Animal Well-being
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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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
Automating Detection of Social Behavior Phenotypes and Improving Modeling of Indirect Genetic Effects to Breed for Less Aggression in Group-Housed Pigs
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Replacing dietary antibiotics with L-glutamine and synbiotics following weaning and transport in pigs
Swine Health - PRRS
Role of the viral ovarian domain protease in PRRSV pathogenesis
Human Nutrition
Pork Consumption in Relation to Body Weight and Composition: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Abstract Objectives In this study, we systematically synthesized scientific evidence on pork consumption in relation to body weight and composition among adults. Methods: We performed a keyword...
Swine Health - PRRS
PRRSv detection over time in different age groups in breeding herds attempting to produce PRRSv-negative piglets at weaning: part 2: suckling pig population
Swine Health - General Disease
