Associate Professor

Swine Nutrition and Management

Research Interests

Refereed Journal Articles

Weeden, T.L., J.L. Nelssen, R.D. Goodband, J.A. Hansen, K.G. Friesen, and B.T. Richert. 1993. The interrelationship of porcine somatotropin administration and dietary phosphorus on growth performance and bone properties in developing gilts. J. Anim. Sci. 71:2683.

Richert, B.T., J.D. Hancock, and J.L. Morrill. 1994. Effects of replacing milk and soybean products with wheat glutens on digestibility of nutrients and growth performance in nursery pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 72:151.

Richert, B.T., M.D. Tokach, R.D. Goodband, and J.L. Nelssen. 1995. Assessing producer awareness of the impact of swine production on the environment. J. Ext. 33:4.

Richert, B.T., M.D. Tokach, R.D. Goodband, J.L. Nelssen, J.E. Pettigrew, R.D. Walker, and L.J. Johnston. 1996. Valine requirement of the high-producing lactating sow. J. Anim. Sci. 74:1307.

Richert, B.T., R.D. Goodband, M.D. Tokach, J.L. Nelssen, R.G. Campbell, and S. Kershaw. 1997. Effect of dietary lysine and valine fed during lactation on sow and litter performance. J. Anim. Sci. 75:1853.

Richert, B.T., R.D. Goodband, M.D. Tokach, and J.L. Nelssen. 1997. Increasing vaqline, isoleucine and total branched-chain amino acids for lactating sows. J.Anim. Sci. 75:2117.

Smith, J.W. II, M.D. Tokach, R.D. Goodband, J.L. Nelssen, and B.T. Richert. 1997. Effects of the interrelationship between zinc oxide and copper sulfate on growth performance of early weaned pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 75:1861

Research Publications

Nielsen, J.N., J.P. Patterson, A. Sutton, A. Schinckel, B. Richert, and P. Boccazzi. 1997. The influence of growth promotant antibiotics and management system on the presence and prevalence of salmonella on swine. Proc. Second Int. Sym. On Epid and Control of Salmonella in Pork. 3 pp.

Schinckel, A.P., B.T. Richert, L.K. Clark, J.W. Frank, and J.T. Turek. 1997. Modeling genetic and environment effects of pig lean growth. Proc. National Swine Improvement Federation. pp. 55-74.

Richert, B.T., J.W. Frank, M. McComb-Ranaletta, A.P. Schinckel, A.L. Grant, and J.J. Turek. 1998. Effect of rearing environment, genotype and antibiotics on pig growth rate, carcass composition and immune system. Amer. Assoc. Swine Pract.

Published Abstracts

Frank, J.W., B.T. Richert, A.P. Schinckel, B.A. Belstra, M. Ellis, and A.L. Grant. 1997. Effects of genotype and sex on pork quality. J. Anim. Sci. 75(Suppl. 1):(246).

Nielsen, J.N., J.A. Patterson, A.L. Sutton, A.P. Schinckel, and B.T. Richert. 1997. The influence of growth promotant antibiotics and management system on presence and prevalence of salmonella in swine. Symposium on the Epid and Control of Salmonella in Pork. Copenhagen.

Frank, J.W., B.T. Richert, A.P. Schinckel, B.A. Belstra, and A.L. Grant. 1997. Environmental effects on genetic potential for lean gain. J. Anim. Sci. 75(Suppl. 1):(38).

McComb, M.A., J.W. Frank, A.P. Schinckel, M.E. Spurlock, B.T. Richert, P.V. Malven, and A.L. Grant. 1997. Interactive effects of rearing environments, pig genotype and antibiotic therapy on growth, serum IGF-1 and acute phase proteins. J. Anim. Sci. 75(Suppl. 1):(85).

Belstra, B.A., B.T. Richert, M.A.Diekman, W.L. Singleton, and G.D. Weesner. 1997. Effect of lactation dietary protein on the follicular development and hypothalamic hormone concentrations of early and conventionally weaned sows. J. Anim. Sci. 75(Suppl. 1):(248).

Smith, J.W. II, J.L. Nelssen, R.D. Goodband, M.D. Tokach, B.T. Richert, K.Q. Owen, J.R. Bergstrom, W.B. Nessmith, Jr, and S.A. Blum. 1997. The effects of added carnitine and(or) chromium nicotinate on growth and carcass characteristics. J. Anim. Sci. 75(Suppl. 1):(78).

Belstra, B.A., B.T. Richert, and J.W. Frank. 1998. Effect of gestation dietary crude protein level on the lactation performance of primiparous sows. J. Anim. Sci. 76(Suppl. 1) In Press.

Belstra, B.A., B.T. Richert, J.W. Frank, and D.C. Kendall. 1998. Effect of a seven day stair-step feeding regiment versus ad libitum feeding throughout lactation on sow and litter performance. J. Anim. Sci. 76(Suppl. 1) In Press.

DeCamp, S.A., B.T Richert, T.R. Cline, and J.W. Frank. 1998. Evaluating high oil corn and normal corn as energy sources in nursery pig diets. J. Anim. Sci. 76(Suppl. 1) In Press.

Frank, J.W., B.T. Richert, A.P. Schinckel, B.A. Belstra, and S.F. Amass. 1998. Effects of environment, genotype and health management system on pig growth performance. J. Anim. Sci. 76(Suppl. 1) In Press.

Frank, J.W., B.T. Richert, K.R. Cera, R.D. Boyd, and A.P. Schinckel. 1998. Estimating the lysine requirements for growing and finishing halothane carrier sired pigs using growth performance, growth curves, and plasma urea nitrogen concentrations. J. Anim. Sci. 76(Suppl. 1) In Press.

Frank, J.W., B.T. Richert, A.P. Schinckel, and D. Fox. 1998. Estimating the lysine requirements for growing and finishing halothane carrier and negative gilts using serum urea nitrogen concentrations, growth performance, and carcass characteristics. J. Anim. Sci. 76(Suppl. 1) In Press.

Kendall, D.C., K.M. Lemenager, B.T. Richert, A.L. Sutton, J.W. Frank, and B.A. Belstra. 1998. Effects of intact protein diets verses reduced crude protein diets supplimented with synthetic amino acids on pig performance and ammonia levels in swine buildings. J. Anim. Sci. 76(Suppl. 1) In Press.

Book Chapters

Boehlje, M., L.K. Clark, C. Hurt, D. Jones, A. Miller, B.T. Richert, W. Singleton, and A.P. Schinckel. 1997. Hog/Pork Sector. Food System 21. Purdue University EC-710. pp. 211-239.

Boehle, M., L.K. Clark, C. Hurt, D. Jones, A. Miller, B.T. Richert, W. Singleton, and A.P. Schinckel. 1998. Chapter 9. Hog/Pork Sector. Food System 21: Key Questions for the new Millennium. Purdue University EC-711. pp. 21-24.