Highlights of the 2012 Swine NRC

摘要

In conjunction with the Animal Nutrition Series developed by the National Research Council of the National Academies, a committee at the end of 2009 was appointed and initiated efforts towards the revision of the 1998 Swine NRC, beginning in January 2010. It had been approximately 14 years prior to the last revision (10th edition, NRC 1998) and even longer since the literature review included in 1998 revision. The committee was comprised of: L. Lee Southern, Chair, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge; Olayiwola Adeola, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; Cornelis F. M. de Lange, University of Guelph. Ontario; Gretchen M. Hill, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Brian Kerr, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, I A; Merlin D. Lindemann, University of Kentucky, Lexington; Phillip S. Miller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jack Odle, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Hans H. Stein, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Nathalie L. Trottier, Michigan State University, East Lansing.