The Swine Health Information Center has released its 2025 Progress Report, documenting record producer focused research investment, response to requests for proposals, and matching funds. The National Pork Board approved the report on January 14, 2026, and it is now available at swinehealth.org/plan-of-work. Outlined in SHIC’s grant with NPB, the 2025 Progress Report confirms the Center’s ongoing success for pork producers’ benefit.
SHIC was created in 2015 as a five year pilot program with funding provided by the Pork Checkoff, which was renewed in 2021. In 2025, NPB voted to provide $2.5 million to fund SHIC, affirming the Center’s value to producers whose Checkoff investment funds a significant portion of its operation. In 2025, SHIC celebrated a decade of existence working to mitigate emerging swine disease threats on behalf of US pork producers in partnership with NPB, the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, and the National Pork Producers Council.
From 2022 through 2025, SHIC secured $5,041,094 in matching funds and external grants to enhance reach and results. These external funding sources are equal to $0.49 of non Checkoff funding for every $1.00 of Checkoff support, directly increasing the return on producer investments and expanding research breadth.
With all funds available, SHIC contracted $4,434,466 across 32 research projects in 2025, the greatest annual research investment in the Center’s history. These funds enable producer relevant projects and allow extensive research into swine health-related priorities that fulfill SHIC’s mission. Captured across SHIC’s five pillars, projects encompass domestic and global emerging disease monitoring, targeted swine disease research, swine health data analysis and coordinated communications.
In total, SHIC received 116 research proposals in 2025, requesting $17.7 million. This record number of proposals provides evidence that leading researchers view SHIC as an organization that directly funds and supports impactful swine health research. A competitive review process managed by SHIC staff led to selection of the 32 funded proposals approved by the SHIC Board of Directors, ensuring that Checkoff and matching funds are focused on the highest priority, highest impact projects for producers.
These projects directly reflect producer and stakeholder input captured through the 2025 SHIC Plan of Work process, which utilized surveys, listening sessions, and Working Group prioritization across five strategic priorities.
SHIC’s domestic and global monitoring systems continued to produce monthly domestic and global disease monitoring reports in 2025, providing early warning on threats such as ASF’s return to Spain after three decades, FMD incursions in Europe and Asia, JEV activity, and the spread of New World screwworm. This near real time intelligence guides on farm and industry level biosecurity decisions.
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