Katelyn N. Gaffield

Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS

Originally from Illinois, Katelyn completed her Master’s degree with a focus on meat science at the University of Illinois in 2021. During her Master’s, she focused on applied pork research including feeding high oleic soybean oil to growing-finishing pigs and its subsequent impact on growth performance, meat quality, and bacon characteristics. Katelyn joined the Kansas State University Applied Swine Nutrition team in August of 2021. Her research has focused on in-feed acidifiers in nursery and finishing diets. This includes studies investigating optimal feeding duration and inclusion level using benzoic acid and sodium diformate. Additionally, she developed a phosphorus release curve for a novel phytase source to aid nutritionists in diet formulation. In the second half of her PhD, she conducted a series of trials evaluating the composition and nutritional value of soybean processing by-products. Katelyn recently started as an Assistant Research Professor at Kansas State University at the beginning of March.

Presentation(s):

• 20 - Evaluating increasing levels of soy protein concentrate on growth performance and fecal dry matter of nursery pigs

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  9:30 AM – 9:45 AM CST

• 22 - Evaluating the effects of startup soybean meal on nursery pig growth performance

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  10:00 AM – 10:15 AM CST

• 27 - Effect of increasing corn dried distillers grains with solubles containing 3 or 6% oil on nursery and finishing pig growth performance and carcass characteristics

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  9:30 AM – 9:45 AM CST

• 206 - The effect of litter size relative to functional teat count on lactating sow and litter performance

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  9:15 AM – 9:30 AM CST

• 8 - Effect of weaning body weight and nursery phase feeding budget on nursery pig growth performance, fecal dry matter, and economics

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  10:00 AM – 10:15 AM CST

• 11 - Evaluation of net energy, standardized ileal digestible lysine, and soybean meal content interactions in 10 to 23 kg pigs using a factorial design

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  10:45 AM – 11:00 AM CST

• 65 - Technologies and practices to improve feed and nutrient utilization by pigs

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  1:45 PM – 2:00 PM CST

• 140 - Determining if nitrogen is a limiting factor to maintain feed efficiency when feeding low protein, amino acid fortified diets

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  4:45 PM – 5:00 PM CST

• 69 - Effects of increasing Histidine:Lysine ratio during lactation on sow and litter performance

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  3:00 PM – 3:15 PM CST

• Nonruminant Nutrition VII: Nursery Pig Nutrition III: ABC-4 and Acidifiers - Sponsored by Nexus

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  8:00 AM – 10:30 AM CST

• 104 - Impact of dietary ABC-4 formulation strategy with or without water acidification in rural or well water on weaned pig performance

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  8:00 AM – 8:15 AM CST

• 109 - Effects of increasing dietary zinc in low ABC-4 diets on nursery performance, fecal dry matter, serum zinc concentration, and zinc excretion

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  9:30 AM – 9:45 AM CST

• 111 - Effects of increasing dietary level of ValoproWin in low ABC-4 diets on nursery performance and fecal dry matter

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  10:00 AM – 10:15 AM CST

• 98 - Effects of increasing soybean meal in diets with or without distillers dried grains with solubles on growth performance and carcass characteristics of pigs in early and late-finishing phases

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  9:00 AM – 9:15 AM CST

• 102 - Assessing inflammatory mediators in commercial grower and finisher pigs fed increasing soybean meal with or without distillers dried grains with solubles

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  10:15 AM – 10:30 AM CST

• 103 - Oxidative status and acute phase protein biomarkers are differentially altered in commercial grower and finisher pigs fed increasing soybean meal with or without distillers dried grains with solubles

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  10:30 AM – 10:45 AM CST

• 238 - Evaluation of split suckling strategies on pre-wean piglet growth and mortality for high-producing sows

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  9:45 AM – 10:00 AM CST

• 278 - Setting up weaned pigs for success

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  3:05 PM – 3:40 PM CST

• 148 - Evaluating the effect of zinc source on growth performance and body weight variation of grow-finish pigs

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  3:45 PM – 4:00 PM CST

• 134 - Effects of standardized ileal digestible lysine:crude protein ratio on growth performance of 11- to 25-kg pigs

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  2:30 PM – 2:45 PM CST

• 179 - Determining the productive energy of soybean meal relative to corn and feed-grade amino acids

  Wednesday, March 12, 2025
  8:15 AM – 8:30 AM CST

• 184 - Modeling grow-finish pig growth performance responses to variable net energy levels with ingredient nutrient estimations using four energy systems

  Wednesday, March 12, 2025
  9:15 AM – 9:30 AM CST