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Pork Checkoff Research

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Pork Quality
Increasing the value of heavy weight pork carcasses by evaluating belly and ham characteristics

Determining effects of increasing carcass size on ham and belly processing and quality characteristics.

Swine Health
Development of a CSFV Erns IgG AlphaLISA® assay capable of differentiating infected from CSFV-vaccinated animals (DIVA)

Study aimed to develop a CSFV Erns IgG AlphaLISA® for serum and oral fluids that would complement currently available CSFV E2 DIVA vaccines.

Swine Health
Assessment of sample dilution and number of ropes used for detection of swine pens infected with PRRS early in the course of infection

This pilot study evaluated the impact of sharing ropes for sample collection between an infected pen and an uninfected pen. Further, it evaluated how the detection of a pathogen changed as the prevalence increased.

Animal Well-being
Quantifying a Technique Using Carbon Monoxide for the Depopulation of Swine

The project demonstrated the euthanasia of mature sows and feeder pigs using carbon monoxide (CO) produced by a 1970 gas grain truck. The gas engine system, with no modifications, had been previously used to euthanize weaned pigs. This project further improved the method by cooling and filtering particulates out of the exhaust gas prior to contact with the pigs.

Swine Health
Modeling Indoor Environment and Supplemental Heat Requirements During Ventilation Shutdown and Heat Inactivation of Viruses

This project describes a flexible model developed to simulate VSD+ using supplemental heat in swine facilities.

Animal Well-being
Animal caretakers perspectives on performing euthanasia on commercial sow farms
Animal Well-being
Use of modified rendering trailers to achieve rapid depopulation of modern sow units

The objective of this project was to establish an effective and safe method to facilitate both the depopulation of sow units and the disposal of carcasses in the face of a foreign animal disease outbreak.

Swine Health
Oral fluid sample size for FAD detection at low prevalence in large commercial pigs

This project addressed a NPB call for research on surveillance sampling methods for optimizing the detection of trade limiting foreign animal diseases within pens, barns and sites.

Human Nutrition
Nutrient Profile Analysis of Pork and Alternative Protein Sources
Swine Health - General Disease
Comparative pathogenesis of different porcine rotavirus C (RVC) genotypes and correlation between maternal immune status and RVC diarrhea prevalence in suckling piglets
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