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Tuesday, January 18, 2011 | |
| 7:00 PM | Opening Reception |
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 | |
| 8:15 AM | Welcome: Jim Haggins, Chair, BPS Advisory Committee |
| Session I: Facing Our Future | |
| 8:30 | Advocating to Shape Our Future Wes Jamison, Palm Beach Atlantic University, FL |
| 9:15 | The Future of Animal Feeding Speaker TBA |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | Financing Agriculture in the Future Mark Greenwood, AgStar Financial Services, MN |
| 11:15 | Global Price and Production Forecast Ron Plain, University Missouri |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Afternoon Breakout Sessions |
| 3:00 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 | Breakout Sessions &/or Grad Student Competition continue to 5 pm |
| 5:30 | PIC Hosts BPS 40th Anniversary Celebration at Mountview BBQ |
Thursday, January 20, 2011 | |
| 8:15 AM | Presentations: F.X. Aherne Prize for Innovative Pork Production |
| Session II: Building the Future on Past Success | |
| 8:30 | Successful Innovation Strategies of European Pork Companies Karen Hamann, IFAU, Denmark |
| 9:15 | Growth of a Canadian Leader Grant Lazaruk, Hytek Ltd, MB |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | Morning Breakout Sessions |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Afternoon Breakout Sessions |
| 3:00 | Coffee Break Breakout &/or Poster Sessions continue to 5 pm |
| 4:30 | Post-Session Reception - cash bar EHT & Max Bell Foyers |
Friday, January 21, 2011 | |
| 8:45 | Presentations: Grad Student Research Award; Evaluation Draw |
| Session III: Our Future is Food | |
| 9:00 | Global Retailers Efforts to Fulfill Consumer Needs Andrzej Sosnicki, PIC-USA, TN |
| 9:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 | Getting Pork on to the Consumer's Plate Brad Smoliak, Brad Smoliak Cooks, AB |
| 11:00 | Pigs, Food and Technology - The Next 40 Years John Webb, Maple Leaf Foods Inc, ON |
| 11:45 | Closing Remarks Ron Ball, BPS Program Director |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
Afternoon Breakout Sessions (Wednesday & Thursday) | |||
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1:30 to 4:30 | 1. | Building our Future in Exports | Michael Young, CPI, BC Jeff Clarke, Olymel, QC Heather Bruce, Univ Alberta, AB Kevin Grier, George Morris Centre, ON |
| 2. | Using Records to Plan the Future | Tom Stein, MetaFarms Inc, MN Greg Bilbrey, Agri Stats Inc, IN Dan Kraft, Maple Leaf Agri Farms, MB | |
| 3. | The Future of Swine Health Practice | Bob Morrison, Univ Minnesota, MN Doug MacDougald, MacDougald & Jones, ON Robert Harding, Cdn Swine Health Board, ON Jim House, Univ Manitoba, MB | |
| 4. | The Challenging Future of Feed Costs | Soenke Moehn, Univ Alberta, AB Gerald Shurson, Univ Minnesota, MN Doug Cook, Provimi North America, OH Joel Spencer, JBS United Inc, IN | |
| 5. | Marketing to the Future Consumer | Ellen Goddard, Univ Alberta, AB Karen Hamann, IFAU, Denmark Jill Hobbs, Univ Saskatchewan, SK | |
| 6. | Hot Topic TBA | Speakers & Topic to be chosen in early Sept from important issues facing pork industry at that time | |
| Research Posters will be displayed from 8 am to 5 pm Wednesday and Thursday in the Max Bell Building. | |||
Morning Breakout Sessions (Thursday only) | |||
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10:30 to Noon |
7. | Transportation with Care and Profit | Jorge Andrés Correa, Cdn Meat Council, ON Nancy Lidster, DNL Farms Ltd, SK |
| 8. | Choosing and Ensuring Best Practices | Sarah Probst Miller, Carthage Vet. Service, Ltd, IL Ryan Bracken, The Puratone Corporation, MB | |
| 9. | Competing in the Future | Bill Christianson, PIC-USA, TN Ron Plain, Univ Missouri, MO | |
| 10. | The Future of Communications | Lilian Schaer, AgriFood Projects, ON Bob Brcka, PigCHAMP Inc, IA | |
| 11. | Graduate Student Competition | The best high value research will be selected for 20 minute theatre presentations and discussion. See what the future will bring in the fields of nutrition, breeding, management and the environment. All research posters will be displayed from 8 am to 5 pm Wednesday and Thursday. | |
The following forms are available as PDF files:
