The students and their faculty mentor in the College of Engineering s Institute for Maintenance Science and Technology (IMST) have developed two new, cost-effective techniques producing ethanol from wood and other biomass and capturing methane, a greenhouse gas, and converting it into methanol. The students and their faculty mentor in the College of Engineering s Institute for Maintenance Science and Technology (IMST) have developed two new, cost-effective techniques producing ethanol from...

Hogs at some of the farms it wasn't immediately clear which have been quarantined. Hogs that were confirmed to have eaten the tainted food were processed at a federally inspected facility in California, Cohen said. The FDA said it planned to begin testing a wide variety of vegetable proteins at firms that imported the ingredients to make everything from pizza dough to infant formula, and protein shakes to energy bars. It was not immediately clear if any hogs that ate the tainted feed then...

Food and Drug Administration of a less-than-perfect vaccine against bird flu is only the beginning of the search for a truly effective shot against the virus, experts said. Luckily, the annual search for a vaccine against seasonal flu is helping scientists as they seek immunization against its much deadlier cousin, H5N1 avian influenza. According to experts, avian flu vaccines are essentially made in the same way as the regular flu vaccine. That's much lower than the regular seasonal flu...

Argus Leader Media - News Subscribe Now eEdition Login How to Advertise Mobile Work for Us! Customer Service Contact Us ArgusLeader.com Make Us Your Homepage. Department of Justice, Smithfield Foods inc., the parent of John Morrell & co. in Sioux Falls, announced this morning it completed a controversial $800 million acquisition of Premium Standard Farms inc., a deal that unites the nation s two largest hog producers. Argus Leader Media - News Subscribe Now eEdition Login How to Advertise...

Inoculation studies have shown that the virus remains in pigs' faeces and some organs for up to 30 days after infection. However, if the infection weakens and pigs don't get infected with HEV until they are older, more pigs will still be carrying the virus when they reach the slaughterhouse. Vaccines are currently under development against HEV, although Satou and Nishiura suggest that changes in husbandry practices and avoiding eating raw liver might be more cost-effective measures should...

We do know that if you feed a level that is too high you can certainly impact meat products and the meat products we look at right now is bacon and sausage, said Latour. Mickey Latour says replacing large amounts of corn with dry distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) in swine rations adds excessive unsaturated fatty acids and that could lower the quality of certain meat products. And if DDGS becomes abundant and corn prices are higher, as predicted, we ll probably see some producers push...