Producers Strive For Full Value Pigs™– What About Full

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Producers Strive For Full Value Pigs™–
What About Full-Value Pork?
Iowa Swine Day
June 30, 2016
Dr. Ken Prusa
Full Value Pigs™
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Holistic approach to disease management and
herd health
Feed optimization and getting the most out of
your biggest input
Marketing pigs at the right weight and right time
– a precision harvest
Assurance to sell your products to your
preferred buyer
Feeding the world
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Producers Strive For Full Value Pigs™–
What About Full-Value Pork?
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Full Value Lard…
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Producers Strive For Full Value Pigs™–
What About Full-Value Pork?
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Capture value and limit losses in the system:
•  Packer
•  Retailer
•  Warehouse Club
•  Further Processor
•  Foodservice Provider
•  Pork Importer
•  Consumer
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Our Mission:
“To Improve Meat Quality” through a
“Science-Based Approach”
“This Includes Preventing Waste and
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Full Value Pigs
Full-Value Pork
280 Pounds of Living Tissue
211 Pound Carcass
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Metabolic Signs of Animal Stress
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Catecholamines (epinephrine/norepinephrine)
released
Glucocorticoids (cortisol) released
Glycogen is metabolized, blood sugar increases
Heat Shock Proteins and Peroxiredoxin-2
appear in muscle
Muscle pH drops
Blood pH drops
Blood temperature increases
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Detrimental Effects of Stress on Muscle/Meat
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Cascade of events within muscle due to
stress may cause:
•  Muscle protein damage
•  Color loss
•  Loss of water-holding capacity
•  Textural issues – tough and dry?
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Movement of Pigs to the Stunner
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Auto-Gate System
Moves pigs as a
group
Reduces stress
Keeps blood pH
high
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CO2 Stunning
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Reduces blood
splash
Slower pH
decline
Improves color
and purge
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Transition From Pig to Pork
280 pounds of living tissue
•  280 pounds of living tissue
12 pounds of blood
•  1 pound of hair
•  36 pounds of viscera
•  15 pound head
•  2 pounds of leaf lard
3 pounds of trim and evaporative loss
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Pork Blood – About 12 pounds
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Collected at time of
stick
pH and temperature
relates to animal
stress
High pH and low
temperature are
desirable
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Separated into
plasma and red
cells
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Pig Hair – About 1 pound
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Removed through
scalding, dehairing,
polishers, singers
USDA – must
remove all hair
Issues with hard
hair
Value loss due to
skinning
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USDA Head Inspection
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Observe head, cut surfaces and right and left
mandibular lymph nodes
Condemned due to ingesta
Tuberculosis
Abscesses
Atrophic rhinitis
Value loss due to head condemnation
Estimates - about 5% of heads condemned
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Bone
Ears
Snout
Cheek Meat
Head Meat Trim
Pate
Skin
Tongue
Tongue Base
Temple Meat
Salivary Glands
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Pork Head Products
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Pork Viscera
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Pork Viscera
Esophagus
Pet Food
Stomach
Pepsin, Export
Pancreas
Pharmaceutical
Lungs
Pet Food
Liver
Edible or Pet
Food
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Pork Viscera
Heart
Spleen
Medical,
Export
Pet Food
Kidney
Edible or Pet
Food
Small
Intestine
Pharmaceutical,
Casings
Large Intestine
Chitterlings
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Pork Chitlins
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Pork Bungs
Calamari or
Pork Bung?
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Pork Viscera
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Potential value losses:
•  Contamination
•  Disease conditions
•  Carcass conditions
Will loose entire viscera set
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Joint Issues – Arthritis?
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Deep Chills or Quick Chills
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Slows pH decline
Improves color
Decreases purge
and improves
cook yields
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Hot Weight vs. Cold Weight - % Shrink
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Daily slaughter of 400,000
Average carcass weight of 200 pounds
Shrink loss of 2 pounds per head (1%)
Loss of 800,000 pounds per day
400 tons of “pork” lost
Twenty “loads” of “pork” lost in one day
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Hot Weight vs. Cold Weight - % Shrink
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If one plant kills 5 million head per year…
A 0.1% increase or decrease in shrink…
Could mean 1 million dollars lost or gained in
one year
(Assume $1.00 per pound carcass price)
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100 Pound Carcass Side
83 pounds of soft tissue
56 pounds of lean tissue
27 pounds of fat
11 pounds of bone
6 pounds of skin
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The Carcass on the Cut Floor
Pork Jowl
Domestic or Trim
Pork Tails
Export
Rear Feet
Export
Front Feet
Domestic
Neckbones
Domestic or
Export
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Pork Skin, Bone, Fat and Trim
Skin
Pork Rinds or Gelatin
Meat and Bone Meal
Fat
Trim
Lard or Bio-Diesel
Sausage/Hot Dogs
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Pork Shoulder – 19% of carcass
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Pork Shoulder Upgrades
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Hams – 24.5% of carcass
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Ham Femur Bones
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Halo Effect in Ham Muscles
“Major grocer withdraws hams
from stores – but not over food
safety”… (Meatingplace, 3/29/2016)
500,000 Pounds Recalled
Product Quality Issue
Possible Causes:
Myoglobin?
Muscle Fiber Type?
Stress?
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Pork Bellies – 17% of carcass
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Belly Value Loss – About $1.00/lb
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Pork Spareribs – 5% of carcass
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Loin – 24% of carcass
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Unique Boneless Loin Products
Loin Cap Muscle
Riblets
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Boneless Loin – 30% of bone-in
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Pork Quality Scales
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Pork Quality Scales
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Purge – Color - pH
pH 5.60
pH 5.80
pH 6.00
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Pork Loin Upgrades
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Japanese export market
Domestic color selected programs
Domestic color and marbling programs
Several companies marketing “Prime” pork
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Purge Value Loss
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Purge - amount of liquid released from lean
tissue
Vacuum packaged products
Product in combo’s for further processing
Product weight lost
Source of major value loss
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Value Loss in Purge
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A major pork buyer might purchase 100 million
pounds of pork per year
Experience 1% purge loss
Loss of 1 million pounds of product per year
Loss of value, eating quality and nutritional
value
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In Summary…Producing Full-Value Pork
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Continue to work on producing full value pigs
Holistic approach to disease management and
herd health
Increased emphasis on stress reduction during
loading and transportation
Controversial – carcass leanness versus focus
on pH, color and marbling
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