Swine Health - Foreign Animal 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
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
Changes in Ammonia Emissions from North Carolina Swine Lagoons Associated with Improved Production Management
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in swine feces in commercial production systems and assessment of public health implications
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Effects of supplementing transition sow diets with 3 levels of zinc on pre-wean mortality and lifetime productivity of pigs under commercial rearing conditions
Animal Well-being
Towards an improved method of piglet castration to reduce pain: the use of one incision in combination with the use of Vapocoolant and Metacam™
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Development and validation of two anti-CSFV-specific antibody competitive ELISAs with an emphasis on the differentiation of infected from C-strain vaccinated animals
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
