Banff Pork Seminar
1998 Proceedings

Table of Contents

Sessions

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Plenary Sessions

• Addressing Environmental Concerns
• Boar and Sow Fertility - New Ideas, New Directions
• Challenges in Nutrition Research
• Effective Aids to Decision Making
• Risk Factors in a Competitive Pork Industry

Abstracts

Plenary Sessions

• Addressing Environmental Concerns
  • Practical Approaches to Odour Control
    Larry Jacobson
  • Research Initiatives on Environmental Impacts of Intensive Livestock Operations
    Terry Church, David Helmer, Darcy Fitzgerald and Peter Dzikowski
  • Responding to Environmental Concerns
    Larry Jacobson
  • Update on Canadian Pork Council. National Initiative on Research and Technology
    Ron Ball and Martin Rice
• Boar and Sow Fertility - New Ideas, New Directions
  • Estrus and Timing of Ovulation in Pigs: Consequences for Insemination Strategies.
    Bas Kemp, Dorothe W.B. Steverink and Nicoline M. Soede
  • Improving Boar Fertility
    Billy Flowers
• Challenges in Nutrition Research
  • Challenges in Nutrition Research
    Ron Ball
• Effective Aids to Decision Making
  • Information Management for Pig Professionals.
    Jerry Shurson
  • The Use of Data for Cost Effective Management.
    Doug MacDougald
• Risk Factors in a Competitive Pork Industry
  • 97 Health Status as a Risk Factor: A Systems and Unit Perspective.
    Cate Dewey
  • Foreign Animal Disease Risk and Mitigation
    Terry Whiting
  • Production Efficiency as a Risk Factor
    Doug MacDougald
  • Risk Factors in a Global Marker.
    Fred Mitchell
  • Risk Factors in Marketing.
    Ray Price

Abstracts

• A Case Study of Gilt Pool Management-U of A
  G. Foxcroft, J. Goller, J. Willis, M. Meninga, J. Barrie, J. Hesse, J. Mao, S. Novak and F. Almeida
• Comparison of Triticale with Corn and Hulless Barley in Swine Diets
  S. Jaikaran, W.M. Robertson, D.F. Salmon and F.X. Aherne
• Contamination of Pig Carcasses with Escherichia coli from their Mouths
  C.O. Gill and T. Jones
• Day of Injection does not Affect the Response of Weaned Sows to PG600
  R.N. Kirkwood
• Earthen Lagoon Seepage Study
  David Helmer, Jacky Lau, Gerry Guy, Randy Lewis, Darcy Fitzgerald, Paul Bauman, and Larry Bentley
• Effect of Pre-slaughter Feed Restriction on Bacterial Numbers in the Stomach and Caecum of Pigs
  F.M. Nattress, R. J. Worobo and A.C. Murray
• Effect of Pre-Slaughter Feed Restriction on Pig Carcass Yield and Pork Quality
  A.C. Murray, W. Robertson, F.M. Nattress and A. Fortin
• Feeding and Gilt Fertility
  Fernanda Almeida and George Foxcroft
• GnRH treatment during lactation and reproductive performance after weaning in primiparous weaned sows
  J. Mao, L.J. Zak, J.R. Cosgrove and G.R. Foxcroft
• Ileal Digestibilities of Amino Acids in Wheat Shorts for Growing Pigs
  Suxi Huang, Willem Sauer and Bruno Marty
• Improved Technologies for Assessing Semen Quality and Boar Fertility
  George Foxcroft, Xiaoji Xu, Serge Pommier, Todor Arbov, Bill Hutchings and William Sotto
• Influence of a New PGF/oxytocin Protocol on the Timing of Farrowing and SerumProgesterone
  K.K. Mehedyn and R.N. Kirkwood
• Influence of Pellet and Mash Combinations on Pig Growth and Carcass Quality
  S.Jaikaran and F.X. Aherne
• Influence of PG600 at Weaning of the First Litter does not Affect Sow LifetimePerformance
  R.N. Kirkwood and L.A. Goonewardene
• Molecular Cloning of Genes Regulating Embryo Survival in Pigs
  Linghuo Jiang, Jagdeece J. Ramsoondar, Joan Turchinsky, Susan Novak, George Foxcroft and Walter T. Dixon
• Odour Emission from Swine Operations
  G.Qu, J. Feddes, J. Leonard and R.Coleman
• Peacan Meal as an Alternate Protein Source for Market Hogs
  S. Jaikaran and F.X. Aherne
• Phase Feeding Sows Protein in Gestation
  Emma Clowes, Frank Aherne, and Roy Kirkwood
• Reducing Primiparous Sow Protein Loss in Lactation Enhances Performance
  Emma Clowes, Vickie Baracos, and Frank Aherne
• Role of Luteinizing Hormone Secretion in Split Weaning
  L. Zak, G. Foxcroft, F. Aherne, and R. Kirkwood
• The Effect of Conjugated Linoleic Acid on Fat to Lean Repartitioning and Feed Conversion in Pigs
  Michael E.R. Dugan, J.L. Aalhus and A.L. Schaefer
• The effect of steroid concentrations on oviductal protein secretion in the gilt.
  Susan Novak, Walter T. Dixon, George R. Foxcroft
• The Influence of Genotype and Gender on Pork Eating Quality
  L.E. Jeremiah, A. Fortin, R.O. Ball, and J.C. Gibson
• Use of PG600 to Facilitate Achievement of Breeding Targets
  R.N. Kirkwood and S.C. Misutka