Dustin Boler

Dustin Boler is an assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois-Urbana. For more information, contact him at dboler2@illinois.edu.

Chalk Drawing of Pig with Separation Lines

Meat Science Review

Can Asian-inspired fab specs create revenue for U.S. pork?

Comparing the yield and revenue-generation possibilities of domestic and alternative fabrication specifications on pork carcasses.

E.E. Bryan M.F. Overholt G.D. Kim Anna Dilger, Univ. of Illinois Dustin Boler

October 6, 2017

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Potential economic differences between current American fabrication specifications and Asian-inspired specifications are worth investigating as exports are a vital component to the American swine industry.

Left vs. right: fresh bellies and bilateral symmetry

Effects of bilateral symmetry on fresh belly characteristics of finishing pigs fed high protein canola meal or conventional canola meal.

Dustin Boler

April 9, 2015

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Bilateral symmetry describes the assumption that data collected on one side of the carcass is equally representative of the other side of the carcass.

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Dustin Boler

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Can Asian-inspired fab specs create revenue for U.S. pork?

Left vs. right: fresh bellies and bilateral symmetry

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