Achievements

Our team participated in the Midwest Swine Nutrition Conference, Danville, IN, on Sep. 4.

Conferences

Dr. Su A Lee Research Scientist presented at the 2025 ISEP, Dr. Lee talked about: "Impact of soybean oil on net energy and nitrogen balance in group-housed pigs allowed ad libitum access to feed".

Personnel changes

Cristina Rodriguez from Mexico, is our newest Ph D Student, she will work primarily in energy on our Swine calorimeter unit. Natália Saldanha Balbinot from  Brazil came to do her internship for 3 months she will work primarily at the farm and also she will do some analysis at the lab. 

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications:
 

Bailey, Hannah M, Natalia S. Fanelli, Joy M. Campbell, Hans H. Stein. 2025. Spray-dried plasma titration effects on growth performance, intestinal morphology, and immune system indicators of weaned pigs housed in a sanitation-challenged environment. Animal Feed Science and Technology 329 (2025) 116484 doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2025.116484

Velayudhan, Deepak, Yueming Dersjant-Li, Rosil Lizardo, Arun Kumar, Hans H. Stein, Charmaine D. Espinosa, Vinicius Cantarelli, Rachael Hardy, Ester Vinyeta, and Leon Marchal. 2025. Modeling improvements in digestible amino acids by a consensus bacterial 6-phytase variant in grower pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 103, skaf245 doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaf245

Shen, Yanbin, Sung Woo Kim, Hans H. Stein, Javier Polo, and Joe Crenshaw. 2025. Novel milk ingredient blend in nursery pig diets did not improve growth performance and survival compared to control diets without or with spray-dried plasma. Front. Anim. Sci. 6:1648283.
doi: 10.3389/fanim.2025.1648283

Jaramillo, Bibiana M., Jessica P. Acosta, Su A Lee, Michael R. Murphy, and Hans H. Stein. 2025. Microbial phytase and 25-hydroxy-vitamin D3 fed to growing pigs increase digestibility of calcium and phosphorus and influence plasma vitamin D metabolites and serum bone biomarkers, but effects are not always additive. J. Anim. Sci., 2025, 103, skaf273. doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaf273