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Banff Pork Seminar 2009
The 38th Banff Pork Seminar 2009 was held in Banff, Canada, in January 2009. The proceedings comprises five plenary papers plus break-out sessions and abstracts.
To see the full report, click here, or on the titles below for individual papers.
Plenary Sessions
Competition in processing, retail and export sectors
- Competing in the International Pork Market - Jeff Kucharski
Pork industry update – price and production forecasts
- Cost of Production Forecast – US versus Canada Comparison - Grant Lazaruk
- Global Price and Production Forecast - Ron Plain
Roadmap for Rebound
- Roadmap for Competitive Pork Industry in Canada - Jerry Bouma
- Roadmap for Competitive Pork Industry in USA - Dermot Hayes
Breakout Sessions
CAREful pig Production
- Leadership for Positive Change - Catherine Scovil
- The Science behind the Issues in Animal Welfare - Tina M. Widowski
- Working Together for Responsible Animal Care - Susan Church
COOL versus 'Choose Canadian'
- COOL vs. Choose Canadian Program - Roy Kruse
- Country of Origin Labeling COOL - Ron Plain
Equipping your staff for the next cycle
- Challenges We Faced as Foreign Workers - Thomas Jacob and Vitaly Sergeev
- Recruiting and Retaining Staff the Hytek Way - Carol Martens
Hog production costs - What is needed to stay competitive?
- Hog Production Costs: What is needed to stay competitive? - Aicha Coulibaly
- Profit Sensitivities to Feed Price and Pig Price with Varying Production Levels - Don Lidster, Rocky Morrill and Miles Beaudin
Keeping PRRS out
- Application of Air Filtration Systems in Swine Operations - Darwin Reicks
- Biosecurity in Swine Production: Widespread concerns? - Marie-Eve Lambert and Sylvie D'Allaire
- How does Air Filtration fit into PRRS Virus Regional Control and Eradication Strategies? - Laura Batista, Francis Pouliot, Valerie Dufour and Michel Morin
Labour - what every employer must know
- Agricultural Labour: Meeting the Safety Requirements - Marcel Hacault
- Employment Standards: Where Are We Heading? - Trisha Gain
Preventing antibiotic-resistant disease
- Antibiotic Resistance: The Global Perspective - Scott A. McEwen
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) - Bob Friendship and Scott Weese
- Reducing Animal Health Costs - Doug MacDougald
Reducing feed costs for grow-finish
- Formulating with Opportunity Ingredients - Neil Campbell, Chad Hastad, Darcy MacDonald and Malachy Young
- Ingredient Sourcing by the Liquid Feeder - Gilbert Vanden Heuvel
- Regaining Competitiveness: Alternative Feedstuffs for Swine - Ruurd T. Zijlstra and Eduardo Beltranena
Reducing sow feed costs
- Applying New Research to Reduce Sow Feed Costs - Soenke Moehn, Crystal Levesque, Ryan Samuel and Ronald O. Ball
- Practical Control of Sow Feed Costs - Andrew Jackson
Abstracts
Breeding and reproduction
- Hyaluronic acid in the female reproductive tract of the pigs - J.A. Pasternak, R. O'Donoghue, J. Patterson, R.R.E. Uwiera, G.R. Foxcroft and M.K. Dyck
- Seminal plasma proteins from fertile boars are associated with in vivo fertility - S. Novak, A.L. Ruiz-Sanchez, J.R. Cosgrove, W.T. Dixon, G.R. Foxcroft and M.K. Dyck
- The effect of PG600 at weaning on sow performance - J. Patterson, G. Foxcroft, A. Cameron, T. Smith, A. Kummer, R. Schott, L. Greiner, J. Conner and C. Francisco
Environmental and behaviour
- Control of hydrogen sulphide emissions from swine barns using nitrite and molybdate: effect of manure age - L. Moreno, B. Predicala and M. Nemati
- Validation of saliva sampling techniques in swine in order to assess stress responses - Stephanie M. Hayne, Nigel J. Cook and Harold W. Gonyou
- Variation in temperature within trucks transporting pigs during two seasons in two locations - Stephanie Hayne, Thusith Samarakone, Trever Crowe, Stephanie Torrey, Renee Bergeron, Tina Widowski, Nora Lewis, Cate Dewey, Luigi Faucitano, Harold Gonyou
Nutrient requirements and feed evaluation
- Amino acids in a yeast-derived protein source (NuPro) are highly digestible for 3- to 4-week-old pigs - S. Moehn, P. Groenewegen and R.O. Ball
- Dietary oat ß-glucan affects kinetics of glucose absorption and insulin secretion in grower pigs - S. Hooda, J.J. Matte, T. Vasanthan and R.T. Zijlstra
- Digestible and net energy content of regular and white flakes of canola meals of black and yellow Brassica napus and B. junceae in pigs - C.A. Montoya, K. Neufeld, P. Kish and P. Leterme
- Enrichment of pork products with DHA omega-3 lipids - W. Jon Meadus, Bethany Uttaro, Jennifer L. Aalhus, Pascale Duff and Lorna Gibson
- Feed ingredients differing in fermentable fibre content affect nitrogen excretion and fermentation metabolites in weaned pigs - R. Jha, P. Kish, A. Van Kessel and P. Leterme
- In vitro digestibility techniques to predict digestible energy content of common ingredients and feed samples in grower pigs - P.R. Regmi, N. S. Ferguson, A. Pharazyn and R.T. Zijlstra
- Nutritional value of flaxseed meal for swine - L. Eastwood and P. Leterme
- Possible reasons for the high variability of the digestible energy content of field peas in pigs - C.A. Montoya, P. Kish and P. Leterme
- Protein turnover and heat production of sows varies at day 30, 45 and 105 of gestation - R.S. Samuel, S. Moehn, P.B. Pencharz and R.O. Ball
- Protein turnover in lactating sows - R.S. Samuel, S. Moehn, P.B. Pencharz and R.O. Ball
- Protein turnover in non-pregnant sows at inadequate and more than adequate feed intake - R.S. Samuel, S. Moehn, P.B. Pencharz and R.O. Ball
- The effect of feeding crude glycerol on growth performance and nutrient digestibility in weaned pigs - R.T. Zijlstra, K. Menjivar, E. Lawrence and E. Beltranena
- The nutritional value of expeller-pressed canola meal for grower-finisher pigs - R.W. Seneviratne, M.G. Young, E. Beltranena, L.A. Goonewardene, R.W. Newkirk and R.T. Zijlstra
- The use of ractopamine to enhance the environmental sustainability of pork production - K.A. Ross, A.D. Beaulieu, J. Merrill, G. Vessie and J.F. Patience
- Threonine requirement of sows in early, mid- and late gestation - C.L. Levesque, S. Moehn, P.B. Pencharz and R.O. Ball
- Validation of the net energy content of canola meal and full-fat canola seeds in growing pigs - C.A. Montoya, K. Neufeld, P. Kish and P. Leterme
September 2009
