Banff Pork Seminar
2001 Proceedings

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Sessions

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Sections

• Session I: Positioning Pork in the Global Food Industry
• Session II: Will Greenhouse Gasses Constrain the Pork Industry?
• Session III: Will We use Genetically-Modified Products in the Pork Industry
• Session IV: Assuring Pork Safety

Breakout Sessions

• Swine Diseases Update
• Your Dream Team: Optimizing Human Resources
• Risk Management in a Global and Local Context
• Value Chains as a Long-term Profit Strategy
• New Technologies for Odour Management
• Successful Siting of New & Expanding Operations
• Improving Meat Quality with Genetics & Nutrition
• Increasing Profit by Optimizing Nutrition
• Animal Welfare: Responding to a Changing Culture
• Rethinking Reproductive Management

Abstracts

• Meat Quality
• Pork Safety & Animal Health
• Nutrition & Metabolism
• Reproductive Physiology & Breeding
• Environmental & Manure Management
• Behaviour & Management

Session I: Positioning Pork in the Global Food Industry

Selling Pork in the Global Marketplace
Jacques Pomerleau

Session II: Will Greenhouse Gasses Constrain the Pork Industry?

What the Kyoto Protocol means to the Pork Industry
M.M. Boehm

Session III: Will We use Genetically-Modified Products in the Pork Industry?

Biotechnology and the Consumer as it Relates to Pork Production
G.A. Surgeoner

Session IV: Assuring Pork Safety

On-Farm Food Safety and Quality Assurance Programs
Thomas G. Blaha

Breakout Sessions

• Swine Diseases Update
  • Porcine Circovirus Update
    Henry Gauvreau
  • Salmonellain Swine
    Andrijana Rajic and Julia Keenliside
  • PRRS Update: Recent Trends
    S. Ernest Sanford
  • Swine Influenza Virus
    Gordon D. Spronk

• Your Dream Team: Optimizing Human Resources
  • Creating a Competitive Advantage through People: Managing People in a Large Production System
    Gary D. Dial, Janelle R. Roker and Bradley W. Freking
  • Employers' Handbook for Agriculture and Horticulture
    Lorne Owen

• Risk Management in a Global and Local Context
  • Risk Management in a Global and Local Context
    Ray Snitynsky

• Value Chains as a Long-term Profit Strategy
  • Value Chains as a Long Term Profit Strategy
    Jerry Bouma
  • Making More Profit with Value Chains
    Gordon D. Spronk
  • Making More Profit with Value Chains – The Sunterra Experience,
    Dave Price
  • Cognitive Dissonance in the Swine Value Chain
    Desmond Ng

• New Technologies for Odour and Manure Management
  • Technologies for Odour Management
    John Feddes and I. Edeogu

• Successful Siting of New & Expanding Operations
  • Successful Siting of New and Expanding Intensive Livestock Operations - The Alberta Experience
    Andy Cumming
  • Successful Siting of New and Expanding Operations – A Saskatchewan Perspective
    Donn Farrer
  • Public Involvement in the Siting of Large Scale Hog Facilities: Lessons for Pork Producers from Four Alberta Communities
    Jody Mackenzie and Naomi T. Krogman

• Improving Meat Quality with Genetics & Nutrition
  • Major Genes and Meat Quality
    Alain Houde, Daniel Godbout and Claude Gariépy
  • Improving Meat Quality through Nutrition
    Jennifer L. Aalhus & Michael E. R. Dugan

• Increasing Profit by Optimizing Nutrition
  • Increasing Profit by Optimizing Nutrition – Chromium
    L. Lee Southern
  • 10 Steps to a Better Feeding Program
    Ron Ball

• Animal Welfare: Responding to a Changing Culture
  • The Culture and Agriculture of Animal Production
    David Fraser

• Rethinking Reproductive Management
  • The Application of Improved Gilt Pool Management: An Industry Perspective
    Gary D. Dial, Janelle R. Roker and Bradley W. Freking
  • Rethinking Management of the Replacement Gilt
    George Foxcroft and Frank Aherne

ABSTRACTS

Research that Works:
Alberta Pork Research Centre in Action