Swine Production, Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals, Behavior and Welfare of Farm Animals, Light Horse Management, Laboratory Techniques in Agriculture.
Research program is focused on two main areas.
Firstly, research is aimed at developing nutritional systems that increase energy intake and enhance nutrient utilization in nutritionally or environmentally challenged pigs. Initial trials focus on high-oil corn and look at energy intake, nutrient utilization and feeding behavior of sows and market hogs raised in different environments. Impact for Tennessee producers is to stimulate feed intake in lactating sows and growing pigs, particularly in the hot summer months. Secondly, research supports the efforts of the Southern Regional S-145 Swine Nutrition Committee which looks at nutritional systems for swine to increase reproductive efficiency. These large scale regional research projects are extremely important to swine producers, in that the results provide definitive answers to nutritional questions that arise from research conduced at a single university or by private industry.