Environment - Air
Pork Checkoff Research
Research is at the heart of the National Pork Board’s mission and is funded by your Pork Checkoff dollars. Research is administered in all areas of pork production, processing, and human nutrition to develop a higher quality and more profitable product in the competitive meat protein market.
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Animal Well-being
Foundational investigations of tissue dimensions and their relation to captive bolt application sites on cadaver heads from mature swine
Objective 1 of this study was to determine the soft, cranial, and total tissue depths, cross-sectional brain area, and bolt-brain contact for each captive bolt site. Objective 2 was to determine if relationships exist between the measurements outlined in Objective 1 and external head dimensions, including snout to poll distance, distance between the eyes, and maximum deflection distance between a straight line from snout to poll and surface of the front of the head.
Animal Well-being
Development and validation of a research protocol to assess the efficacy of interventions intended to mitigate pain associated with surgical castration in neonatal piglets
The objective of this study was to establish a research protocol to reliably evaluate efficacy of pain mitigation interventions in nursing male piglets during castration.
Animal Well-being
Identifying barriers and implementing solutions to practical on-farm pain management during castration
Animal Well-being
Automated computer vision system for tracking individual pig activity and locomotion in nursery/finisher group housing
Animal Well-being
Evaluation of Sodium Nitrite for mass euthanasia of commercial pigs
Pork Quality
New Insights on Cellular Events and Gene products to Predict Pork Quality
Animal Well-being
Validation of scan sampling techniques for pain behaviors in castrated piglets
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Virus Survival in Preprocessed Compost Under Cold Conditions
Animal Well-being
