London Swine Conference Proceedings 2008 - Summary

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Individual Articles

• An Industry in Change - Ben Woolley
• Is There an 'Optimum' Production System? - Michael Brumm
• Balancing Sow and Piglet Welfare with Production Efficiency - Sandra Edwards
• New Opportunities for Reproductive Management - William Flowers
• Impacts on Further Growth of the North American Pork Industry - John Lawrence
• MISSION 2050 - Research and Industry Infrastructure in the Year 2050 - Vern Osborne
• Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV): The Disease that Keeps Bugging Us - Jeff Zimmerman
• Control of Salmonella in the Pork Production Chain - Julie Funk

Break Out Sessions

• Livestock Border Closure Contingency Plan - Deborah Stark
• Preparing for a Border Closure - Clare Schlegel
• Border Closure: Effects on the Ontario Feed Industry - Dan Ganesh
• Managing Pig Flow - Considerations as a Buyer of Weaned Pigs - Michael Brumm
• Optimum Pig Flows - Ben Woolley
• Insurance Based Risk Management for Swine Facilities - Randy Drysdale
• Risk Management for Farms - Paul Wigood
• Using Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGS) in Swine Diets - Malachy Young
• Canadian Experience with Feeding DDGS - Phil McEwen
• Canadian Experience with Feeding DDGS - Andrew Pharazyn
• Fire Disaster Recovery: Producer and Veterinary Perspectives - Paul Morris
• Pulling the Pin on Disease - Sue Burlatschenko
• On-Farm Animal Welfare Audits - Sandra Edwards
• Developing the Animal Care Assessment - Catherine Scovil
• Optimum Solutions for Grower-Finisher Pigs - Neil Ferguson
• Nutrition Solutions for Grower-Finisher Pigs - Bruno Marty
• Alternative Sources of Energy - On-Farm Options - Steve Clarke
• Challenges in the Anaerobic Digestion of Hog Manure - Marcel Stadelmann, Benjamin Strehler, Cigdem Eskicioglu, and Kevin Kennedy
• Applying Reproductive Technologies in Practice - William Flowers
• Quality Control of Extended Boar Semen - Mario Baracaldo and Jim Ward

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