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.

Poultry Reports

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

• AS Leaflet-R2480 Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide and Dietary Natural Source Vitamin E Effects on Broiler Chick Immune Response by Michael G. Kaiser, Erin Beach, Ceren Ciraci and Susan J. Lamont
  
  
• AS Leaflet-R2481 Kinetic Profile of Chicken Macrophage Immune Response upon exposure to Salmonella-derived Endotoxin by Ceren Ciraci, Christopher K. Tuggle, Michael J. Wannemuehler, Dan Nettleton and Susan J. Lamont
  
  
• AS Leaflet-R2482 The Effect of Salmonella Enteritidis on Immune Genes in Three Different Lines of Chickens by Derrick Coble, Sarah Beth Redmond, Ben Hale and Susan J. Lamont
  
  
• AS Leaflet-R2483 SNPs in Region of NF-Kappa-B Gene Associated with Expression of Immune-Related Genes by Erin Sandford, Ceren Ciraci, Behnam Abasht, Jack C. M. Dekkers and Susan J. Lamont
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2527 Ammonia Emissions of Pullets and Effects of Stocking Density by Luciano B. Mendes, Hongwei Xin and Hong Li
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2537 Genetic Differences in Chicken Splenic Immune Gene Expression in Response to Dietary Immune Modulation by Sarah Beth Redmond, Rachel Tell, Derrick Coble, Carrie Mueller, Dusan Palic, Claire B. Andreasen and Susan J. Lamont
  
  
• AS-Leaflet-R2538 The Uncertainty of Nitrogen Mass Balance for Turkey Housing by Hong Li, Hongwei Xin and Robert Burns

Further Reading

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You can view the full report from ISU by clicking here.

March 2010