Breeds
Pork Selection
Breeding & Piglet Care
Pork Checkoff
Food Safety
100
This breed is black with a white middle. No Anthony... this is not an 'Oreo' pig.
What is the Hampshire?
100
When purchasing pork we want it to be reddish pink.
What is color?
100
This is the term given to piglets' teeth before they are clipped.
What is needle teeth?
100
The National Pork Board collects $0.40 per $100 value of pork sold. This is called the ______ ______.
What is pork checkoff?
100
This is one of the first steps you should take when cooking or preparing any kind of pork.
What is washing your hands?
200
This breed is red in color and originated in the eastern U.S.
What is the Duroc?
200
Pork should have only a slight amount of this.
What is marbling?
200
This is done to a piglets ears in order to identify the piglet by litter number and pig number.
What is ear notching?
200
This slogan is used to describe pork.
What is "the other white meat"?
200
This is one of the ways in which you can prepare or cook pork.
What is grilling, roasting, or stewing?
300
This breed originated in England and is black with six white points.
What is the Berkshire?
300
The backside or rear of the pig is referred to as this wholesale cut.
What is the ham?
300
The term barrow is given to a piglet that has had this management practice used on it.
What is castration?
300
This is one way in which money from the pork checkoff is used to benefit the pork industry.
What is marketing, research or create information for consumers?
300
For certain cuts of pork the minimum cooking temperature must be at least this high.
What is 140 degrees?
400
This breed is known for its white, long body and mothering ability.
What is the American Landrace?
400
________ ________ is the term given to how much muscle or lean there is compared to the amount of fat and bone.
What is yield grade?
400
These are used when a sow is going to give birth.
What is farrowing pen or crate?
400
Assessment of this is especially important for the Quality Assurance Plus Program.
What is well-being of the animals?
400
This area of the kitchen is an acceptable place to thaw frozen pork.
What is the microwave or refrigerator?
500
This breed originates from England and is pink in color with erect ears.
What is the Yorkshire?
500
A live pig that has reached market weight weighs this much.
What is 260 pounds?
500
The heated area in a nursery pen is referred to as this.
What is the brooder?
500
A pork checkoff adviser trains producer in order to meet the standards of this program.
What is Quality Assurance Plus Program?
500
Ms. Rhoades has an awesome recipe for roasting this retail cut of pork.
What is tenderloin?