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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
Influence of Gestation Housing on Sow Welfare and Productivity
The data from this experiment suggests that the mixing of strange sows into groups can be done without adversely affecting fertility. The lack of overall effect on litter size and farrowing rate...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Utilization of Crystalline Amino Acids by the Gut in Growing Pigs
Conventional diets containing corn and soybean meal fed to growing pigs can be reduced in protein when a portion of the protein can be replaced by crystalline amino acids. These amino acids allow the...
Pork Quality
Relationship between glycolytic oscillations and pork color and water-holding capacity
A system was developed to monitor in vitro glycolysis catalyzed by pig skeletal muscle proteins. Oscillatory and non-oscillatory patterns of in vitro glycolysis were observed using muscle extracts...
Pork Quality
Pork Muscling Profiling Study 2002
This research project evaluated a variety of pork quality attributes for each of 25 different muscles from 64 carcasses. The results identified several shoulder and ham muscles that have quality...
Pork Quality
Biochemical Characterization of Pork Quality
Sires from Duroc, Berkshire, Yorkshire and Pietrain breeds were used to produce crossbred progeny, free of the HAL-1843TM gene, that exhibit pork quality differences. Loin muscle temperature, color,...
Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Dietary crude protein reduction: Impact on ammonium excretion and gastro-intestinal functions in the pig
Reducing dietary crude protein concentration leads to a significant reduction in nitrogen losses in the urine, in turn reducing ammonium concentration and ammonia emission. Amino acids, the building...
Environment - Air
The Effect of Air Quality in Swine Finishing Facilities Upon Animal Performance and Environmental Pollution Potential
Public Health - Other
Comprehensive Review on Human Health Effects of PorkProduction Emissions
Environment - Other
Interactive effect of crude protein reduction and fermentable fibers on nitrogen metabolism, ammonia utilization, and slurry composition in the growing pig
Pork Quality
Biochemical characterization of superior quality pork
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