Banff Pork Seminar 2012 ProgramJanuary 17-20, 2012"Feeding Tomorrow's World"
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012 | |
| 4-8 PM | Opening Reception Kinnear Centre 3rd floor & Registration Kinnear Centre 1st floor |
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 | |
| 7:00 AM | Networking Break and Registration |
| 8:15 | Welcome: Jim Haggins, Chair, BPS 2012 Advisory Committee |
| Session I: We CAN Feed the World Kinnear Centre # 201 | |
| 8:30 | Livestock as a Pathway out of Poverty Gregg BeVier, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Presentation as PDF |
| 9:15 | Making Safe, Affordable & Abundant Food a Global Reality Jeff Simmons, Elanco Animal Health Presentation as PDF |
| 10:00 | Networking Break – Sponsor Booths open Kinnear Centre 3rd floor |
| 10:30 | Morning Breakout Sessions |
| 12:00 | Buffet Lunch (included with registration) |
| 1:15 PM | Afternoon Breakout Sessions |
| 3:30 | Networking Break – Sponsor Booths open Kinnear Centre 3rd floor |
| 5:30 | PIC hosts BPS delegates at MountView Barbecue |
Thursday, January 19, 2012 | |
| 7:00 AM | Networking Break and Registration |
| 8:15 | Presentations: F.X. Aherne Prize for Innovative Pork Production; R.O. Ball Young Scientist Award |
| Session II: Local & Global Economics Kinnear Centre # 201 | |
| 8:30 | Prediction of Future Prices & Cost of Production Karl Skold, Westside Economics, NE |
| 9:15 | Managing Risks of a Global Food System Richard L. Shanks, Aon Reed Stenhouse |
| 10:00 | Networking Break – Sponsor Booths open Kinnear Centre 3rd floor |
| 10:30 | Morning Breakout Sessions |
| 12:00 | Buffet Lunch (included with registration) |
| 1:15 PM | Afternoon Breakout Sessions |
| 3:30 | Networking Break – Sponsor Booths open Kinnear Centre 3rd floor |
| 4:00 | Industry Partners Session – NEW innovations from BPS Sponsors Max Bell Auditorium * Order of Presentations will be determined by a draw at the beginning of the Session Canadian Bio-Systems – Profitable Pork Production using Nucleotide Technology Elanco Animal Health – Full Value Pigs™ - Profit through Collaboration & Improvement Pfizer Animal Health - Improvest™ - Advancing Production, Quality & Animal Care Western Financial Group – Farm Safe Loss Control Program AFSC – Hog Price Insurance Program (HPIP) Minitube Canada – Cell Shield Plus – A Paradigm Shift in Semen Processing & Storage |
| 4:30 | Post-Session Reception - cash bar Kinnear Centre 3rd floor & Max Bell Foyer |
Friday, January 20, 2012 | |
| 8:00 AM | Boar Pit – lively discussion of the Hottest Topics facing the pork industry Kinnear Centre # 201 |
| 9:00 | Networking Break – Sponsor Booths open Kinnear Centre 3rd floor |
| Session III: The Future of the World Depends on Agriculture Kinnear Centre # 201 | |
| 9:30 | The Future of High Tech Animal Agriculture Frank Dunshea,The University of Melbourne, Australia Presentation as PDF |
| 10:15 | Research and Education Goals for the Pork Industry George Foxcroft, University of Alberta, AB Presentation as PDF |
| 11:00 | Closing Remarks: Ruurd Zijlstra, BPS 2012 Program Director |
| 11:15 | Networking Break – Sponsor Booths open Kinnear Centre 3rd floor |
Breakout Sessions
Morning Breakout Sessions (Wednesday & Thursday)(click on session title to see individual titles and presentations) | |||
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10:30 to Noon | 1. | Reducing Feed Costs | Mike Tokach, Kansas State University, KS Eduardo Beltranena, AARD and University of Alberta, AB |
| 2. | Farrowing & Weaning Management: Towards 40 p/s/y | Tim Loula, Swine Vet Center, MN Bob Goodband, Kansas State University, KS | |
| 3. | Curing our Labour Pains - Finding the Ag Workers of the Future |
Mark Chambers, Sunterra Farms Ltd, AB Normand Gagné, Génétiporc Inc, QC | |
| 4. | Future Developments in Animal Welfare | Florian Possberg, Canadian Swine Health Board, SK Henrik Bækstrøm, Tican A.M.B.A., Denmark | |
| 5. | The Right Medium, The Right Message - Improving our Public Communications |
Jeff Schneider, Marketing Ninjas, AB Clover Bench, University of Alberta, AB Lorna Baird, Alberta Farm Animal Care, AB | |
| 6. | Graduate Student Competition (R.O. Ball Young Scientist Award) | The best high value research will be selected for 15 minute theatre presentations and discussion. See what the future will bring in the fields of nutrition, breeding, management and the environment. | |
| Research Posters will be displayed from 8 am to 5 pm Wednesday and Thursday in the Max Bell Building. - Call for Abstracts [PDF] - Abstract Guidelines [PDF] | |||
Afternoon Breakout Sessions (Wednesday & Thursday)(click on session title to see individual titles and presentations) | |||
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1:15 to 3:30 |
7. | Reducing the Cost of Herd Health Management | Steven McOrist, University of Nottingham, UK John Harding, WCVM – University of Saskatchewan, SK Scott Dee, University of Minnesota, MN |
| 8. | Genomics – The Future is Now | Graham Plastow, University of Alberta, AB Jack Dekkers, Iowa State University, IA Joan Lunney, USDA Beltsville, MD | |
| 9. | Breeding Success - Increasing Productivity of the Breeding Herd |
George Foxcroft, University of Alberta, AB Chris Kuster, Kuster Research and Consulting, IL Sandra Edwards, University of Newcastle, UK | |
| 10. | Hedging your Bets - Financial Risk Management |
Joe Kerns, International Agribusiness Group, IA Frank Novak, Alberta Pig Company, AB Kevin Grier, George Morris Centre, ON | |
| 11. | Breakthroughs in Canadian Swine Nutrition Research |
Candido Pomar, AAFC Lenoxville, QC Kees de Lange, University of Guelph, ON Ruurd Zijlstra, University of Alberta, AB | |
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