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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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
Development of New Barn Commissioning and Building Component Integrity Protocols for Swine Housing Systems
Swine Health - General Disease
Utilization of Neutrophil Extracellular Trap DNA by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae,
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Distribution of Discharge from Liquid Manure Applicator Manifolds
Animal Science
Advancing Investigations in Swine Reproduction Efficiency at Iowa State
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
An analysis of primary research and meta-analysis to investigate temporal changes in serotypes of Salmonella in US-based pigs and pork products.
Animal Science
Effects of genetics and dietary fiber on production variables in response to repeated exposures to heat stress
Despite aggressive heat stress abatement strategies, the U.S. swine industry loses ~$900 million annually. Sources of reduced revenue include: slower growth rates, inefficient feed utilization,...
Pork Quality
Prediction of Pork Quality using Raman Spectroscopy
The objective of the project was to develop an approach to use Raman spectroscopy to predict sensory quality of fresh pork loins. Pork loins (n=200) were selected during fabrication on seven...
Environment - Air
Vegetative Environmental Buffer Builder and Economic Review: A Decision Support Tool for the Pork Industry
This project created a user-friendly online decision support tool for livestock producers (and their advisors) to design and plan for the use of Vegetative Environmental Buffers (VEB) for odor...
