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Banff Pork Seminar 2007 Proceedings
Saturday, September 08, 2007 2007 |
This article lists the presentations given at the 2007 Banff Pork Seminar and provides links to the respective articles.
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
- Feed Grain Policy - Fuel or Food?
- 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
- History of PCVD and Current Western Canadian Situation
Breakout Sessions
- Animal Welfare: Obligation or Opportunity
- 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, Ste´phane Godbout, Martin Belzile and Frederic Pelletier - European & Danish Biogas Experience
Bruno S. Nielsen
- Economic Overview of Manure Handling and Processing Options
- 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
- Constipated Barns: Where Has All of the Space Gone?
- 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
- A Decision Tree for Co-Product Utilization
- 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
- Genetic Sources of Variability in Pig Production
- Large Group Housing - Learning from Experience
- Large Group Housing - Learning from Experience
Harold W. Gonyou and Lee Whittington
- Large Group Housing - Learning from Experience
- Prenatal Limits on Postnatal Performance
- Show me the Money - Optimizing Production
- Show me the Money - Optimizing Production
Stephanie Rutten-Ramos and John Deen
- Show me the Money - Optimizing Production
- 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
- A Producer's Experience with Attracting, Motivating and Retaining Employees
- 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
- A Guide to Application of Net Energy in Swine Feed Formulation
- 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
- Increasing Drinking Water Use Efficiency in a Commercial Alberta Pork Production Facility
- 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
- Financial Management of Pig Businesses: Making Your Lenders, Investors & Partners Comfortable with Your Business Plans
Abstracts
Best of Current Research- 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
- Evaluation of a behavioural method for assessing pain following castration in piglets
- 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
J. Patterson, A. Wellen 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
- Changes in sperm motility as an indicator of boar fertility
- 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
- Cut-out yield and pork quality of hogs fed zero-tannin fababean, field pea or soybean meal as protein sources
- 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
- Comparison of bioavailability of methionine-hydroxy analogue versus DL-methionine
Banff Pork Seminar 2005 and 2006 Proceedings
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