Banff Pork Seminar
2005 Proceedings

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Sessions

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Plenary Sessions

• Behind the Veil of the Countervail
• Building the Canada Brand
• Competition for the Canada Brand

Breakout Sessions

• Alternatives to Antibiotics
• Composting Manure and Deadstock
• Data Mining to Improve the Bottom Line
• Disease Control in Large Swine Populations
• Feed Quality and On-Farm Feed Mills
• Foreign Animal Disease Preparedness
• Leading Edge Nutrition - Amino Acids
• Leading Edge Nutrition - Next Generation Diet
• Living with Pig Traceability
• Maximizing the Life of Barns & Manure Storage
• Setting up Sows for Lifetime Performance
• Turning Carbon Credits into Cash Flow

Abstracts

• Breeding and Reproduction
• Environment
• Nutrition & Metabolism
• Pork Safety & Health

Plenary Sessions

• Behind the Veil of the Countervail
  • Behind the Veil of Countervail - A Canadian Perspective
    Martin Rice
  • Why Canadian Hog Subsidies are Injuring U.S. Hog Producers
    Nick Giordano
• Building the Canada Brand
  • Developing the “Canada Brand”
    Richard Davies
• Competition for the Canada Brand
  • Brand Building
    Derrick Coupland
  • Competition from South American Pork Production
    Luciano Roppa

Breakout Sessions

• Alternatives to Antibiotics
  • Micro-Organisms as Feed Additives – Probiotics
    Ortwin Simon
  • Organic Acids as Potential Alternatives to Antibiotic Growth Promoters for Pigs
    Zdzislaw Mroz
  • Prebiotic Feed Additives: Rationale and Use in Pigs
    John A. Patterson
• Composting Manure and Deadstock
  • Composting Dead Pigs
    Franklin Kains
  • Composting Hog Manure - Why Isn’t Everyone Doing It?
    John W. Paul
• Data Mining to Improve the Bottom Line
  • Data Mining to Improve the Bottom Line
    Gary D. Dial, Janelle R. Roker and Stephen A. McWilliams
• Disease Control in Large Swine Populations
  • Clinical Signs are an Interaction of Host, Agent and the Environment
    John C. Harding
  • How Management Promotes Disease Prevention/Control and Staff Success
    Ed Kluber
  • Implementing a Systematic Approach to Disease Control and Prevention
    Steve Henry
  • Novel Vaccine Delivery Technology
    Philip Willson
• Feed Quality and On-Farm Feed Mills
  • Considerations when Buying Ingredients for On-Farm Mixing
    Joe D. Hancock
  • Equipment Considerations for On-Farm Feed Milling
    Stirling McLeod
  • Feed Quality and On-Farm Feed Mills
    Judy Thompson
• Foreign Animal Disease Preparedness
  • Compensation Measures - A Necessary Condition for a Successful Foreign Animal Disease Effort
    Clare Schlegel
  • What's the Game Plan for Swine in Case of a Foreign Animal Disease Outbreak?
    Paul Kitching
• Leading Edge Nutrition - Amino Acids
  • Methionine Requirement and Commercial Methionine Sources in Growing Pigs
    Dirk Hoehler, Meike Rademacher and Rainer Mosenthin
  • TSAA Requirements for Nursery and Growing Pigs
    Shannon Peak
• Leading Edge Nutrition - Next Generation Diet
  • Next Generation Diet Formulation: True Metabolic Availability of Amino Acids in Diets for Pigs
    Ronald O. Ball, Soenke Moehn, and Robert F.P. Bertolo
  • Using Net Energy for Diet Formulation: Potential for the Canadian Pig Industry
    Soenke Moehn, Jacob Atakora and Ronald O. Ball
• Living with Pig Traceability
  • Lowering In-Transit Losses
    Cate Dewey, Charles Haley, Tina Widowski and Robert Friendship
  • Pig Trucking & Handling - Stress and Fatigued Pig
    Madonna Benjamin
• Maximizing the Life of Barns & Manure Storage
  • Concrete Manure Storage Structures: Specifications and Standards in Canada
    Dennis Darby and J. David Robson
  • Integrated Waste Management Approaches (Integrated Waste Management Solutions)
    Gordon A. Wells
  • Moisture Effects on Facility Life: Sources and Corrections
    Ron MacDonald
• Setting up Sows for Lifetime Performance
  • Differentiated Parity Management
    Camille Moore, Serge Robitaille, Michel Vignola and R. Robitaille
  • Monitoring and Maintaining Sow Condition
    Malachy Young and Frank Aherne
  • Non-Negotiables of Gilt Development
    Noel H Williams, Jennifer Patterson and George Foxcroft
• Turning Carbon Credits into Cash Flow
  • Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Program-Canadian Pork Council
    Cedric MacLeod
  • Opportunities for the Hog Industry in Canada: Industry Perspective
    Ben Voss

Abstracts

• Breeding and Reproduction
  • Application of non-surgical embryo transfer in swine
    M.K.Dyck, P. Zimmerman, J. Goller, R.O'Donoghue, B. van Haandel and W. Hazeleger
  • Independent effect of breeding at 1st vs. 2nd estrus on litter size, birth-weight and early post-natal growth
    J. Patterson, P. Zimmerman, E. Beltranena and G. Foxcroft
  • Setting industry benchmarks for effective gilt development: 2) Application of MATRIX TM to meet production targets
    J. Patterson, W. Wilson, N. Williams, G. Spronk, and G. Foxcroft
  • Setting new benchmarks for efficient gilt development: 1) Gilt selection and pre-breeding management
    J. Patterson, W. Wilson, C. Francisco, N. Williams, G. Spronk and G. Foxcroft
• Environment
  • Controlling hydrogen sulfide gas in swine barns with a manure pit scraper system
    B.Z. Predicala, S.K. Christianson, S.P. Lemay & C. Laguë
  • Emissions comparison from liquid manure storage facilities: Uncovered, straw-covered and NAP-covered storages
    Joy Agnew, Claude Laguë, Eric Gaudet and Jonathan Peterson
  • Performance and greenhouse gas emission in finisher pigs fed very low protein diet
    Jacob K. A. Atakora, Soenke Moehn and Ronald O. Ball
• Nutrition & Metabolism
  • Citrulline is an effective precursor for arginine in the neonatal piglet
    Kristine L. Urschel, Anna K. Shoveller, Richard Uwiera, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Lysine degradation in the growing pig
    Desmond Pink, Rajavel Elango, Walter Dixon and Ronald O. Ball
  • Reduced diet DE content lowered feed costs, improved carcass quality and had no impact on growth rate in growing-finishing pigs
    J.F. Patience, A.D. Beaulieu, R.T. Zijlstra and N. Williams
  • The effect of phytase and dietary Ca:P ratio on the excretion of total and soluble phosphorus by weanling pigs
    A.D. Beaulieu, M.R. Bedford and J.F. Patience
  • Variability of the lysine requirement of growing pigs
    Soenke Moehn, Robert F. Bertolo, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Variability of the methionine requirement of weaned pigs fed a corn-soybean diet
    Soenke Moehn, A.Kate Shoveller, Meike Rademacher and Ronald O. Ball
  • Zero-tannin faba bean nutrient assessment and swine performance trials for Alberta
    R.T.Zijlstra, K Lopetinsky, B. Dening, G.S. Begin, and J.F. Patience
• Pork Safety & Health
  • Comparison of injection sites between needle-free injections and needle injections in swine
    Julia Keenliside, Craig Wilkinson, Jules Poiron, Mel Schmidt, Janes Goller and Jay Willis
  • Feeding glutamine to weaning piglets influences the gastrointestinal response to an E. coli challenge
    Gordon K. Murdoch, Michelle Tavernini, Ian R. Johnson, Ronald O. Ball, Karen L. Madsen and Catherine J. Field
  • Metal residues in swine slaughtered in provincially inspected abattoirs in Alberta
    Joe Kendall, Jim Henderson, Norine Best, Don Noot and Julia Keenliside
  • Reduction of antibiotic residues in swine slaughtered in provincially inspected abattoirs in Alberta
    Julia Keenliside, Joe Kendall, Jim Henderson, Tom Thompson and Don Noot
  • Trial assessment of the National Pork Board’s Swine Welfare Assurance Program(SM) in two Alberta swine operations
    Julia Keenliside, Ariel Brunn and Craig Wilkinson