Pork Information Gateway
The Pork Information Gateway (PIG) is a FREE, web-based library for the U.S. pork industry.
The PIG online library provides the industry with fact sheets, “how-to” guides, videos and other resources.
The information is categorized by the following categories:
- Production & Management Systems + Animal Behavior & Welfare
- Business Management + Human Resources + Worker Health & Safety
- Swine Health
- Facilities & Equipment + Environmental Stewardship
- Breeding & Genetics + Nutrition + Reproduction
- Marketing + Statistics
- Pork Quality + Pork Safety
- Youth Projects + Small/Beginning Producers (alternative/niche production)
Visit the Pork Information Gateway
P.I.G. Graduate or Post-Doctoral Student Stipend
The U.S. Pork Center of Excellence works with up to four graduate/post-doctoral students to serve as year-long editors and content creators for specific categories on the Pork Information Gateway, with the expectation that the faculty mentor/supervisor will oversee student work before final submission to the Pork Information Gateway. Each $20,000 stipend is to be used by a faculty mentor/supervisor to help support a graduate student or post-doctoral student. The funds are renewable for an additional year upon satisfactory progress.
2019 – 2020 Student & Faculty Mentors that served as Editors of the Pork Information Gateway
Category: Swine Health
- Student: Dr. Megan Nickel, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University – Swine Medicine Education Center
- Faculty Mentor: Dr. Locke Karriker, DVM, MS, DACVPM, Iowa State University – Swine Medicine Education Center
Category: Breeding, Genetics, Reproduction and Nutrition
- Student: Victoria Abner, Masters of Science student, North Carolina State University
- Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Holt, PhD, Assistant Professor and Extension Swine Specialist, North Carolina State University
Category: Pork Quality & Safety
- Student: Morgan Wonderly, Masters of Science student, California Polytechnic State University
- Faculty Mentor: Siroj Pokharel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Meat Food Safety, Animal Science Department, California Polytechnic State University
Category: Facilities, Equipment and Environmental Stewardship
- Student: Benjamin Smith, Doctoral Student, Graduate Research Assistant, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University
- Faculty Mentor: Brett Ramirez, PhD, Assistant Professor, Agricultural Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University