first time since she left in December 2001. It was great to catch up and learn about the very exciting career Gaelle has had until now.

Also one former Graduate student Tanawong Maison (PHD 2013) visited our lab with his wife Orawan, who also worked in our team while Tanawong was a student. Tanawong is now in charge of research with pigs at CP Group in Thailand. Orawan is an executive at Vet Products Group also in Thailand. It was great to see Tanawong and Orawan and we had lots of things ya to catch up on.

Conferences

Dr. Su A Lee post-doctoral research fellow in our lab, gave a talk about Feed preference of weanling pigs fed diets containing extruded corn ground to different particle sizes, at the ASAS-CSAS-WSASAS Annual Meeting, 2024

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications:

Ibagon, Jimena A., Su A Lee, C. Martin Nyachoti, Hans H. Stein. 2024. Standardized total tract digestibility of phosphorus in field peas fed to growing pigs is increased by microbial phytase, but particle size and origin of field peas do not affect digestibility of phosphorus. Animal Feed Science and Technology 315, 116044. doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2024.116044 

Acosta, Jessica P., Charmaine D. Espinosa, Gemma Gonzalez-Ortiz, Sofia Gonzalez-LasHeras, Maria J. Rodríguez-Lagunas, Francisco J. Perez-Cano, Hans H. Stein. 2024. Exogenous xylanase increases total tract digestibility of energy and fiber in diets for gestating and lactating sows, but does not influence reproductive performance of sows. Animal Feed Science and Technology 313, 115994. doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2024.115994

Stein, H. H. 2024. Review: Aspects of digestibility and requirements for minerals and vitamin D by growing pigs and sows. Animal 18, 101125. doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2024.101125