Day 1: Sows

• Paradox of Progress: Reality vs. Perception of Pork Safety in Modern Swine Production - Peter Davies
• A Genomic Future - Abe Huisman and Patrick Charagu
• Top Profit Robbers in a Sow Farm - Mark Chambers and Catherine Templeton
• Top Profit Robbers in a Sow Farm: Energy - John de Bruyn
• Lactation in Motion - Walter Hurley

Day 1. Workshop sessions

• Managing Pre-Weaning Mortality - Mark Chambers
• Managing Pre-Weaning Mortality (PWM): Practical Tools And Protocols to Reduce PWM On-Farm - Dennis Robles
• Pain Control - Robert Friendship and George Charbonneau
• Advances in Sow Nutrition- The Use of Mathematical Modelling in Sow Nutrition - Anja V. Hansen and Ermias Kebreab
• Nutrition of Pregnant Sows - Soenke Moehn and Ronald O. Ball
• Preparing the Barn: Stockmanship - Dennis Robles
• Preparing the Barn - Marc Lalonde
• What Are The Key Performance Indicators of the Future? - Ron Ketchem
• Pioneering New Performance Indicators - Egidijus Mickevicius
• Repeatability of Litter Size in the Sow Population - Jennifer Patterson and John Harding
• Maximising Weaning Capacity of Sow and Crate - Bill Geisel

Day 2: Wean to Finish

• Feed, Caloric and Financial Efficiency - John F. Patience
• Why We Should Reduce Antibiotic Usage and Ways To Do It - Robert Desrosiers
• Top Profit Robbers, Nursery-Finish - James Reesor
• Top Profit Robbers Wean to Finish - Clare Schlegel
• Top Profit Robbers Wean to Finish- Jim Paton
• Plenty to Think About - Jose Cardenas

Day 2: Workshop sessions

• Hog Crush Margins - John Bancroft and Mike Tregunna
• New Tools for Precision Feeding: NRC (2012) - C.F.M. de Lange
• Animal Variation and the Derivation of Optimal Shipping Srategies for Finishing Pigs - Neil S. Ferguson
• New Tools For Precision Feeding - Bruno Marty
• New Applications in Nursery Nutrition and Management: Giving Piglets the Best
• Possible Start with Practical Management Tips and Nutrition Concepts - Ian Wellock, Paul Toplis, Kayleigh Almond and Pete Wilcock
• Nursery Management in Light of Frugal Earnings in Swine Industry - Radu Zorzolan
• Management Practices That Maximise Feed Efficiency - John F. Patience
• Feeding and Barn Management to Improve Feed Conversion - Matt Ische
• In-Feed Antibiotics–Some of the Issues - Peter Davies
• The Use of In-Feed Antibiotics in Quebec Pigs - Robert Desrosiers
• Impact of Influenza A in Pork Production - Greg Wideman
• Trends and Patterns of Influenza Virus Circulation in Ontario Swine Herds - Zvonimir Poljak

Further Reading

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updated September 2013