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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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Swine Health - General Disease
Comparing the whole genome sequences of historical and recent Streptococcus suis strains to identify virulence factors, genes or markers responsible for pathogenesis
Human Nutrition
Digestible indispensable amino acid score for pork products at various stages of processing
Animal Science
Identification of putative factors contributing to pelvic organ prolapse in sows
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
The development of on-farm and in-plant methods to eliminate needle hazards
Environment - Environmental Footprint
A meta-analysis of life cycle assessments on environmental footprints of five representative finishing swine diets
Animal Science
Mitigation of seasonality of sow reproductive performance via genomic selection.
Swine Health - General Disease
Investigating the effect of stressors on Senecavirus A pathogenesis and the potential occurrence of the “carrier state” in sows
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