Banff Pork Seminar
2004 Proceedings

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Sessions

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Plenary Sessions

• Warming up for C.O.O.L. (Country of Origin Labeling)
• Your Prosperity – Won & Lost

Breakout Sessions

• Boosting Boar Power in the Breeding Barn
• Building & Keeping your Dream Team
• Getting a Financial Grip on the New Realities of Today’s Pork Industry
• Hitting the Core on the Grid
• Living with Pig Traceability
• Managing Large Group Grow-Finish Pigs
• Managing Welfare Audit Systems
• Manipulating Meat Quality with Diet
• Protecting Feed Quality & Safety
• Protecting Your Workers & Yourself
• Value-at-Risk
• Where are the Dollars in Carbon Credits?

Abstracts

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

Plenary Sessions

• Warming up for C.O.O.L. (Country of Origin Labeling)
  • Warming up for C.O.O.L.: American Viewpoint
    Richard Andersen
  • Warming up for C.O.O.L.: Canadian Response
    Kevin Grier
• Your Prosperity – Won & Lost
  • Developments in Global Pig Production
    Leo den Hartog
  • Prediction of 2004 Pork Prices and Production
    Ron Plain

Breakout Sessions

• Boosting Boar Power in the Breeding Barn
  • Boar Nutrition for Optimum Sperm Production
    Mark E. Wilson , Kevin J. Rozeboom and Thomas D. Crenshaw
  • Limitations to Improvements in AI Efficiency
    Mark E. Wilson, Kevin J. Rozeboom, Brad R. Lindsey, Steve L. Terlouw and Kilby L. Willenburg
  • Practicalities and Pitfalls of Semen Evaluation
    Robert V. Knox
  • The Real Impact of Boars in Breeding Programs
    Robert V. Knox
• Building & Keeping your Dream Team
  • Building and Keeping Your Dream Team
    Roy Hildebrand
  • Practical Steps to Designing an Effective Bonus
    Ben Woolley
• Getting a Financial Grip on the New Realities of Today’s Pork Industry
  • A Global Perspective on Pork Industry Competitiveness
    Richard S. Andersen
  • Financing Issues and Challenges Facing Canadian Producers
    Michael L. Deutscher
  • Financing Issues and Challenges Facing U.S. Producers
    Richard S. Andersen
  • Situation of Pork Production in Quebec
    Claude Bilodeau
  • What Support are Lenders Willing to Give?
    Lori Lane
• Hitting the Core on the Grid
  • Dealing with Variation in Market Weight
    Mike Tokach
  • Managing People and Systems to Improve Core Marketing
    Cliff Ehr
  • Prenatal Programming of Postnatal Performance – the Unseen Cause of Variance
    George R. Foxcroft and Susanna C. Town
  • Variation: Costs and Consequences
    J.F. Patience, K. Engele, A.D. Beaulieu, H.W. Gonyou and R.T. Zijlstra
• Living with Pig Traceability
  • Canadian Swine Identification and Traceability
    Dennis McKerracher
  • Living with Pig Traceability
    John A. Kellar
  • Tracking Pork from Pen to Plate
    John Webb
• Managing Large Group Grow-Finish Pigs
  • Considerations for Large Group Housing of Finishing Pigs
    Lee Whittington
  • Managing Grow-Finish Pigs in Large Groups
    Harold W. Gonyou
  • Managing Large Group Grow Finisher Pigs
    Rocky Morrill
• Managing Welfare Audit Systems
  • Demonstrating the U.S. Pork Producer Commitment to Animal Welfare
    Paul Sundberg
  • Farm Animal Welfare Audit Systems – Based on Science and Sound Audit Practices
    John J. McGlone
  • Managing Welfare: On-Farm Animal Care Assessment for Pigs
    Penny Lawlis
• Manipulating Meat Quality with Diet
  • Manipulating Pork Quality Through Production and PreSlaughter Handling
    Nather Aziz
  • Measuring Pork Quality on the Kill Floor
    Bethany Uttaro and M.E.R. Dugan
  • Nutritional Manipulation of Pork Quality: Current Opportunities
    M.E.R. Dugan, J.L. Aalhus and B. Uttaro
• Protecting Feed Quality & Safety
  • Feed Safety and Quality in the Canadian Quality Assurance Program
    L. Dawn LeBlanc
  • New Feed Quality & Safety Issues
    Tom Spiller
  • Protecting Feed Quality and Safety
    Tracey McGrath
• Protecting Your Workers & Yourself
  • Farm Worker Health and Safety: Ensure Due Diligence Now or Pay Later
    Keith Wilson
  • How Can I Control Hydrogen Sulphide in my Barn?
    Stéphane P. Lemay, Shala Christianson, Claude Laguë, Liliane Chénard, Tyrell Bjarnason and Mathew Marshall
  • Protecting Your Workers & Yourself
    Ken Clarke
  • Workers’ Compensation Board Provides Safety Net in a High Risk Industry
    Suzanne McIntosh
• Value-at-Risk
  • Value at Risk: What is it and How Can it be Used?
    Joffre Hotz, Brian Radke, and Jim Unterschultz
• Where are the Dollars in Carbon Credits?
  • Capturing Carbon Credits through Manure Digestion
    Dave West
  • Climate Change Policy, Markets and Greenhouse Gas Offset Trading
    Karen Haugen-Kozyra
  • Where are the Dollars in Carbon Credits?
    Al Tank

Abstracts

• Behaviour & Management
  • Gilt management for improved production
    J. Patterson, G. Foxcroft, M. Pettitt and E. Beltranena
  • Pre-planned segregation: The effect of grouping by weight at weaning on variability in body weight at nursery exit
    J.F. Patience, H.W. Gonyou, R.T. Zijlstra and A.D. Beaulieu
• Breeding and Reproduction
  • Can maternal nutrition alter imprinted genes in oocytes?
    M.Vinsky, W. Dixon, G. Foxcroft
  • Effect of seminal plasma proteins on boar fertility using low sperm doses
    A.L. Ruiz-Sanchez, S.Novak, R. O’Donogue, W.T. Dixon and G.R. Foxcroft
  • Number of conceptuses in utero affects porcine fetal muscle development
    S.C. Town, C.T. Putman, W.T. Dixon and G.R. Foxcroft
• Environment & Manure Management
  • Controls to reduce hydrogen sulphide in swine barns
    S.K. Christianson, S.P. Lemay and C. Laguë
  • Design of a manure handling system for an air quality laboratory in a swine barn
    K.J. Stewart, S.P. Lemay, C. Laguë, E.M. Barber and T. Crowe
  • Effect of nutrient excretion on greenhouse gas emission from pig manure
    Jacob K. A. Atakora, Soenke Moehn and Ronald O. Ball
  • Effects of dietary protein reduction on greenhouse gas emission from pigs
    Jacob K. A. Atakora, Soenke Moehn and Ronald O. Ball
  • Simulating ammonia emissions from swine manure
    E.L. Welford, S.P. Lemay, E.M. Barber and S. Godbout
• Meat Quality
  • Effect of genotype on marbling content
    A. Murray, S. Pommier, W. Robertson and M. Johns
  • Feeding flax seed to pigs: effects on pork fatty acid composition and palatability
    M.E.R. Dugan, J.L. Aalhus, W.M. Robertson, L.L. Gibson, D.C. Rolland and I.L. Larsen
  • Feeding polyunsaturated fatty acids to inhibit lipid synthesis transcription factors in porcine liver
    W. Jon Meadus, Mike Dugan, Dave Rolland, Robin MacInnis
  • Influence of intramuscular fat (IMF) on pork quality
    A. Murray, S. Pommier, L. Gibson, W. Robertson and M. Johns
  • Meat quality of moisture-enhanced pork from Canadian retail markets
    K.R. Glaeser, J.L. Aalhus, L.L. Gibson and F.M. Nattress
• Nutrition & Metabolism
  • Arginine is not synthesized during first-pass liver metabolism in the newborn piglet
    Kristine L. Urschel, Anna K. Shoveller, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Determination of the metabolic availability of lysine in feedstuffs using oral isotope delivery
    Édelis Martinazzo-Dallagnol, Soenke Moehn, Robert F.P. Bertolo, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Determination of the metabolic availability of phenylalanine in feedstuffs
    Édelis Martinazzo-Dallagnol, Soenke Moehn, Robert F.P. Bertolo, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Dietary cysteine reduces cysteine synthesis from methionine in parenterally and enterally fed neonatal piglets
    Anna K. Shoveller, Robyn D. Harte, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Diets formulated at similar digestible energy but different estimated net energy affect growth and body composition of weaned pigs
    T.F. Oresanya, A.D. Beaulieu, and J.F. Patience
  • Dose response to phytase inclusion in diets for growing swine
    A.D. Beaulieu, R.T. Zijlstra, M Bedford and J.F. Patience
  • Effect of phytase supplementation to high- and low-phytate diets on amino acid digestibilities in growing pigs
    Shengfa Liao, Willem Sauer, Arie Kies and Jinming He
  • Increasing dietary cystine decreases gastrointestinal glutathione synthesis in early weaned piglets
    Robyn D. Harte, Anna K. Shoveller and Ronald O. Ball
  • Low protein diets for sows require further improvement
    D. Janine McMillan, Sönke Möhn and Ronald O. Ball
  • Oral isotope delivery for use in determining the ‘metabolic availability’ of amino acids by indicator amino acid oxidation
    Édelis Martinazzo-Dallagnol, Soenke Moehn, Robert F.P. Bertolo, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Regulation of lysine degradation during the postnatal stages of growth and development in the pig
    Desmond B.S. Pink, Rajavel Elango, Walter T. Dixon and Ronald O. Ball
  • Small intestinal utilization of branched chain amino acids (BCAA) in market weight pigs
    Rajavel Elango, Desmond Pink, Walter T. Dixon, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Threonine (THR) requirement is higher in pigs fed barley vs. casein diets
    Semone B. Myrie, Robert F.P. Bertolo, Sönke Möhn, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
• Pork Safety
  • Bacteriology of moisture-enhanced pork from Canadian retail markets
    K.R. Glaeser, F.M. Nattress, G.G. Greer, L.P. Baker and J.L. Aalhus
  • Potential of MALDI-TOF MS for improving the analysis efficiency of environmental drug residues
    Gordon A. Grant, Julia Keenliside, and Peter Sporns
  • Tetracycline residues in swine slaughtered in provincially inspected abattoirs in Alberta
    Julia Keenliside, Jim Henderson, Don Noot, Joe Kendall and Tom Thompson