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Pork Information Gateway
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Trio of pigs playing with an enrichment rope toy.
Animal Behavior and Welfare Issues
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Worker monitoring pigs in pens.
Breeding and Genetics
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Farm employees reviewing paperwork.
Business Management
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Hog building surrounded by lush grass and bushes.
Environmental Stewardship
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Farmer fixing equipment in a hog building with a group of piglets in the background.
Facilities and Equipment
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Facility boss and employee talking at office desk.
Human Resources
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Women at office desk working on computer.
Marketing
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Different raw cuts of pork.
Pork Quality
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Sliced cooked pork chop.
Pork Safety
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Overview of hog facility showing pigs in group pens.
Production and Management Systems
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Piglets nursing on sow.
Reproduction
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Sow nestled in straw with piglets surrounding.
Small and Beginning Farmer
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Pigs in group pen.
Statistics
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Employee making notes on clipboard while observing a pen of pigs.
Swine Health
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Feed bins located next to a hog building.
Swine Nutrition
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Staff meeting with one person demonstrating with a respirator.
Worker Health & Safety
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Adult and child reviewing documents with a fair hog barn in the background.
Youth Projects

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Information developed for the Pork Information Gateway, a project of the U.S. Pork Center of Excellence supported fully by USDA/Agricultural Research Service, USDA/Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Pork Checkoff, NPPC, state pork associations from Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Utah, and the Extension Services from several cooperating Land-Grant Institutions including Iowa State University, North Carolina State University, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, Purdue University, The Ohio State University, South Dakota State University, Kansas State University, Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin, Texas A & M University, Virginia Tech University, University of Tennessee, North Dakota State University, University of Georgia, University of Arkansas, and Colorado State University.