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NCLE Research
Livestock and Poultry Management Systems
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Swine Management:
Successful conversion of existing barns to sow group housing: building a reference document for use by pork producers, extension personnel and other stakeholders
- Project leaders Laurie Connor and Qiang Zhang
- important considerations in design selection such as animal handling and management and overall barn flow, manure handling, human resource requirements and training;
- cost/benefit economic analyses;
- engineering design templates for the most promising barn conversion options
Whole farm nutrient balance: evaluating diets containing zero tannin faba beans and DDGS for the whole pig production and manure management system
- Project leaders Martin Nyachoti and Elijah Kiarie (U of M); Carole Furedi (Puratone Corporation)
Dietary manipulation strategies to minimize excretion of nitrogen and phosphorus into manure while maintaining pig growth and health
- Project leader Martin Nyachoti
Completed Projects:
Sow longevity and housing environment: Identification of factors contributing to longevity of sows in the breeding herd, including animal welfare parameters.
- Project leader Laurie Connor
Nutrient management planning for sow operations using extant and new feed consumption models and manure analysis Read the Final Report
- Project leader Ermias Kebreab
Beef/Forage Management:
Use of residual feed intake (RFI) to select breeding stock in forage-based beef cattle production systems learn more
Research team: U of M - Kim Ominski, Karin Wittenberg, Gary Crow; John Basarab and Susan Markus (AB Agriculture), Vern Baron and Hushton Block (AAFC)
Overwintering beef cows in Manitoba – impact of management on productivity and environmental sustainability
Research team: Kim Ominski, Karin Wittenberg, Mario Tenuta, Denis Krause, Don Flaten
- Mechanism of delivery of dried distillers grains with solubles in beef cattle overwintering diets learn more
- Supplementing forage diets with dried distillers grains in cold stressed environment: learn more
- Overwintering beef cows in an extensive bale grazing system
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Developing a strategy for forage and grassland management: Examination and assessment of multifunctional value in terms of productivity and environmental sustainability learn more
- Project leader Kim Ominski
Comparison of economic and environmental efficiencies of advanced beef production systems in the Western Canadian Parkland learn more
- Project leaders Ermias Kebreab and Gary Crow
Use of high tannin forages to improve sustainability of integrated beef/forage production systems: - forage and cattle productivity, nutrient dynamics, greenhouse gases, pathogens
learn more, read the 2008 Tannin Study interim report
-Research team: Kim Ominski, Mario Tenuta, Denis Krause, Martin Entz, Karin Wittenberg; Tim McAllister, Kathy Buckley, Shannon Scott (Agriculture and AgriFood Canada)
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Completed Projects:
Using satellite imagery in the development of models to quantify and monitor the spatiotemporal distribution of vegetation biomass in Manitoba grasslands/pastures using satellite imagery learn more, including outcomes, read the Final Report
- Project leaders Luciano González, Kim Ominski and Karin Wittenberg
Use of ionophores to temporarily suppress enteric methane production: Adaptation of rumen microbial communities and re-establishment of methane production. learn more
- Project leader Denis Krause
Fertilization of forage land with liquid pig manure: Evaluating the potential of using hog manure as a fertilizer for forage crops in beef cattle production. La Broquerie Phase I
(2003-2007) learn more
- Research team: Kim Ominski, Mario Tenuta, Martin Entz, Denis Krause, Rick Holley, Don Flaten, Karin Wittenberg, Derek Brewin, Suren Kulshreshtha
(U of S)
- Forage and cattle productivity
- Energy use and efficiency
(Martin Entz)
- Greenhouse gas emissions
(Mario Tenuta, Kim Ominski, Karin Wittenberg)
- economics
(Derek Brewin, Suren Kulshreshtha)
- pathogens
(Denis Krause, Rick Holley)
- nutrient dynamics (Mario Tenuta, Don Flaten)
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Cattle Management:
Reducing whole-farm surpluses of phosphorus and potassium in intensive livestock operations: a case study of dairy farms. learn more
- Project leader Kees Plaizier
Controlling the spread of Johne’s Disease (JD)
Research team: Denis Krause, Kim Ominski, Kees Plaizier, Charles Bernstein, Kathy Buckley (AAFC-Brandon), Tim McAllister (AAFC-Lethbridge), Steve Hendricks (U of S), Herman Barkema (U of C), Leluo Guan (U of A) and Jeroen De Buck (U of C)
- Composting as a means of eliminating JD (completed 2010) learn more
Read the Final Report
- Natural history of JD and developing tests for early-stage identification in cattle learn more
Modelling rumen function in non-steady state. NSERC Discovery learn more
- Project leader Ermias Kebreab
Poultry Management:
Inclusion of DDGs in poultry diets and manure phosphorus content: Implications for feeding strategies to decrease phosphorus loading
- Project leader Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Lecompte learn more, read the Final Report
Development of Manitoba-based computer models for nutrient management in the laying hen industry: Dietary manipulation strategies to improve nutrient use efficiency, particularly phosphorus, while meeting nutritional needs of laying hens and egg quality learn more
- Project leader Jim House
Completed Project:
Performance and welfare of laying hens in conventional and enriched cages
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- Project leader Jim House
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