Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
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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Environment - Environmental Footprint
Environmental Footprints for Regional Swine Production Systems Now and in the Future – A Demonstration Pilot Project
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Effects of supplementing transition sow diets with 3 levels of zinc on pre-wean mortality and lifetime productivity of pigs under commercial rearing conditions
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Risk for introduction of ASFv into the US through prohibited swine products carried by air passengers
Environment - Environmental Footprint
Carbon, water, and land use for pork production when modifying type and regional sourcing of feed ingredients
Animal Science
Modeling Conductive Heat Transfer Through and Around Grow-Finish Pigs
Swine Health - PRRS
Project Cross-Neutralizing Antibodies as Predictors of Protection
Swine Health - PRRS
Temporal, spatial & phylogenetic analysis of PRRSV sequences
Animal Well-being
Determining the Minimal Floor Space Allowance for Gestating Sows Kept in Pens with Electronic Sow Feeders
PED virus re-infection rate of sow herds, associated risk factors, production impact and time to achieve stability
The purpose of this study was to quantify the rate of sow herds re-breaking with PED virus and evaluate the impact on performance. The study involved participants’ data from an existing...
