Banff Pork Seminar
2003 Proceedings

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Sessions

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Plenary Sessions

• How Will Kyoto Affect Our Competitiveness?
• Moving Forward
• Prospering Under Pressure

Breakout Sessions

• Advances in Genetic Technology
• Antimicrobials: Can We Continue Using Them?
• Feeding to Reduce Disease
• Financial Leverage through Risk Management
• Getting My Barn Built – Update on Regulations
• Innovative Manure & Water Management
• Management Practices to Reduce GHG Emissions
• Meeting Future Demands for Animal Care
• Mining your Data to Make Money
• Nursery Management
• Solutions to Production Limiting Problems
• Sow & Gilt Management
• Sow Housing - Everything Old is New Again

Abstracts

• Behaviour
• Breeding and Reproduction
• Environment
• Financial Management
• Meat Quality
• Nutrition & Metabolism
• Pork Safety & Health

Plenary Sessions

• How Will Kyoto Affect Our Competitiveness?
  • The Lack of Science in Kyoto: A Solution for a Non-Existent Problem
    Tim Ball
• Moving Forward
  • Prediction of Pork Prices and Production
    Ron Plain
  • Preparing for the Future
    Larry Martin
  • Staying Competitive in a Changing North American Economic and Trade Environment
    David M. Kohl & Alicia M. Morris
  • Trade Opportunities beyond the US
    Bill McLean
• Prospering Under Pressure
  • Prospering under Pressure - Who is the Enemy?
    L.M. Safley, Jr.
  • The Hog at a Crossroads Ruth Kelly
    Ruth Kelly

Breakout Sessions

• Advances in Genetic Technology
  • Quantitative Selection for Piglet Survival as A Safe Way to Reduce the Cost of Weaners
    Egbert Frank Knol
  • The Changing World of Genomics and its Impact on the Pork Chain
    Graham S. Plastow
• Antimicrobials: Can We Continue Using Them?
  • Bugs, Drugs and You
    Jean Szkotnicki
  • U.S. Checkoff Programs and Perspectives
    Paul Sundberg
• Feeding to Reduce Disease
  • Can Subtherapeutic Levels of Antibiotics be Eliminated from Swine Diets?
    Jeffery A. Carroll
  • Gastric Ulcers: An Under-Recognized Cause of Mortality and Morbidity
    Robert M. Friendship
• Financial Leverage through Risk Management
  • Financial Leverage through Risk Management - Leverage and The Lender
    Lang Ellison and Lori Lane
  • Risk Management is More Than Just a Numbers Game
    Doug Wolff
• Getting My Barn Built – Update on Regulations
  • Getting My Barn Built - It's About Time – A Regional and Producer Perspective
    Rich Smith
  • Getting My Barn Built - Update on Regulations - U.S. Perspective
    L. M. Safley, Jr.
  • Getting My Barn Built –The NRCB Process in Alberta
    Andy Cumming
• Innovative Manure & Water Management
  • Manure Management Systems – Biogas Systems
    Stefan Michalski
  • RE-Cycle: A Profitable Swine Production System with Zero Waste
    Theo van Kempen
  • Water Usage and Manure Production Rates in Today’s Pig Industry
    Clarence Froese
• Management Practices to Reduce GHG Emissions
  • Feeding Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Pigs
    Ronald O. Ball and Sönke Möhn
  • Management Practices to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Swine Production Systems
    Claude Laguë
  • Possibilities and Challenges of Emission Reduction Credit Trading in the Hog Industry
    Matthew Bramley and Marlo Raynolds
• Meeting Future Demands for Animal Care
  • Meeting Future Demands for Animal Care
    Tina Widowski
• Mining your Data to Make Money
  • Managerial Accounting and Return on Equity Analysis
    William E. Marsh
  • Mining your Data to Make Money
    Robert B. Morrison
• Nursery Management
  • Nursery Management Strategies
    Joel DeRouchey, Mike Tokach and Steve Dritz
  • Nursery Management – Big Pens
    Ciaran Ormond
• Solutions to Production Limiting Problems
  • Characterizing Subpopulations to Reduce Attrition
    John Deen and Alejandro Larriestra
  • Induced Farrowings: Are You In Control?
    Peter H.F. Provis
  • Three Points to Watch for Optimal Productivity
    Doug MacDougald
• Sow & Gilt Management
  • Building the Barn to Fit the Gilt
    John C. Harding
  • Managing the Gilt to Fit the Producer
    Daryl Possberg
  • Reproductive Management: A Scientist in Production Clothing
    David K. Bishop
  • Working with Variance: Hassle or Help in Developing Breeding Management Programs
    George R. Foxcroft
• Sow Housing - Everything Old is New Again
  • Everything Old Is New Again - Sow Housing
    Niels-Peder Nielsen
  • Group Housing: Alternative Systems, Alternative Management
    Harold Gonyou

Abstracts

• Behaviour
  • Effects of large group size on productivity of grower-finisher pigs
    Thusith S. Samarakone and Harold W. Gonyou
• Breeding and Reproduction
  • Effective assessment of boar fertility and semen quality
    A.L. Ruiz-Sanchez, R. O'Donoghue and G.R. Foxcroft
  • Embryonic and fetal development in a commercial dam-line genotype
    S.C. Town, J.L. Patterson, C.Z. Pereira and G.R. Foxcroft
  • Growth rate and age at first estrus: Impact on managing the gilt pool
    J. Patterson, M. Pettitt, G.R. Foxcroft and E. Beltranena
  • Ovarian follicular development in first parity sows subject to varied split-weaning protocols
    J. Barry, W.T. Dixon and G.R. Foxcroft
  • Regulation of the oviduct environment as a factor in embryonic survival in the gilt
    S. Novak, B.K. Treacy, F.R.C.L. Almeida, W.T. Dixon and G.R. Foxcroft
• Environment
  • Can we alter water utilization patterns in growing pigs by diet manipulation?
    M. I. Shaw, J. F. Patience, and A. D. Beaulieu
  • Distribution of dust, endotoxin and DNA after oil sprinkling in a swine facility
    J.L. Cleave, P.J. Willson, S.P. Kirychuk, L. Chenard and S. P. Lemay
  • Low protein diets for sows reduce greenhouse gas production
    Jacob K. A. Atakora, Sönke Möhn and Ronald O. Ball
  • Low protein diets maintain performance and reduce greenhouse gas production in finisher pigs
    Jacob K. A. Atakora, Sönke Möhn and Ronald O. Ball
  • Virtual machines for real benefits
    Hubert Landry, Claude Laguë and Martin Roberge
• Financial Management
  • An innovative risk management tool for Alberta pork producers: Value at risk
    J. Hotz, B. Radke and J. Unterschultz
• Meat Quality
  • Canadian pork carcass grading: the 1992 Hennessy HPG-2 baseline prediction equation for estimating lean yield
    A. Fortin, A.K.W. Tong and W.M. Robertson
  • Canadian pork carcass grading: the Hennessy HGP-2 and Destron PG-100 grading probes: 10 years later
    A. Fortin, A.K.W. Tong and W.M. Robertson
  • NIRS for the determination of composition and quality of pig muscle
    Austin Murray, Michael Johns and Denise Froehlich
  • Performance and carcass composition of pigs fed different levels of canola oil and tallow
    M.E.R. Dugan, J.L. Aalhus and W.M. Robertson
  • Pig belly quality
    Austin Murray and Michael Johns
  • Quality of moisture-enhanced pork from retail markets
    K.R. Glaeser, F.M. Nattress, L.L. Gibson and J.L. Aalhus
• Nutrition & Metabolism
  • Amino acid digestibilities in different samples of rice bran for growing pigs
    Charles Kaufmann, Jinming He, Willem Sauer, Mark Newcomb and Meike Rademacher
  • Dietary regulation of arginine synthesis in the neonatal piglet
    D.L. Wilkinson, R.F.P. Bertolo, J.A. Brunton, A.K. Shoveller, P.B. Pencharz and R.O. Ball
  • Diets that increase mucin production in pigs reduce threonine and amino acid retention
    S.B. Myrie, R.F.P. Bertolo, W.C. Sauer and R.O. Ball
  • Effect of phytase supplementation to a wheat-soybean meal canola meal diet on nutrient utilization in weanling pigs
    Shengfa Liao, Willem Sauer, Arie Kies and Jinming He
  • Increasing dietary cystine decreases gastrointestinal parameters in early weaned piglets
    R.D. Harte, A.K. Shoveller, R.F.P. Bertolo and R.O. Ball
  • Influence of glutamine on immune development in newly weaned piglets
    Ian R. Johnson, Ronald O. Ball, Vickie E. Baracos, Karen L Madsen, Sue Goruk and Catherine J. Field
  • Lysine degradation in swine
    D. Pink, R. Elango, W. Dixon and R.O. Ball
  • Small intestinal utilization of branched chain amino acids (BCAA) in piglets
    R. Elango, D. Pink, P.B. Pencharz and R.O. Ball
  • The effect of low protein diets on nitrogen excretion and plasma amino acid profile of sows
    D. Janine McMillan, Sönke Möhn and Ronald O. Ball
  • The performance of grower-finisher pigs fed diets with declining crude protein content
    J.F. Patience, A.D. Beaulieu, R.T. Zijlstra, D.A. Gillis and J.Usry
• Pork Safety & Health
  • Bacteriology of moisture-enhanced pork from retail markets
    K.R. Glaeser, F.M. Nattress, G.G. Greer, L.P. Baker and J.L. Aalhus
  • Surveillance of selected antimicrobial residues in swine slaughtered in provincially inspected abattoirs in Alberta
    Julia Keenliside, Jim Henderson, Don Noot, Joe Kendall and Tom Thompson
  • Testing for Trichinella spiralis in wild boars in Alberta
    John T. Y. Wu, Ken H. Dies, Eva Y. W. Chow, Evelyn E. Bowlby and Lester S. Y. Wong
  • The prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in finishing swine in Alberta
    Murray J. Kennedy, John T. Y. Wu, Eva Y. W. Chow and Andrijana Rajic