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Hog Production
Keep Animals Safe and Healthy During Excessive Heat
As heat indices soar, how can you keep your livestock and pets safe during dangerous temperatures?
July 21, 2025 06:35 AM
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Lauren Quinn
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Hog Production
New IVF Method Mimics Fallopian Tube Environment, Increasing Sperm Viability
University of Illinois researchers test oviduct glycans for their ability to bind pig sperm. Not only is pig sperm a great proof of concept for future human studies, but animal ag relies on in vitro fertilization, too.
March 25, 2025 10:09 AM
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Lauren Quinn
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Education
University of Illinois Partnership Helps Solve Critical Need to Develop Food Animal Veterinarians
Here’s a look at how a new University of Illinois College of ACES-Vet Med partnership will support future food animal veterinarians.
February 10, 2025 10:21 AM
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Lauren Quinn
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Industry
Study Combines Woodchips and Biochar to Clean Water of Pharmaceuticals, Nutrients
Although wastewater treatment plants are good at reducing nutrient pollutants in water, they aren’t designed to remove pharmaceuticals and personal care products. So antibiotics, hormones, and other drugs are sent back into streams and onto crop fields.
October 22, 2024 04:59 PM
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Lauren Quinn
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Hog Production
New Monounsaturated Soybean Oil Works Well in Pig Diets
High oleic soybeans create a stable oil valued by the food industry and nutritionists. New research shows this oil performs well as a DDGS substitute for growing pigs and pork processing characteristics, too.
November 17, 2022 11:56 AM
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Lauren Quinn
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Education
New Pig Brain Maps Facilitate Human Neuroscience Discoveries
Scientists have updated the MRI-based map, or atlas, of the pig brain – developed at the University of Illinois using pigs – to understand where and how nutrients and other interventions affect the developing brain.
September 21, 2022 07:56 PM
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Lauren Quinn
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Education
Award-Winning U of I Professor Uses Jazz Hands to Teach Animal Science
When students walk into Anna Dilger’s classroom, they can expect play dough, cartoons and dancing. But her students aren’t kindergartners; they’re college students. And they’re learning from one of the best.
September 21, 2022 07:54 PM
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Lauren Quinn
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Industry
How Plant-Based Burgers Stack Up Against Meat Burgers in Protein Quality
Plant-based burgers often promise protein comparable to their animal-based counterparts, but the way protein is expressed on current nutrition labels – a single generic value expressed in grams – can be misleading.
November 22, 2021 09:02 AM
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Lauren Quinn
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Hog Production
High-Oil Corn Packs Punch for Pigs
A new high-oil corn product offers greater amino acid and energy digestibility in growing pigs, according to new research from the University of Illinois.
October 13, 2021 06:00 AM
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Lauren Quinn
Pig Wired Up
Hog Production
Researchers overcome winking, napping pigs to prove brain test works
If you’ve ever been to an eye doctor, there’s a good chance you’ve felt the puff of air to the eye that constitutes a traditional glaucoma test. Scientists are using a similar method to test learning in pigs.
July 08, 2021 03:01 PM
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Lauren Quinn
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