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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Probiotics: Feeding the gut and beyond for post-weaning pig health
Mitigation of seasonality of sow reproductive performance via genomic selection.
Re-defining growth efficiency accounting for the interaction between host genome and commensal gut bacteria.
Investigating the effect of stressors on Senecavirus A pathogenesis and the potential occurrence of the “carrier state” in sows
Metabolism of Vitamin K Forms in Fresh Pork
The objective of this study was to compare MKn concentrations in blood, tissue, and feces of mice given purified and food-based MKn to mice fed a VK-deficient (VKD, “control”) diet.