Swine Health - General Disease
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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Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Effects of early-life antibiotic administration on porcine respiratory microbiota and piglet immunity
Environment - Air
Evaluate the representativeness of the NAEMS air emission data for swine operations in a changing industry
Environment - Environmental Footprint
Environmental Footprints for Regional Swine Production Systems Now and in the Future – A Demonstration Pilot Project
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Improving African swine fever diagnostics through the use of Multi Antigen Print Immunoassay (MAPIA) technology.
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Evaluation of meat exudate (juice) as a diagnostic sample for the detection of African swine fever
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Effect of Manure Application Timing and Management on the Persistence and Transport of Antibiotics and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Corn and Soybean Production Systems
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Prevalence, genotyping and subtyping of hepatitis E virus in market weight pigs in the United States
Pork Quality
Genomic control of pork loin color, myoglobin concentration, marbling, water-holding capacity, and slice shear force, pork fat quality and fatty acid profile, and ham lean color, ham “halo” severity, and myoglobin concentration
Environment - Air
