The U.S. swine industry has a lot of great minds working together to keep the pigs healthy, as well as keeping the pigs' environments safe and healthy. While many of these great minds work in the barns with the pigs every day, some of these great minds can be found at North American universities working to find ways to improve the entire hog production chain.

In this slideshow, take a look at the work done by research teams improving everything from transportation to pig health to maximizing manure nutrients.