Pork Quality
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 - PRRS
Development and Evaluation of a Rapid Antigen Detection Assay to Identify PRRSV and Differentiate Field strains from the Prim Pac PRRS Vaccine
Swine Health - General Disease
Understanding Swine Hepatitis E Virus Infection and Immunity
Swine Health - General Disease
Development and use of ELISA tests for determining the seroprevalence of porcine circovirus antibodies in pigs
Swine Health - General Disease
Pathogenesis of Type 2 Porcine Circovirus Infection
Reduction of Odorous Sulfide and Phenolic Compounds in Pig Manure Through Diet Modification
Three replicate 4 X 4 factorial trials were conducted with growing-finishing crossbred gilts, fitted with cecal cannulas, to determine the effects of amino acid utilization, fiber and anthraquinone...
Designs for windbreak walls for mitigating dust and odor emissions from tunnel ventilated swine buildings
Although windbreak walls have traditionally been applied to reduce ground-level wind speeds and enhance snow deposition, windbreak walls have also recently been placed downwind of animal buildings in...
Swine operations: comparison of biological filter media for odor control and wastewater treatment
Researchers at Mississippi State University have been studying the effectiveness of the attached growth process for swine wastewater treatment and odor abatement for the past three years. Organic...
Survival of zoonotic pathogens in soils and runoff water after application of swine manure
Because of increased scrutiny of manure handling practices, it is important to determine the most appropriate practices for manure application on soil. This study was undertaken to determine the...
Two airspace building design to reduce odour and gas emissions from pig farms
By keeping manure storage into the building and creating two independent airspaces within a room (main airspace and an enclosed dunging area [EDA]), it is suggested that the building air quality...
