SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

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Status: Approved

Basic Information

Project No. and Title: NRSP_OLD9 : National Animal Nutrition Program
Period Covered: 10/01/2014 to 09/01/2015
Date of Report: 09/23/2015
Annual Meeting Dates: 08/04/2015 to 08/05/2015

Coordinating Committee participants attending annual meeting are listed below. A complete list of participants who attended one of more subcommittee meetings throughout the year can be found at https://nanp-nrsp-9.org/committees/.; Gary Cromwell (Chair) University of Kentucky Swine Nutrition gary.cromwell@uky.edu; Mike Galyean, Texas Tech University Beef Nutrition michael.galyean@ttu.edu; Mark Hanigan ,Virginia Tech University Dairy Nutrition mhanigan@vt.edu; Jack Odle North Carolina State Univ. Swine Nutrition jack_odle@ncsu.edu; Don Beitz Iowa State University Nutritional Biochem. dcbeitz@iastate.edu; Todd Applegate Purdue University Poultry Nutrition applegt@purdue.edu; Bill Weiss The Ohio State University Dairy Nutrition weiss.6@osu.edu; Phil Miller University of Nebraska Swine Nutrition pmiller1@unl.edu; Mary Beth Hall USDA/ARS Dairy Nutrition marybeth.hall@ars.usda.gov; Kasey, Klein, National Animal Nutrition Program kaklein83@gmail.com; Austin Lewis, National Academies, alewis@nas.edu; Charlotte Kirk Baer, USDA, cbaer@nifa.usda.gov; Robin White, National Animal Nutrition Program robin.white@email.wsu.edu; Huyen Tran, National Animal Nutrition Program huyen.tran@uky.edu;

Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

National Animal Nutrition Program (NANP) Coordinating Committee members met face-to-face in Washington DC, August 4-5 in addition to regular conference calls and spring meeting. Updates were provided on the beef, dairy, and poultry NRC committees, the NANP feed composition and modeling committee activities, the NANP website, and the booklet developed from the NANP summit held in the spring. The group also discussed membership for the next 5 year phase of the project. Minutes for all conference calls and meetings held throughout FY15 are included in the attachment.

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Accomplishments

This past year, we vetted scientists and presented them to NRC as potential members of the new NRC Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle and as reviewers for the NRC Beef Report. The NANP/NRSP-9 website was expanded and the feed composition database was populated with data from the existing NRC swine, dairy, and beef tables along with other current feed composition data. A database for storing animal performance data has been expanded. Two manuscripts were approved for publication in scientific journals and several abstracts were presented at scientific meetings. A National Summit to address animal nutrition’s role in environmental, human, animal, and economic health was organized and presented in March, 2015. A document summarizing the priorities identified during the summit can be found in the attachments. A booth exhibited the activities of NANP/NRSP-9 at the Joint Annual Meeting of ASAS and ADSA and the Annual Meeting of Poultry Science in July, 2015. A web-based network of scientists involved in nutrition and related areas of research was developed by the Coordinating Committee.

Impacts

Established a database for animal feed composition information; collected, screened and sorted nearly 1.5 million feed comp records. This is a unique and important collection of ingredient composition data that were previously unavailable to the broad animal research community. The NANP/NRSP-9 website that hosts this information (www.NANP-NRSP-9.org) is used heavily by researchers around the world.
Established standards and procedures for processing feed comp data from a variety of sources, including commercial laboratories. Collection of feed composition data from multiple unconnected sources to a centralized database has not previously been attempted at a scale comparable to the NANP. The standard procedures established substantially improved the efficiency with which new research can be added to this national resource.
Provided critical evaluations of existing NRC swine and dairy models and engaged users to gather feedback; collaborated with National Pork Board and NRC to provide improvements to the swine whole-farm model and updated dairy nutrition guide and model, respectively. Prior to the corrections and updates, these models were of limited use to the feed industry and animal research community.
Developed a novel repository of software code useful for modeling, statistical analysis, model evaluation, data handling, and data visualization. Developed code to import NANP developed datasets into common statistical packages (R, SAS). Coupling downloadable data sets with the code reduces barriers to technology use and improves access to and the utility of NANP resources.
Engaged more than 30,000 people in animal research through presentations at national meetings, research stakeholder summits, and new on-line forums. An NRC users? forum allows previously unconnected members of the animal nutrition community to share opinions about model performance and contribute to future software improvements. The newly created Global Animal Expert Nutrition Network will enhance communications within and outside the animal nutrition research discipline.

Publications

National Animal Nutrition Program (NRSP-9). 2015. Summary of the Spring Summit: Defining Animal Nutrition Research Priorities for a Healthy Society. Washington D.C., March 25, 2015. (1 page summary attached) White, R.R., P.S. Miller, and M.D. Hanigan. In Press. Evaluating equations estimating change in swine feed intake during heat and cold stress. Journal of Animal Science. White, R.R. and M.D. Hanigan. Accepted. Modeling cross species intake responses to environmental stress. The Journal of Agricultural Science.

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