Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
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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Animal Science - Heavy Market Pig
Projecting changes in pig growth, pork quality, eating experience, and muscle physiology due to increasing live and carcass weights
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Moderating body temperature decline in low birth weight piglets in the early post-natal period to improve survival and enhance animal welfare.
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Assessing the unintended effects that therapeutic antibiotic treatment has on multidrug-resistant Salmonella in swine: implications for swine health and food safety
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Influence of Setback Distance on Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Soil and Runoff Following the Land Application of Swine Manure Slurry
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Determining the necessity of preventative use of antimicrobials at tail-docking and castration including comparison with alternatives
Swine Health - PRRS
Monitoring and updating the value of productivity losses due to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
Pork Quality
Relationships Between Loin Color, Chop Thickness, Cooking Method, Water-Holding Capacity and Tenderness For Pork Cooked To 62.8°C
Swine Health - General Disease
Achieving safe introduction of naïve gilts into M. hyopneumoniae endemically infected herds: Protecting existing sows, exposing incoming gilts, and minimizing shedding to the offspring
Swine Health - General Disease
