Clearing the air 🌬️

🇺🇲🐷 While reliable air quality assessments are critical for understanding the source of swine production particulates and developing continuous improvement efforts, air quality measurements specific to swine farms are currently either unavailable altogether or costly, complex, slow, and biased… To solve this problem, the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the National Pork Board (NPB) launched the Improving Swine Production Air Quality Program in 2022, which aimed to literally and figuratively clear the air by funding research on the topic! 

     • The latest news? Two researchers and professors, from Purdue University and South Dakota State University, have been awarded grants totaling nearly $1 million. Click here to learn more about the subject and the awardees.