Banff Pork Seminar
2007 Proceedings

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Sessions

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Plenary Sessions

• Feed Competitiveness is Crucial
• Porcine Circovirus (PCVD) - the Hottest & Newest Information

Breakout Sessions

• Animal Welfare: Obligation or Opportunity
• Bio-digesters and Manure Processing
• Constipated Barns - Bigger Pigs; Bigger Problems
• Feedstuffs to Enhance Competitiveness
• Genetic Causes of Variation in Pigs
• Large Group Housing - Learning from Experience
• Prenatal Limits on Postnatal Performance
• Show me the Money - Optimizing Production
• Staffing in a Competitive Environment
• Use Net Energy to Reduce Feed Costs
• Water - the Next Limiting Resource
• Who will take Pig Debt?

Abstracts

• Animal Care & Welfare
• Breeding & Reproduction
• Feed Evaluation
• Nutrition & Metabolism

Plenary Sessions

• Feed Competitiveness is Crucial
  • Feed Grain Policy - Fuel or Food?
    Delia Bucknell, Beth Sparling, Al Mussell and Larry Martin
  • Making Pork from Feed
    Brian Knudson and Roger Arentson
• Porcine Circovirus (PCVD) - the Hottest & Newest Information
  • History of PCVD and Current Western Canadian Situation
    John C.S. Harding
  • Overview of PCVD - Eastern Canada & US vs. Europe
    Robert Desrosiers
  • PCVAD - What to Do in the Barn Today
    Doug MacDougald
  • Porcine Circovirus Associated Diseases (PCVAD) in Canada - Prevalence, Co-Factors, and Risk Factors
    Laura Batista
  • Porcine Circovirus Disease (PCVD) - Have we won the war in Europe?
    Joaquim Segales

Breakout Sessions

• Animal Welfare: Obligation or Opportunity
  • Animal Welfare Obligation or Opportunity - An Egg Producer's Perspective
    Mark Oldenkamp
  • Value Added Opportunities Based on Animal Care
    Earl Dotson
• Bio-digesters and Manure Processing
  • Economic Overview of Manure Handling and Processing Options
    Gordon A. Wells
  • Environmental Challenges and Opportunities to Manure Handling
    Stephane P. Lemay, Stéphane Godbout, Martin Belzile and Frederic Pelletier
  • European & Danish Biogas Experience
    Bruno S. Nielsen
• Constipated Barns - Bigger Pigs; Bigger Problems
  • Constipated Barns: Where Has All of the Space Gone?
    Harold W. Gonyou
  • How to Keep Pigs Flowing when Space is Limited
    Michael C. Brumm
• Feedstuffs to Enhance Competitiveness
  • A Decision Tree for Co-Product Utilization
    Coen Smits and Reinder Sijtsma
  • Novel Feed Grains and Pulses in Western Canada
    Eduardo Beltranena and Ruurd Zijlstra
  • Opportunities for Co-Product Utilization in Western Canada
    Ruurd T. Zijlstra and Eduardo Beltranena
• Genetic Causes of Variation in Pigs
  • Genetic Sources of Variability in Pig Production
    Brian P. Sullivan
  • Phenotypic, Genetic and Epigenetic Variation of Immune Response and Disease Resistance Traits of Pigs
    Bonnie A. Mallard and Bruce N. Wilkie
• Large Group Housing - Learning from Experience
  • Large Group Housing - Learning from Experience
    Harold W. Gonyou and Lee Whittington
• Prenatal Limits on Postnatal Performance
  • Birth Weight of Litters as a Source of Variation in Postnatal Growth, and Carcass and Meat Quality
    Giuseppe Bee
  • Pre-natal Programming of Variation in Post-Natal Performance - How and When?
    George Foxcroft
• Show me the Money - Optimizing Production
  • Show me the Money - Optimizing Production
    Stephanie Rutten-Ramos and John Deen
• Staffing in a Competitive Environment
  • A Producer's Experience with Attracting, Motivating and Retaining Employees
    Gary D. Dial, Janelle R. Roker and Stephen A. McWilliams
  • Staffing in a Competitive Environment - Our Experience
    Lyle Loewen
• Use Net Energy to Reduce Feed Costs
  • A Guide to Application of Net Energy in Swine Feed Formulation
    Robert L. Payne and Ruurd T. Zijlstra
  • Recent Developments in Net Energy Research for Swine
    Jean Noblet
• Water - the Next Limiting Resource
  • Increasing Drinking Water Use Efficiency in a Commercial Alberta Pork Production Facility
    Dennis McKerracher
  • Long Range Climate Outlook: Semi-arid?
    Dave Sauchyn
• Who will take Pig Debt?
  • Financial Management of Pig Businesses: Making Your Lenders, Investors & Partners Comfortable with Your Business Plans
    Gary D. Dial, Janelle R. Roker and Stephen A. McWilliams
  • Financial Risks, Concerns & Opportunities for Pork Producers
    Lori Lane
  • How to Get the Support of Your Banker
    Claude Bilodeau

Abstracts

• Animal Care & Welfare
  • Evaluation of a behavioural method for assessing pain following castration in piglets
    M.J. Seguin and J.M. Stookey
  • The welfare implications of the transport of pigs: The scientific background of current international loading density standards
    Clover Bench, Al Schaefer, Jeff Rushen, Anne Marie de Passille, Luigi Faucitano, Nora Lewis, Harold Gonyou, and Renee Bergeron
  • The welfare implications of the transport of pigs: The scientific background of current international transport duration standards
    Clover Bench, Al Schaefer, Jeff Rushen, Anne Marie de Passille, Luigi Faucitano, Nora Lewis, Harold Gonyou, and Renee Bergeron
• Breeding & Reproduction
  • Changes in sperm motility as an indicator of boar fertility
    A.L. Ruiz-Sanchez, R. O'Donoghue, G. Lebowa, G.R. Foxcroft, W.T. Dixon and M.K. Dyck
  • Impact of Bioplex and Sel-Plex supplementation on semen production in Canadian boars
    P.P. Groenewegen, G.A. Harrison, A. Beusekom and B.A. Rosendal
  • Litter size and parity affect sow performance
    Emma Clowes, Andrea Gamroth, Malachy Young, Murray Duggan, John Patience and Laki Goonewardene
  • Responses to delayed estrus after weaning in sows using oral progestagen treatment
    J. Patterson, A. Wellen, M Hahn, M Smit, A Pasternak, J Lowe, S DeHaas, D Kraus, N Williams and G. Foxcroft
  • Responses to induced lactational catabolism in primiparous sows: 1. Feed intake and weight loss before and after weaning
    A. Wellen, J. Patterson, and G. Foxcroft
  • Responses to induced lactational catabolism in primiparous sows: 2. Lack of effect on reproductive performance
    J. Patterson, A. Wellen and G. Foxcroft
• Feed Evaluation
  • Cut-out yield and pork quality of hogs fed zero-tannin fababean, field pea or soybean meal as protein sources
    Chathurika K. Gunawardena, Wayne Robertson, Malachy Young, Ruurd T. Zijlstra and Eduardo Beltranena
  • Determination of the impact of feeding increasing levels of corn dried distillers grains on the performancepigs reared under commercial conditions
    J. Gowans, M. Callaahan, A. Yusupov, N. Campbell, and M. Young
  • Effect of extrusion on energy digestibility and DE content in combinations of flax and pea for growing pigs
    J.K. Htoo, X. Meng, J.F. Patience, and R.T. Zijlstra
  • Growth performance and carcass characteristics of growing - finishing hogs fed zero-tannin fababean, field pea or soybean meal as protein sources
    Chathurika K. Gunawardena, Wayne Robertson, Malachy Young, Ruurd T. Zijlstra and Eduardo Beltranena
  • Influence of increasing ExtraProTM on feeder pig performance in a commercial farm
    M. Young, N. Campbell, J. Gowans and L. Underwood
  • Low-phytate barley or supplementation of phytase to a covered barley-based diet reduces phosphorus excretion in growing pigs
    J.K. Htoo, W.C. Sauer, M. Cervantes, Y. Zhang, J. Helm and R. T. Zijlstra R. T. Zijlstra
  • Triticale, an excellent feed grain for weaned pigs
    F. O. Omogbenigun, R.T. Zijlstra, D. Salmon and E. Beltranena
  • Xylanase and (or) phytase improves digestible nutrient content of diets containing millrun in grower pigs
    T.N. Nortey, J.S. Sands, and R.T. Zijlstra
• Nutrition & Metabolism
  • Comparison of bioavailability of methionine-hydroxy analogue versus DL-methionine
    A.K Shoveller, S. Moehn, Meike Rademacher, and Ronald O. Ball
  • Effects of reducing dietary protein on the formation of intestinal microbial metabolites and performance of early-weaned pigs
    J.K. Htoo, W.C. Sauer, M. Rademacher, Y. Zhang, B.A. Araiza, M. Cervantes and R.T. Zijlstra
  • Estimates of energy requirements during gestation and lactation in sows
    R.S. Samuel, S. Moehn, P.B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Feeding frequency alters protein and energy metabolism of sows fed at and twice the energy requirement for maintenance
    R.S. Samuel, S. Moehn, P.B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Hypor pigs need more lysine to express growth potential than currently recommended
    Hypor pigs need more lysine to express growth potential than
  • Proline may be an indispensable amino acid in piglets experiencing gut atrophy
    Christine D. Pendlebury, Kristine L. Urschel, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball
  • Protein intake but not feed intake affects dietary net energy measured by calorimetry
    S. Moehn and Ronald O. Ball
  • Response to feeding 5 ppm ractopamine to finisher swine: Performance and carcass quality
    J.F. Patience, A.D. Beaulieu, P. Leterme, Z. Pietrasik, P. Shand and J. Merrill
  • Response to feeding 5 ppm ractopamine to finisher swine: Pork quality
    Z. Pietrasik, P. Shand, A.D. Beaulieu, P. Leterme, J. Merrill and J.F. Patience
  • The importance of proline as a precursor for arginine in piglets
    Kristine L. Urschel, Mahroukh Rafii, Paul B. Pencharz and Ronald O. Ball