Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
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 Well-being
National survey of Salmonella prevalence in lymph nodes of sows and market hogs
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Development and Validation of a Standardized Scientific Protocol Evaluating Antibiotic Alternatives in Growing Pigs
Heightened interest in reducing antibiotic usage in pork production leaves producers looking for effective alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) in swine diets. While there are a...
Animal Science
Modeling Conductive Heat Transfer Through and Around Grow-Finish Pigs
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Development and validaton of Singleplex and Multiplex Luminex Assays for Detection of antibodies to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), swine vesicular disease (SVD), classical swine fever (CSF) and African swine fever (ASF) viruses in porcine oral fluids
Swine Health - PRRS
Project Cross-Neutralizing Antibodies as Predictors of Protection
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Distribution of Discharge from Liquid Manure Applicator Manifolds
Pork Quality
Characterizing the relationship between early postmortem loin quality attributes with 14 day aged loin quality attributes and sensory characteristics
Swine Health - PRRS
Temporal, spatial & phylogenetic analysis of PRRSV sequences
Pork Quality
