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Close-up of a pink pig's head in a pen, looking left, with a bright light in the background.

Commentary: AMSA

Dietary fat sources and levels of vitamin E isoforms impact carcass traits and fresh pork quality of heavy slaughter weight pigs

Findings suggest supplementation with 40 ppm GT reduces redness and increased lightness of fresh pork.

Gregg Rentfrow Surendranath P. Suman Ana Paula Salim Marlee Kelley Ding Wang Merlin Lindemann

March 19, 2026

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National Pork Board supports research into pork quality best practices.

Lab setup at the Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center

Texas A&M opens center to support science-based livestock reproduction

Center houses labs, educational spaces, office space, and animal holding and handling areas separated by size and ruminant type.

Industry News

May 8, 2025

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Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center is set to serve as a hub for collaborative research, teaching and outreach based on animal pregnancy and development science.

Scientists collaborate to study cause of liver abscesses in cattle

Research aims to gain a complete understanding of the development of this condition and the bacteria responsible for causing the infection.

Industry News

March 26, 2024

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Effort includes researchers from Texas Tech University, Kansas State University and West Texas A&M University.

USDA-NIFA invests over $13M to treat, eradicate livestock diseases

Veterinary and animal science scholarships awarded

Arkansas Department of Agriculture awards $22,000 in scholarships to four students.

Industry News

December 29, 2023

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Applicants must agree to work full-time upon graduation in rural Arkansas or for a veterinary practice with at least 50% of the practice being food animals.

Podcast

MeatsPad Podcast with Dr. Sara Gragg of Kansas State University

December 2, 2020

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In this episode, Francisco Najar-Villirreal speaks with Dr. Sara Gragg of Kansas State University. Dr. Gragg received her Ph.D. in Animal Science from Texas Tech University in 2012.

Higher Education

Garden City Community College

February 13, 2017

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Garden City Community College is the longest continuously operating community college in Kansas and has had an animal science program for over 80 years.

Animal welfare