3/5/99

Contacts:
Tom Jirik, Media Coordinator, American Society of Animal Science, (701) 231-9629
Brian Meyer, Agriculture Information, Iowa State University, (515) 294-0706

1,000 ANIMAL SCIENTISTS TO MEET IN DES MOINES MARCH 15-17

NEARLY 300 RESEARCH PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED.

The joint Midwest meeting of the American Society of Animal Science and the American Dairy Science Association begins at 1 p.m. Monday, March 15 at the Polk County Convention Center in downtown Des Moines.

With more than 1,000 students and scientists from university, government and private laboratories expected to attend, the meeting is the largest get-together of livestock researchers and extension specialists in the region. Nearly 300 scientific papers will be presented. The meeting closes at noon on Wednesday, March 17. Registration for media representatives is free.

Key topics include nutrition, meat quality, grazing systems, genetic mapping, livestock health, waste management, animal reproduction and animal behavior.

For more information, call Tom Jirik, ASAS/ADSA media coordinator at (701) 231-9629. From noon on Monday to noon on Wednesday, contact Jirik at the Polk County Convention Center in Des Moines at (515) 242-2517. He can schedule interviews on topics being presented at the meeting or provide experts for background on your livestock-related stories.

A sampling of program topics includes:

• Nutraceuticals: Nutrition or nirvana for livestock
• Effect of dietary vitamin C on pork quality (from Iowa State University)
• Designing and evaluating grazing systems
• Heritability of peak race performance in quarterhorses
• Behavioral and physiological responses of pigs to segregated early weaning
• Effect of housing systems on pig performance in nursery and grow-finish stages
• Influence of swine diets containing modified tall oil and vitamin E on muscle quality and color stability

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