2026
1st Place: Joseph Halbur, University of Minnesota
Environmental Impacts of Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles, Soybean Meal and Raw Soapstock Utilization in Grow-Finish Swine Diets
2nd Place: Jessica Lira-Silva, South Dakota State University
Effects of Dietary Copper Source in Wean-Finish Pigs
3rd Place: Darcy Pamulaklakin, South Dakota State University
Nutrient-Enriched Gilt Development Diet Improved Growth Efficiency and Body Composition during a Confirmed PRRSV 1-4-4 L1C.5.32 Outbreak
2025
1st Place: Taylor Banks, South Dakota State University
Limit Feeding a High Concentrate Diet to Newly Weaned Calves Does Not Negatively Affect Growth Performance
2nd Place: Katlyn A McClellan, South Dakota State University
Feeding the prolific sow for success: Late gestation phase feeding improves farrowing duration, nutritional biomarkers, and reproductive outcomes
3rd Place: Nathan E. Rehder, The Pennsylvania State University
Effects of forage sorghum silage as an alternative roughage source in beef cattle feedlot diets
2024
1st Place: Grace Jardon, South Dakota State University
Effects of substitution of DDGS with soybean meal in finishing diets: Dietary protein degradability and ruminal parameters
2nd Place: Grace Praisler, The Ohio State University
Ellipsoid volumes of rumen protozoa decreased by exposure to selected mycotoxins
3rd Place: Justin Delver, South Dakota State University
Evaluating the effect limit feeding yearling beef steers for 56 or 86 d of a 140-d finishing
2023
1st Place: Grady Gullickson, North Dakota State University
Increasing metabolizable protein and lysine concentrations with heat-treated soybean meal did not affect growth performance or carcass characteristics
2nd Place: Haley Linder, University of Illinois
Impact of ruminal acidosis on cattle energy metabolism
3rd Place: Kazi Sarjana Safain, North Dakota State University
Maternal nutrition and one-carbon metabolite supplementation modulate mitochondrial function and mitochondrial DNA copy number in fetal tissues during early pregnancy in heifers